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The Sixth International Conferences on Advanced SERVICE COMPUTATION 2014 May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy |
| Call for Papers |
The ubiquity and pervasiveness of services, as well as their capability to be context-aware with (self-) adaptive capacities posse challenging tasks for services orchestration, integration, and integration. Some services might require energy optimization, some might requires special QoS guarantee in a Web-environment, while other a certain level of trust. The advent of Web Services raised the issues of self-announcement, dynamic service composition, and third party recommenders. Society and business services rely more and more on a combination of ubiquitous and pervasive services under certain constraints and with particular environmental limitations that require dynamic computation of feasibility, deployment and exploitation.
SERVICE COMPUTATION 2014, The Sixth International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing, the series of events targets service computation on different facets. It considers their ubiquity and pervasiveness, WEB services, and particular categories of day-to-day services, such as public, utility, entertainment and business.
SERVICE COMPUTATION 2014 is aimed at technical papers presenting research and practical results, industrial small- and large-scale systems, challenging applications, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific topics, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the topics, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
Service innovation, evaluation and delivery
- Service requirement validation
- Service design
- Service deployment
- Service delivery
- Service lifecycle
- Service knowledge and service innovation
- Model-driven service engineering
- Knowledge-intensive services
- Risk management in services management
- Service testing and validation
- Service consumption and delivery outcome
- Quality of service
- Quality of experience
- Quality of service impact
- Service audit metrics
- Service innovation
- Service bundling
- Service research
- Service composition
- Collaborative services
- Service business models
- Service personalization
- Security and trust in services
Ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Foundations of ubiquitous and pervasive services, networks and applications
- Specification, discovery, and matching of ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Computing, orchestration and harmonization of ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Technologies for modeling, designing, and testing ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Service-oriented agent-based architectures, protocols and deployment environments
- Integration and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Ubiquitous and pervasive services in peer-to-peer and overlay networks
- Ubiquitous and pervasive services in mobile networks and sensor networks
- Ubiquitous and pervasive services in unmanned air, underwater, and ground vehicle networks
- Adaptive and self-adaptive ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Context awareness, adaptation and management of ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Security, trust and privacy management in ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Semantics and ontology for ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Web services and middleware support for ubiquitous and pervasive services
- Energy management and harvesting for network with ubiquitous and pervasive systems
- Case studies, lessons learned, experiments, simulations and trials for ubiquitous and pervasive services
WEB Services
- Basics and formalisms on Web services
- Web x.0 concepts in Web services evolution in this framework
- Methodologies for specification, deployment and enhancements of Web services
- Modeling and composition of Web services
- Discovery, matching, and integration of Web services
- SLA/QoS/QoE in Web services (privacy, security, performance, reliability, fault tolerance)
- Testing and validating Web services
- Publishing, discovery, tracking, and selection of Web services
- Web services lifecycle management
- Semantics and Ontology in Web services
- Cloud computing, service-as-a-software and on-demand Web services
- Mobile and intermittent Web services
- Web services-based services, applications and solutions
- Web services standards and formalizations
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure and middleware
Society and business services
- Public (mail, schools, banking, financial, personal, real estate, health, government, insurance, hospitals, transportation, library)
- Utility (broadcasting & cable TV, printing & publishing, energy, Internet, hotels, retail, waste management, security, rental)
- Entertainment (advertising, casinos & gaming, recreational, restaurant, travel)
- Business (communications, specialty, technology, planning, supply chain management, marketing, design, wholesale distribution)
- Business process management (business knowledge, business protocols, service level agreements, business licensing models, business financial models, and business advertizing models
Service measurement
- QoS metrics and indicators
- Data quality
- Validity of models
- Uncertainty analysis
- SLA monitoring
- Measurement of business objectives
- Dynamics of monitoring
- Quantification of trust and trustworthiness
- Propagation of measurements
- Triangulation
- Expert judgments
- Aggregation of measurements
Empirical methods in system and service management
- Empirical evaluations
- Method and model validation based on empirical trials
- Case studies
- Experiments
- Guidelines and best practices for structured empirical research
- Validity and reliability of empirical research
- Systematic reviews
- Metrics and measurements
- Expert judgments
- Case study design
- Reporting of empirical research
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
Important deadlines:
| Submission (full paper) | |
| Notification | March 5 , 2014 |
| Registration | March 20, 2014 |
| Camera ready | (due to holidays) |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article)
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
We would recommend that you not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 papers per event are recommended, as each paper must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings.
Work in Progress (short paper up to 4 pages long)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.
For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page
Posters (poster or collection of 6 to 8 slides)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. Acceptance will be decided based on a 1-2 page abstract and/or 6-8 .pdf slide deck submitted through the conference submission website. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. One big Poster and/or the associated slides should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
For more details, see the Posters explanation page.
Ideas (2 page proposal of novel idea)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their early stage. Contributions might refer to PhD dissertation, testing new approaches, provocative and innovative ideas, out-of-the-box, and out-of-the-book thinking, etc. Acceptance will be decided based on a maximum 2 page submission through the conference submission website. The contributions for Ideas will be presented in special sessions, where more debate is intended. The Idea contribution must be comprehensive, focused, very well supported (details might miss, obviously). A 6-8 slide deck should be used for discussions, once on the conference site.
For more details, see the Ideas explanation page.
Technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.
For more information, petre@iaria.org
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
