IEEE ICWS 2021 - Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Note: Selected papers will be considered for a journal’s special issue/section. Journals under discussions at the present time include IEEE Transactions on Services, Tsinghua Science and Technology, etc.
The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) is the flagship conference focusing on Web-based services, featuring services modeling, development, publishing, discovery, recommendation, composition, testing, adaptation, delivery, applications, and standards.
IEEE ICWS 2021 invites original papers addressing all aspects of Internet/Web based services. Refereed paper reviews will be organized per the research tracks listed below. One special paper award will be provisioned for every special track.
[Special Track] Quantum Software and ServicesOrganized jointly with the inaugural Symposium on Quantum Software and Services
- Cloud quantum service model
- Orchestration of hybrid quantum applications
- Web and cloud access to quantum computers
- Development tools for quantum software
- Programming model for quantum software
Organized jointly with the inaugural Symposium on Software Service Engineering
- Emerging software service models and novel software architectures for SSE
- Human-centric concerns (e.g. desire, intention, sentiment) in SSE; personalization or individualization of software services
- SSE for handling ambiguities and uncertainties of end-users
- Context-aware, situation-aware, self-aware, autonomous, emergent, ultra-mobile, ultra-fine grained (microservice) and autonomous software services
- Dynamic, on-demand, situational, adaptive and dependable software service deployment and evolution
- Theoretical foundations of SSE
- Programming systems/programming platforms/programming paradigms and executable and verifiable specifications for SSE
- Requirements engineering for SSE (dynamic, on-demand, intelligent and instantly defined service requirements, etc.)
- SSE for innovative and intelligent application domains
- Novel service-oriented architectural decomposition, microservices, UI, APIs & standards in the era of cloud/edge computing for SSE
- SSE enabled by agile processes, continuous integration, continuous delivery/deployment, continuous adaptation and DevOps
- AI and ML (unsupervised, supervised and self-supervised) techniques for SSE
- The SSE approach to SDx (Software Defined Everything)
- Service publishing
- Service search engines
- Collaborative filtering
- Service recommendation
- Service reasoning
- Machine learning powered service discovery
- Automatic service composition
- Scientific workflows
- Business process integration and management
- Service coordination and cooperation
- Service-based data integration
- Data-driven service composition
- Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) modeling and management
- Service QoS evaluation and prediction
- Autonomic services
- Web services testing
- Performance aspects of cloud and service virtualization
- Service level agreements
- Internet service security
- Service privacy protections
- Dependable and secure services
- Service auditing
- Service policy control
- Data-centric big services
- Web services for Internet of Things
- Social services
- Cloud services
- Mobile web services
- XaaS (everything as a service)
- Semantic service modeling
- Semantics-based service discovery
- Semantics-based service composition
Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information
Please download the paper template in WORD, LaTeX or Overleaf.
Language: English
Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style
Page limit:
- Every full paper submission can include up to 10 pages for the main contents (including all text, footnotes, figures, tables and appendices) with additional pages for appropriate references.
- Up to three pages for “Work-in-Progress” paper submission (including main contents and references).
- Please note that the above page limit will be applied without exception. Papers violating the page limit will regretfully be desk rejected.
Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper
File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Recipients of "Best Paper", "Best Student Paper", and special paper awards will be presented with award certificates and cash prizes in the to-be-recorded Awards session of the conference. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals.
Submitted Regular and Work-in-Progress papers are REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit will not be reviewed.
Submission Link
Please submit your ICWS paper at EasyChair.org: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeicws2021.
Important Dates (at 5:00am UTC)
Optional early paper submission: March 1, 2021
Improvement suggestions to early papers: April 1, 2021
April 15, 2021 April 30, 2021
Rebuttal phase: June 1 - 7, 2021 June 15-21, 2021
Final notification to authors: June 17, 2021 June 30, 2021
Camera-ready paper and registration due: July 1, 2021 July 15, 2021 July 21, 2021
IEEE Policy
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.
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About the Technical Committee on Services Computing
Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a multidisciplinary 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. IEEE TCSVC membership details are available at http://tab.computer.org/tcsvc/
Contact Information
Please read the FAQ before emailing CFP inquiries to: ieeecs DOT icws AT gmail DOT com.