11th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System
Engineering (SOSE 2017)

Theme: Intelligent and Analytic Services

Starting from 2005, the International Symposium on Service-Oriented
System Engineering (SOSE) is one of the pioneering symposia devoted to
the research and development in engineering service-oriented systems,
from the architecture and computing paradigm to the system development
and management. Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) exploits services as
the fundamental elements in developing and operating computer-based
systems. It has been successfully applied to various application
domains and promotes fundamental changes to system architecture,
especially changing the way software systems to be analyzed,
architected, designed, implemented, verified, evaluated, delivered,
consumed, maintained, and evolved.

The innovations of SOC also offer many interesting avenues of research
for scientific and industrial communities. Recent advances in service
oriented computing and cloud computing, including computational power,
storage, and networking, and infrastructure innovations, are providing
exciting opportunities to make significant progress in understanding
and addressing complex real-world challenges. Such challenges
typically require a system-level approach that models a complex system
at different levels of abstraction, helps to develop sound
architectures for addressing separate system requirements and
concerns, and integrates diverse sources of knowledge on the system's
components and their interactions.

The 11th International Symposium on Service-Oriented System
Engineering (SOSE 2017) provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to present and exchange latest observations, insights,
achievements, and visions in the Service-Oriented System Engineering.
Particularly, SOSE 2017 invites original submissions in all the
aspects of the system engineering and software engineering methods,
techniques, tools, applications, and experiments for software
services.

A. Regular Research Papers
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Research papers should be no more than 10 pages in length. The topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:

Track 1: Methods, Languages, and Tools for process-based SOC systems

- Business process integration, alignment & management in SOAs
- Methods and techniques to bridge the gap between business processes
and - SOC-based implementations
- Methods, languages & tools for building process-based SOC systems
- Modelling and simulation of service-oriented systems
- Integration of services into process-based environments
- Service interoperability, composibility, quality, reliability
- Service reuse and service patterns
- Metrics and measurement of services, QoS, and QoE
- Runtime verification, validation, monitoring
- Testing on-the-fly and policy enforcement
- Static and dynamic analysis of service infrastructure
- Debugging of service-oriented systems
- Dynamic service delivery, deployment and evolution
- Service mobility, scalability, elasticity, and security
- Operation and governance for large-scale service-oriented systems
- Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems
- Modernization, migration, and servicetization of legacy systems
- Service-oriented system engineering for large-scale analytics
- Social and collaborative engineering of services systems
- Service-oriented engineering of emergent systems
- Service-oriented engineering and clouds and mobile clouds
- Service-oriented engineering and frog computing
- Project cost estimation of service-oriented systems


Track 2: Advanced models and infrastructures in SOC engineering

- Requirement modelling of services
- Microservices
- Semantic-enabled process and service engineering
- Data-driven service engineering
- Model-driven development of service-oriented systems
- End-user development and mashup of software services
- Lifecycle models, reusability, and scalability for services
- Web services for Web/Internet of Things
- Coordination and cooperation of services
- Efficient scheduling of services
- Engineering service-based cyber-physical systems
- Services infrastructure for big data
- Services infrastructure for virtualisation
- Services infrastructure for artificial intelligence
- Services infrastructure for virtual reality
- Services infrastructure for deep learning
- Dependable service engineering
- Service engineering in embedded systems
- Application of SOC in sensor networks
- Mobile cloud services and SOC
- Empirical studies


Track 3: Intelligent Services for Smart World

- Smart Home, Smart Office, Smart City
- Intelligent services and architectures
- Intelligent service provision model
- Smart systems programming models and methodologies
- Swarm Intelligence
- Context-aware services
- Nature-inspired intelligent services
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Block chain
- Lightweight cryptography


Track 4: Internet Virtual Computing Environment

- Architecture of Internet-based virtual computing environment
- Resource virtualization, organization and collaboration
- Programming models, languages, tools and platforms
- Security, dependability, and reliability
- Trust, reputation and incentive mechanism
- Computational properties and theories of
- Software engineering for Internet applications
- Large scale computing and analytics
- Elastic computing and Cloud computing


Track 5: Social Networking Services

- Location-Based social networks
- Human mobility modeling and mining
- Recommendation systems for service computing
- Human-centric Sensing
- Intelligent socially-aware and community-aware systems
- Security, privacy, safety and legal issues
- Event detection and predication in social networks


Track 6: Service-based Cyber-Physical Systems
- Software and system engineering for CPS
- Mobile Services for CPS
- System modelling and simulations
- Data Management for CPS
- Dependable network and system architectures for CPS
- Internet of things and machine-to-machine communications


B. Industry Practice / Case Study papers
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SOSE 2017 encourages papers report industry practice, case studies,
empirical research and practical experiences in service engineering
are invited. Industry papers and case studies should be between 6-10
pages in length. The topics include, but not limited to, the
following:

- Enterprise business architecture and solution frameworks
- Platforms and tools for system and software engineering
- Case studies, experiments and evaluation of service-oriented system
- Innovative service applications and experiences
- Service-oriented E-commerce
- Service-oriented Financial Technology


C. Survey and Emerging Subjects Tutorial Papers
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In addition to regular research paper and industry practice/case study
paper sessions, SOSE 2017 also accepts submission of survey and
tutorial papers, which review the state-of-the-art of the research on
service engineering as well as the related emerging paradigms and
technologies. These papers should summarize the recent research
advance in service engineering from different perspectives, identify
the open issues and future trends and challenges in the field. SOSE
2017 also encourages discussion papers which target at the visions on
future related issues, including the emerging paradigms, technologies
and applications. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length.

The topics include, but not limited to, the following:

- Theoretical and technical foundation of service-oriented systems
- Methodology and engineering principles of service-oriented systems
- Testing, verification, validation and QA in the development of
service-oriented systems
- Construction, deployment, operation, maintenance and evolution of
service-oriented systems
- Measurements and metrics of QoS in service-oriented systems
- Governance and policies in service-oriented software development
- Engineering techniques and tools to support the publishing,
discovery and composition of services
- Architectural and detail designs of services and code generation of
service software


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Deadline: 1 November 2016
Workshop Proposal: 1 December 2016
Authors Notification: 4 January 2017
Camera-ready Paper: 25 January 2017
Registration Due: 25 January 2017
Conference Dates: 6-9 April 2017


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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All papers should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair
conference system in the PDF format. The materials presented in the
papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each
paper is limited to 10 pages including figures and references using
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns,
single-spaced, 10 points). Each paper should include a title and the
name and affiliation of each author. The SOSE 2017 conference
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed
by EI).

Authors can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author
Guidelines at the following web page:
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

Conference website:
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/HongZhu/SOSE2017

Paper submission links:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sose2017


General Chairs
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Jie Xu, University of Leeds, UK


Program Chairs
W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jeff Voas, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA