<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>----------<br>ICSOC 2012<br>----------<br>10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing<br>November 12-16, Shanghai, China<br><a href="http://www.icsoc.org/">http://www.icsoc.org/</a><br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>IMPORTANT DATES (for both research track and industry track)<br>---------------------------------------------------<br><br>Abstract due: April 29, 2012<br>Full paper due: May 6, 2012<br>Notification: July 12, 2012<br>Camera ready due: August 2, 2012<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>CALL FOR PAPERS (research track and industry track)<br>---------------------------------------------------<br><br>ICSOC is the prime forum for academics and industry researchers and developers<br>to report and share groundbreaking works in service oriented computing. ICSOC<br>fosters cross-community scientific excellence by the gathering of experts from<br>various disciplines, such as business process management, distributed systems,<br>computer networks, wireless & mobile computing, grid computing, networking,<br>service science, management science, and software engineering.<br><br>ICSOC 2012 will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners from<br>multiple disciplines to focus on service-oriented, cloud-based innovative for<br>the 21st century enterprises.<br><br>The conference will feature research and industry presentations, keynote<br>presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, and a PhD track. Please<br>refer to <a href="http://www.icsoc.org/">www.icsoc.org</a> for more details about these associated events.<br><br>Topics of Interest<br>ICSOC 2012 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid<br>theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial<br>experiences -- with emphases on results that solve open research problems and<br>have significant impact on the field of service-oriented computing and also in<br>particular cloud services.<br><br>Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br><br>+ Service Engineering<br>+ Service Design<br>- Service Description<br>- Service-Oriented Architecture<br>- Service Composition<br>- Theoretical and Technical Service Foundations<br>- Service Engineering Methods<br>- Testbeds for Service Concepts and Technologies<br>- Semantic Web services<br>- Service change management <br>- Service discovery and mining<br><br>+ Service Operations and Management<br>- Management Processes and Methods<br>- Managing Service Infrastructure<br>- Quality of Service<br>- Security, Privacy and Trust<br>- Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services<br><br>+ Services in the Cloud<br>- XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)<br>- Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud<br>- Grid and Computational Services<br>- Service Composition and Engineering<br>- Managing Services on the Cloud<br>- Managing a Cloud Platform<br>- Software engineering models, methods and methodologies for XaaS<br>- Workflow management in clouds <br><br>+ Services in Organizations, Business and Society<br>- Social networks and services<br>- Human-provided and outsourcing services<br>- Mixed Services<br>- Business Service Modeling<br>- Business Process Modeling<br>- Service Outsourcing<br>- Costs and Pricing of Services<br>- Service Marketplaces<br><br>+ Service Applications and Implementations<br>- Pervasive and Mobile Services on the Cloud<br>- Embedded and Real-time Services<br>- Services in Specific Application Domains<br>- Data- and compute-intensive applications<br>- Execution and resource allocation services <br>- Coordination across multiple resource managers <br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION<br><br>The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on<br>all aspects of service-oriented, cloud-based computing. Papers should clearly<br>demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the relevance to the<br>field, and the relation to prior work. Submitted papers will be evaluated<br>according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality, and<br>exposition.<br><br>Prospective authors must submit abstracts prior to submitting full papers.<br>Full papers are not to exceed 15 pages including all references and figures.<br>All papers must be prepared in the Springer LNCS format and be submitted<br>electronically in PDF to the conference submission system<br>(<a href="https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2012">https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2012</a>).<br><br>PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES<br><br>All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2012 proceedings published by<br>Springer Verlag under the Services Science series. Selected papers will be<br>considered for possible publication in the International Journal of<br>Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS).<br><br>PROGRAM CHAIRS<br><br>Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University, Australia<br>Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA<br>Farouk Toumani, University Blaise Pascal, France<br>(<a href="mailto:pc@icsoc.org">pc@icsoc.org</a>)</div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>