IEEE ICWS 2022 - Call for Papers

The 2022 IEEE World Congress on Services will be held in a hybrid mode with physical presence in Barcelona, Spain. SERVICES 2022 is solely sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC). Conferences under the 2022 IEEE World Congress on Services include IEEE CLOUD, IEEE EDGE, IEEE ICDH, IEEE ICWS, IEEE QSW, and IEEE SCC.

Call for Papers

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NOTE - NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE - APRIL 1

The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) is a flagship conference focusing on Web-based services, featuring services modeling, development, publishing, discovery, recommendation, composition, testing, adaptation, and delivery, and Web services applications and standards.

All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest. ICWS 2022 will organize refereed paper reviews in 8 research areas (themes):

Services Discovery, Selection and Recommendation
  • Service publishing
  • Service search engine
  • Collaborative filtering
  • Service recommendation
  • Service reasoning
  • Machine learning powered service discovery
Service Oriented Technology Trends
  • Microservices design, specification, customization, deployment and management
  • Smart-services design, specification, customization, deployment and management
  • IoT/Edge services design, specification, customization, deployment and management
  • Lightweight service deployment and management
  • Requirements-driven Service Design
  • AI-enabled Servitization
  • User eXperience & Human in the loop in Servitization
Services Composition
  • Automatic service composition
  • Scientific workflows
  • Business process integration and management
  • Service coordination and cooperation
  • Service-based data integration
  • Data-driven service composition
  • Knowledge-driven service composition
  • Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet
Services QoS Management
  • 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
Services Security, Privacy and Trust
  • Internet service security
  • Privacy and trust
  • Dependable and secure services
  • Service auditing
  • Service policy control
  • Policy, regulation and governance & Servitization
Service Applications beyond the Web
  • Web Services for the Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Services in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
  • Social networks and services
  • Cloud services
  • Mobile web services
  • XaaS (everything as a service)
  • Service-based processing and querying
  • Service-based recommendation and prediction
  • Crowdsourcing Services, Conversational Services
  • Services for Artificial Intelligence
  • (Smart) Cybersecurity services
  • Other applications
Semantic Service
  • Semantic service modeling
  • Cognitive (augmented) Services
  • Semantics-based service discovery
  • Semantics-based service composition
Services and Data/Big Data
  • Big Data-centric services
  • Data-provisioning services
  • Services for linked open data
  • Data-mining and analytics Services
Service Oriented Software Engineering
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Service specification and modeling
  • Service evolution
  • Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies
  • Formal methods in services
  • Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems
  • Secure service lifecycle development

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 limits:

  • Every "Regular paper" submission can include up to 10 pages (including main contents and references). Option to purchase up to 2 more pages will be available at camera ready registration (total of 12 pages max).
  • Every "Short paper" submission can include up to 6 pages (including main contents and references). Short papers present high-quality, original research that is of relevance to the services community. Submissions should present more focused or smaller studies, including preliminary but complete results.
  • Every “Work-in-Progress” paper can include up to 3 pages (including main contents and references). WIP papers present high-innovative ideas favouring innovation and potential impact.
  • Please note that the above page limits 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

Anonymous Submissions: All conferences under IEEE SERVICES implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs.

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. TCSVC will provide a cash prize of USD 400.00 to every Best Paper and Best Student Paper at IEEE SERVICES 2022. 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 papers are REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit will not be reviewed.

Paper Submission - EasyChair

Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth) NOTE - NEW DEADLINES

Paper submissions due: April 1, 2022
Final notification to authors: May 15, 2022
Camera-ready paper and registration due: (UPDATED) June 10, 2022

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

Email CFP inquiries to: ieeecs DOT icws AT gmail DOT com.