###Call for Papers: 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud
Computing (ESOCC 2017), Oslo, Norway, September 27th-29th###
http://esocc2017.ifi.uio.no/

The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is
the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of
service-oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. ESOCC has evolved
from the ECOWS (European Conference on Web Services) conference series. The
main objective of this conference is to facilitate the exchange between
researchers and practitioners in the areas of service-oriented computing and
cloud computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The 6th event in the ESOCC series will take place in Oslo, Norway, from
September 27th-29th, 2017. ESOCC 2017 will include invited talks and
presentations of selected research papers with the participation of top
researchers from academia and industry. ESOCC 2017 will also include a PhD
Symposium and a series of satellite workshops. A particular focus in this
year's conference will be on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the role of
service-oriented computing and cloud computing to realize the IoT.

###Background###
Service-oriented computing and cloud computing have made a huge impact both
on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and
cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as
well as to provide single software services to end users.

Services today are developed independently, deployed as well as freely
composed, and they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a fact
that is of particular importance from a business perspective. Similarly,
cloud computing aims at enabling mobility as well as device, platform and/or
service independence by offering centralized sharing of resources. The
industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made
cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational
resources in a scalable, on-demand fashion. Nevertheless, service
developers, providers, and integrators still need to create methods, tools
and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development and use of
dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in
the cloud.

###Special Track Internet of Things###
In parallel to the rise of cloud computing, there is an ongoing penetration
of business and personal spaces with Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Services and cloud computing have been named as primary enabling
technologies for the IoT, while the IoT vice versa leads to new requirements
and solution approaches for the fields of service-oriented computing and
cloud computing. Therefore, ESOCC 2017 will host a Special Track on IoT
research, covering topics at the intersection of the IoT and
service-oriented and cloud computing, but also taking into account
non-service driven IoT research.

###Topics of Interest###
ESOCC 2017 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of
service-oriented computing and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest
include but are not limited to:
* Service and Cloud Core Topics
- Business Process Management and Services
- Cloud Interoperability and Federation
- (Cloud) Service Management and Composition
- Dynamic and Adaptive Services
- Enterprise Architecture and Services
- Energy Issues in Clouds
- Formal Methods for Services and Cloud Computing
- Service Governance
- Service Life Cycles
* Service and Cloud Engineering
- Architectural Models for Cloud Computing
- Container Deployment
- Frameworks for Building Service-Based Applications
- Model-Driven Service Engineering
- Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures
- Service Design Guidelines
- Service Security and Privacy
* Business and Social Aspects of Service and Cloud Management
- Crowdsourcing Business Services
- Social and Crowd-based Cloud
- Service and Cloud Business Models
- Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance,
Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities
* Technologies
- DevOps in the Cloud
- Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds
- Microservices Deployment and Management
- Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories
- RESTful Clouds and Services
* Internet of Things - Special Track
- Embedded and Real-Time Services
- Fog/Edge Computing
- Fog to (Multi-)Cloud Solutions
- IoT Delivery Models
- IoT Service Engineering
- IoT Services and IoT Clouds
- Mobile Clouds and Mobile Services

ESOCC 2017 solicits both new research papers (in the main track) as well as
reports on practical experiences from industry (industry track). However,
papers on existing products or product marketing information are not within
the scope of the ESOCC 2017 industry track.

###Submissions###
Original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted
via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2017.

Important Dates:
* Paper Submission: 05.05.2017
* Notification of Authors: 01.07.2017
* Camera-ready Versions: 15.07.2017
* Conference: 27.-29.09.2017

Paper submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings
guidelines and the templates available at http://www.springer.com/ and they
should not exceed 15 pages. A paper might be accepted as a full paper (15
pages) or as a short paper (8 pages). Conference proceedings will be
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.