ESOCC 2026

Welcome to the 12th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing!

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 and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2026 will include invited talks and presentations of selected research papers with the participation of top researchers from academia and industry.

ESOCC cares about fundamental ethical values related to diversity, as gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, and similar personal traits. Diversity will be sought at different levels, remarkably including conference committees’ composition.

ESOCC conference organizers will set as highest priority to provide a welcoming, respectful and positive atmosphere to all attendees. Aggressive or offensive language will not be allowed in talks, questions or answers. Aggressive or offensive behaviour, including any type of harassing, will not be allowed in the event, being a justified reason for expulsion without any compensation. For more details on on the Code of Conduct see here.

All ESOCC conference committees as well as authors are obliged to follow and apply the ethical responsibilities of authors as available at Springer.

This conference is co-located with the ECSA 2026 conference

Proceedings

Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference.

Call for Papers

Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud-Edge Continuum Computing are the mainstream approaches to building large-scale distributed systems and delivering software services to end users. Cloud-Edge-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, which are comprised of microservices. Microservices can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud-Edge Continuum Computing the natural answers to the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications that can be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies like DevOps and more. Considering this basis the evolution of distributed systems is going for supporting AI and ML, specifically in Workflow Domains, Agentic AI and AIOps. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud-Edge Continuum (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice these topics. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in these areas.

Topics of Interest

ESOCC 2026 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented, the Edge-Cloud Continuum, and AI. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications for Service-Oriented and Edge-Cloud Continuum, e.g., big data for AI, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities, that leverage Edge and Cloud resources

• Generative AI and Machine learning approaches in the context of Service-Oriented and Cloud-native systems

• Service-oriented and Cloud-based approaches for AI and ML, including LLMs

• Distributed Intelligence at the Edge, including Federated Learning

• Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Edge-Cloud Continuum.

• Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, business processes, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing

• Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobile computing, next generation services/IoT

• Cloud-native architectures and paradigms aimed also to ML, e.g., microservices, DevOps, and AIOps

• Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented, Edge, and Cloud Computing.

• Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

• Enablers for Service-Oriented and Edge-Cloud Continuum, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics.

• Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Edge-Cloud Continuum.

• Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing.

• Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Edge-Cloud Continuum

• Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Edge- Cloud Continuum

Post proceeding opportunity

A journal special issue is planned at Springer Journal on Cluster Computing (Impact factor 4.4 as of 2022). Authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. Submissions ESOCC 2026 invites submissions of the following kinds:

• Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references)

• PhD Symposium (12 pages including references)

• Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports - 1 to 2 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope)

We only accept original papers not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

They must be submitted to Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2026.

Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference.

For further details, refer to the conference website at https://conf.researchr.org/home/esocc-2026, and for any further queries, please contact the chairsanalytics.