Service oriented computing is an emerging cross-disciplinary paradigm for distributed computing that is changing the way software applications are designed, architected, delivered and consumed.

ICSOC’08 builds on the success of previous conferences in this series, establishing bridges between established and new service research and applications communities and fostering cross-community scientific excellence. ICSOC's goal is to bring together ideas and technologies from many different fields in an evolutionary manner, to address research challenges such as service composition, discovery, integration, monitoring and management of services, service quality and security, methodologies for supporting service development, governance in their evolution, as well as their overall life-cycle management. This year, ICSOC is focusing on building bridges with the business community because of its ongoing contribution to the emerging field of Services Science.

ICSOC 2008 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solving the many still open research problems that are of significant importance to the field of service oriented applications.