SummerSoC 2015:
9th Symposium and Summer School
On Service-Oriented Computing

Call for Papers

SummerSoC is a well-established summer school and symposium focusing on service-oriented computing. The area of service-oriented computing is interpreted quite broadly, i.e. areas of interest for SummerSoC include cloud computing, business process management, theoretical foundations of services, and applications in/of these areas. 

At SummerSoC, renowned researchers and leading industry practitioners give tutorials and invited talks on current topics from the areas above. PhD students present posters of their ongoing work and give plenary presentations of their theses. The agenda ensures that enough time is allocated for a lot of discussions. Participants come from both, academia as well as industry, and from all over the world. 

SummerSoC is also a forum for presenting and discussing research from the areas above. Interested researchers submit papers that are peer-reviewed. In addition to novel research work we also ask for application and experience papers as well as overview papers (these submissions have to be marked accordingly).  Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend SummerSoC 2015. The best papers will be published in a special issue of the Computing Journal (Springer). All accepted papers will be published in an IBM Research Report. We recommend to submit a one page abstract of a paper and authors will receive early brief feedback; full paper submission and review will follow. 

We invite submissions on the following topics:
● Developing services for the cloud
o Moving existing services to the cloud
o DevOps paradigm for services
o Methods and tools for developing “cloud native” services
o Cloud federations and interoperability among clouds
o Model driven design for multi-cloud services 
o Self-management solutions for multi clouds
● Cloud middleware
o Elasticity analytics and control 
o Automatic provisioning and management
o Transaction models, consistency models, and coordination models for multi-cloud environments
o Elastic data-as-a-service 
o Governance in multi-cloud environments 
o Software defined environments
o IoT and Cloud integration
o Cloud provenance
● Use of big/smart data
o Computational Models for Big Data
o Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing
o Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data
o Big Data in Motion and Big Data at Rest 
o Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining
o Analytic Services
o Security & Privacy
o Applications and Experience Reports
● Business processes in the cloud
o Business Processes as a Service
o Social media in business processes
o Business process in hybrid collective adaptive systems
o Quality-of-result aware business processes
● Applications of services
o eHealth
o Smart energy/smart grids
o eScience
o Digital Humanities
o Smart cities 
o Smart environment

Key Dates
Abstract submission deadline: January 19th, 2015
Paper submission deadline:  February 23rd, 2015
Notification:  March 23rd, 2015
Final version submission:  April 27th, 2015
SummerSoC: June 28 – July 3, 2015 in Crete, Greece. 

Submission Instructions
Authors should submit original research, overview papers or vision papers. 
We will accept full and short papers.
Submitted full papers should not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS format.
Submitted short papers should not exceed 7 pages in Springer LNCS format.
Submission to: EasyChair 

Program Chair
Christos Nikolaou (U of Crete)

Organization Committee
Giorgos Koutras (Chair, OpenIT)

Program Committee
Mehmet Aktas (U of Yildiz)
Marina Bitsaki (U of Crete)
Gerd Breiter (IBM)
Antonio Ruiz Cortés (U of Sivilia)
Marios Dikaiakos (U of Cyprus)
Schahram Dustdar (TU Vienna)
Don Ferguson (Dell)
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (RMIT)
Aditya Ghose (U of Wollongong)
Theo Härder (U of Kaiserslautern)
Willem-Jan van Heuvel (Tilburg University)
Frank Leymann (U of Stuttgart)
Kostas Magoutis (U of Ioannina)
Bernhard Mitschang (U of Stuttgart)
Mario Nascimento (U of Alberta) 
Daniela Nicklas (U of Bamberg)
Florian Niedermann (McKinsey)
Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University)
Cesare Pautasso (U of Lugano)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt University Berlin)
Ralph Retter (Bosch)
Norbert Ritter (U of Hamburg)
Jakka Sairamesh (The Advisor Board Company)
Holger Schwarz (U of Stuttgart)
Harald Schoening (Software AG)
Ulf Schreier (U of Applied Science Furtwangen)
Jürgen Sellentin (Daimler)
Craig Sheridan (Flexiant)
Kris Singh (SRII)
Albrecht Staebler (NovaTec)
Jano Moreiro de Souza (UFRJ/COPPE)
Hong-Linh Truong (TU Vienna)
Sanjiva Weerawarana (WSO2)
Olaf Zimmermann (U of Rapperswil)