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.
***Early submissions: Authors are invited to consider early
submissions. In the early submission round, only papers submitted as
full/regular papers will be considered, and they will go through a
full peer-review process. An early submitted paper that is accepted
will be included in the proceedings. An early submitted paper that is
rejected can be still revised and submitted to the normal submission
round by the given deadline. If the authors of an early submitted
paper that is rejected decide to resubmit their paper to the normal
submission round, they will have to include an appendix (2 pages)
describing how they have addressed the comments received by the
reviewers from the early submission.
***Normal submissions: Authors are also welcome to submit papers to
the normal submission round by the given deadline. After the normal
submission deadline, the papers resubmitted from the early submission
round and those submitted only to the normal submission round 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
Early paper submissions due: May 31st, 2021
Review comments to authors of early submission papers: July 13th, 2021
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 EUR 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, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada
- Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
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