Call for PhD Symposium Papers

ICSOC 2018 - The 16^th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing

The ICSOC PhD Symposium 2018 is an international forum for PhD students working in all areas related to the service-oriented computing. The goals of the symposium are:

To bring together PhD students and established researchers in the field of service-oriented computing
To enable PhD students to interact with other PhD students and to stimulate exchange of ideas, suggestions, and experiences among participants
To provide PhD students an opportunity to present, share, and discuss their research in a constructive and critical atmosphere
To provide PhD students with fruitful feedback and advice on their research approach

We particularly encourage PhD students that are still developing their research methodology or are somewhere in the middle of their research program to submit to this symposium. Only active PhD students are eligible to submit, and topics are restricted to their doctoral work within the scope of the ICSOC conference.

The symposium will be the 16^th edition of the series held in conjunction with the ICSOC conferences in Malaga, Spain (2017), Banff-Alberta, Canada (2016), Goa, India (2015), Paris, France (2014), Berlin, Germany (2013), Shanghai, China (2012), Paphos, Cyprus (2011), San Francisco, USA (2010), Stockholm, Sweden (2009), Sydney, Australia (2008), Vienna, Austria (2007), Chicago, USA (2006), and Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2005).

Submission Format and Proceedings

Submitted papers should give a clear description of the PhD work. In particular, papers must:

Provide a clear problem statement
Outline the research challenges that drive the proposed work
Describe the proposed solution, its expected impact, the expected research plan, and the preliminary results
Discuss the progress beyond the state of the art of the envisioned research outcome compared to current literature and approaches (cite key papers)

Each paper must be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS Format and must be at most 6 pages in length (strictly enforced). Submissions must be single-authored, and the name of the supervisor(s) must be clearly marked as ("supervised by ...") under the PhD author name. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via the PhD Symposium track in the ICSOC Submission System. Accepted papers presented at the Symposium will be included in the ICSOC 2018 post-conference proceedings of satellite events, to be published by Springer as part of the Service Science series. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the PhD Symposium Program Committee.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2018
Authors Notification: July 13, 2018
Camera Ready Paper: July 27, 2018

PhD Symposium Co-Chairs

Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Zhongjie Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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