These include, but are not limited to:

• Tools, techniques and methods to support migration to service-oriented architecture and cloud computing environments

• Tools, techniques and methods to support maintenance and evolution of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing systems

• Tools, techniques and methods applying service oriented and cloud-based systems to software evolution

• Evolution patterns of service-oriented and cloud-based systems

• Transition patterns to service-oriented and cloud environments

• Architectures and Frameworks for Cyber-Physical Systems

• Next generation cloud based intelligent systems and applications

• Governance to support system evolution in service-oriented and cloud environments

• Leverage of service-orientation best practices in cloud environments

• Process models on the migration to service-oriented and cloud-based systems and/or on the maintenance of service-oriented and cloud-based systems

• Case studies of migration to service-oriented and cloud environments

• Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) for migration to SOA and cloud

• Reengineering, identifying, and extracting legacy code for creating services and their implementation

• Large-scale testing for service-oriented and cloud-based systems

• Methods, tools and techniques to measure and ensure the Quality of Services in cloud-deployed systems

• Methods, tools and techniques to achieve adaptation and automation in cloud-deployed systems