ICWS 2010 Call for Papers

News: Due to numerous requests, the deadline of submitting ICWS 2010 Research Track Papers will be extended to 2/28/2010.

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Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC)
IEEE Computer Society
URL: http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Evolutions
• Models, methodologies, and tools (including analysis, design, modeling, and composition)
• Publishing, discovery, and selection (including in mobile settings)
• Validation and testing (including risk assessment and tracking)
• Management and governance (including monitoring, QoS, privacy, trust)
• Formal methods (including modeling and specification, data and process semantics, type systems, security, QoS, and other properties)
• Standards and implementation and deployment technologies

• Web 2.0 and Web X.0 concepts in Web services settings
• Software As A Service (SaaS)
• Service As Software
• Cloud Computing
• Technologies for building and operating massive data centers (including middleware)

• Applications (including mobile, scientific, Grid and utility, autonomic, and embedded computing)
• Business process management (including business protocols, business intelligence, service level agreements, and business licensing models)

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected papers published in the proceedings of ICWS 2010 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 the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex. JWSR is also 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.


Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond 8 pages 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 http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010/. 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 ICWS 2010. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to ICWS 2010 Applications and Industry Track. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution descriptions may be recommended to the Applications and Industry Track for further consideration if the session slots are available. 

Review Policy

IEEE 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 IEEE 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 an IEEE 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.

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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.