[fg-arc] CfP: European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing ESOCC 2020

Fri Nov 8 11:56:24 CET 2019

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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8th European Conference and Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2020)

April 1-2, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

https://www.esocc-conf.eu  

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Scope
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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.

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.

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Tracks
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- Main conference: three days full of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops.
- PhD Symposium: an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities
- European Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers around Europe to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia.

Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site:https://www.esocc-conf.eu

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Topics of interest
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ESOCC 2020 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:

- Service and Cloud Computing Models
     * Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies
     * Governance models
     * Architectural models
     * Requirements engineering
     * Formal Methods
     * Model-Driven Engineering
     * Quality models
     * Security, Privacy & Trust models
     * Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models
     * Testing models

- Service and Cloud Computing Engineering
     * Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection
     * Monitoring and Analytics
     * Governance and management
     * Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions
     * Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications
     * Cross-layer adaptation
     * Edge/Fog computing
     * Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management
     * Service Level Agreement Management
     * Service Evolution/Optimisation
     * Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation
     * QoS for Services and Clouds
     * Semantic Web Services
     * Service mining
     * Service & Cloud Standards
     * FaaS / Serverless computing

- Technologies
     * DevOps in the Cloud
     * Containerized services
     * Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds
     * Microservices Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management
     * Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories
     * RESTful Services
     * Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms
     * Blockchain for Services & Clouds
     * Services and Clouds with IoT
     * Fog Computing with Service and Cloud

- Business and Social aspects
     * Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud
     * Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management
     * Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities
     * Business Process as a Service - BPaaS
     * Service and Cloud Business Models
     * Service and Cloud Brokerage
     * Service and Cloud Marketplaces
     * Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing
     * Crowdsourcing Business Services
     * Social and Crowd-based Cloud
     * Energy issues in Cloud Computing
     * Sustainability issues

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Submissions
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ESOCC 2020 invites submissions in all the tracks:

- Regular research papers (15 pages)
- Ph.D. Symposium (8 pages, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names)
- European Project Space (1-to-5 pages description of ongoing projects)

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
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2020  by selecting the right track.

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 (http://www.springer.com/lncs)

There is a high possibility that the accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops will be published on CCIS series of Springer (final approval pending)

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference.

ESOCC 2020 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at:https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/

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Important dates
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Research & industrial papers:
- Abstract submission: November 29, 2019
- Paper submission:    December  6, 2019
- Notifications:       January  12, 2020
- CR versions due:     January  26, 2020

EU projects track:
- Abstract submission: January 12, 2020
- Paper submission:    January 24, 2020
- Notifications:       February 21, 2020

PhD Symposium Track:
  * First Window:
   - Paper Submission:  December 6, 2019
   - Notification:      January 7, 2020
   - CR Versions due:   January 23, 2020

  * Second Window:
   - Paper Submission:  January 24, 2020
   - Notification:      February 21, 2020
   - CR Versions due:   March 6, 2020

Satellite Workshops:
- Workshop Proposal Submission: November 25, 2019
- Proposal Acceptance Notification: December 6, 2019

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Organization
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General Chair
   Kyriakos Kritikos (ICS-FORTH, Greece)

Programme Co-Chairs
   Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy)
   Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

Industrial Track Chair
   Marco Aiello (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

EU projects Track Chairs
   Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, UK)
   Pierluigi Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Workshops Co-Chairs
   Christian Zirpins, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany
   Iraklis Paraskakis (City College, Greece)

PhD Symposium Co-Chairs
   Jacopo Soldani (University of  Pisa, Italy)
   Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy)

Program Committee
   Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
   Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
   Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
   Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales, Australia
   Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
   Marco Comuzzi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
   Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
   Robert Engel, IBM Almaden, USA
   Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
   Ilche Georgievski, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
   Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
   Thomas Gschwind, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
   Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweden
   Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway
   Ernoe Kovacs, NEC Europe Network Labs, Germany
   Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany
   Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, UK
   Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden
   Zoltan Adam Mann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
   Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cadiz, Spain
   Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
   Iraklis Paraskakis, City College, Greece
   Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
   Dumitru Roman, Sintef, Norway
   Ulf Schreier, University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany
   Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
   Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy
   Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
   Mandy Weissbach, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
   Stefan Wesner, University of Ulm, Germany
   Robert Woitsch, BOC Asset Management
   Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
   Christian Zirpins, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany