[fg-arc] Call for Papers: European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2013)

[Prof. Dr. Wolf Zimmermann]

The “European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing” 
(ESOCC) is the premier conference on the advances in the state of the 
art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in 
Europe. ESOCC has evolved from the ECOWS (European Conference on Web 
Services) conference series, after the Steering Committee decided to 
renew and broaden its scope, and to start a new conference series on 
advanced topics of service-oriented and cloud computing. The first 
edition of the new series, ESSOC 2012, was successfully held in 
Bertinoro, Italy, and will be continued by ESOCC 2013 in Malaga, Spain. 
The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange 
between researchers and practitioners in the areas of SOC and Cloud 
Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. 
ESOCC 2013 will include invited talks, presentations of selected 
research papers and an industrial track with the participation of top 
researchers from industry. ESOCC 2013 will also include a PhD symposium 
and a series of satellite workshops.
Background

The continued success of service-oriented distributed applications has 
shown that tightly coupled software systems may be useful for niche 
markets, whereas loosely coupled software systems have proven to be more 
flexible, adaptive and often more appropriate for practical 
applications. Loose coupling makes it easier for a given system to 
interact with other system components − including legacy systems − that 
have been developed independently somewhere in a heterogeneous universe 
of services. Thus, service-oriented applications can evolve more easily 
during their lifespan and adapt better to changing or even unpredictable 
environments. In such scenarios, cloud computing enables a new execution 
paradigm for distributed software application where resources can be 
shared, optimally realized as well as utilised and exchanged between 
heterogeneous execution platforms and the cloud, so as to achieve fast 
response times and to ensure immersive and non-interrupted user experience.

Services today are developed independently, deployed as well as freely 
composed, and they can be implemented in a variety of technologies – a 
fact which is of particular importance from a business perspective. 
Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling mobility as well as device, 
platform and/or service independence by offering centralized sharing of 
resources. It promotes interoperability, portability and security 
standards, and raises a completely new set of security issues. On the 
implementation side, essential agreement has been reached on integration 
technologies and consensus has emerged in today's middleware market. 
Customers use web technologies extensively; however, service developers, 
providers, and integrators need to create methods, tools and techniques 
to support cost-effective and secure development and use of dependable 
devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the cloud.

Topics of interest

ESOCC 2013 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of 
Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, which constitute the main 
technology available to date for implementing service-oriented 
architectures and cloud computing. Topics of interest to the Research 
and Industry Tracks include, but are not limited to:

Business Process Management and Web Services.
Cloud Services Management and Composition using Web Services.
Dynamic and Adaptive Web Services.
Economics Models and Web Services.
Enterprise Architecture and Web Services.
Emerging Trends of Service Composition and Mashups.
Experience reports of novel applications of Service-Oriented and Cloud 
Computing in Health, Commerce, Finance, Telecom, Scientific Computing 
and other domains.
Service modelling, service-oriented analysis and design.
Formal Methods for Web Services.
Frameworks for Building Web Service-Based Applications.
Architectural Models for Cloud Computing.
Identity and Access Management using Web Services.
Mobile Web Services.
Model-Driven Web Service Engineering.
Next Generation Web Services Middleware and Service Repositories.
Service quality and service interface design guidelines.
RESTful for Clouds and Web Services.
Self-Organizing Service Oriented and Cloud Architectures.
Semantic Web Services.
Service Level Agreements for Web services.
Service-Oriented Business Collaboration.
SOA Governance and Web Services.
Social Web Services.
Web Services for Grids and Clouds.
Web Services in Service-Oriented Environments.
Web Services Life-Cycles.
Web Services Security and Privacy.
Big Data Management.
Cloud Interoperability and Federation.
Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds.

ESOCC 2013 solicits both new research papers (in the main track) as well 
as reports on practical experiences from industry (industry track). 
However, papers on existing products or product marketing information 
are not within the scope of the ESOCC 2013 Industry Track.

PhD Symposium

The ESOCC 2013 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students 
working in any of the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference. 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 activity. PhD 
students working in any area addressed by the ESOCC conference can 
submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they 
intend to address, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying 
research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing 
the proposed research plan and expected results. Reports should not 
exceed 6 pages formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. 
The papers should be authored by the PhD student and should indicate the 
name of her/his supervisor. Submissions must be sent by email to the 
symposium chair Wolf Zimmermann ( wolf.zimmermann at informatik.uni-halle.de ).

Submission Guidelines
Original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere, can be 
submitted via EasyChair.

Research papers:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2013
Industry-Track papers:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2013it

Paper submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings 
guidelines and the templates available at: 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and they 
should not exceed 15 pages. A paper might be accepted as a full paper 
(15 pages), as a short paper (8 pages) or as a poster (a 2-page abstract 
in the proceedings). Conference proceedings will be published by 
Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Important Dates

Deadlines for research papers:

Research paper submission: Sunday, April 21, 2013
Notifications: Sunday, June 2, 2013
CR versions due: Sunday, June 23, 2013

Deadlines for industrial papers:

Industrial Paper submission: Sunday, April 21, 2013
Notifications: Sunday, June 2, 2013
CR versions due: Sunday, June 23, 2013

Deadlines for PhD Symposium papers:

PhD symposium paper submission: Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Notification of acceptance: Sunday, July 7, 2013
Camera Ready: Sunday, July 26, 2013

Organization

General Chair:

Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain

Program Chairs:

Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, UK
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany

Industry Track Chairs:

Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Aljosa Pasic, ATOS Research & Innovation, Madrid, Spain

Workshop Chairs:

Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
Carlos Canal, University of Malaga, Spain

Ph.D. Symposium Chair:

Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany

ESOCC 2013 Program Committee:

Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sami Bhiri, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA
Manuel Carro, IMDEA Software Institute and Technical University of 
Madrid, Spain
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain
Jürgen Dunkel, FH Hannover, Germany
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
George Feuerlicht, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Christopher Giblin, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Claude Godart, Universiy of Lorraine, France
Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dionisis Kehagias, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Universitaet Jena, Germany
Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany
Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Peep Kungas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Frederic Lang, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France
Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research,USA
Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany
Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany
Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain
Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany
Ulf Schreier, Univ. of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
Erik Wilde, UC Berkeley, USA
Olaf Zimmermann, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
Wolf Zimmermann, University Halle, Germany
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Christian Zirpins, KIT/Seeburger AG, Karlsruhe, Germany