CALL FOR PAPERS

13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING
(ICSOC-2015)
www.icsoc.org
GOA, INDIA
16TH-19TH NOVEMBER, 2015

ICSOC is the premier 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, cyber physical systems, networking, scientific workflows, services science, management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC 2015 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.

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
*Legacy Systems Migration to On-demand, Cloud Environments
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
*Smart Service Apps
SERVICES IN ORGANIZATIONS, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
*Service Innovation
*Social Networks and Services
*Human-Provided and Outsourcing of Services
*Business Service Modeling
*Business Process Modeling
*Cost and Pricing of Services
*Service Marketplaces and Ecosystems
*OpenAPI
*Service Business Models
*Enterprise Architecture and Services
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
*Service Platforms for Cyber Physical Systems
*Service platforms for smart grid, energy management, energy metering, and electro mobility
*Service platforms for smart car, smart traffic, and multimodality
*Service platforms for smart home and smart building
*Service platforms for ambient assisted living medical, clinics and healthcare systems
*Service platforms for process, factory, and industrial applications
*Enterprise architecture integration and product lifecycle management
*SOA in industrial environments
*Internet of Things
*Sensor Clouds



GENERAL CHAIRS
*Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
*Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Infosys Labs, India
PROGRAM CHAIRS
*Alistair Barros, QUT, Australia
*Daniela Grigori, Universite Paris Dauphine, France
*N.C.Narendra, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

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/icsoc2015).

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract and Full paper due: May 28, 2015 (Extended Deadline)
Notification to authors: July 1, 2015
Camera-ready papers due: July 15, 2015
Author registration due: July 25, 2015
Early registration due: August 5, 2015