This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2016.The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions.

Updating Policies in CP-ABE-Based Access Control: An Optimized and Secure Service.- vmBBThrPred: A Black-Box Throughput Predictor for Virtual Machines in Cloud Environments.- Dynamic SLAs for Clouds.- Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Decentralized Self-adaptive Service Assembly.- Situation-Aware Execution and Dynamic Adaptation of Traditional Workflow Models.- Subsumption Reasoning for QoS-Based Service Matchmaking.- Towards Combined Functional and Non-Functional Semantic Service Discovery.- Declarative Elasticity in ABS.- Interplay of Virtual Machine Selection and Virtual Machine Placement.- An Auto-Scaling Cloud Controller Based on Fuzzy Q-Learning - Implementation in OpenStack.- FedUp! Cloud Federation as a Service.- Service Cutter: A Systematic Approach to Service Decomposition.- Economic Aspects of Service Composition: Price Negotiations and Quality Investments.- Fault-Aware Application Management Protocols.- Improving Reliability of Cloud-Based Enterprise Applications.- A Short Survey on Using Software Error Localization for Service Compositions.