Research papers should be no more than 10 pages in length. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Track 1: Advanced Models for Service Engineering

• Microservices architecture, deployment and management
• DevOps and service engineering
• Model-driven development of service-oriented systems
• End-user development and mashup of software services
• Lifecycle models, reusability, and scalability for services
• Coordination and cooperation of services
• Efficient scheduling of services
• Services infrastructure for big data

Track 2: Computing Environments and Virtualization

• Container-based virtualization
• Programming models, languages, tools and platforms
• Architecture of Internet-based virtual computing environments
• Security, dependability, and reliability
• Trust, reputation and incentive mechanisms
• Large scale computing and analytics

Track 3: Methods, Languages & Tools for process-based SOC systems

• Business process integration, alignment & management in SOAs
• Methods, languages & tools for building process-based SOC systems
• Metrics and measurement of services, QoS, and QoE
• Runtime verification, validation, monitoring
• Dynamic service delivery, deployment and evolution
• Service mobility, scalability, elasticity, and security
• Operation and governance for large-scale service-oriented systems
• Adaptation, control and optimization in service-oriented systems
• Modernization, migration, and servicetization of legacy systems
• Service-oriented system engineering for large-scale analytics
• Service-oriented engineering and clouds

Track 4: Service-based Cyber-Physical Systems

• Edge computing and fog computing
• Software and system engineering for CPS
• REST APIs and services for CPS
• Mobile Services for CPS
• System modelling and simulations
• Data Management for CPS
• Dependable network and system architectures for CPS

Track 5: Intelligent Services for Smart World

• Smart Home, Smart Office, Smart City
• Intelligent services architectures and provisioning models
• Smart systems programming models and methodologies
• Swarm Intelligence
• Context-aware services
• Nature-inspired intelligent services
• Knowledge representation and reasoning

Track 6: Social Networking Services

• Location-Based social networks
• Human mobility modeling and mining
• Recommendation systems for service computing
• Human-centric sensing
• Intelligent socially-aware and community-aware systems
• Security, privacy, safety and legal issues
• Event detection and predication in social networks