Topics of Interest

Modern Service-Oriented Architectures

    Microservice Architectures
    Challenges, development approaches, and best practices for creating modular and scalable systems, etc.
    Serverless Service-Oriented Architectures
    Event-driven, stateless systems that reduce infrastructure overhead and improve agility, etc.
    Architecture and Design Patterns for Service-Oriented Architectures
    Creation of new patterns tailored for Service-Oriented Architectures or their technical realization, etc.
    Service-Based Integration Architectures
    Methods, concepts, patterns, and frameworks for integrating systems through services, etc.
    Service-Oriented Architecture and System Transformation
    Strategies, methods, and technical approaches for transitioning Service-Oriented Architectures. This also includes transformations of traditional, legacy, and monolithic systems to SOA/microservice architectures, refinement, etc.
    Software Architectures for the Compute Continuum

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in SOA

    APIs for Services
    Approaches for the automatic generation of APIs and their documentation, etc.
    API Management for Services
    Systematic approaches for managing heterogeneous APIs and their interoperability, etc.
    API Patterns for Services
    Analysis of existing Patterns regarding their applicability to SOA or the development of new Patterns for SOA, etc.
    API Summarization
    Endpoint summarization, documentation summarization, etc.

Software Engineering for SOA

    Software Engineering Best Practices for SOA
    Methods and models to fit the dynamic requirements of Service-Oriented Architectures.
    Testing Approaches for SOA
    Appropriate testing methodologies to address the unique needs of SOA, etc.
    Documentation for SOA
    Automatic generation of documentation for Service-Oriented projects, etc.
    Repository and Code Base Analysis
    Mining and analysis techniques to evaluate the quality of Service-Oriented Systems, etc.

Service-Oriented Infrastructure and Operation

    DevOps and Service Engineering
    Methods and approaches for combining DevOps practices and service-oriented engineering, etc.
    Services in the Edge, Fog, and Cloud
    Cloud platforms for hosting services as well as the integration of SaaS in systems. Capabilities, limitations, and trade-offs of cloud-native solutions for SOA, etc.
    Deployment, Operation, and Maintenance Automation of Service-Oriented Systems
    Automation approaches, end-to-end lifecycle management practices, CI/CD Pipelines for Service Deployment, Containerization, etc.
    Infrastructure Optimization for Service Hosting
    Best practices such as fine-tuning configurations to ensure efficient and reliable system performance, etc.
    Infrastructure for IoT-based Service-Oriented Systems
    Services running near devices on the cloud, edge, or fog, distribution optimization, etc.

AI in Service-Oriented Systems

    AI-supported Service-Oriented Systems Transformation and Development
    AI tools to decompose monolithic systems into microservices efficiently and accurately or AI-supported service development, etc.
    Predictive Analytics for Service Behavior
    AI models to predict service performance, availability, and potential failures based on historical data, etc.
    AI in Dynamic Resource Allocation
    AI technologies to optimize resource allocation for services in real-time, improving scalability and reducing costs, etc.
    Intelligent Quality Assurance
    AI techniques to automate testing, monitoring, and validation of service-oriented systems, etc.

Service-Oriented Systems Quality

    Service-Oriented Architecture Assessment
    Metrics and methodologies for evaluating non-functional requirements, e.g., performance, reliability, maintainability, etc.
    Service-Oriented Testing
    Testing approaches, system tests for SOA, etc.
    Sustainable Service-Oriented Systems
    The four dimensions (social, economic, environmental, technology) of sustainability applied to Service-Oriented Systems, etc.

Practical Experiences / Industry Experiences

    Innovative Service Applications and Experiences
    Novel applications of Service-Oriented Systems and their impact on industries, etc.
    Empirical Studies and Case Studies on Practitioners’ Experiences
    Highlights from empirical research capturing real-world challenges and practices, etc.
    Tool and Technology Experiences
    Reports on the usage of tools or frameworks when building SOA systems, etc.