[agents] CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2013)

[Shen Zhongnan (CR/RTC1.2-NA)]

11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing
2-5 December 2013, Berlin, Germany
http://www.icsoc.org/


CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. The workshop program seeks to provide venues for specialist groups to meet, to generate focused discussion on specific sub-areas within Service Oriented Computing and to engage in community-building activities. The workshops will be held on the 2nd of December in the same venue of the main conference.

Possible topics for workshops include (but are not limited to):

    * Agent-Oriented Approaches to Services
    * Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services
    * Business Service Modeling and Business Process Modelling
    * Data-Aware Services including Artifact-Centric Systems
    * Designing Outsourcing Interactions
    * Embedded and Real-time Services
    * Human-Mediated Services
    * Theoretical and Technical Service Foundations
    * Pervasive and Mobile Services on the Cloud
    * Quality of Service for Cloud Services
    * Service Applications and Implementations
    * Service Change Management
    * Service Composition and Engineering
    * Service Design Methods
    * Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud
    * Service Monitoring and Adaptation
    * Service Operations and Management on the Cloud
    * Service Vocabularies and Ontologies
    * Service Security, Privacy, and Trust
    * Service-oriented Architectures
    * Services on the Cloud
    * Social Networks and Services
    * Big Data and Services
    * Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies
    * Verification and Synthesis of Service-oriented Applications

IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 April 2013
Workshop Acceptance Notification: 1 June 2013
Deadline for Papers Submitted to Workshops: 30 August 2013
Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013.
Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013.

WORKSHOP ORGANISATION

Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:

        * Constituting the workshop program committee
        * Advertising the workshop
        * Managing the paper review and selection process
        * Ensuring that at least one author of each accepted paper attends to present the paper (this may require announcing regulations that stipulate this as a prerequisite for the publication of the paper in the workshop proceedings.)
        * Ensuring that the workshop delivers useful scholarly/research value via active discussion/debate.

Workshops may be held for a full day or for half a day.

At least one author for each paper accepted to a workshop will need to register for the workshop programme.

WORKSHOPS PUBLICATION

It is likely that, as in previous years, the post-proceedings of the accepted workshops will be jointly published as a Springer volume. A
formal proposal to Springer will only be made after the accepted workshops and their program committees are finalised. Workshops organisers can opt out of the volume should they wish to; a decision on this is required at workshop submission stage for planning purposes.

Working notes of the workshops (including papers to be eventually published in the joint workshop volume) will be printed locally for distribution on the workshop day.

WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

Workshop proposal should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs at wc at icsoc.org and should include the following information

        * Workshop title
        * Name, affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses of each (proposed) workshop chair
        * A brief (1-page) CV of each (proposed) workshop chair, highlighting prior experience in organizing similar fora
        * A brief description of the topic of the workshop and its relevance to the conference (not exceeding 500 words)
        * Proposed duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
        * A list of likely program committee members
        * A description of the paper review and selection process (it is recommended that each paper is reviewed by 3 distinct members of the workshop program committee)
        * An estimate of the number of submissions that will be attracted on the basis of workshops held in previous years or any other information.
        * Plans for invited talks if any.
        * A commitment as to whether or not the workshop organisers would like the post-proceedings to appear in Springer together with the other workshops.
        * Any further information deemed relevant, e.g., previous workshops held on similar themes.

ICSOC 2013 WORKSHOP CHAIRS

A Lomuscio, Imperial College London, UK. Email: a.lomuscio at imperial.ac.uk
S Nepal. Cisro, Australia. Email: surya.nepal at csiro.au