The Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing follows on the success of four previous editions in Chicago (2006), Amsterdam (2005), New York City (2004) and Trento (2003), establishing ICSOC as the flagship conference in the field of service-oriented computing. ICSOC 2007 continues the tradition of fostering cross-community scientific excellence and establishing strong links between academia and industry.

ICSOC 2007 covers a variety of topics including service description, discovery and composition, service deployment, platform configuration and capacity planning, monitoring, service middleware, service-oriented architectures, service management, information as a service, service development and maintenance, novel business models for SOAs, economical implications of Web Services and SOAs, service science, mobile and peer-to-peer services, data services, quality of service, exception handling, service reliability and security.

ICSOC 2007 is organized in cooperation with the Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web.

The ICSOC 2007 proceedings are published by Springer Verlag as a part of its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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