ICSOC2013
Berlin, Germany, December 02-05 2013
http://www.icsoc.org/

Call for Papers (research track and industry track)

ICSOC is the top international forum for academics, industry researchers and developers to report and share groundbreaking works in service oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile computing, cloud computing, networking, scientific workflow, service science, management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC 2013 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines to focus on service-oriented, cloud-based, innovative enterprises ready for the 21st century. The conference will feature research and industry presentations, prestigious keynote presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. Please refer to www.icsoc.org for more details about these associated events.
Topics of Interest

ICSOC 2013 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences -- with emphasis on results that solve open research problems and have significant impact on the field of service-oriented computing.

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Service Engineering
Service Design
Service Description
Service-Oriented Architecture
Service Composition
Theoretical Foundations
Service Engineering Methods
Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies
Semantic Web Services
RESTful Web Services
Service Change Management
Service Discovery and Mining
Service Customization
Service Governance
Service Operations and Management
Management Processes and Methods
Managing Service Infrastructure
Quality of Service
Security, Privacy and Trust
Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services
Execution and Resource Allocation Services
Web as a Platform
Services in the Cloud
XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud
Cloud Service Management
Decentralized Cloud Platform Architectures
Software Engineering Models, Methods and Methodologies for XaaS
Cloud Workflow Management
Cloud Brokers and Coordination across Multiple Resource Managers
Services in Organizations, Business and Society
Social Networks and Services
Human-provided and Outsourcing of Services
Business Service Modeling
Business Process Modeling
Costs and Pricing of Services
Service Marketplaces
OpenAPI
Service Applications and Implementations
Grid and Scientific Computing Services
Pervasive and Mobile Services
Services for Big-Data
Embedded and Real-time Services
Services in Specific Application Domains
Domain-Specific Services
Data- and/or compute-intensive applications

Paper Submission

The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented, cloud-based computing. 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. All papers will be peer reviewed.

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 to the conference submission system (https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2013).
Best Paper Award

The award will be given to the paper submitted to the conference as judged by the program committee.


Important Dates

Abstract due: June 7, 2013
Full paper due: June 14, 2013
Notification : August 2, 2013
Camera ready due : August 30, 2013


Proceedings

All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2013 proceedings published by Springer Verlag under the Services Science series.


Program Co-Chairs

Samik Basu, Iowa State University, USA
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Richard Hull (IBM TJ Watson)
Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano)


Contact

email: pc AT icsoc.org
web: http://www.icsoc.org