SERVICES 2010 Call For Papers

The 6th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010)

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC)
IEEE Computer Society

URL: http://servicescongress.org/2010

The theme of the 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) is "modernization of the services industry". SERVICES 2010 supports and further explores the science and technology of modernizing services industries using latest methods and technologies such as as Services Computing, which has been formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. From a technology perspective, Services Computing has become the foundational discipline for the emerging modern services industry. 

The first Joint Conference on SERVICES includes the 2005 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2005) and the the 2005 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005), which were held in July 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The second Joint Conference on SERVICES includes the 2006 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006) and the the 2006 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), which were held in September 2006 in Chicago, IL, USA.  In 2007, the joint conference on Services formally became the 2007 IEEE First Congress on Services (SERVICES 2007), which was held in July 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The 2008 IEEE Second and Third Congress on Services (SERVICES-I 2008 and SERVICES-II 2008) were co-located with the 2008 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008) in July 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA as well as the 2008 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008) in September 2008 in Beijing in China. In 2009, the Fourth World Congress on Services (SERVICES-I 2009) was co-located with IEEE 2009 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) held in July 2009 in Los Angeles, USA. The Fifth World Congress on Services (SERVICES-II 2009) was co-located with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009) held in September 2009 in Bangalore, India.

In 2010, the Sixth IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) will be held in July 2009 in Miami, Florida, USA. SERVICES 2010 tries to attract researchers, practitioners, and industry business leaders in all the following services sectors to help define and shape the modernization strategy and directions of the services industry. You are invited to submit research, engineering, and business innovation papers to the following business services sectors:    

• Advertising Services
• Banking Services
• Broadcasting & Cable TV Services
• Business Services
• Casinos & Gaming Services
• Communications Services
• Cross-industry Services (e.g. strategy and planning, supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, marketing services) 
• Design Automation Services
• Energy and Utilities Services
• Financial Services
• Global Village Services
• Government Services
• Healthcare Services
• Hotels & Motels Services
• Insurance Services
• Internet Services
• Motion Pictures Services
• Personal Services
• Printing & Publishing Services
• Real Estate Operations Services
• Recreational Activities Services
• Rental & Leasing Services
• Restaurants Services
• Retail Services (Apparel, Catalog & Mail Order, Department & Discount, Drugs, Grocery, Home Improvement, Specialty, Technology)
• Schools and Education Services
• Security Systems & Services
• Technology Services
• Travel and Transportation Services
• Waste Management Services
• Wholesale Distribution Services

Services University

"Services University" (servicesuniversity.org) was launched at the 2007 Congress on Services (SERVICES 2007) to help teach Services Computing discipline in a systematic way. A regional leaders community is being formed to support this worldwide "Services University" program, which is sposnored by Services Society. Services Society is technically sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing , IBM Research, SAP and other professional and industry sponsors. In 2010, the Summer School on Services Computing will be offered in the Services University program. 

2010 Education Methodology Summit on Services Computing

The Education Methodology Summit on Services Computing brings educators and practitioners around the world together to share their experiences in Services related education, and builds consensus on the core of Services Computing education, the knowledge areas and education methodologies. The Summit will focus on pedagogical implications of Services education and its role in overall Services Computing Curriculum Initiative (SCCI). The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special section.  

2010 SOA Industry Summit

The 2010 SOA Industry Summit encourages industry people to submit presentations and two-page papers instead of 8-page research reports. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special section.  

2010 SERVICES Workshops

SERVICES 2009 will include a set of workshops and symposiums focusing on various themes of modernizing services industry. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special section. 

2010 Ph.D. Symposium on Services Computing

SERVICES 2010 will provide a Ph.D. Symposium on Services Computing as a forum encouraging Ph.D. students and holders to report on-going or just completed work. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special section.  

2010 Symposium on SOA Standards

SERVICES 2010 will favor the 2010 Symposium on SOA Standards as a forum for international researchers and practitioners to discuss and establish standards around SOA. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Sixth World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) as a special section for SOA standards. 

Paper Submission and Review Process

Please use the submission page to find the right tracks and events to submit your papers.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from all conferences without review. 

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings Formatting Information page. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at www.servicescongress.org. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. 

Only the accepted and presented papers will appear in the CD-ROM version and online version of the proceedings of the IEEE 2010 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010) , which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers published in the SERVICES 2010 will be invited for potential publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM),  and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). JWSR is included in EI Compendex and indexed in SCI-E. According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008 Journal Citation Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software Engineering.



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About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a multi-disciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas. 

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research that includes business compoentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services montoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.