[fg-arc] CfP: ESOCC - Deadline for Submissions in 6 days

Thu May 8 19:40:09 CEST 2014

The deadline for submissions (Ma4 14, 2014) for the Third European 
Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing is approaching. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Third European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
2-4 September 2014, Manchester, United Kingdom

http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ esocc2014 at manchester.ac.uk
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CALL FOR PAPERS

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, the second edition, ESOCC
2013, was held in Malaga, Spain, and will be continued by ESOCC 2014 in 
Manchester, UK. 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 2014 will include invited talks,
presentations of selected research papers and an industrial track with 
the participation of top researchers from
industry. ESOCC 2014 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 
utilized 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 2014 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 Modeling, 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 Middle-ware 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
• Web Services for Grids and Clouds
• Service Computing and Web Services
• Service Marketplaces
• Service-oriented Software Engineering
• Service System Design
• Service Value Networks
• Web Services in Service-Oriented Environments
• Service System Engineering
• Web Services Life-Cycles
• Web Services Security and Privacy
• Big Data Management
• Crowd-sourcing Business Services
• Cloud Interoperability and Federation
• Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds
• Cloud Computing Business Services
• Service Science
• Smart Services

ESOCC 2014 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 2014 Industry Track.

SUBMISSIONS

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

• Research papers: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2014
• Industry-Track papers: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2014it

Paper submissions should be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings 
guidelines and the templates available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/Incs?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

Research papers:
• Submission: 14 May 2014
• Notification: 6 June 2014
• Final version: 20 June 2014

Industrial papers:
• Submission: 14 May 2014
• Notification: 6 June 2014
• Final version: 20 June 2014