The Eighth International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing SERVICE COMPUTATION 2016 March 20 - 24, 2016 - Rome, Italy

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Colocated with other events part of ComputationWorld 2016 Posters will be presented during the conference A Work in Progress track is available for preliminary work A Research Ideas track is available for ideas in early stages A Doctoral Forum track is available for discussing and publishing early PhD thesis research Submission (full paper) Nov 3 Nov 28, 2015 Notification December 28, 2015 Registration January 15, 2016 Camera ready February 10,2016 ISSN: 2308-3549 ISBN: 978-1-61208-459-6

Published by IARIA XPS Press Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes. conference contact: mp@iaria.org

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

Tracks:

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

Uncertain Web Services

Uncertainty-aware QoS; Uncertainty in Web service compositions; Discovering services under uncertainty;  The uncertainty-enabled model web; Trust assessment for Web services under uncertainty; Uncertainty in chained Web services; Uncertainty propagation; Representing and simulating uncertain environmental variables; Quantifying,  managing  and  communicating uncertainty; Uncertainty Markup Language (UncertML)

Skyline Services

Skyline services composition; QoS-based skyline selection;  Dominant Web services; Spatial skyline computation; Selecting dynamic skyline services; Skyline metrics and criteria; Parallelization of skyline computation; Progressive skyline computation; Skyline optimization for Web service composition; Skyline applications (Peer-to-Peer, Demographic, etc.); Benchmarks for skyline computation

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; measurements; expert judgments; case study design; reporting of empirical research