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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">===============</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">CALL
FOR PAPERS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">===============</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">7th
European Conference and Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
(ESOCC 2018)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">September
12-14, 2018, Como, Italy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://esocc2018.disco.unimib.it">http://esocc2018.disco.unimib.it</a>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-----</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Scope</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-----</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Service-oriented
and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software
industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud
technologies are applied to build large-scale software
landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end
users. Services today are independently developed and deployed
as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a
variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business
perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling
flexibility by offering a centralized sharing of resources. The
industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems
has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for
provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on-demand
fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and
integrators still need to create methods, tools and techniques
to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use
of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented
applications in the cloud.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">The
European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
(ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of
the art and practice of service-oriented computing and cloud
computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are
to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners
in the areas of service-oriented computing and cloud computing,
as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster
future collaborations in Europe and beyond.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Tracks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Main conference: three days full of invited talks, panels, and
presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated
day to satellite workshops .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
PhD Symposium: here Ph.D. students have the opportunity to
present their work, even at an early stage, to a panel of
experienced professors and researchers, which can supply
valuable comments for its improvement. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
European Projects Track: an extremely useful opportunity for
researchers around Europe to disseminate the latest research
developments in their projects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Industrial Track: specifically conceived to allow researchers
and practitioners from companies to share their experience and
latest breakthroughs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Details
about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://esocc2018.disco.unimib.it">http://esocc2018.disco.unimib.it</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Special
focus</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">A
particular focus in this year's conference will be on:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Service and Cloud Computing in the era of virtualization </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Business Process Management in the Cloud </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Invited
talks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Valerie
Issarny (INRIA, France) and Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK)
will be the keynote speakers of ESOCC 2018 with two outstanding
and relevant speeches on, namely, “When service-oriented and
cloud computing meets the IoT: A use case in the context of
urban mobile crowd-sensing” and “Edge Clouds: Architectures and
Deployment Models”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Topics
of interest</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">ESOCC
2018 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects
of service-oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of
interest include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Service and Cloud Computing Models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Governance models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Architectural models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Requirements engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Formal Methods</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Model-Driven Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Quality models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Security, Privacy & Trust models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures
Models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Testing models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Service and Cloud Computing Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Monitoring and Analytics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Governance and management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, and
Federated Cloud solutions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based
Applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Cross-layer adaptation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Edge, Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service Level Agreement Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service Evolution/Optimisation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* QoS for Services and Clouds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Semantic Web Services</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service mining</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service & Cloud Standards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Technologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* DevOps in the Cloud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Containerized services</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Microservices Deployment and Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* RESTful Clouds and Services</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Blockchain for Services & Clouds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Services and Clouds with IoT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Fog Computing with Service and Cloud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Business and Social aspects</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance,
Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Business Process as a Service β€" BPaaS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service and Cloud Business Models</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service and Cloud Brokerage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service and Cloud Marketplaces</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Crowdsourcing Business Services</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Social and Crowd-based Cloud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Energy issues in Cloud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">
* Sustainability issues</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Submissions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">ESOCC
2018 invites submissions in all the tracks:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Regular research papers (15 pages)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Ph.D. Symposium (8 pages, authored by the PhD student with
indication of supervisor's names)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Industry Track (1-to-5 pages description of current R&D
projects)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
European Project Space (1-to-5 pages description of ongoing
projects)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">We
only accept original papers, not submitted for publication
elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS
proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair
site at</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2018</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">All
accepted papers of the main conference will be included in the
conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/lncs">http://www.springer.com/lncs</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">There
is a high possibility that the accepted papers of the other
tracks will be published on CCISS series of Springer (final
approval pending)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">At
least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register
and present the work at the conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Important
dates</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Research
papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Paper Submission: May 7, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Notification: June 22, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Final Version: July 06, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Industrial
papers/EU Project Space</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Paper submission: July 14, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Notification: August 13. 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Camera ready: August 27, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">PhD
Symposium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Paper Submission: July 14, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Notification: August 24, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Camera ready: September 3, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">General Chair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Flavio De
Paoli (Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Program
Chairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Kyriakos Kritikos (ICS-FORTH, Greece)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Pierluigi
Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Workshop
Chairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,
Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Maria Fazio (University of Messina, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">PhD
Symposium Chairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Vasilios Andrikopoulos (University of Groningen, The
Netherlands)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Massimo
Villari (University of Messina, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">EU
Project Space Chairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Federico Facca (Martel Innovate, Switzerland)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">-
Dimitru Roman (SINTEF, Norway)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Industrial
Track Chair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Marco
Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span></p>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">- Erik Wilde (CA
Technologies API Academy, Switzerland)</span>
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