SOSE 2013: 7th International Symposium on Service Oriented System
Engineering, March 25 - March 28, 2013, Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco
Bay, USA.

Scope and Visions

SOSE is originated from 2005. SOSE is one of the pioneering symposia
devoted to the research in engineering service-oriented systems, from
the architecture and computing paradigm to the development and
management. Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) exploits services as the
fundamental elements for developing computer-based systems. From
technology foundation perspective, SOC has become the most important
discipline in the modern services industry. SOC promotes the fundamental
changes to system architecture, especially changing the way software
systems are being analyzed, architected, designed, implemented, tested,
evaluated, delivered, consumed, maintained and evolved.

Recently, Cloud Computing emerges as a popular service delivery paradigm
and further expands the scope of SOC to include new subjects such as
Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a
Service, Testing as a Service, Management as a Service and Thing as a
Service. Service Engineering for Cloud Computing brings new challenges
as well as opportunities to SOSE and becomes the theme of the 7th symposium.

Continuing the tradition of the last six SOSE Symposia, the 7th SOSE
intends to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange
latest observations, insights, achievements and visions in the
Service-Oriented System Engineering. Particularly, SOSE 2013 invites
original submissions in all the areas of the system engineering and
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
Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems
Social and collaborative engineering of services systems
Service interoperability, composibility, quality, reliability, mobility,
scalability, elasticity, and security
service-oriented engineering of the emergent systems, such as the
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds, 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 quality assurance 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

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 10/15/2012
Review Notification: 12/31/2012
Camera Ready and registration Deadline: 01/15/2013
Conference : 03/25-28/2013


Paper Submission

Format: Please submit papers in PDF format through the SOSE web site.
Manuscript should be prepared following the IEEE Computer Society Press
Proceedings Author Guidelines
(http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html).

Page Limit: The page limits and evaluation criteria for three different
types of papers are given below.
Research Paper: 12 pages, evaluated by the relevance, significance,
originality, clarity, and technical merit
Industrial Practice/Case Study Paper: 6 pages, evaluated by the
relevance, clarity, and value to the research community
Survey-based Tutorial Papers: 12 pages, evaluated by the coverage of the
literature,
relevance, soundness, technical validity, insightful discussion,
timeliness, well-structuredness and clarity.

Publication: All accepted papers will be included in the symposium
proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
and included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author of each
accepted paper must attend the symposium to present the work.

Journal Special Issue: We plan to publish a special journal issue for
the extended and revised versions of selected best papers presented at
the SOSE 2013 Symposium.

Best Paper Award: One paper will be given the SOSE 2013 Best Paper Award
at the conference

Organization

Steering Committee Chair
Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

Steering Committee:
K. J. Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA
J. Y. Chung, IBM, USA
F. Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Raymond Paul, DoD, USA
Jie Xu, U. of Leeds, UK

General Co-Chair
Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, CA, USA
Guido Wirtz, University of Bamberg, Germany
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Program Co-Chair
Gang Huang, Peking University, China
Jorge L. Sanz, IBM, USA

Publicity Chairs
Ying Li, Peking University, China
Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Hamid Mcheick, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
Julio Cesar Leite, Pontificia Universidade Catolica Do Rio De JANEIRO,
Brasil