The 4th Special Session on High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session05-serco As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info 26 - 30 October 2020 Barcelona, Spain Best Papers of the Special Session will be Invited for Extended Submissions to Top-Quality Journals SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Since its establishment as a software design style, Service Oriented Architectures have taken the ICT world by storm. The Lego pieces logic thrived through Cloud Computing and it is now considered the standard approach in practically every application framework. The keyword for this success is adaptivity: Service Oriented Architectures are implemented through a wide range of technologies and tools leading to numerous combinations that meet the application requirements in the desired way. But there is a specific combination of application characteristics and requirements that seemingly put SOAs to the test: data-intensive tasks coupled with performance and temporal requirements. The challenge is justified because SOAs are simply not meant to deal with shifting large data volumes between nodes. And unfortunately this is a common problem nowadays: IoT and big data applications are simply two general application categories that come with exactly those characteristics and -more often than not- with the said temporal requirements. To a certain extent the problem is mitigated through the increase of the SOA infrastructures' computing and storage node density while “stretching” them at the same time. Edge and fog computing as well as lambda services are emerging trends that validate the concept. This special session invites research communities from a diverse set of scientific areas such as cloud, distributed, parallel and high-performance computing to publish their work and share opinions about applications, challenges and viable solutions to the potential new systems emerging from the need to deal with data intensive application tasks within a SOA and services computing framework. The SerCo Session topics include (but are not limited to) the following: The special session seeks works dealing with topics that revolve around the general combination of SOA, data intensive applications and temporal requirements. The technology space for this work may relate to the following not-limited list of technologies and use cases: Foundational aspects of SOA, Services Computing and HPC Service oriented computing architectures for Big data and data-intensive tasks Internet of Things Technologies for Services Computing Edge and Fog Computing HPC Cloud and Services oriented computing Service-oriented Computing for Smart Systems and Cyber Physical Systems Smart & Future Cities and HPC Systems System Virtualization and Container infrastructures for Services Computing Microservice-based systems and architectures Model driven service engineering (MDSE) architectures and systems Interoperability in Enterprises and Services Computing Lambda and nano services Service migration and other approaches to Elastic Computing Operations and Management for Service-Based Systems Software Engineering and Programming models for Service Oriented Computing Service-oriented Business Models and Business Process Integration Standards and Specifications of Services Service Security, Privacy and Trust Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing Green Web Services Service-level Fault-tolerance Robustness and Resilience Services in Developing Countries Linked Open Data and Web Services Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing Quality of Service and Cost of Service management Uncertainty in Web/Cloud Services Services selection and recommendation Crowdsourcing services Use cases for Service-oriented Computing HPC Machine Learning Storage Services HPC Cluster Management Services Vehicular Services Bioinformatic Services Prediction and Evaluation of Service Performance Components Service Level Agreements Resource Management Services Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, or posters IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------- July 6, 2020 Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------- July 27, 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- August 10, 2020 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------- October 26 – 30, 2020 PC CO-CHAIRS Karim Benouaret, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Ladjel Bellatreche, ISAE-ENSMA, France Patrick Hung, Ontario Tech University, Canada Program Committee (TBA)