The 13th advanced summer school on service-oriented computing

The 13th advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing (SummerSOC’19) continued a successful series of summer schools that started in 2007, regularly attracting world-class experts inServiceOrientedComputing to present state-of-the-art research during a week-long program organized in several thematic tracks: IoT, formal methods for SOC, Cloud Computing, Data Science, Advanced Manufacturing, Software Architecture, Digital Humanities, Quantum Computing, and emerging topics. The advanced summer school is regularly attendedby top researchers fromacademia and industry as well as by Ph.D. and graduate students. During the different sessions at SummerSOC renowned researchers gave invited tutorials on subjects from the themes mentioned above. The afternoon sessions were dedicated to the SummerSOC symposium and its original research contributions in these areas mentioned above. All accepted contributions were submitted in advance and have been peerreviewed. In addition, the contributions had been extensively discussed during a poster session. The feedback of this discussion too has been folded into the version published in this special issue. The first article provides a systematic review on the white and grey literature on design principles, architectural smells and refactoring for microservice; the first author received the “SummerSoC Young Researcher Award” sponsored by ICSOC. The next article introduces the ASAP-DM framework, which enables an automatic selection of ana-