<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">PhD Symposium track</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">ESOCC 2022 (9th European Conference and Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing)</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">March 22nd-24th, 2022</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">*** Aims and scope ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">The ESOCC 2022 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference (which list of topics of interest is recapped at the end of this message). The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.4px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">PhD students working on topics related to the scope of the ESOCC conference can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address including the current state of the art, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">*** Submissions ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Papers should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the Springer LNCS proceedings guidelines. They should be first-authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor(s) and their affiliation. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair submission page of the conference (<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022</a>), by selecting "ESOCC 2022 - PhD Symposium" track. </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.4px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Papers will be peer-reviewed by the members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the post-conference proceedings devoted to the satellite events of ESOCC 2022, in the Springer CCIS series. The best student paper will also be awarded with the "Best PhD student award", which will be announced at the end of the symposium. PhD students authoring accepted papers are expected to attend the symposium to present their paper. If not, the paper will not be included in post-conference proceedings and it will not be eligible for the "Best PhD student award".</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">*** Important dates ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Paper submission: January 14th, 2022</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Paper notification: February 25th, 2022</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Camera-ready version: March 11th, 2022</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">*** PC Chairs ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">*** Topics of interest (ESOCC 2022) ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">In line with the main conference track, the PhD symposium track of ESOCC 2020 seeks reports on research work in areas related to all aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">- Service and Cloud Computing Models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Governance models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Architectural models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Requirements engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Formal Methods</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Model-Driven Engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Quality models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Security, Privacy & Trust models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Testing models</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">- Service and Cloud Computing Engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation, and Selection</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Monitoring and Analytics</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Governance and management</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Cross-layer adaptation</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Edge/Fog computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service Level Agreement Management</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service Evolution/Optimisation</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * QoS for Services and Clouds</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Semantic Web Services</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service mining</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service & Cloud Standards</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * FaaS / Serverless computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">- Technologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * DevOps in the Cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Containerized services</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Microservices Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * RESTful Services</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Blockchain for Services & Clouds</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Services and Clouds with IoT</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Fog Computing with Service and Cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class="">- Business and Social aspects</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Business Process as a Service - BPaaS</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service and Cloud Business Models</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service and Cloud Brokerage</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service and Cloud Marketplaces</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Crowdsourcing Business Services</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Social and Crowd-based Cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Energy issues in Cloud Computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);" class=""> * Sustainability issues</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>