ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work 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 and mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, networking, scientific workflows, services science, data science, management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC 2018, the 16th event in this series, will take place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China on November 12-15, 2018. Following on the ICSOC tradition, it will feature visionary keynote presentations, research and industry presentations, workshops, tool demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track.

Topics of Interest
ICSOC 2018 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:

1. Service Engineering
Legacy systems migration and modernization
Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and deployment
Service change management
Service innovation
Theoretical foundations of Service Engineering
2. Run-time Service Operations and Management
Service execution middleware
Service monitoring and adaptive management
Quality of service
Security, privacy, and trust
Workload compliance management
Service governance
Architectures for multi-host container deployments
Microservices deployment and management
3. Services and Data
Services for Big Data
Service for compute-intensive applications
Mining and analytics
Data-provisioning services
Services related linked open data
Automated Knowledge Graph creation
4. Services on the Cloud
Migration to virtual infrastructures
XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud
Cloud service management
Cloud workflow management
Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers
Edge computing vs Cloud computing
Workload transformation
5. Services in the Internet of Things
Embedded and real-time services
RFID, sensor data, and services related to the Internet of Things
Services for IoT applications
Services oriented protocols for IoT applications
REST APIs and services for IoT applications
6. Services in Organizations, Business, and Society
Services science
Social networks and services
Cost and pricing of services
Service marketplaces and ecosystems
Service business models
Enterprise architecture and services
Service Chatbots
7. Services at the Edge
Analytics and knowledge generation services
Edge service orchestration
Lightweight service deployment and management
Services and edge gateway architectures
Quality of Service (QoS) in edge services
Security, privacy, and trust of edge services
Paper Submission
The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.

Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Submissions must be in English and not exceed 15 pages including all references and figures. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF to the Conference Submission System.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference and present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this individual author will be at the time when the camera-ready version is submitted.

Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer, will be given to the paper that the Program Committee judges to be the best in quality, execution, and impact among all the accepted papers in the conference.

Important Dates
Abstract Submission Due: May 28, 2018
Full Paper Submission: June 4, 2018
Notification to Authors: July 23, 2018
Camera Ready Papers Due: August 6, 2018
Author Registration Due: August 8, 2018
Early Registration Due: September 24, 2018
Conference Dates: November 12-15, 2018
Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

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General Co-Chairs
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Program Co-Chairs
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Maja Vukovic, IBM Research, USA
Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University, China
Contact
General Co-Chairs: gc@icsoc.org, Program Co-Chairs: pc@icsoc.org