ICSOC 2026

Call for Research Papers

ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as services science, data science, management science, business-process management, distributed systems, wireless and mobile computing, cloud and edge computing, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things (IoT), scientific workflows, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and services and software engineering.

ICSOC provides a premier international forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further our knowledge and understanding of the various aspects (e.g., application and system aspects) related to Service Computing and identify research challenges in new research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, IoT, digital twins and emerging technologies including quantum computing.

Submissions / Review Model

Early submissions: Authors are invited to consider early submissions (deadline: May 10, 2026). In the early submission round, only papers submitted as full/regular papers will be considered, and they will go through a full peer-review process. An early submitted paper that is accepted will be included in the proceedings. An early submitted paper that is rejected can be still revised and submitted to the normal submission round by the given deadline. If the authors of an early submitted paper that is rejected decide to resubmit their paper to the normal submission round, they will have to include an appendix (maximum 2 pages) describing how they have addressed the comments received by the reviewers from the early submission.

Regular submissions: Authors are welcome to submit papers to the regular submission round by the given deadline. To do so, they need to submit an abstract by 5 July 2026. After the regular submission deadline, the papers resubmitted from the early submission round and those submitted only to the regular submission round will undergo the same review process as other submissions. The decisions made from this regular review procedure will be final, and no resubmission will be permitted afterwards.

Anonymous submissions: ICSOC implements a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities or institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be referred to in the third person. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

It should be noted that unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit will be desk rejected without reviewing.

The submission procedure is initiated through the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsoc2026

Important dates

Early paper submissions due	10 May 2026
Regular paper abstract submissions due	5 July 2026
Regular paper submissions due	12 July 2026
Final notification to authors	13 September 2026
Camera-ready manuscripts due	27 September 2026
Author registration	27 September 2026

All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth time (AOE = GMT - 12). Check the time in the AOE Zone here: https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth

Areas of interest

ICSOC is the premier international forum for presenting the most recent and significant research contributions in service-oriented computing. These are organized in four focus areas:

Focus Area 1: Service-Oriented Technology Basics and Trends

Area Chair: Stefan Schulte

Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, testing, deployment, and operation
Service change management
Theoretical foundations of Service Science and Engineering
Service monitoring and adaptive management
Secure service lifecycle development
Privacy management aspects for services
Trust management for services
Service mining and analytics
Innovative service business models
Service-based business process management

Focus Area 2: AI for Services and as-a-Service

Area Chair: Christian Zirpins

Data-provisioning services
Data-driven service composition
Data governance service-oriented architectures
AI as service
AI-empowered service construction and composition
AI tools for service science and engineering
Federated Learning Services

Focus Area 3: Novel Service Frameworks for Cloud Continuum and Smart Environments

Area Chair: Xiaolong Xu

Green ICT and Sustainability of Service Systems
Cloud service management
Cloud and fog computing
Cloud Edge continuum
Edge service orchestration
IoT Services
XaaS (Everything as a Service)
Services in cyber physical systems
Smart services

Focus Area 4: Emerging Technologies

Area Chair: Elena Navarro

Service-oriented architectures for digital twin systems
Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS)
Metaverse services
Lightweight service deployment and management
Social networks and services
Low code services
Virtual reality and augmented reality services
Blockchain services
Cybersecurity services
Quantum services
Green services

We invite high-quality submissions of research papers describing original contributions that are unpublished and not under review elsewhere. The research papers will focus on traditional areas or in a specific focus area mentioned above. Research in each area will be considered strictly in the context of service-oriented computing. No papers would be accepted unless they clearly illustrate the contribution to the ICSOC areas of interest. Failure to provide such information can result in desk rejection.

Reproducibility Certification

Research reproducibility is essential for scientific integrity and further scientific discovery. At ICSOC, we promote rigorous evaluation and sharing of data, code, and methodologies to enhance the credibility and impact of scientific contributions. Authors are urged to publicly share all research artifacts such as datasets, source code, and supplementary materials as part of their submission. To encourage reproducibility, ICSOC incorporates formal verification into its review process and introduces the respective badges. During paper submission, authors are requested to provide the Artifact Availability and Reproducibility Statement, which will be taken into account by the reviewers. Moreover, all accepted papers will be invited to be considered under the Artifact Evaluation track, to undergo a rigorous formal process of verifying the reproducibility of the results. Participating papers that successfully pass this process will get either Open Artifacts or Verified Artifacts badge.

Paper Submission

Papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS Formatting Guidelines . Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission System. Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided deadlines. Authors are kindly invited to respect the abstract submission deadline, which is set one week before the paper submission. The limit length of accepted papers should be 15 pages (including abstract, figures and references). The final submission should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS Camera-ready instructions.

For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference and present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this individual author is together with the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.