MESOCA 2014, IEEE 8th International Symposium on the Maintenance and
Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems and Cloud-Based Environments
http://mesoca.etil.ca/

Co-located with the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
(ICSME 2014), Victoria, BC, Canada, http://icsme2014.org/

Extended versions of the best papers will be considered for publication in
the Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/

BACKGROUND
Software development in a global environment, based on service provisioning,
discovery and composition, is substantially influenced by two important areas:
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud Computing. From a maintenance and
evolution perspective, both of them are confronted with two important challenges:
deployed service-oriented systems will have to be maintained and evolved, and
legacy systems will continue to use service-orientation to make their legacy
functionality available to other systems and applications.

SYMPOSIUM GOALS
The main goal of MESOCA 2014 is to create a focal point and an ongoing forum for
researchers and practitioners to share results and open issues in the areas of
service-oriented and cloud-based systems, focusing on maintenance and evolution issues.

We are looking for contributions on topics such as:
• Tools, techniques and methods to support migration to service-oriented architecture
and cloud computing environments
• Evolution patterns of service-oriented and cloud-based systems
• Transition patterns to service-oriented and cloud environments
• Governance to support system evolution in service-oriented and cloud environments
• Leverage of service-orientation best practices in cloud environments
• Case studies of migration to service-oriented and cloud environments
• Model Driven Engineering for migration to services
• Reengineering legacy code for creating services

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2014
Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2014
Symposium: September 29, 2014

GENERAL CHAIR
Anca Daniela Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Mike Smit, Dalhousie University, Canada
M. Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia

STEERING COMMITTEE
Grace A. Lewis, CMU Software Engineering Institute, USA
Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jose Delgado, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
Yanguo Jing, London Metropolitan University, UK
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ravi Khadka, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Nabor Mendonca, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Hausi Müller, University of Victoria, Canada
Henriqueta Nóvoa, FEUP, Portugal
Leire Orue-Echevarría, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Harry Sneed, ANECON GmbH, Austria
Gabriel Tamura, Icesi University, Colombia
Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Norha Villegas, Icesi University, Colombia
Norman Wilde, University of West Florida, USA
Andreas Winter, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany