CfP: PhD Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (5.9-7.9.2016, Vienna, Austria) The ESOCC 2016 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in any of the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference. The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedbacks and advices on their research activity. PhD students working in any area addressed by the ESOCC conference (all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and cloud computing, cf. http://esocc2016.eu/call-for-papers/ <http://esocc2016.eu/call-for-papers/>) can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results. Reports should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. The papers should be authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and have to be submitted by July 12, 2016 via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2016 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2016>) . For any problem regarding the submission process, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. It is planned to provide the participants online proceedings and to publish selected contributions as post-proceedings in the Springer CCIS series. Important Dates: Paper Submission: July 12, 2016 Notification: July 26, 2016 Final Version: TBD Programme Committee: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy Friederike Klan, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy John Erik Wittern, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA Gianluigi Zavattaro (Co-Chair), University of Bologna, Italy Wolf Zimmermann (Co-Chair), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Prof. Eng. Massimo Villari, PhD Dip. di Ingegneria Universita' di Messina C.Da Di Dio, N°1 - 98166 - Messina - ITALY - phone: +39 090 397 7342 email: [email protected] http://it.linkedin.com/in/mvillari <http://it.linkedin.com/in/mvillari>