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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
- ICSOC 2021 -
November 22-25, 2021
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
http://icsoc.org/
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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 provides a high-quality forum for presenting results and
discussing ideas that further our knowledge and understanding of
the various aspects (e.g. application and system aspects) related
to Service Computing applied to new application areas and gain
insights into a variety of computing, networked, and
cyber-physical systems ranging from mobile devices and
Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications to large-scale cloud
computing systems and the smart grid.
ICSOC 2021, the 19th event in this series, will take place in
Dubai, UAE from November 22 to November 25, 2021. Following on the
ICSOC tradition, it will feature visionary keynote presentations,
research and industry presentations, a vision track, workshops,
tool demonstrations, tutorials, and a Ph.D. track. We invite
interested researchers, students, practitioners, and professionals
to submit their original contributions to the research and
industry tracks of ICSOC 2021.
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+++ New submission/review model
Starting this year, ICSOC adopts a new submission/reviewing model.
***Anonymous submissions: ICSOC implements a double-blind
reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear
in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to
reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text,
figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the
paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the
third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be
blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be
rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed
after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the
Program Chairs.
***Early submissions: Authors are invited to consider early
submissions. In the early submission round, only papers submitted
as full/regular papers will be considered, and they will go
through a full peer-review process. An early submitted paper that
is accepted will be included in the proceedings. An early
submitted paper that is rejected can be still revised and
submitted to the normal submission round by the given deadline. If
the authors of an early submitted paper that is rejected decide to
resubmit their paper to the normal submission round, they will
have to include an appendix (2 pages) describing how they have
addressed the comments received by the reviewers from the early
submission.
***Normal submissions: Authors are also welcome to submit papers
to the normal submission round by the given deadline. After the
normal submission deadline, the papers resubmitted from the early
submission round and those submitted only to the normal submission
round will undergo a traditional review process. The decisions
made from this normal review procedure will be final and no
resubmission will be permitted afterwards.
It should be noted that unformatted papers and papers beyond the
page limit may not be reviewed.
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Important Dates
Normal paper submission due: August 22nd, 2021
Final notification to authors: September 20th, 2021
Camera ready manuscripts due: October 3rd, 2021
Author registration: October 3rd, 2021
Early bird registration: TBA
Conference dates: November 22-25, 2021
All deadlines are in Samoa Standard Time (SST = GMT – 11). Check
the time in the SST Zone here:
https://time.is/SST
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Special issues
As per its tradition, ICSOC 2021 will also feature some special
issues in high impact journals. A selection of the top accepted
papers will be invited for special issues in journals, the
specific list will be announced soon.
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Areas of interest
ICSOC 2021 will be divided into two main tracks, the research
track and the visionary track. While the visionary track targets
visionary papers with high potential that may bring some impact in
the future for the community, the research track will focus on the
following four main areas.
---Focus Area-1: Service Oriented Technology Trends
This focus area targets 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 digital services and service-oriented computing.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not
limited to:
* Service-oriented Engineering
* Service design, specification, discovery, customization,
composition, and deployment
* Service validation and test
* Service change management
* Intelligent context-aware interfaces
* Theoretical foundations of Service Engineering
* Transformation of monolithic applications to microservices
* Run-time Service Operations and Management
* Service execution middleware
* Service monitoring and adaptive management
* Workload compliance management
* Microservices deployment and management
* Security, privacy, and trust for services
* Secure service lifecycle development
* Privacy management aspects for services
* Contract based security approaches
* Secure service composition
* Trust management for services
* Services and Data
* Services for big data
* Service mining and analytics
* Data-provisioning services
* Services related linked open data
* Services on the Cloud
* Cloud service management
* Cloud workflow management
* Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers
* XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
* Workload partitioning, balancing, and transformation
* Services at the Edge
* Cloud and fog computing
* Edge service orchestration
* Lightweight service deployment and management
* Quality of Service (QoS) in edge services
* Security, privacy, and trust of edge services
* Services in the Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems
(CPS)
* Embedded and real-time services
* RFID, sensor data, and services related to the IoT/CPS
* Services for IoT/CPS platforms and applications
* Service oriented protocols for IoT/CPS applications
* Services in Organizations, Business, and Society
* Social networks and services
* Cost and pricing of services
* Service marketplaces and ecosystems
* Innovative service business models
--- Focus Area-2: Blockchain Technologies
A blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger that records
and stores transactions among a number of interacting parties in a
network. Each transaction must be validated via a consensus
mechanism executed by the network participants before being
permanently added as a new “block” at the end of the “chain.”
Disruptive technologies such as blockchain, AI, services, and
cloud enable companies and administrations to provide
decentralized, trusted, transparent and user-centric digital
services while enhancing user/consumer experience. These
technologies have the ability to transform the way we use the
internet and digital services globally.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not
limited to:
* Blockchain in digital services
* Block chain and smart business transactions
* Block chain and smart contracts
* Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
* Blockchain in cyber physical systems
* Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
* Disintermediation and collaboration mechanisms in block chains
* Peer-to-peer networks
* Block chain platforms
* Blockchain in supply chain management
* Trust and security services in block chains
* Cutting edge cipher algorithms
--- Focus Area-3: Industry 4.0 Technologies
Industry 4.0 (or smart manufacturing) sets the foundations for
completely connected factories that are characterized by the
digitization and interconnection of supply chains, production
equipment and production lines, and the application of the latest
advanced digital information technologies to manufacturing
activities. The manufacturing paradigm championed by the Industry
4.0 brings together processes, software services and systems,
machines, devices, IoT, sensors, valves, actuators, manufacturing
systems, and connected digital factories. All these
computer-driven systems create a virtual copy of the physical
world and help make decentralized decisions with a much higher
degree of accuracy.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not
limited to:
* Digital twins and digital threads
* Digital product management
* Digital manufacturing
* Digital transformation
* Digital reality
* Embedded systems
* Internet of Things in Industry 4.0
* 3D printing/additive manufacturing techniques
* Machine-To-Machine communication for smart manufacturing
* Smarter analytics
* Manufacturing Intelligence
* Smart factories
* Smart asset management
* Smart Cyber-Security in Industry 4.0
* Blockchain in Industry 4.0
--- Focus Area-4: Smart services, Smart data and Smart
applications
Smart data systems and services support the processing and
integration of data and services into a meaningful unified view to
enable more effective decision making and problem solving. The
decisive criterion here is not necessarily the amount of data or
services available, but smart content techniques that promote not
only the collection and accumulation of related data and services,
but also its context, and understanding. This requires finding
useful insights and discovering patterns and trends within the
data and services to reveal a wider picture that is more relevant
to the problem in hand and react to them.
Smart applications are context aware, intelligent and autonomous
industrial strength applications that incorporate data-driven,
actionable contextual insights into the user experience to enable
users to more efficiently complete a desired task usually taking
the form of recommendations, estimates, and suggested next course
of actions in context.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not
limited to:
* Smart Big Data
* Predictive Modelling
* Visualization & Augmented Reality
* Smarter Analytics
* Machine Learning
* Multidimensional Data
* Sensor Networks
* Smart cities
* Smart applications for the construction industry
* Smart transportation systems
* Smart logistics & distribution
* Smart agriculture and food chains
* Smart government
* Smart sensors & IoT for large scale industrial applications
* Traceability and Tracking
* Detection of data and key performance metrics to improve
application efficiency
* Conceptual structures and knowledge architectures for smart
applications
* Agile & DevOps methodologies for smart applications
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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 must not exceed 15
pages. All papers must be submitted electronically to the
Conference Submission System. Each paper must be submitted on or
before the provided deadlines. Authors are kindly invited to
respect the abstract submission deadline, set one week before the
paper submission. The limit length of accepted papers should be 15
pages (including abstract, figures and references) with a maximum
of 2 extra paid pages (€90 per extra page). The final submission
should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Camera ready
instructions.
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.
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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.
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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 Chairs
- Hakim Hacid, Zayed University, UAE
- Odej Kao, TU Berlin, Germany
Program Co-chairs
- Massimo Mecella, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Naouel Moha, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada
- Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
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