SCC 2018 Call for Papers
SCC 2018 program committee invites you to contribute to the fourteenth edition
of SCC, to be held on June 25 - June 30, 2018 in Seattle, USA.
SCC 2018 has obtained approval from the following journals to organize special
issues based on extended versions of top SCC papers:
Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) (Impact Factor:
3.52; Indexed by SCI & EI),
Special Issues in Services Transactions on Services Computing (STSC),
Special Issues in International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)(Indexed
by SCI & EI),
Special Issues in International Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management (IJBPIM).
Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions to special
issues of TSC, STSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.
The 15th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2018)
http://thescc.org/2018/
Services account for a major part of the IT industry today. Companies
increasingly like to focus on their core expertise area and use IT services to
address all their peripheral needs. Services Computing is a new science which
aims to study and better understand the foundations of this highly popular
industry. It covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and
information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services.
Like its predecessors, SCC 2018 will contribute in building the pillars of this
important science and shaping the future of Services Computing.
Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business
consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture
design, development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing
leads to many opportunities and challenges and creates a new networked economic
structure for supporting different business models. SCC 2018 will help in
bridging the gap between business services and information technology by
driving research in technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA),
business process integration and management, service engineering, cloud
computing, and Web 2.0.
The International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) covers the whole
lifecycle of innovation research and enabling technologies, which includes
enterprise modeling, business consulting, solution creation, services delivery,
services orchestration, services optimization, services management, services
marketing, services delivery and cloud computing, service-oriented architecture
(SOA), business process integration and management, and Web services technologies
and standards.
All topics relevant to Internet services lifecycle are of interest. SCC 2018
will organize refereed paperreviews in 9 research areas:
1. Foundations of Services Computing
Services Science
Service Modeling and Implementation
Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance Service
Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution
Stacks
Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing
Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs)
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
Service Security, Privacy and Trust
Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
Services Repository and Registry
Formal Methods for SOA
Service Discovery
Services Engineering Practices and Case Studies
2. Scientific Workflows
Data Intensive Workflows
Collborative Scientific Workflows
Workflow Discovery, Selection and Recommendation
Workflow Composition
Workflow Scheduling
3. Business Process Integration and Management
Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, Integration and
Management
Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
Collaborative Business Processes
Extended Business Collaboration (eBC) Architecture and Solutions
Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management
Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Integration and
Management
Security, Privacy and Trust in Business Process Management
Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management
Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise
Service Bus
Monitoring of Services, Process Mining, and Quality of Service
Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management
SOA Tools, Solutions and Services
4. Microservices
Development and deployment models of Microservices and Containers
Deployment environments with microservices where discovery, dynamic binding and
version control are managed services provided by the infrastructure.
DevOps and how microservices and containers help achieve DevOps in IT
Organizations
5. High Assurance Services
Service-level Fault-tolerance
Robustness and Resilience
Availability and Reliability
Trusted and Reliable Services
6. Modeling of Services Systems
Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities
Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Service Control
Service Revenue Models and Utility Computing, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and
Fee-for-Service
Service Strategic Alliance and Partners
Ontology and Business Service Rules
Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models
Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business
Models
Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies
Industry Service Solution Patterns
Service Interaction Patterns
Case Studies in Services-Centric Applications (e.g., healthcare, financial,
aviation, etc)
7. Service security and privacy
Service Security
Service Security Assurance
Service Privacy
8. SOA Service Applications
Data Intensive Services
Mobile Services
Cloud Services
Social Services
IoT Services
9. Service Lifecycle Management
SOA Tooling Practices and Examples
Service Monitoring and Tracking
Service Evolving and Adaptation Managmement
Systematic Design Method for SOA Solutions
SOA-based Consulting Services and Design Services
SOA Delivery Excellence
Services for Sustainability and Everyday Living
The technical program of SCC 2018 will include a research track, a application
track, and a short paper track. The SCC 2018 will highlight foundational work
that strives to push beyond the limits of existing business services platforms
and products, including experimental efforts, innovative systems and
investigations that identify weaknesses in the existing services computing
technology.
The SCC 2018 seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive
new work in various aspects of services innovation lifecycle management.
Submissions MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of services
computing and properly cite related work in the field, such as those published
in the proceedings of BigData, ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and
related journals including TSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee
members. Accepted and presented papers from all SCC tracks will appear in the
conference proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of selected
research track papers will be invited for potential publication in the IEEE
Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services
Research (JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and
Management (IJBPIM). Both TSC and JWSR are indexed by SCI and EI [Link]. SCC
Proceedings are EI indexed. The TSC's impact factor in 2016 is 3.52.
Submitted research and application track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (SCF
Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the SCF Proceedings
template in WORD or Latex Package. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the
page limit will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF
or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper
preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop
proposals, and review process can be found at conference website.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the
conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student
Paper award will be granted at SCC 2018. The first author of the best student
paper must be a full-time student.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 21, 2018
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 21, 2018
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 21, 2018
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2018
Application Track:
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 21, 2018
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 21, 2018
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 21, 2018
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2018
Short Paper Track:
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2018
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 28, 2018
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 25, 2018
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2018
SCF Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of
papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others
before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under
review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that
access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program
committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same
manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to
this practice.
Organizers of SCF conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for
the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in
offering a paper for presentation at a SCF conference, or accepting an
invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to
deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of
submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair
should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be
made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require
advance registration together with the submission of the final
manuscript.
About the Services Society
The Services Society is a non-profit professional organization that has been
created to promote worldwide research and technical collaboration in Services
Computing among academia and industrial professionals. Its members are
volunteers from industry and academia with common interests. The Services
Society is registered in the USA as a "501(c) organization", which
means that it is an American tax-exempt nonprofit organization. The Services
Society collaborates with other professional organizations such as the IEEE to
sponsor conferences and to promote an effective services curriculum in colleges
and universities. The Services Society initiates and promotes a "Services
University" program worldwide to bridge the gap between industrial needs
and university instruction. It has created Services Society Young Scientist
Forums (SSYSF) worldwide. The Services Society has provided professional
services for more than 30,000 researchers, practitioners, professors, and
students directly.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or queries on SCC 2018, please send email to scc AT
ServicesSociety.org or visit http://thescc.org/2018/.
Please join us at SERVICES Computing Community (http://services.oc.ieee.org/). Press the "Register" button to apply
for a FREE IEEE Web Account. As a member, you will be permitted to login and
participate in the community. This invitation allows you to join a community
designed to facilitate collaboration among a group while minimizing e-mails to
your inbox. As a registered member of the Services Computing Community, you can
also access the IEEE Body
