<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 63, 80); font-family: Courier; text-align: justify; font-size: 12px;" class="">**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****</span><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">PhD Symposium track</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">ESOCC 2022 (9th European Conference and Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">March 22nd-24th, 2022</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">*** Aims and scope ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">The ESOCC 2022 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference (which list of topics of interest is recapped at the end of this message). The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.4px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">PhD students working on topics related to the scope of the ESOCC conference can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address including the current state of the art, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">*** Submissions ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Papers should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the Springer LNCS proceedings guidelines. They should be first-authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor(s) and their affiliation. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair submission page of the conference (<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022</a>), by selecting "ESOCC 2022 - PhD Symposium" track. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.4px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Papers will be peer-reviewed by the members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the post-conference proceedings devoted to the satellite events of ESOCC 2022, in the Springer CCIS series. The best student paper will also be awarded with the "Best PhD student award", which will be announced at the end of the symposium. PhD students authoring accepted papers are expected to attend the symposium to present their paper. If not, the paper will not be included in post-conference proceedings and it will not be eligible for the "Best PhD student award".</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">*** Important dates ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Paper submission: January 21st, 2022</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Paper notification: February 25th, 2022</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Camera-ready version: March 11th, 2022</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">*** PC Chairs ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">*** Topics of interest (ESOCC 2022) ***</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">In line with the main conference track, the PhD symposium track of ESOCC 2020 seeks reports on research work in areas related to all aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">- Service and Cloud Computing Models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Governance models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Architectural models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Requirements engineering</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Formal Methods</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Model-Driven Engineering</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Quality models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Security, Privacy & Trust models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Testing models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">- Service and Cloud Computing Engineering</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation, and Selection</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Monitoring and Analytics</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Governance and management</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Cross-layer adaptation</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Edge/Fog computing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service Level Agreement Management</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service Evolution/Optimisation</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * QoS for Services and Clouds</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Semantic Web Services</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service mining</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service & Cloud Standards</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * FaaS / Serverless computing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">- Technologies</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * DevOps in the Cloud</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Containerized services</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Microservices Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * RESTful Services</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Blockchain for Services & Clouds</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Services and Clouds with IoT</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Fog Computing with Service and Cloud</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">- Business and Social aspects</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Business Process as a Service - BPaaS</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service and Cloud Business Models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service and Cloud Brokerage</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service and Cloud Marketplaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Crowdsourcing Business Services</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Social and Crowd-based Cloud</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Energy issues in Cloud Computing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""> * Sustainability issues</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>