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ICSOC deadline extended to June 14, 2010 (full paper submission)!

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CALL FOR PAPERS

8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2010

December 7 - 10 2010, San Francisco, California, USA

www.icsoc.org

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The conference

Since 2003, ICSOC has been the prime forum for academics and industry researchers and developers to report and share groundbreaking works in service oriented computing. ICSOC has fostered cross-community scientific excellence by the gathering of experts from various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile computing, grid computing, networking, service science, management science, and software engineering.

Service innovation is key to the future of business. Even in traditionally manufacturing-driven industries, such as IT, the importance of service has surpassed most other corporate competences. The Internet and Web-based services create ever more opportunities for service innovation. Service science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study, design, and implementation of service systems – the specific arrangements of people, organizations, technologies, and information that cocreate value. Service systems are often IT-enabled and knowledge-intensive, and can span different real or virtual organizations. In this multidisciplinary context, researchers and practitioners in management, social sciences, and computer sciences are all working together to promote and facilitate service innovation.

While keeping its roots in scientific excellence and technical depth of service technology, ICSOC 2010 aims to combine the general technical issues with application and business-oriented aspects of service design, following the recent emergence of service science as an interdisciplinary foundation to rationalize and integrate various aspects of service systems.

ICSOC 2010 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines to focus on service innovation--enabled by computational and information technology and by complex interactions among systems.

The conference will feature research and industry presentations, keynote presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. Please refer to www.icsoc.org for calls for workshops, demonstrations, and tutorials.

IMPORTANT DATES

Research and industry papers:

* Abstract due: June 7, 2010 (extended)
* Full paper due: June 14, 2010 (extended)
* Notification: July 14, 2010
* Camera ready due: August 23, 2010

TOPICS OF INTEREST

ICSOC 2010 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences -- with emphases on results that solve open research problems and make a significant impact to the emerging field of service science.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Theoretical and Technical Service Foundations
* Business Service Modeling and Business Process Modeling
* Interacting Business Processes
* Process Choreographies
* Flexible Composition of Services
* Service Integration and Orchestration
* Service Composition and Engineering
* Service Operations and Management
* Service-oriented Architecture
* Quality of Service
* Service Applications and Implementations
* Service Design Methods
* Service change management
* Designing Outsourcing Interactions
* Service Vocabularies and Ontologies
* SOA Runtime
* Testbeds for service concepts and technologies
* Grid and Cloud Services
* Business Intelligence and Analytics
* Pervasive and Mobile Services
* Embedded and Real-time Services
* Service Security, Privacy, and Trust

RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY PAPERS

The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing and service science. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the relevance to the field and the relation to prior work. Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition.

PAPER SUBMISSION

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) via the conference Web site.

PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2010 proceedings published by Springer-Verlag under the Services Science series. Selected papers will be considered for possible publication in ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb) and a special issue of the International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

HONORARY GENERAL CHAIR

* James C. Spohrer, IBM

GENERAL CHAIR

* Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
* Fu-Ren Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

PROGRAM CHAIRS

* Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
* Paul P. Maglio, IBM Research – Almaden, USA
* Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Gustavo Rossi, UNLP, Argentina
* Soe-Tsyr Yuan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
* Michel Maximilien, IBM, USA

TUTORIAL CHAIRS

* Thomas Sandholm, HP, USA
* Jyoti Bhat, Infosys, India
* Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University, USA

DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS

* Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
* Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

* Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
* Boualem Benatallah, Univesity of New South Wales, Australia
* Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Marco Aiellok, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Rama Akkiraju, BM T. J. Watson Research Center Hawthorne, USA
* Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano
* Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
* Salima Benbernou, University of Paris, France
* Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO, Australia
* Christoph Bussler, BEA, USA
* Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
* Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
* Mark Davis, Bentley University, USA
* Flavio De Paoli, Universita di Milano, Biocca Italy
* Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University, USA
* Khalil Drira, LAAS Toulouse, France
* Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
* Schahram Dustdar, University of Technology Vienna, Austria
* Markus Endler, PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
* Rick Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Ioannis Fikouras, Ericsson, Sweden
* Paolo Giorgini, Univ. of Trento, Italy
* Sven Graupner, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Peng Han, Chongqing Academy of Science and Technology, China
* Alan Hartman, IBM India Research Lab, India
* Manfred Hauswirth, DERI Galway, Ireland
* Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
* Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto
* Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research Center Palo Alto, USA
* Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT-H, India
* Rania Khalaf, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Markus Kirchberg, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
* Jana Köhler, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
* Jeff Kreulen, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Steve Kwan, San Jose State University, USA
* Patricia Lago, Free Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany
* Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
* Fu-ren Lin, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
* Lin Liu, Tsing Hua University, China
* Xumin Liu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
* Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis, USA
* Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA
* Esperanza Marcos, Univ. Juan Rey Carlos, Spain
* Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Massimo Mecella, Universita di Roma Italy
* Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
* Christos Nikolaou, University of Crete, Greece
* Caesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Frank Puhlmann, inubit AG, Germany
* Robin Qiu, Penn State, USA
* Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
* Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt University, Germany
* Colette Roland, University of Paris, France
* Florian Rosenberg, ICT CSIRO, Australia
* Gustavo Rossi, UNLP, Argentina
* Mohand-Said Hacid, University of Lyon, France
* Jorge Sanz, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Jakka Sairamesh, CITRIS - UC Berkeley, USA
* Daniel Schwabe, PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Michael J. Shaw, University of Illinios, Urbana Champaign, USA
* Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
* Jianwen Su, UC Santa Barbara, USA
* Stefan Tai, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
* Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
* Beatriz Toledo, UNICAMP, Brazil
* Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascal University, France
* Jos van Hillegersberg University of Twente, Netherlands
* Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia
* Bruno Wassermann, University College London, UK
* Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
* Karsten Wolf, University of Rostock, Germany
* Lai Xu Bournemouth, University, UK
* Yelena Yesha, University of Maryland, USA
* Hossein Zadeh, RMIT, Australia
* Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK