> Call for Workshops
The 19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing to be held in Dubai, UAE between 22th and 25th of November, 2021. ICSOC is inviting applicants to submit proposals for high-quality workshops contributing to the scientific program of the main conference. The workshop program seeks to provide venues for specialist groups to meet and hold a focused discussion on specific sub-areas within Service-Oriented Computing, and to engage in community-building activities. The workshops should provide a discussion forum for researchers and industrials in topics related to main theme of the conference, either on specific research themes, or in emerging areas of research. The workshops will be held on November 22, 2021.
> Important dates
| Workshop submission due: | May 30th, 2021 |
| Notification to authors: | June 14th, 2021 |
| Conference dates: | November 22nd-25th, 2021 |
All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth time (AOE = GMT – 12). Check the time in the AOE Zone here: https://time.is/AOE
> Workshops Proposals Submission
Workshops proposals shall be submitted to Workshop Co-chairs and should include the following information:
- Workshop title
- Name, affiliation, postal, and e-mail addresses of each (proposed) workshop chair
- A brief (1-page) CV of each (proposed) workshop chair, highlighting prior experience in organizing similar fora
- A brief description of the topic of the workshop and its relevance to the conference (not exceeding 500 words)
- Proposed duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
- A list of likely program committee members
- An estimate of the number of submissions that will be attracted on the basis of workshops held in previous years or any other information
- Plans for Invited Talks, if any
- A commitment as to whether or not the workshop organizers would like the post proceedings to appear in Springer together with the other workshops
- Any further information deemed relevant, e.g. previous workshops held on similar themes
> Accepted Workshops
For the accepted workshops, the organizers will be responsible for the following:
- Constituting the workshop program committee
- Setting up a workshop website
- Advertising the workshop
- Managing the paper review and selection process
- Ensuring that at least one author of each accepted paper attends to present the paper (this may require announcing regulations that stipulate this as a pre-requisite for the publication of the paper in the workshop proceedings)
- Ensuring that the workshop delivers useful scholarly/research value via active discussion/debate
- Workshops may be held for a full day or for half a day (depends on the co-chairs preferences and/or the number of the accepted papers)
- At least one author for each paper accepted to a workshop will need to register for the workshop program
In addition, all the accepted workshops should assume the following schedule for the main deadlines:
- Workshop Papers Submission Deadline: September 30, 2021
- Authors Notification Deadline: October 30, 2021
- Early Registration Deadline: November 5, 2021
- Workshops: November 22, 2021
Workshop papers are typically between 8 and 12 Springer’s LNCS pages long. Every workshop should manage a minimum of 5 accepted papers. Workshops not managing the minimum number of accepted papers will be suggested to join together or cancel.
> Workshops Publication
ICSOC 2021 provides workshop organizers with the opportunity to publish improved versions of accepted papers as part of its dedicated post-workshop proceedings to appear in Springer’s LNCS series. The conference solicits outstanding original research and practice papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research or practical contribution, the relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. It is likely that, as in previous years, the post-proceedings of the accepted workshops will be jointly published as a Springer volume. A formal proposal to Springer will only be made after the accepted workshops and their program committees are finalized.
Working notes of the workshops (including papers to be eventually published in the joint workshop volume) can be made available during the workshops, as long as, they do not harm copyright constraints of the final joint ICSOC workshop proceedings.
> Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the companion volume published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
> Submission
Workshop proposals must be submitted electronically in PDF format via email to the co-chairs of the workshop sessions:
