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8th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented
Computing and Applications
(SOCA 2015)
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Important Dates
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Submission of Papers: May 1, 2015
Notification: June 30, 2015
Final Version Due: July 15, 2015
Conference Dates: October 19-21, 2015
Location
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Rome, Italy
Call for Papers
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Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key
technology for the development of robust and high quality
intelligent Internet-scale distributed and embedded
applications. Extensive research and development in the past
few years has pushed SOC technology into state-of-the-art
applications in emerging areas such as Internet-of-Things
(IoTs), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPSs), as well as mobile and enterprise systems.
However, many of the critical components on building reliable,
robust, and user-centric, cloud-based service-oriented
architecture applications and systems are still open for
research. Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented
architecture (SOA) research opportunities by addressing new
research challenges on emerging applications domains like
smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories and e-Health,
to mention only a few.
Many of the service components are deployed on resource
limited embedded systems and are performance sensitive; others
are deployed on cloud servers providing highly parallel
services and on edge servers in the middle of resource-limited
systems and high-end servers. These components are part of
complex applications and systems that span multiple execution
environments. Their capabilities are increasingly being
managed and (re)configured via emerging software-defined and
elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have to interact with
humans in order to solve complex problems. Thus, on the one
hand, SOC may provide effective solutions for managing the
ever-increasing complexity while meeting the challenging
requirements of services on largely distributed, heterogeneous
and dynamic resource environments. On the other hand, the
exploitation of emerging trends in such environments to build
SOC applications and systems for large-scale service-based
systems is an open research challenge.
The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented
Computing and Applications (SOCA 2015) provides an
international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines
to exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and latest
research results on all aspects of service-oriented computing.
The conference includes three days of parallel tracks program,
special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel
discussion.
We invite submissions of high quality papers describing
fully developed results or ongoing work on the following
topics and related areas:
- Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and
applications
- Micro-services and reactive programming
- Cloud-based systems
- Cyber-physical systems
- SOC-based things, processes and people integration
- SOC-based business process and workflow management
- Elasticity-aware service composition
- Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service
middleware
- Streaming and real-time data analytics in SOC-based
systems
- Mobile service engineering and applications
- Context-aware computing for SOC
- Service ecosystems for large-scale SOC
- SOCA development, deployment and testing tools for smart
applications (cities, transportation systems, factories, homes
and offices, etc.)
- Security and privacy for intelligent service applications
- End-to-end dependable and trustworthy services
- Business services and service innovation in emerging
environments
- Big data services, including big data analytics applied
to service computing and service-based computing for big data
analytics
- Green and energy-aware SOC, SOC applied to green and
energy-aware applications and computing
Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished
research papers in any of the areas listed in the Call for
Papers.
Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. Please
follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author
Guidelines to prepare
your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. Only
papers in English will be accepted.
Information about the IEEE format can be found at:
The title page must contain a short abstract and a
classification of the covered topics (three to five keywords
characterizing the paper should be indicated at
the end of the abstract), preferably using the list of
conference's topics.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair
system using the following URL:
Please upload a self-contained PDF file. Submissions not
conforming to the IEEE format, longer than 8 pages, or being
obviously out of the scope of the conference will be
rejected
without review. In order to submit your paper, you will
first need to register into the system, if you are not
registered already.
You may submit an abstract first and upload the actual
paper at a later time (this is in fact strongly recommended).
Furthermore, you may revise your
submission any number of times before the deadline. Please
feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you may
have.
All papers submitted to SOCA 2015 will be peer-reviewed by
at least 3 reviewers. Papers that are selected for
presentation at SOCA 2015 will appear
in the Proceedings of SOCA 2015, will be included in IEEE
Xplore and indexed by EI. Each paper accepted for SOCA 2015
requires at least one author to register
at the full rate (IEEE member or non-IEEE member). At least
one author is required to attend the conference and present
the paper.
The best papers from the proceedings will be invited to
submit an extended version for publication in the Springer
Journal on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications
(SOCA).
Furthermore, a Best Paper Award will be presented to the
best paper selected from the accepted full papers.
Workshops, Demos, Doctoral Consortium
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Specific call for workshop proposals and subsequent
workshop papers, demos, doctoral consortium papers will be
issued in the next weeks. All papers in these categories will
appear in the Proceedings of SOCA 2015 and be included in IEEE
Xplore and indexed by EI. Papers accepted in these categories
will have to be prepared in their final version by 15 July
2015 and will require at least one author to register at the
full rate (IEEE member or non-IEEE member). At least one
author is required to attend the conference and present the
papers in these categories.
General Chairs
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Massimo Mecella - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Kwei-Jay Lin - University of California, Irvine, USA
PC Chair
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Marco Aiello - University of Groningen, Netherlands
PC Vice-Chairs
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Heiko Ludwig - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Kuo Ming Chao - Coventry University, UK
Chris Stary - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Local Organizing Chair
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Andrea Marrella - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Workshop Chairs
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Chang-ai Sun - University of Science and Technology Bejing,
China
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Pierluigi Plebani - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Publication Chair
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Jong-Chan Kim - Kookmin University, Korea
Web Chair
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Francesco Leotta, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Publicity Co-Chairs
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Francesco Leotta - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Jun Shen - University of Wollongong, Australia
Chi-Sheng Shih - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
PhD Doctoral Consortium
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Hong-Linh Truong - Vienna University of Technology,
Austria
Jian Yang - Macquarie University, Australia
Panel Co-Chairs
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Barbara Pernici - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alexander Lazovik - University of Groningen, Netherlands