This workshop calls for both theoretical work related to SaaS including modeling, analysis, simulation as well as system design and development. Also, this workshop encourages survey papers on various aspects of SaaS. The following topics are included (but not limited to) in this special issue:

SaaS architecture, multi-tenancy design, design patterns, tenant composition
Datastore design, data schema and mapping, dynamic indexing, database partitioning for SaaS
SaaS Runtime infrastructure, monitoring, data provenance, control, elastic computing, provisioning
Fault-tolerant computing, automated recovery, P2P protocols for SaaS
Scheduling, service duplication, fairness, load balance for SaaS
Ontology, reasoning, data mining, evolution for SaaS
Continuous testing and validation, modeling and simulation for SaaS
Tenant application development including customization, verification, simulation, and testing on SaaS
SaaS QoS, security, reliability, availability, service bus mechanisms
SaaS and PaaS interaction including caching, multi-tenancy architecture and caching
Metadata, modeling and simulation of SaaS
Security, reliability, trustworthiness of SaaS systems
Software engineering of SaaS systems including requirement engineering for tenant applications, design architecture of multi-tenancy architecture
Testing, verification, and model checking of SaaS
Big data for SaaS analysis
SaaS applications (eScience, Smart Grid, Internet of Things, finance, e-business), case studies, systems