ICSOC is the top international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, networking, scientific workflows, services science, management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC 2014 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines to focus on service-oriented, cloud-based, innovative enterprises ready for the 21st century. The conference will feature research and industry presentations, forward-looking keynote presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. Please refer to www.icsoc.org for more details about these associated events.

Topics of Interest

ICSOC 2014 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including theoretical and empirical evaluations, as well as practical and industrial experiences, with emphasis on results that solve open research problems and have significant impact on the field of service-oriented computing.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Service Engineering

Service Design

Service Description

Service-Oriented Architecture

Service Composition

Theoretical Foundations

Service Engineering Methods

Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies

Semantic Web Services

RESTful Web Services

Service Change Management

Service Discovery and Mining

Service Customization

Service Governance

Legacy System Migration to Service-Oriented Architectures

Service Operations and Management

Management Processes and Methods

Managing Service Infrastructure

Quality of Service

Security, Privacy and Trust

Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services

Execution and Resource Allocation Services

Web as a Platform

Services in the Cloud

XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)

Service Integration and Orchestration in the Cloud

Cloud Service Management

Decentralized Cloud Platform Architectures

Software Engineering Models, Methods and Methodologies for XaaS

Cloud Workflow Management

Cloud Brokers and Coordination across Multiple Resource Managers

Services in Organizations, Business and Society

Social Networks and Services

Human-Provided and Outsourcing of Services

Business Service Modeling

Business Process Modeling

Cost and Pricing of Services

Service Marketplaces

OpenAPI

Service Applications and Implementations

Grid and Scientific Computing Services

Pervasive and Mobile Services

Services for Big Data

Embedded and Real-Time Services

Services in Specific Application Domains (Domain-Specific Services)

Data- and/or Compute-Intensive Applications

Internet of Things

Paper Submission

The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

Prospective authors must submit abstracts prior to submitting full papers. Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including all references and figures. All papers must be prepared in the Springer LNCS format and be submitted electronically in PDF to the conference submission system ( https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2014 )

Best Paper Award

The award will be given to the paper submitted to the conference as judged by the program committee.

Important Dates

Abstracts due: May 23, 2014
Full papers due: May 30, 2014
Notification to authors: July 11, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2014

Proceedings

All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2014 proceedings published by Springer Verlag under the Services Science series.

Program Co-Chairs

Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA

Contact

email: pc AT icsoc.org
web: http://www.icsoc.org