ICSOC 2007 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications.

There are two independent tracks for research and industrial papers, each managed by a different program committee and with a different set of evaluation criteria. Authors must clearly indicate the track to which their paper is being submitted.

Submissions must be made electronically through the ICSOC 2007 Online Submissions Site.
In addition, guidelines for authors on using and navigating the submissions site are available.

The ICSOC 2007 Research Track welcomes original research papers, which should contain results that advance the state-of-the-art in service-oriented computing, either through novel methodologies, new insights, theoretical analysis or experimental validation. The paper should clearly articulate the research contributions, the innovations, the relevance to service-oriented computing and the relationship to prior research in the field. Submitted papers will be judged according to their scientific merits and evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, decomposition into business services, business processes, business policies, modeling, analysis, and simulation, specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements
  
  
• Service Assembly: Development and discovery, model-driven development, service composition architectures, service registries, service discovery mechanisms, semantic matching, methods and tools for service development, governance, verification and validation, deployment strategies
  
  
• Service Management: Instrumentation and service-related data aggregation, end-to-end measurement, analysis, modeling and capacity planning, definition of deployment topology, infrastructure configuration, problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, change management in live systems
  
  
• SOA Runtime: Service bus for mediation, transformation and routing, runtime development and service registries, integration of legacy applications, information services for data access and data integration, scalability, topology and optimization, service-oriented middleware, policy based configuration & workload management
  
  
• Quality of Service: Reliable service-oriented computing, security and privacy in service-oriented computing, SLA and policy specification, QoS negotiation, autonomic management of service levels, empirical studies and benchmarking of QoS, performance and dependability prediction in SOA
  
  
• Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, data and compute intensive applications, execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, business-value based allocation, innovative strategies for creation and management of virtual enterprises and organizations, prototype systems and toolkits

The ICSOC 2007 Industrial Track will have a primary focus on three areas: Information as a Service, SOA Governance, and SOA Runtimes and Registries. The format for the conference will feature each area being covered on individual, separate days. Each day will start with a review of the state of the art, followed by a panel discussion reviewing key issues, both technical and practical, important to that area. The panel discussion will be followed by the presentation of accepted papers, in several sessions throughout the day. We solicit submissions covering the state of practice and real-world experience in service-oriented computing, especially in the three areas of Information as a Service, SOA Governance, and SOA Runtimes and Registries. We solicit papers that describe innovative service-based implementations, novel applications of service-oriented technology, and insights and improvements to the state-of-practice. Case studies from practitioners emphasizing applications, service technology, system deployment, organizational ramifications, or business impact are especially welcome. Papers should provide sufficient details on the application domain, and the service-oriented techniques used, the issues surrounding actual implementations and applications, and the lessons learned in the field. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, decomposition into business services, business processes, business policies, modeling, analysis, and simulation, specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements
  
  
• Service Assembly: Development and discovery, model-driven development, service composition architectures, service registries, service discovery mechanisms, semantic matching, methods and tools for service development, governance, verification and validation, deployment strategies
  
  
• Service Management: Instrumentation and service-related data aggregation, end-to-end measurement, analysis, modeling and capacity planning, definition of deployment topology, infrastructure configuration, problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, change management in live systems
  
  
• SOA Runtime: Service bus for mediation, transformation and routing, runtime development and service registries, integration of legacy applications, information services for data access and data integration, scalability, topology and optimization, service-oriented middleware, policy based configuration & workload management
  
  
• Quality of Service: Reliable service-oriented computing, security and privacy in service-oriented computing, SLA and policy specification, QoS negotiation, autonomic management of service levels, empirical studies and benchmarking of QoS, performance and dependability prediction in SOA
  
  
• Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, data and compute intensive applications, execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, business-value based allocation, innovative strategies for creation and management of virtual enterprises and organizations, prototype systems and toolkits
  
  
• Information as a Service: Management of information in terms of representation, access, maintenance, management, analysis, and integration of data and content across heterogeneous information sources
  
  
• SOA Governance: Management of services across the entire lifecycle from inception through analysis, design, construction, testing, deployment, and production execution. Discipline for creating policies, communicating and enforcing them. Tooling includes registry, repository, policy management, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management

All papers should be submitted electronically (in PDF) and prepared in accordance with the Springer/LNCS camera-ready format. Both research and industrial-track papers are not to exceed 12 pages, including all references and figures. All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information.

Submissions should indicate at least two main topics and the scientific area (or areas) that best fit the content of the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2007 proceedings, published by Springer Verlag as a part of its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and must be formally presented at the conference. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the LNCS website.