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

====================== SUBMISSIONS =====================

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.

======================== CONTACTS =======================

General Co-Chairs: gc@icsoc.org

Program Co-Chairs: pc@icsoc.org

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