From its founding in 2005, IEEE SOSE has become established as one of the leading international symposiums devoted to state-of-the-art research (both academic and industrial) into the engineering of service-oriented systems such as Cloud Computing and Web Services, with over 200 members of academia and industry attending our 2013 event.

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) exploits services as the fundamental elements for developing computer-based systems, and represents a paradigm shift away from traditional distributed systems architecture, design, implementation, testing, evaluation, delivery, consumption, maintenance and evolution.

In recent years, service-oriented systems - and the data they generate and process - are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, large-scale, and complex. Systems are often distributed across large numbers of resources in different geographical locations running on heterogeneous infrastructure, with a large and increasing number of diverse users, and with requirements for generating, storing, processing, and understanding "big data" that demand new data management and processing tools.

The theme of the symposium is System Engineering for Large-Scale Computing and Analytics.

Continuing the tradition of the last seven SOSE Symposia, the 8th SOSE will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange latest observations, insights, achievements and visions in Service-Oriented System Engineering. Particularly, SOSE 2014 invites original submissions in all areas of system engineering, as well as software engineering methods, techniques, tools, applications, and experiments for software services.

A. Regular Research Papers

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

Track I: Service-Oriented System Engineering

Business process integration and management
Operation and governance for large-scale service-oriented systems (such as data centers)
Modernization, migration, and servicetization of legacy systems
Mobility of services in complex network environments and heterogeneous clients
Modeling and simulation of service-oriented systems
Service-oriented system engineering for large-scale (Big Data) analytics
Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems
Social and collaborative engineering of services systems
Service interoperability, composibility, quality, reliability
Service mobility, scalability, elasticity, and security
Service-oriented engineering of emergent systems
Service-oriented engineering of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds
Service-oriented engineering of Platform as a Service (PaaS) clouds
Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Social Networking Systems.

Track II. Service-Oriented Software Engineering

Model-driven development of service-oriented systems
Multi-tenant architecture, configurable architecture
Requirement and design modeling of services and systems
Specifications of services and systems
Semantic services and semantic-enabled service engineering
Dynamic service delivery, deployment and evolution
End-user development and mashup of software services
Lifecycle models, reusability, and scalability for software services
Metrics and measurement of services, QoS, and QoE
Runtime verification, validation, monitoring, testing on-the-fly and policy enforcement
Service oriented architecture, analysis, modeling, design, validation, QoS, and evaluation for Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and mobile services

B. Industry Practice/Case Study Papers

SOSE 2013 encourages papers report industry practice, case studies, empirical research and practical experiences in service engineering are invited. 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

C. Survey and Emerging Subjects Tutorial Papers

In addition to regular research paper and industry practice/case study paper sessions, SOSE 2013 will also invite some tutorial papers, which review the state-of-the-art of the research on services 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 2013 also encourages discussion papers which target at the visions on future related issues, including the emerging paradigms, technologies and applications.

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 and maintenance of service-oriented systems
Measurements and metrics of QoS in SOA-based application 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