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[Bechir Zalila <address@concealed>]

Dear Colleagues,

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The ICSOC Ph.D. Symposium 2024 is an international forum for
Ph.D. students working in all areas related to the service-oriented
computing. It is intended to bring together Ph.D. 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 Ph.D. Symposium are:

- To provide an opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds
  working on topics related to service-oriented computing field
- To bring together Ph.D. students and established researchers in the
  field of service-oriented computing
- To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected
  Ph.D. 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 Ph.D. 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 Ph.D. 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 Ph.D. students are eligible regardless of
their doctoral stage.

Important Dates
Papers Submission: 7 October 2024
Authors Notification: 21 October 2024
Phd Symposium date: 3 December   2024

Paper submission
Submitted papers should give a clear description of the Ph.D. work. In
particular, papers must:

- Provide a clear problem statement
- Outline the research challenges 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 (strictly enforced). Submissions
must be single-authored, and the name of the supervisor(s) must be
clearly marked as (“supervised by …”) under the Ph.D. author name.

Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, in the
Easychair Submission
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsoc2024) by selecting the
"System Ph.D. Symposium" Track.

The PhD candidates of the accepted proposals are expected to present
their research at the Ph.D. 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 2024
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
Ph.D. 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
Ismail Bouassida, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Nora Faci, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

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