ICSOC 2012 - 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing

ICSOC is the prime forum for academics and industry researchers and developers to report and share groundbreaking works in service oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by the gathering of experts from various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile computing, grid computing, networking, service science, management science, and software engineering.
http://www.icsoc.org/
ICSOC 2012 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from multiple disciplines to focus on service-oriented, cloud-based innovative for the 21st century enterprises.
The conference will feature research and industry presentations, 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 2012 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences -- with emphases on results that solve open research problems and have significant impact on the field of service-oriented computing and also in particular cloud services.
Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Service Engineering
Service Design
Service Description
Service-Oriented Architecture
Service Composition
Theoretical and Technical Service Foundations
Service Engineering Methods
Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies
Semantic Web services
Service change management
Service discovery and mining
Service Operations and Management
Management Processes and Methods
Managing Service Infrastructure
Quality of Service
Security, Privacy and Trust
Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services
Services in the Cloud
XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud
Grid and Computational Services
Service Composition and Engineering
Managing Services on the Cloud
Managing a Cloud Platform
Software engineering models, methods and methodologies for XaaS
Workflow management in clouds
Services in Organizations, Business and Society
Social networks and services
Human-provided and outsourcing services
Mixed Services
Business Service Modeling
Business Process Modeling
Service Outsourcing
Costs and Pricing of Services
Service Marketplaces
Service Applications and Implementations
Pervasive and Mobile Services on the Cloud
Embedded and Real-time Services
Services in Specific Application Domains
Data- and compute- intensive applications
Execution and resource allocation services
Coordination across multiple resource managers
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.
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/icsoc2012.
Important Dates
Abstract due: April 29, 2012
Full paper due: May 6, 2012
Notification : July 12, 2012
Camera ready due : August 2, 2012
Proceedings & Special Journal Issues
All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2012 proceedings published by Springer Verlag under the Services Science series. Selected papers will be considered for possible publication in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS).
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University, Australia
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Farouk Toumani, University Blaise Pascal, France (pc-AT-icsoc.org)