CALL FOR PAPERS

8th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020)

April 1-3, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

https://esocc-conf.eu

=== SCOPE ===

Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralized sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on-demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the cloud.

The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service-oriented and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of the conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of service-oriented and cloud computing, as well as to explore new trends and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

=== TOPICS OF INTEREST ===

ESOCC 2020 seeks original, high-quality papers related to all aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Service and Cloud Computing Models

* Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies

* Governance models

* Architectural models

* Requirements engineering

* Formal Methods

* Model-Driven Engineering

* Quality models

* Security, Privacy & Trust models

* Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models

* Testing models

- Service and Cloud Computing Engineering

* Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection

* Monitoring and Analytics

* Governance and management

* Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions

* Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications

* Cross-layer adaptation

* Edge/Fog computing

* Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management

* Service Level Agreement Management

* Service Evolution/Optimisation

* Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation

* QoS for Services and Clouds

* Semantic Web Services

* Service mining

* Service & Cloud Standards

* FaaS / Serverless computing

- Technologies

* DevOps in the Cloud

* Containerized services

* Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds

* Microservices Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management

* Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories

* RESTful Services

* Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms

* Blockchain for Services & Clouds

* Services and Clouds with IoT

* Fog Computing with Service and Cloud

- Business and Social aspects

* Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud

* Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management

* Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities

* Business Process as a Service - BPaaS

* Service and Cloud Business Models

* Service and Cloud Brokerage

* Service and Cloud Marketplaces

* Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing

* Crowdsourcing Business Services

* Social and Crowd-based Cloud

* Energy issues in Cloud Computing

* Sustainability issues



=== SUBMISSIONS ===

Original papers - not submitted for publication elsewhere – must be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2020

Papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines:

http://www.springer.com/lncs.

All accepted papers at the main conference will be included in the LNCS volume containing the conference proceedings, provided that at least one author of each accepted paper will register and participate in the conference. The accepted papers for the other tracks (European Project Space, PhD Symposium, Workshops) will be published on post-proceedings (negotiation is in process with Springer).



=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

Research & industrial papers:

- Abstract submission: November 29, 2019

- Paper submission: December 6, 2019

- Notifications: January 12, 2020

- CR versions due: January 26, 2020



EU projects track:

- Abstract submission: January 12, 2020

- Paper submission: January 24, 2020

- Notifications: February 21, 2020

- CR versions due: March 6, 2020



PhD Symposium Track:

* First Window:

- Paper Submission: December 6, 2019

- Notification: January 7, 2020

- CR Versions due: January 23, 2020

* Second Window:

- Paper Submission: January 24, 2020

- Notification: February 21, 2020

- CR Versions due: March 6, 2020



ESOCC 2020: April 1-3, 2020



=== ORGANIZATION ===

General Chair

Kyriakos Kritikos (ICS-FORTH, Greece)



Programme Co-Chairs

Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)


Industrial Track Chair

Marco Aiello (University of Stuttgart, Germany)



EU projects Track Chairs

Giuliano Casale (Imperial College, UK)

Pierluigi Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)



Workshops Co-Chairs

Winfried Lamersdorf (Uni Hamburg, Germany)

Iraklis Paraskakis (City College, Greece)



PhD Symposium Co-Chairs

Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa, Italy)

Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy)



Program Committee

Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands

Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Giuliano Casale, Imperial College, UK

Marco Comuzzi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Robert Engel, IBM Almaden, USA

Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Ilche Georgievski, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland

Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden

Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway

Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany

Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany

Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, UK

Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Zoltan Adam Mann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain

Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Iraklis Paraskakis, City College, Greece

Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain

Dumitru Roman, Sintef, Norway

Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany

Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria

Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy

Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy

Mandy Weißbach, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Stefan Wesner, University of Ulm, Germany

Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management

Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy

Christian Zirpins, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany