[Sigmetrics] CFP: THE 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ICWS 2018)

[Patrick Hung]

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***** Call For Papers *****

THE 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ICWS 2018)
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2018 IEEE World Congress on Services
JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA

Website: http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2018/


The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for researchers, academics, businesses, industry, and standard bodies to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web-based services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services. Internet/Web-based services are not limited to Web services. In 2018, we will strive to advance the largest international professional forum on Internet/Web-based services. The Proceedings of ICWS is EI indexed.

>From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry. As a major implementation technology for modernizing services industry, Web services are Internet-based programmable application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols. In its 23rd version, the program of ICWS 2018 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Web-based services. Some of the topics include Web services specifications and enhancements, Web services discovery and integration, Web services QoS (e.g., security, performance, reliability, fault tolerance, etc.), Web services standards and formalizations, Web services modeling, Web services engineering, Web services testing, Web services-based applications and solutions, Web services realizations, semantics in Web services, Web services supporting Cloud Computing, Web services lifecycle management, and all aspects of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure and middleware.

All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest. ICWS 2018 will organize refereed paperreviews in 7 research areas (themes):

Services Discovery, Selection and Recommendation
- Service publishing
- Service search engine
- Collaborative filtering
- Service mining
- Service recommendation

Services Composition
- Automatic service composition
- Scientific workflows
- Business process integration and management
- Service coordination and cooperation
- Service selection and composition
- Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet
- Service-based data integration

Services QoS Management
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) modeling and management
- Service QoS evaluation and prediction
- Autonomic services
- Web services testing
- Service management and governance
- Performance aspects of cloud and service virtualization
- Validation and testing for Web services
- Service monitoring
- Services reliability management
- Service level agreements

Services Security, Privacy and Trust
- Internet service security
- Privacy and trust
- Dependable and secure services
- Encryption, authentication and authorization
- Interactions with underlying protocols

Services Applications beyond the Web
- Service implementation and deployment
- Data-centric big services
- Web services for Internet of Things
- Mobile Web services
- Social services
- Scientific service
- Grid and utility services
- Embedded services
- Cloud services
- Personalized services
- Embedded services systems
- Internet-based Services
- Web 2.0 and Web X.0 in Web services
- XaaS (everything as a service)
- Cloud Computing for Internet-based services
- Big Data for Internet-based services
- Social network as services
- RESTful Web services
- Other applications

Semantic Services
- Semantic Web services
- Semantic service modeling
- Semantics-based service discovery
- Semantics-based service composition

Service Oriented Software Engineering
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Service specification and modeling
- Service evolution
- Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies-
- Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud
- Engineering mobile service oriented systems
- Formal methods in services
- Empirical research in/for service-oriented systems engineering
- Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems


*** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information ***
Language: English.
Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style.
Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review.
Abstract length:  Approximately 1500 characters.
File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals.

*** Key Dates ***
Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018.
Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018.
Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018.
Congress date: July 2 - 7, 2018.

ICWS 2018 General Chairs
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Prof. Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University USA
Dr. Nimish Radia, Ericsson Research, USA

ICWS 2018 Program Chairs
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Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas Dallas, USA
Prof. Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China


SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Services Computing Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA

Steering Committee:
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair)
Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA
Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Finance Chair: Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA

Publication Chair: Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University, Japan

Publicity Team:
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE
Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia
Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina
Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Young Yoon, Hongik University, Korea
Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India
Uwe Breitenbücher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia
Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania
Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa, South Africa

If you have any questions or queries on IEEE ICWS 2018, please send email to: ieeecs DOT icws AT gmail DOT com.

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