[ecoop-info] Call for Papers - ICSOC 2021
Josue Castaneda Cisneros
jcastane at laas.fr
Mon Aug 2 16:04:35 CEST 2021
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
- ICSOC 2021 -
November 22-25, 2021
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
http://icsoc.org/
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ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is
the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers,
developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in
service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific
excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as
business-process management, distributed systems, computer networks,
wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems,
networking, scientific workflows, services science, data science,
management science, and software engineering.
ICSOC provides a high-quality forum for presenting results and
discussing ideas that further our knowledge and understanding of the
various aspects (e.g. application and system aspects) related to Service
Computing applied to new application areas and gain insights into a
variety of computing, networked, and cyber-physical systems ranging from
mobile devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications to large-scale
cloud computing systems and the smart grid.
ICSOC 2021, the 19th event in this series, will take place in Dubai, UAE
from November 22 to November 25, 2021. Following on the ICSOC tradition,
it will feature visionary keynote presentations, research and industry
presentations, a vision track, workshops, tool demonstrations,
tutorials, and a Ph.D. track. We invite interested researchers,
students, practitioners, and professionals to submit their original
contributions to the research and industry tracks of ICSOC 2021.
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>>> New submission/review model
Starting this year, ICSOC adopts a new submission/reviewing model.
***Anonymous submissions: ICSOC implements a double-blind reviewing
process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper.
The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their
identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos,
links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work
should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not
feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate
these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors
cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved
by the Program Chairs.
***Normal submissions: Authors are also welcome to submit papers to the
normal submission round by the given deadline. After the normal
submission deadline will
undergo a traditional review process. The decisions made from this
normal review procedure will be final and no resubmission will be
permitted afterwards.
It should be noted that unformatted papers and papers beyond the page
limit may not be reviewed.
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>>> Important Dates
Normal paper submission due: August 13th, 2021
Final notification to authors: September 20th, 2021
Camera ready manuscripts due: October 3rd, 2021
Author registration: October 3rd, 2021
Early bird registration: TBA
Conference dates: November 22-25, 2021
All deadlines are in Samoa Standard Time (SST = GMT – 11). Check the
time in the SST Zone here: https://time.is/SST
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>>> Special issues
As per its tradition, ICSOC 2021 will also feature some special issues
in high impact journals. A selection of the top accepted papers will be
invited for special issues in journals, the specific list will be
announced soon.
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>>> Areas of interest
ICSOC 2021 will be divided into two main tracks, the research track and
the visionary track. While the visionary track targets visionary papers
with high potential that may bring some impact in the future for the
community, the research track will focus on the following four main areas.
---Focus Area-1: Service Oriented Technology Trends
This focus area targets outstanding, original contributions, including
theoretical and empirical evaluations, as well as practical and
industrial experiences, with emphasis on results that solve open
research problems and have significant impact on the field of digital
services and service-oriented computing.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Service-oriented Engineering
* Service design, specification, discovery, customization,
composition, and deployment
* Service validation and test
* Service change management
* Intelligent context-aware interfaces
* Theoretical foundations of Service Engineering
* Transformation of monolithic applications to microservices
* Run-time Service Operations and Management
* Service execution middleware
* Service monitoring and adaptive management
* Workload compliance management
* Microservices deployment and management
* Security, privacy, and trust for services
* Secure service lifecycle development
* Privacy management aspects for services
* Contract based security approaches
* Secure service composition
* Trust management for services
* Services and Data
* Services for big data
* Service mining and analytics
* Data-provisioning services
* Services related linked open data
* Services on the Cloud
* Cloud service management
* Cloud workflow management
* Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers
* XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
* Workload partitioning, balancing, and transformation
* Services at the Edge
* Cloud and fog computing
* Edge service orchestration
* Lightweight service deployment and management
* Quality of Service (QoS) in edge services
* Security, privacy, and trust of edge services
* Services in the Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
* Embedded and real-time services
* RFID, sensor data, and services related to the IoT/CPS
* Services for IoT/CPS platforms and applications
* Service oriented protocols for IoT/CPS applications
* Services in Organizations, Business, and Society
* Social networks and services
* Cost and pricing of services
* Service marketplaces and ecosystems
* Innovative service business models
--- Focus Area-2: Blockchain Technologies
A blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger that records and
stores transactions among a number of interacting parties in a network.
