IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications
(SOCA'10) December 13-15, 2010, Perth, Australia

(http://conferences.computer.org/soca/)

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

With the ever-increasing complexity of computing systems, and their increasingly
complex interactions with the physical environment, service-oriented computing (SOC) is
considered today as a key technology for the development of robust and high quality
distributed applications. Extensive research and development in the past few years has
pushed SOC technology into numerous application areas including business processes,
high-performance computing, web-based services, embedded systems, and many others.
With more and more services being moved into the 'cloud', and the increasing prevalence
of ubiquitous end devices that interface with physical world, it is timely to reexamine the
directions of SOC research and identify new research opportunities and challenges. For
example, with the maturity of virtualization techniques and infrastructure, the wider
adoption of 'clouds' becomes more prominent, while research on the applications of SaaS,
PaaS and IaaS remains active. Furthermore, ubiquitous devices, context-aware systems,
and sensor networks are increasingly being used in areas such as transportation,
healthcare and disaster control; and this fact is making cyber-physical systems a
challenging area for the SOC research community. Moreover, in recent years, services for
mobile internet devices such as iPhone, Android Phone (like Motorola Droid and Google
Phone), and Amazon Kindle DX are emerging and becoming accepted by consumers. It
is also predicted that the market for mobile services will grow sharply.

SOCA'10 provides an international forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to
exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of
service-oriented computing. Papers from industry in services science are also welcome,
as SOCA'10 will have a special session on business services and technology. A Best
Paper Award will be presented to the best paper selected from the accepted full papers.

All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of SOCA 2010 and be included in
IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. The best papers from the proceedings will be selected
for publication in the Springer Journal on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications
(SOCA) as well as special issues in international journals to be announced.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-Service-oriented architecture
-Service-oriented software engineering
-Service system technology
-Service-oriented applications
-Service-oriented semantic computing
-Service management
-Quality of services
-SOC for cyber-physical systems
-Embedded and real-time services
-Grid and cloud services
-Semantic Web services
-Multi-agent system
-Mobile service engineering and applications
-Business services and technology

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: extended to August 19, 2010
Author notification: September 20, 2010
Final manuscript: October 10, 2010

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers presenting original and unpublished work are invited and will be evaluated based
on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Submitted
papers should be formatted in a two-column IEEE Computer Society format (URL:
http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) and should not exceed eight pages including
figures and references. Submissions will be via the conference web site linked through
http://conferences.computer.org/soca/ (or http://conference.iis.sinica.edu.tw/Conference-
Submission/servlet/Member/PersonManipulation?actionConference=63 directly)

For further information of the conference, please contact local organizers or Dr Jun Shen
at jshen@uow.edu.au

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-chairs
Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Guenter Mueller, Universit鋞 Freiburg, Germany
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA

Program Co-chairs
Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia
Soo Dong Kim, Soongsil University, Korea
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA

Program Vice Chairs
1. Service oriented systems and applications
Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia
Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK

2. Services management and quality of service
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Centre, San Jose, USA
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

3. Embedded services and cyber-physical systems
Daniel Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Gang Huang, Peking University, China

4. Cloud and grid services
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Chen Wu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

5. Semantic Web services and multi-agent systems
Ghassan Beydoun, University of Wollongong, Australia
Rodrigo Martinez-Bejar, University of Murcia, Spain

6. Industry track: Business services and technology
Liangzhao Zeng, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tao Yu, HP Labs, China

Publicity Co-Chairs
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Jie Lu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Tokuro Matsuo, Yamagata University, Japan

Publication Chair
Ping Wang, Kun Shan University, Taiwan

Finance Chair
Alex Chan, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Web Co-Chairs
Ci-Wei Lan, IBM Research Collaboratory, Taiwan
Chiou-Feng Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Committee

1. Service oriented systems and applications

Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia
Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA
Franck Chauvel, Peking University, China
Shiping Chen, CSIRO, Australia
Ying Chen, IBM Research, China
Zhixiong Chen, Mercy College, USA
Volker Gruhn, Universit鋞 Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP research, Australia
Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia
Scott Langevin, University of South Carolina, USA
Andr?Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany
Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia
Tony Shan, Keane Inc., USA
Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA
Jo Ueyama, University of S鉶 Paulo at S鉶 Carlos, Brazil
Mathias Weske, Potsdam University, Germany
Yuhong Yan, Concordia University, Canada
Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Tianyi Zang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

2. Services management and quality of service

Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden Research Centre, San Jose, USA
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Anuradha Bhamidipaty, IBM Research, India
Marcelo Fantinato, Universidade Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ephraim Feig, Motorola, USA
Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Zakaria Maamar, Zaied University, United Arab Emirates
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Julio Marcelo Ripoll, IBM Global Technology Services, Argentina
Jacques Sauv? Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Thomas Setzer, Technische Universitaet Munich, Germany
Larisa Shwartz, IBM Research, USA
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia

3. Embedded services and cyber-physical systems

Daniel Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Gang Huang, Peking University, China
Vandy Berten, University of Brussels, Belgium
Yuan-Hao Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Franck Chauvel, Peking University, China
Jiman Hong, Soongsil University, Korea
Chin-Fu Kuo, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan
Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA
Chang-Gun Lee, National Seoul University, Korea
Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada
Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, USA
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
Nicolas Navet, LORIA, France
Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Thomas Nolte, M鋖ardalen University, Sweden
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Qixin Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Chien-Hsien Wu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Chang Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Jie Yang, IBM China Research Laboratory, China

4. Cloud and grid services

Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Chen Wu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Anders Andersen, University of Tromso, Norway
Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China
Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA
Al Dearle, University of St Andrews, UK
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Stefan Fischer, University of Lubeck, Germany
Bo N鴕regaard J鴕gensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, University of St Andrews, UK
Shih-wei Liao, Google, USA
Tim (Jia-Yu) Pan, Google USA
Lionel Seinturier, INRIA, Lille, France
Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK
Guiling Wang - Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Yue Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA
Zhuofeng Zhao, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

5. Semantic Web services and multi-agent systems

Ghassan Beydoun, University of Wollongong, Australia
Rodrigo Martinez-Bejar, University of Murcia, Spain
Paul Bogg, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ying Ding, Indiana University, USA
Ruben Fuentes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Francisco Garcia-Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain
Jorge J. Gomez Sanz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Sung-Kook Han, University of Wonkwang, Korea
Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Carlos Laufer, PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Graham Low, University of New South Wales, Australia
Timothy Miller, University of Melbourne, Australia
Hamid Motahari, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA
Fethi Rabi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway
Brahmananda Sapkota, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Ioan Toma, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Genoveva Vargas, University of Grenoble, France
Yudith Villareal, University of Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela
Dongming Xu, University of Queensland, Australia

6. Industry track: Business services and technology

Liangzhao Zeng, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tao Yu, HP Labs, China
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA
Christoph Bussler, Saba Software, Inc., USA
Trieu Chieu, IBM T.J.Watson Research Lab, USA
Tommaso Cucinotta, The ReTiS Lab, Italy
Qiu Jie, IBM China Research Lab, China
Qinghu Li, HP Labs. China
Bin Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Ming Zhang, Google, USA