SCC 2005 Call for Papers
One-page CFP in PDF Format

Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy. Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively. As we can see, Services Computing currently shapes the processes of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment.

The theme of this joint IEEE conference on SERVICES is “Bridge the Gap between Business Services and IT Services”. Since Web Services is an IT technology, ICWS 2005 will put its focus on all aspects of IT infrastructure services. SCC 2005 concentrates on business services, e-business solutions, and the bridging technologies such as Business Strategy and Design, Business Process Integration and Management, SOA, and Grid and Utility Computing.

SCC 2004 was held in Shanghai , China , September 15-18 2004 . A total of 330 papers were submitted to SCC 2004. Submissions were from over 30 countries and regions. 37 were accepted as full research papers, 9 were accepted as short papers, and 50 were accepted as special session papers. The SCC 2004 Proceedings has been included in EI Compendex.

SCC 2005 has the following major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Grid/Utility Computing, and Business Performance Management Services and Business Integration.

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceeding style) pages and be printed on 10 or 12 size font. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed Instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2005/ . The length of the camera-ready of an accepted paper will be limited to 8 (IEEE style) pages. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The IEEE SCC 2005 Proceedings will be collected in EI Compendex. The detailed submission instructions can be found at SCC 2005 web site. The enhanced version of the selected best papers published in the SCC 2005 will be invited to publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) (by Idea Group) and possibly other related journals. Some speakers of the keynotes, panels, and tutorials will be invited to submit articles to extend their presentations for IEEE IT Professional Magazine.

EVALUATION PROCESS:

All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least two to three researchers in the topical area.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS:

One Best Paper award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by SCC 2005. The first author of the best student papers should be full-time students.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract and Paper Submission due date: Feburary 21, 2005, Feburary 14, 2005 (Monday)
Decision Notification (electronic): April 11, 2005, March 28, 2005 (Monday)
Camera-Ready copy due date & Pre-registration due: April 29, 2005, April 15, 2005 (Friday)
SCC 2005 International Conference on Web Services: July 11 - July 15, 2005

Program Committee Chairs:

Prof. Frank Leymann
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Email: Frank.Leymann AT informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

Sandeep Purao
Associate Proessor of Information Sciences and Technology
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Email: sandeep-purao AT psu.edu

Hai Jin
Professor and Vice-Dean, School of Computer
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, 430074, China
Email: hjin AT hust.edu.cn

GENERAL CHAIRS

Prof. Carl K. Chang
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University, USA.
2004 President, IEEE Computer Society
Email: chang AT cs.iastate.edu

Dr. Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang
Business Informatics Dept.
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
1101 Kitchawan Road, Route 134
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Chair, IBM Research Services Computing PIC
Email: zhanglj AT us.ibm.com