14th Symposium and Summer School On Service-Oriented Computing
September 13 – September 19, 2020
Crete, Greece
SummerSoC is a well-established summer school and symposium focusing on service-oriented computing. The area of service-oriented computing is interpreted quite broadly, i.e. areas of interest for SummerSoC include cloud computing, microservice architecture, service orchestrations, service meshes, blockchains, Internet of Things, theoretical foundations of these subjects, and applications in/of all these areas, especially applications dealing with big/smart data and data sciences. Also, cross-domain subjects like eScience, digital humanities, or quantum computing are considered.
At SummerSoC, renowned researchers and leading industry practitioners give tutorials and invited talks on current topics from the areas above. PhD students present posters of their ongoing work and give plenary presentations of their theses. The agenda ensures that enough time is allocated for a lot of discussions. Participants come from both, academia as well as industry, and from all over the world.
SummerSoC is also a forum for presenting and discussing research from the areas above. Interested researchers submit papers that are peer-reviewed. In addition to novel research work, we also ask for application and experience papers as well as overview papers (these submissions have to be marked accordingly). Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend SummerSoC 2020, present their paper in the plenum as well as in the poster session.
Accepted papers will be published in the Springer proceedings series CCIS „Communications in Computer and Information Science”. Additionally, the best poster abstracts will be invited to contribute an extended and revised short paper to the CCIS proceedings.
We invite submissions on the following topics
Developing services for the cloud
Moving existing services to the cloud
Methods and tools for developing “cloud native” services
Microservices, Function as a Service, and Serverless
Service Meshes
Cloud federations and interoperability among clouds
Cloud & IoT
Automatic provisioning and management
IoT middleware
Fog middleware
Advanced types of applications
Decentralized applications (blockchains,…)
IoT Applications
Quantum Software Engineering
Use of Quantum Computers
Security & Privacy
Post Quantum Security
Big/smart Data and Data Science
Computational Models for Big Data
Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing
Cloud/Stream Computing for Big Data
Big Data in Motion and Big Data at Rest
Big Data management for IoT
Cloud/Stream Data Mining
Cloud-based Analytic Computing and Analytic Services
Business processes in the cloud
Business Processes as a Service
Social media in business processes
Orchestration of Services
Advanced architectures of process engines
iPaaS & Low Code
Applications of services
Smart energy/smart grids/smart cities
IoT services
eScience & Digital Humanities
eHealth, e.g. Connected Health
Submission instructions
Authors should submit original research, overview papers or vision papers.
We will accept full and short papers, as well as posters for work in process research.
Also PhD Students are invited to present and discuss their current PhD research in the poster session.
Paper Submission
Submitted full papers should not exceed 20 pages in Springer CCIS format.
Submitted short papers should not exceed 9 pages in Springer CCIS format.
Submission to: Easychair
Poster Submission
The expected submission is an extended abstract (more details at Poster Session)
The abstract description should not exceed 2 pages in Springer CCIS format.
Submission to: Easychair
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
Program Committee
The 14th Symposium and Summer School in Service-Oriented Computing is directed by leading experts, faculty at well-known universities, and industrial R&D leaders in the field of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC). All of them have been involved in previous efforts to establish Services Science as a fundamental paradigm for computing and software architecture.