Willem-Jan van den Heuvel - Böcker

This volume contains the technical papers presented in the workshops, PhD Symposium and EU Projects Track which took place at the 8th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2020, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2020: 1st International Workshop on Edge Adoption and Migration, EdgeWays 2020, 16th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services, WESOACS 2020, ESOCC 2020 PhD Symposium, ESOCC 2020 EU Projects Track. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held in a virtual format. The 17 full papers  and 2 short papers were reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers focus on specific topics in service-oriented and cloud computing domains such as limits and/or advantages of existing cloud solutions, future internet technologies, efficient and adaptive deployment and management of service-based applications across multiple clouds, novel cloud service migration practices and solutions, digitization of enterprises in the cloud computing era, federated cloud networking services.

This book is a festschrift in honour of Mike Papazoglou’s 65th birthday and retirement. Topics are as varied as Mike’s and include service engineering, service management, services and human, IoT, and data-driven services.

The fast-paced technological development and the plethora of data create numerous opportunities waiting to be exploited by entrepreneurs. It walks the reader through sections on data engineering, and data analytics as well as sections on data entrepreneurship and data use in relation to society.