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Thisvolumecontainsallofthe Research-Track,Industry-TrackandDemo-Track papers that were selected for presentation at the Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007), which was held in Vienna, A- tria, September 17–20, 2007. ICSOC 2007 followed the footsteps of four previous successful editions of the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing that were held in Chicago,USA(2006),Amsterdam,TheNetherlands(2005),NewYorkCity,USA (2004) and Trento, Italy (2003). ICSOC is recognized as the ?agship conference for service-oriented computing research and best practices. ICSOC covers the entire spectrum from theoretical and foundational results to empirical eval- tion, as well as practical and industrial experiences. ICSOC 2007 continued this tradition while introducing several new themes to further these goals. Service-orientedcomputingbringstogetherideasandtechnologiesfrommany diverse ?elds in an evolutionary manner in order to address research challenges including service-based application modeling, service composition, discovery, - tegration, monitoring and management of services, service quality and security, methodologies for supporting service development, grid services, and novel t- ics including information as a service and service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance. To provide a balanced coverage and an equal emphasis across all aspects of service-oriented computing, ICSOC 2007’s topics were divided into seven major areas: Business Service Modeling, Service Assembly, and Service Management, addressing research issues and best practices in the primary life-cycle phases of a service, modeling, assembly, deployment, and management; SOA Runtime and Quality of Service, covering issues spanning all stages of the life-cycle; Grid Services and Service Architectures, combining grid infrastructure concepts with service-oriented computing; and Business and Economical Aspects of Services.

The 7th IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS) followed on the success of six previous editions in Capri, Italy (2008), Santorini, Greece (2007), Gyeongju, Korea (2006), Seattle, USA (2005), Vienna, Austria (2004), and Hokodate, Japan (2003), establishing SEUS as one of the emerging workshops in the ?eld of embedded and ubiq- tous systems. SEUS 2009 continued the tradition of fostering cross-community scienti?c excellence and establishing strong links between researchand industry. The ?elds of both embedded computing and ubiquitous systems have seen considerable growth over the past few years. Given the advances in these ?elds, and also those in the areas of distributed computing, sensor networks, midd- ware, etc. , the area of ubiquitous embedded computing is now being envisioned as the wayof the future. The systems and technologies that will arise in support of ubiquitous embedded computing will undoubtedly need to address a variety of issues, including dependability, real-time, human–computer interaction, - tonomy, resource constraints, etc. All of these requirements pose a challenge to the research community. The purpose of SEUS 2009 was to bring together - searchersand practitioners with an interest in advancing the state of the artand the state of practice in this emerging ?eld, with the hope of fostering new ideas, collaborations and technologies. SEUS 2009 would not have been possible without the e?ort of many people.