Each transaction must be validated via a consensus mechanism executed by
the network participants before being permanently added as a new “block”
at the end of the “chain.” Disruptive technologies such as blockchain,
AI, services, and cloud enable companies and administrations to provide
decentralized, trusted, transparent and user-centric digital services
while enhancing user/consumer experience. These technologies have the
ability to transform the way we use the internet and digital services
globally.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Blockchain in digital services
* Block chain and smart business transactions
* Block chain and smart contracts
* Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
* Blockchain in cyber physical systems
* Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
* Disintermediation and collaboration mechanisms in block chains
* Peer-to-peer networks
* Block chain platforms
* Blockchain in supply chain management
* Trust and security services in block chains
* Cutting edge cipher algorithms
--- Focus Area-3: Industry 4.0 Technologies
Industry 4.0 (or smart manufacturing) sets the foundations for
completely connected factories that are characterized by the
digitization and interconnection of supply chains, production equipment
and production lines, and the application of the latest advanced digital
information technologies to manufacturing activities. The manufacturing
paradigm championed by the Industry 4.0 brings together processes,
software services and systems, machines, devices, IoT, sensors, valves,
actuators, manufacturing systems, and connected digital factories. All
these computer-driven systems create a virtual copy of the physical
world and help make decentralized decisions with a much higher degree of
accuracy.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Digital twins and digital threads
* Digital product management
* Digital manufacturing
* Digital transformation
* Digital reality
* Embedded systems
* Internet of Things in Industry 4.0
* 3D printing/additive manufacturing techniques
* Machine-To-Machine communication for smart manufacturing
* Smarter analytics
* Manufacturing Intelligence
* Smart factories
* Smart asset management
* Smart Cyber-Security in Industry 4.0
* Blockchain in Industry 4.0
--- Focus Area-4: Smart services, Smart data and Smart applications
Smart data systems and services support the processing and integration
of data and services into a meaningful unified view to enable more
effective decision making and problem solving. The decisive criterion
here is not necessarily the amount of data or services available, but
smart content techniques that promote not only the collection and
accumulation of related data and services, but also its context, and
understanding. This requires finding useful insights and discovering
patterns and trends within the data and services to reveal a wider
picture that is more relevant to the problem in hand and react to them.
Smart applications are context aware, intelligent and autonomous
industrial strength applications that incorporate data-driven,
actionable contextual insights into the user experience to enable users
to more efficiently complete a desired task usually taking the form of
recommendations, estimates, and suggested next course of actions in context.
Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:
* Smart Big Data
* Predictive Modelling
* Visualization & Augmented Reality
* Smarter Analytics
* Machine Learning
* Multidimensional Data
* Sensor Networks
* Smart cities
* Smart applications for the construction industry
* Smart transportation systems
* Smart logistics & distribution
* Smart agriculture and food chains
* Smart government
* Smart sensors & IoT for large scale industrial applications
* Traceability and Tracking
* Detection of data and key performance metrics to improve
application efficiency
* Conceptual structures and knowledge architectures for smart
applications
* Agile & DevOps methodologies for smart applications
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>>> Paper Submission
The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice
papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should
clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the
relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted
papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance,
originality, technical quality, and exposition. All papers will be
reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.
Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Formatting
Guidelines. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages.
All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission
System. Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided
deadlines. Authors are kindly invited to respect the abstract submission
deadline, set one week before the paper submission. The limit length of
accepted papers should be 15 pages (including abstract, figures and
references) with a maximum of 2 extra paid pages (€90 per extra page).
The final submission should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS
Camera ready instructions.
For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference
and present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this
individual author will be at the time when the camera-ready version is
submitted.
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>>> Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer, will be given to the paper
that the Program Committee judges to be the best in quality, execution,
and impact among all the accepted papers in the conference.
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>>> Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series.
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>>> General Chairs
- Hakim Hacid, Zayed University, UAE
- Odej Kao, TU Berlin, Germany
>>> Program Co-chairs
- Massimo Mecella, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Naouel Moha, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
- Helen Paik, Universisty of New South Wales, Australia
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