[agents] SOCA 2015 - Extended Deadline (25th of May, 2015)

Tue May 5 03:45:22 EDT 2015

Due to several requests, the deadline for submitting your paper has been
extended to *** 25 May 2015 ****

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8th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and
Applications (SOCA 2015)
WWW: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~soca2015
E-Mail: soca2015-committee at dis.uniroma1.it
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Important Dates
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Submission of Papers:  May  25, 2015 *** DEADLINE EXTENDED ***
Notification:          June 30, 2015
Final Version Due:     July 15, 2015
Conference Dates:      October 19-21, 2015

Location
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Rome, Italy

Call for Papers
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Service-oriented computing (SOC) is considered today a key technology for
the development of robust and high quality intelligent Internet-scale
distributed and embedded applications.
Extensive research and development in the past few years has pushed SOC
technology into state-of-the-art applications in emerging areas such as
Internet-of-Things (IoTs), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication,
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs),
as well as mobile and enterprise systems. However, many of the critical
components on building reliable, robust, and user-centric, cloud-based
service-oriented architecture applications and systems are still open for
research.
Hence, it is time to face new service-oriented architecture (SOA) research
opportunities by addressing new research challenges on emerging
applications domains like smart cities, smart logistics, smart factories
and e-Health,
to mention only a few.

Many of the service components are deployed on resource limited embedded
systems and are performance sensitive; others are deployed on cloud servers
providing highly parallel services and on edge servers in the middle of
resource-limited
systems and high-end servers. These components are part of complex
applications and systems that span multiple execution environments. Their
capabilities are increasingly being managed and (re)configured via emerging
software-defined
and elasticity mechanisms. In addition, they have to interact with humans
in order to solve complex problems. Thus, on the one hand, SOC may provide
effective solutions for managing the ever-increasing complexity while
meeting the
challenging requirements of services on largely distributed, heterogeneous
and dynamic resource environments. On the other hand, the exploitation of
emerging trends in such environments to build SOC applications and systems
for
large-scale service-based systems is an open research challenge.

The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and
Applications (SOCA 2015) provides an international forum for researchers
from multiple disciplines to exchange and share their experiences,
ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of service-oriented
computing. The conference includes three days of parallel tracks program,
special-topic workshops, keynotes and tutorials, and panel discussion.

We invite submissions of high quality papers describing fully developed
results or ongoing work on the following topics and related areas:

- Service-oriented architectures, engineering, and applications
- Micro-services and reactive programming
- Cloud-based systems
- Cyber-physical systems
- SOC-based things, processes and people integration
- SOC-based business process and workflow management
- Elasticity-aware service composition
- Configurable, reconfigurable and software-defined service middleware
- Streaming and real-time data analytics in SOC-based systems
- Mobile service engineering and applications
- Context-aware computing for SOC
- Service ecosystems for large-scale SOC
- SOCA development, deployment and testing tools for smart applications
(cities, transportation systems, factories, homes and offices, etc.)
- Security and privacy for intelligent service applications
- End-to-end dependable and trustworthy services
- Business services and service innovation in emerging environments
- Big data services, including big data analytics applied to service
computing and service-based computing for big data analytics
- Green and energy-aware SOC, SOC applied to green and energy-aware
applications and computing

Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers in any
of the areas listed in the Call for Papers.
Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. Please follow the IEEE
Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare
your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. Only papers in English
will be accepted.
Information about the IEEE format can be found at:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

The title page must contain a short abstract and a classification of the
covered topics (three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be
indicated at
the end of the abstract), preferably using the list of conference's topics.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system using
the following URL:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2015

Please upload a self-contained PDF file. Submissions not conforming to the
IEEE format, longer than 8 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of
the conference will be rejected
without review. In order to submit your paper, you will first need to
register into the system, if you are not registered already.
You may submit an abstract first and upload the actual paper at a later
time (this is in fact strongly recommended). Furthermore, you may revise
your
submission any number of times before the deadline. Please feel free to
contact the organizers with any questions you may have.

All papers submitted to SOCA 2015 will be peer-reviewed by at least 3
reviewers. Papers that are selected for presentation at SOCA 2015 will
appear
in the Proceedings of SOCA 2015, will be included in IEEE Xplore and
indexed by EI. Each paper accepted for SOCA 2015 requires at least one
author to register
at the full rate (IEEE member or non-IEEE member). At least one author is
required to attend the conference and present the paper.

