Phd Symposium Preface

Quan Z. Sheng, Cesare Pautasso, Sonia Ben Mokhtar

Abstract: Service oriented computing (SOC) has rapidly transformed from a vision, in the beginning of the century, to reality with technologies such as Web services, Cloud services, and the Internet of Things. While this has provided the industry and practitioners with the opportunities for a new generation of products and services, it has also raised many fundamental research challenges and open issues. The International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) is a premier annual event for researchers, practitioners and industry leaders to discuss and share the success and achievements in this vibrant and rapidly expanding area.