*** Early Call for Contributions *** 9th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) March 22-24, 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany https://www.esocc-conf.eu Scope Service-oriented and cloud computing have made a huge impact both on the software industry and on the research community. Today, service and cloud technologies are applied to build large-scale software landscapes as well as to provide single software services to end users. Services today are independently developed and deployed as well as freely composed while they can be implemented in a variety of technologies, a quite important fact from a business perspective. Similarly, cloud computing aims at enabling flexibility by offering a centralised sharing of resources. The industry's need for agile and flexible software and IT systems has made cloud computing the dominating paradigm for provisioning computational resources in a scalable, on- demand fashion. Nevertheless, service developers, providers, and integrators still 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. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of service- oriented computing and cloud computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners 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. Tracks - Main conference: three days of invited talks, panels, and presentations of selected research papers, including a dedicated day to satellite workshops. - PhD Symposium: an opportunity for PhD students to present their research activities and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, hence getting fruitful feedback and advices on their research activities. - Projects Track: a useful opportunity for researchers to disseminate the latest research developments in their projects and meet representatives of other consortia. Details about all the tracks are available at the conference web site: https://www.esocc-conf.eu . Topics of interest ESOCC 2022 seeks original, high quality papers related to all aspects of service- oriented and cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Service and Cloud Computing Models  • Design patterns, guidelines and methodologies  • Governance models  • Architectural models  • Requirements engineering  • Formal Methods  • Model-Driven Engineering  • Quality models  • Security, Privacy & Trust models  • Self-Organising Service-Oriented and Cloud Architectures Models  • Testing models - Service and Cloud Computing Engineering  • Service Discovery, Matchmaking, Negotiation and Selection  • Monitoring and Analytics  • Governance and management  • Cloud Interoperability, Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, Federated Cloud solutions  • Frameworks & Methods for Building Service and Cloud based Applications  • Cross-layer adaptation  • Edge/Fog computing  • Cloud, Service Orchestration & Management  • Service Level Agreement Management  • Service Evolution/Optimisation  • Service & Cloud Testing and Simulation  • QoS for Services and Clouds  • Semantic Web Services  • Service mining  • Service & Cloud Standards  • FaaS / Serverless computing - Technologies  • DevOps in the Cloud  • Containerized services  • Emerging Trends in Storage, Computation and Network Clouds  • Microservices: Design, Analysis, Deployment and Management  • Next Generation Services Middleware and Service Repositories  • RESTful Services  • Service and Cloud Middleware & Platforms  • Blockchain for Services & Clouds  • Services and Clouds with IoT  • Fog Computing with Service and Cloud - Business and Social aspects  • Enterprise Architectures for Service and Cloud  • Service-based Workflow Deployment & Life-cycle Management  • Core Applications, e.g., Big Data, Commerce, Energy, Finance, Health, Scientific Computing, Smart Cities  • Business Process as a Service - BPaaS  • Service and Cloud Business Models  • Service and Cloud Brokerage  • Service and Cloud Marketplaces  • Service and Cloud Cost & Pricing  • Crowdsourcing Business Services  • Social and Crowd-based Cloud  • Energy issues in Cloud Computing  • Sustainability issues Submissions from industry are welcome (for example, use cases). Submissions ESOCC 2022 invites submissions in all the tracks: - Regular research papers (15 pages including references) - PhD Symposium (8 pages including references, authored by the PhD student with indication of his/her supervisors' names) - Projects Track (1 to 5 pages including references, describing an ongoing project) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2022 by selecting the right track. All accepted regular research papers are expected to be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). Accepted papers of the other tracks and the satellite workshops are expected to be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899). At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. Workshop Proposals ESOCC 2022 also invites proposals for satellite workshops. More details about the proposal format and submission can be found at https://esocc-conf.eu/index.php/workshops/ . Important Dates Regular research & industrial papers: - Paper submission: 31 October 2021 - Notifications: 7 January 2022 - Camera Ready versions due: 20 January 2022 Projects track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 PhD Symposium Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Industrial Track: - Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Satellite Workshops: - Workshop Proposal submission: 8 October 2021 - Workshop Proposal notification: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Paper submission: 14 January 2022 - Workshop Paper notification: 25 February 2022 - Workshop Camera Ready Version: 11 March 2022 Organization General Chair • Wolf Zimmermann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Programme Co-Chairs • Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) • George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Industrial Track Chair • Andreas Both (Anhalt University of Applied Science) Projects Track Chair • Damian Tamburri (Technical University Eindhoven) Workshops Co-Chairs • Guadalupe Ortiz (University of C·diz, Spain) • Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Science) PhD Symposium Co-Chair • Jacopo Soldani (University of Pisa) • Massimo Villari (University of Messina)