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Due to ongoing uncertainty about future travel caused by COVID-19, ICSOC’2020 is monitoring the situation and will consider adequate arrangements for the presentations of accepted papers as the situation evolves. We will update this information on a regular basis.
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Submission deadlines have been extended to accommodate the different extension requests.
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In an attempt to maximize the chances of having ICSOC 2020 happening physically in Dubai, the organizing committee has agreed to postpone the event to December 14-17, 2020. The committee will continue monitoring the situation and will advise if any further information is received about the situation. We naturally keep the online option if it is necessary.
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ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as business-process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, networking, scientific workflows, services science, data science, management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC provides a high-quality forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further our knowledge and understanding of the various aspects (e.g. application and system aspects) related to Service Computing applied to new application areas and gain insights into a variety of computing, networked, and cyber-physical systems ranging from mobile devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications to large-scale cloud computing systems and the smart grid.

In addition to the regular Research/Industry tracks, ICSOC 2020 will introduce Vision track whose objective is to shed light on Emerging SOC Topics for the Next Decade. Contrarily to Research/Industry tracks, authors are invited to discuss creative and innovative ideas that would have the potential of resulting in breakthroughs in the near future.

ICSOC 2020, the 18th event in this series, will take place in Dubai, UAE from November 9 to November 12, 2020. Following on the ICSOC tradition, it will feature visionary keynote presentations, research and industry presentations, a vision track, workshops, tool demonstrations, tutorials, and a Ph.D. track. We invite interested researchers, students, practitioners, and professionals to submit their original contributions to the vision track of ICSOC 2020.

Abstract submission: May 31, 2020 (Firm and Extended)
Paper submission: May 31, 2020 (Firm and Extended)
Notifications of Acceptance: July 31, 2020
Camera Ready: August 17, 2020
Authors registration: August 17, 2020
Early bird registration: October 11, 2020
Conference: December 14-17, 2020
Areas of interest
ICSOC 2020 is divided into two main tracks, the research track and the visionary track. This vision track targets visionary papers with high potential that may bring some impact in the future for the community. As such, the scope is not limited as long as the work demonstrates a potential interest and impact to the SOC community at large.

Paper Submission
The vision track solicits short papers that present new research ideas that are interesting, challenging, disruptive and have a promising technical validity but have not yet reached the maturity for the research/industry tracks. Papers submitted to the vision track will be evaluated based on innovation, novelty, significance, impact/far-reaching of research ideas, breakthrough, and introduction of a new research directions. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program.

Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Submissions must be in English. The limit length of accepted papers should be 8 pages for the Vision (short paper) track (including abstract, figures and references) with a maximum of 2 extra paid pages (90EUR per extra page). All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission System. The final submission should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Camera ready instructions.

Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the companion volume published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.