Special Journal Issue

Special Issue on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

Springer Computing 

Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities.

The aim of this special issue is to enable researchers and practitioners to share their research results in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. We hence look for original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities
  • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing
  • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management
  • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards,
  • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT
  • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps
  • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc.
  • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics
  • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions
  • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Semantic services and service mining
  • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms
  • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Storage, computation and network Clouds
  • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
  • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds
  • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs

Special Issue Editors

  • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george AT ucy.ac.cy)
  • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher AT fh-dortmund.de)
  • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani AT unipi.it)

Important Dates

  • Submission: January 31st, 2024 (AoE)
  • Expected first round of revisions: March 31st, 2024 (AoE)
  • Expected first round of revisions: May 31st, 2024 (AoE)
  • Expected publication: second quarter of 2024

Submission Guidelines

We invite contributions having a sound scientific/technological basis and validation. We accept submissions of original and previously unpublished papers. The call is open and we especially encourage the submission of revised and extended papers from the 10th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023: https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/). We seek high-quality and original contributions on fundamental and applied research, methods, foundations, and processes, systematic literature reviews and mapping studies, as well as novel applications and experience reports of service-oriented and cloud computing systems. All submissions shall be supported by appropriate arguments and validation through case studies, experiments, or systematic comparisons with other approaches or benchmarks. In case a previous version of the article has been published in a conference, then authors should explain in a cover letter the novelty of this new submission that must provide at least 30% new material.

Submissions must follow the guidelines reported at    https://www.springer.com/journal/607/submission-guidelines.

In particular, all manuscripts must use the journal’s one-column LaTeX template (formatting option “smallextended”) available AT https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/campaigns/latex-author-support

Submissions, initial as well as final, cannot exceed 20 pages (including references). The manuscript shall be submitted through the editorial manager platform available at https://www.editorialmanager.com/comp/default.aspx