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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.<br>The 16 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on policies and performance, adaptation, SLA-aware services, job placement, compositionality, and fault tolerance.