The best papers from the proceedings will be invited to submit an extended
version for publication in the Springer Journal on Service-Oriented
Computing and Applications (SOCA).
Furthermore, a Best Paper Award will be presented to the best paper
selected from the accepted full papers.

General Chairs
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Massimo Mecella - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Kwei-Jay Lin - University of California, Irvine, USA

PC Chair
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Marco Aiello - University of Groningen, Netherlands

PC Vice-Chairs
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Heiko Ludwig - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Kuo Ming Chao - Coventry University, UK
Chris Stary - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Local Organizing Chair
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Andrea Marrella - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy

Workshop Chairs
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Chang-ai Sun - University of Science and Technology Bejing, China
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Pierluigi Plebani - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Publication Chair
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Jong-Chan Kim - Kookmin University, Korea

Web Chair
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Francesco Leotta, Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy

Publicity Co-Chairs
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Francesco Leotta - Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Jun Shen - University of Wollongong, Australia
Chi-Sheng Shih - National Taiwan University, Taiwan

PhD Doctoral Consortium
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Hong-Linh Truong - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jian Yang - Macquarie University, Australia

Panel Co-Chairs
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Barbara Pernici - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alexander Lazovik - University of Groningen, Netherlands

Program Committee
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Anders Andersen - UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
Stefan Andrei - Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, USA
Farhad Arbab - Leiden University, the Netherlands
Xiaoying Bai - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Luciano Baresi - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Chaitanya Belwal - University of Houston, USA
Boualem Benatallah - University of New South Wales, Australia
Salima Benbernou - Universite Paris Descartes, France
Walter Binder - University of Lugano, Switzerland
Don Bouwhuis - Nan Kai University of Technology, Taiwan
Antonio Brogi - University of Pisa, Italy
Giacomo Cabri - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Hojung Cha - Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Franck Chauvel - SINTEF ICT, Oslo, Norway
Edward Chu - National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Florian Daniel - University of Trento, Italy
Sybren De Kinderen - Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Massimiliano de Leoni - Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Viktoria Degeler - Airbus, UK
Schahram Dustdar - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Marcelo Fantinato - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Stefan Fischer - University of Lubeck, Germany
Peter Forbrig - University of Rostock, Germany
Francisco Garcia-Sanchez - University of Murcia, Spain
Paolo Giorgini - University of Trento, Italy
Paul Grace - University of Southampton, UK
Heerko Groefsema - University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Sungkook Han - Wonkwang University, Iksan, South Korea
Geir Horn - University of Oslo, Norway
Christian Huemer - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Kyoung-Don Kang - The State University of New York, USA
Chin-Fu Kuo - National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Patricia Lago - VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Carlos Laufer - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ludovic Le Bigot - University of Poitiers, France
Philipp Leitner - University Of Zurich, Switzerland
Jenq-Shiou Leu - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Taiwan
Joerg Leukel - University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Frank Leymann - University of Stuttgart, Germany
Jian Lin - University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
Jianxun Liu - Hunan Univeristy of Science and Technology, China
Zaki Malik - Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Manuel Mazzara - Innopolis University, Kazan, Russia
Brahim Medjahed - University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Shahab Mokarizadeh - Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Hye-Young Paik - University of New South Wales, Australia
Philippe Palanque - University of Toulouse 3, France
Taejoon Park - Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST),
Korea
Pierluigi Plebani - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Simone Pozzi - Deep Blue Consulting & Research, Rome, Italy
Marcelo Ripoll - IBM - DC Argentina Data Management
Sherif Sakr - University of New South Wales, Australia
Lionel Seinturier - University Lille 1, France
Jun Shen - University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Quan Z. Sheng - University of Adelaide, Australia
Flavio Silva - Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
George Spanoudakis - City University London, UK
Stefan Tai - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Hong-Linh Truong - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Bodo Urban - Fraunhofer IGD Rostock, Germany
Nick van Beest - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Marten van Sinderen - University of Twente, the Netherlands
Mathias Weske - HPI - University of Potsdam, Germany
Jan-Jan Wu - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chin-Hsien Wu - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Taipei City, Taiwan
Lai Xu - Bournemouth University, UK
Laurence T. Yang - St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jie Yang - Lenovo R&T, China
Qi Yu - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Gianluigi Zavattaro - UniversitÃ¡ di Bologna, Italy
Uwe Zdun - University of Vienna, Austria
Jing Zhang - University of California, Irvine, USA
Xiaolin Zheng - Zhejiang University, China
Christian Zirpins - SEEBURGER AG, Germany