6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, December 1-5, 2008, University of Technology, Sydney, Ultimo City Campus (Tower Building)

Submission and Evaluation

How to submit

Prospective authors must submit an abstract prior to submitting their full paper – this abstract will be used in matching reviewers with papers. Research papers should describe innovative and significant original research relevant to ICSOC as described above. Papers submitted for consideration must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere during the duration of consideration.

All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Springer/LNCS camera-ready format and be submitted electronically (in PDF) via the conference web site. Research papers are not to exceed 15 pages, including all references and figures. All submissions should include title, authors, and full contact information. Detailed instructions for authors are available on the LNCS website

Submissions should indicate the scientific area that best fits the content of the paper.

Research papers and Industrial papers submissions must be done using the conference management tool before the specified deadlines using the following link: http://sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/icsoc08/servlet/Conference

Demonstrations must be submitted electronically via e-mail at this address: demo [at] icsoc [dot] org.

For the PhD Symposium, submissions must be done using the symposium managment tool: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=icsocphdsym08.

Review and Evaluation Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. The program committee as a whole will make final decisions about which submissions to accept for presentation at the conference.

Acceptance

All accepted papers will appear in the ICSOC 2008 proceedings (pending request), published by Springer Verlag as a part of its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of the paper is expected to present the results at the ICSOC 2008 conference. Selected papers will be invited for a special section of STTT (Int. Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer).