CfP - ESOCC 2015 - Fourth European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, Taormina (Messina), Italy, 15-17 Sept 2015

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ESOCC 2015

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Fourth European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

15-17 September 2015

Taormina (Messina), Italy



http://esocc2015.unime.it



supported by IFIP WG 2.14/6.12/8.10

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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,
the third edition, ESOCC 2014 was held in Manchester, UK and will be continued
by ESOCC 2015 in Taormina (Messina), Italy.

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 2015 will include
invited talks, presentations of selected research papers, industrial, business
model (BM) and work in progress (WIP) tracks papers with the participation of
top researchers from academia and industry. ESOCC 2015 will also include a
PhD Symposium and a series of satellite workshops.


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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 applications
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.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

ESOCC 2015 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of
Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Topics of interest to the Research,
Industry, BM, and WIP Tracks include, but are not limited, to:

- Agile Computing

- DevOps in the Cloud

- Social and Crowd-based Cloud

- Smart Cities Services and Applications

- IoT Services and IoT Clouds

- Mobile Clouds and Mobile Services

- Business Process Management and Services

- Cloud Services Management and Composition

- Dynamic and Adaptive Services

- Economic and Business Models for Services

- Enterprise Architecture and 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, Analysis, and Design

- Formal Methods for Services

- Frameworks for Building Service Based Applications

- Architectural Models for Cloud Computing

- Identity and Access Management using Services

- Model-Driven Service Engineering

- Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories

- Service quality and service interface design guidelines

- RESTful Clouds and Services

- Self-Organizing Service Oriented and Cloud Architectures

- Service-Oriented Business Collaboration

- Service Governance

- Service Marketplaces

- Services Life-Cycles

- Services Security and Privacy

- Big Data Management

- Crowdsourcing Business Services

- Cloud Interoperability and Federation

- Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds

- Cloud Computing Business Models

- Service Science

ESOCC 2015 solicits both new research papers (in the main track and BM),
papers on early research initiatives in WIP, 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 2015
Industry Track.

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS & PhD SYMPOSIUM

ESOCC 2015 Workshops provide an opportunity for participants to discuss specific
topics in the Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing related domains. ESOCC 2015
PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in any of the
topics of the ESOCC conference.

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SUBMISSIONS

Original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted via
http://ocs.springer.com/ocs/en/home/ESOCC2015

- Research papers

- Industry-Track papers

- Business Model Track papers

- Work In Progress (WIP) Track papers

- PhD Symposium submissions

Workshop proposals via email to:
Antonio Celesti <acelesti[at]unime.it>
Philipp Leitner <leitner[at]ifi.uzh.ch>

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.




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IMPORTANT DATES

Research papers

Submission: 15 May 2015
Notification: 19 June 2015
Final version: 26 June 2015

Industrial papers

Submission: 15 May 2015
Notification: 19 June 2015
Final version: 26 June 2015

Business Model papers

Submission: 15 May 2015
Notification: 19 June 2015
Final version: 26 June 2015

Work In Progress papers

Submission: 15 May 2015
Notification: 19 June 2015
Final version: 26 June 2015

PhD Symposium papers

Submission: 1 August 2015
Notification: 15 August 2015
Final version: 22 August 2015

Workshop proposals

Submission: 20 March 2015
Notification: 27 March 2015


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ORGANIZATION

General Chair:

* Massimo Villari, Università di Messina, Italy


Program Chairs:

* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

* Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany


Publicity Chair:

* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland


EU Projects Track Chairs:

* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy

* Silvana Muscella, CEO & Founder Trust-IT Services, Italy


Business Model Track Chair:

* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology


Industry Track Chairs:

* Andreas Roth, SAP


Work In Progress (WIP) Track Chair:

* Orazio Tomarchio, Università di Catania, Italy


Workshop Chairs:

* Antonio Celesti, Università di Messina, Italy

* Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland


Ph.D. Symposium Chairs:

* Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany


ESOCC 2015 Program Committee:

* Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
* Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands
* Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy
* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
* Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA
* Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain
* Eric Dubois, CRP Henri Tudor Service Science and Innovation (SSI), Luxemburg
* Juergen 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
* Claude Godart, Universiy of Lorraine, France
* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology
* 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
* Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany
* Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden
* Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
* Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany
* Roy Oberhauser, Aalen University, Germany
* Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cadiz, Spain
* Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
* George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Willy Picard, University of Economics, Poznań, Poland
* Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
* Wolfgang Reisig, Humbold-Universitaet 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
* Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
* Olaf Zimmermann, HSR FHO Rapperswil, Switzerland
* Wolf Zimmermann, University Halle, Germany
* Christian Zirpins, KIT/Seeburger AG, Karlsruhe, Germany


Local Organization Committee:

* Dario Bruneo, Università di Messina, Italy
* Maria Fazio. Università di Messina, Italy
* Antonio Puliafito, Università di Messina, Italy
* Marco Scarpa, Università di Messina, Italy



ESOCC Steering Committee:

* Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
* Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
* Paul Grefen, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
* Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany
* Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
* Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain
* Ulf Schreier, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
* Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
* Olaf Zimmermann, HSR FHO Rapperswil, Switzerland
* Wolf Zimmermann, University of Halle, Germany





CONTACT INFORMATION

* esocc2015[at]unime.it

* http://esocc2015.unime.it/

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