<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 class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">PhD Symposium track</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">ESOCC 2022 (9th European Conference and Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">March 22nd-24th, 2022</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">*** Aims and scope ***</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span 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.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.4px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span 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.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">*** Submissions ***</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span 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. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.4px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span 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".</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">*** Important dates ***</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">Paper submission: <b class="">February 27h, 2022</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">Acceptance notification: <b class="">March 10th, 2022</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">(Camera-ready to be submitted after the conference)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">*** PC Chairs ***</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">*** Topics of interest (ESOCC 2022) ***</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span 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:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">- Service and Cloud Computing Models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Governance models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Architectural models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Requirements engineering</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Formal Methods</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Model-Driven Engineering</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Quality models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Security, Privacy & Trust models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Self-Organizing Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Testing models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;" class=""><span class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">- Service and Cloud Computing Engineering</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation, and Selection</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Monitoring and Analytics</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Governance and management</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Cross-layer adaptation</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Edge/Fog computing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service Level Agreement Management</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service Evolution/Optimisation</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * QoS for Services and Clouds</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Semantic Web Services</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service mining</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service & Cloud Standards</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * FaaS / Serverless computing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">- Technologies</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * DevOps in the Cloud</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Containerized services</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Microservices Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * RESTful Services</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Blockchain for Services & Clouds</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Services and Clouds with IoT</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Fog Computing with Service and Cloud</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80); min-height: 13px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class="">- Business and Social aspects</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Business Process as a Service - BPaaS</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service and Cloud Business Models</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service and Cloud Brokerage</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service and Cloud Marketplaces</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Crowdsourcing Business Services</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Social and Crowd-based Cloud</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Energy issues in Cloud Computing</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; color: rgb(51, 63, 80);"><span class=""> * Sustainability issues</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>