The ICSOC PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in all areas related to the service-oriented computing. It is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of service-oriented computing, and provide them an opportunity to present and discuss their research to an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment, as well as to participate in a number of plenary sessions with service-oriented computing academics.

The goals of this PhD Symposium are:

• To provide an opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds working on topics related to service-oriented computing field

• To bring together PhD students and established researchers in the field of service-oriented computing

• To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected PhD students on their research project, and to stimulate the exchange of ideas, suggestions, and experiences among participants

• To provide the opportunity to discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues

We particularly encourage PhD students who are still developing their research methodology or are somewhere in the middle of their research program to submit their preliminary results to this symposium. Topics are restricted to their doctoral work within the scope of the ICSOC conference.

To be eligible for the PhD Symposium, the candidate must be a current doctoral student within a recognized university. Ideally, the candidate should have at least 12 months work remaining before expected completion, and at least 12 months of work already performed. However, all PhD students are eligible regardless of their doctoral stage.

Paper Submission

Submitted papers should give a clear description of the PhD work. In particular, papers must:

• Provide a clear problem statement

• Outline the research challenges and motivation that drive the proposed work

• Present the research methodology and techniques being applied

• Describe the proposed solution, its expected impact, the expected research plan, and preliminary results

• Discuss the progress beyond the state of the art of the envisioned research outcome compared to current literature and approaches (cite key papers)

Each paper must be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS Format and must be at most 6 pages in length, with up to 2 extra pages for the bibliography (strictly enforced). Submissions must be single-authored by the PhD student, and the name of the supervisor(s) must be clearly marked as ("supervised by") under the PhD author name.

Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, in the Easychair Submission (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsoc2025) by selecting the "PhD Symposium" track.

The PhD candidates of the accepted proposals are expected to present their research at the PhD Symposium and to discuss their work and plans with other PhD candidates and senior researchers. They are also expected to attend every session of the Symposium. Additionally, participants are encouraged to attend the main conference. Accepted papers presented at the Symposium will be included in the ICSOC 2025 post-conference proceedings of satellite events, to be published by Springer as part of the Service Science series.

Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the PhD Symposium Program Committee. The reviewers will assess each proposal based on its originality, its potential for advancing the ICSOC field, and whether the work is at a stage where the PhD candidate can benefit from participating in the symposium.

Ph.D. Symposium Co-chairs

• Cesare Pautasso, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

• Pengcheng Zhang, Hohai University, China

Important dates

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