ICSOC 2014 - International Conference on Service Oriented Computing

ICSOC is the top 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, networking, scientific workflows, services science, management science, and software engineering.
ICSOC 2014 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, forward-looking 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 2014 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
Legacy System Migration to Service-Oriented Architectures
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 in 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
Cost 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
Internet of Things
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.
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/icsoc2014 )
Best Paper Award
The award will be given to the paper submitted to the conference as judged by the program committee.
Important Dates
Abstracts due: May 9, 2014
Full papers due: May 16, 2014
Notification to authors: July 11, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2014
Proceedings
All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2014 proceedings published by Springer Verlag under the Services Science series.
Program Co-Chairs
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA
Contact
email: pc-AT-icsoc.org
web: http://www.icsoc.org