This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European
Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2013, held in
Málaga, Spain, in September 2013. The 11 full papers presented together
with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44
submissions. The volume also contains 3 papers from the industrial
track. Service-oriented computing including Web services as its most
important implementation platform has become the most important paradigm
for distributed software development and application. The papers
illustrate how cloud computing aims at enabling mobility as well as
device, platform and/or service independence by offering centralized
sharing of resources. It promotes interoperability, portability and
security standards, and raises a completely new set of security issues.