2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004)

September 15 - 18, 2004

CALL FOR PAPERS


The discipline of Services Computing covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. Currently, it encompasses a new ground breaking technology suite: Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, utility/grid computing, autonomic computing, as well as its business and scientific applications.

The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2004) will be the first annual conference sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Steering Committee (a.k.a. Technical Community) for Services Computing (TSC-SC) in collaboration with other technical committees in IEEE Computer Society and other organizations in the world. The TSC-SC 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, standard, literary and educational areas. The Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing supports the theory, design, and development of Services Computing and its scientific, engineering, and industrial applications. SCC 2004 has three major research tracks: SOA & Web Services, Grid/Utility Computing, and e-Business Computing. It will foster cross-disciplinary interaction in the field of Services Computing technologies and applications. The insight and vision would shape the research agenda in Services Computing over the next decade.

SCC 2004 will be held in Shanghai, China, September 15-18 2004. SCC 2004 is the extended event of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004, http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2004), which will be held in San Diego, July 6-9 2004. SCC 2004 provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art in Services Computing, to identify emerging research topics, and to explore the future directions of Services Computing.

The official language of SCC 2004 is English. Authors should submit a full (8-page) paper via electronic submission. You can find the on-line paper submission and review systems from the Paper Submission page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. The authors of the best papers will be encouraged to revise their papers for potential publication in International Journal of Web services Research (JWSR) and other journals.

SCC 2004 will present one Best Paper Award and 3-5 Best Student Paper Awards. The first authors of the best student papers should be full-time students.

TOPICS OF INTEREST


The major theme for SCC 2004
conference will be


Web Services centric Services Computing that covers Grid/Utility Computing, e-Business Computing, and Autonomic Computing

Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

  • Formal foundations of Services Computing
  • Web services and Grid architecture
  • Web services and Grid security
  • Frameworks for building Web services and Grid applications
  • Grid services creation and enabling infrastructures
  • Web services representation, invocation, discovery, composition (Web processes)
  • Grid resource management
  • Quality of services and deployment issues
  • Solution management for Web services and Grid infrastructure
  • Standards (e.g., UDDI, SOAP, BPEL4WS, OGSA) and their enhancements
  • Role of semantics for Web services, Business semantic computing
  • Case studies for Web services and Grid applications for E-business, E-service applications, Science and Engineering
  • Services-oriented business process integration and management
  • Business Grid: Business process Grid and business application Grid
  • Services oriented autonomic computing technology and solutions

IMPORTANT DATES


  • May 7, 2004, Submission of papers, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals

  • June 11, 2004By June 18, 2004 Notification of acceptance

  • July 02, 2004, Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

  • September 15-18, 2004, SCC 2004