IEEE SERVICES 2018 News

[10/04/2018] Best Papers of 2018

The 2018 Best Papers from each conference are listed, with links to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library Proceedings. Please visit the Best Papers 2018 webpage for the complete list.

[06/29/2018] Women in Services Computing Workshop now available

The Women in Services Computing Workshop is to be held in the morning of Monday July 2nd. See the Women in Services Computing Workshop page for more details.

[06/27/2018] Final Technical Program now available

The Final Technical Program of the Congress, including all the co-located conferences with papers and sessions information, has been added and can be found on the Technical Program page.

[06/14/2018] Advance Program updated

The Advance Program of the Congress, including all the co-located conferences with papers and sessions information, has been updated and can be found on the Technical Program page. Updated information will be added as it becomes available.

[06/12/2018] Advance Program updated

[06/11/2018] New One-Day and Two-Day Registration Information available

The Registration page now includes pricing information for One-Day and Two-Day Registration. See page for more details.

[06/06/2018] Tutorials open to all congress participants

Tutorials are open to all attendees at no additional charge. There are four tutorials, each with different required backgrounds from attendees. Since capacity is limited, please arrive early. View our Tutorials page for detailed information. Rooms will be announced.

[06/06/2018] Advance Program now available

The Advance Program of the Congress, including all the co-located conferences with papers and sessions information, has been added and can be found on the Technical Program page. Updated information will be added as it becomes available.

[05/24/2018] Industry Program announced

The industry program is announced. The purpose of the industry program is to invite a number of industry experts in the important aspects of services to discuss the potential impact on the future services technologies and applications. Read the Industry Program page to learn more.

[05/23/2018] Preliminary Program updated

The Preliminary Program of the Congress, including all the co-located conferences with papers and sessions information, has been updated and can be found on the Technical Program page. Updated information will be added as it becomes available.

[05/23/2018] Camera-ready Paper Submission Due date and Author Registration deadline extended

In order to better synchronize the technical program development schedule across seven co-located conferences, it is necessary to postpone the deadline for submission of camera-ready papers from May 23 to May 26, 2018. The Author Registration deadline has also been extended to May 30, 2018. See Registration page for details.

[05/19/2018] Preliminary Program now available (updated)

[05/15/2018] Camera-ready Paper Submission Due date extended to May 23, 2018

[05/09/2018] Xiaofei Xu will give a keynote in the morning of July 5, 2018

Our third keynote will be presented by Xiaofei Xu in the morning of July 5 with the title, “Data-Centric Smart Big Service: New Challenges and New Development”. He is Professor of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology, and is a board member of China Computer Federation (CCF). To learn more, see our Keynotes.

[05/07/2018] Schahram Dustdar will give a keynote in the morning of July 6, 2018

Our fourth keynote will be presented by Schahram Dustdar in the morning of July 6 with the title, “Service Engineering the Fabric of IoT, People, and Systems”. He is Professor of Computer Science heading the Distributed Systems Group at the Technical University of Vienna, and is the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs. To learn more, see our Keynotes.

[05/06/2018] Plenary panel sessions will be held on July 3, 4, 5, and 6, 2018

The Congress will have four plenary panel sessions on important timely issues on services, ranging from security and privacy, blockchain technologies and with services applications, innovative services and integrated solutions, and bigdata-as-a-service. To learn more, see our Panels.

[05/06/2018] C. Mohan will give a keynote in the morning of July 4, 2018

Our second keynote for the Congress will be presented by C. Mohan of IBM Research in the morning of July 4 with the title, “Blockchains Untangled: Public, Private, Smart Contracts, Applications, Issues”. He is an IBM Fellow, ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award winner in 1996, and VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award winner in 1999. To learn more, see our Keynotes.

[04/12/2018] Raj Reddy will give a keynote at the opening session on July 3, 2018

Our first keynote for Services 2018 will be presented by Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, titled “Impact of AI on Services Industry.” He has received a number of accolades including the ACM Turing Award in 1994. The talk is scheduled for July 3, 2018. To learn more, see our Keynotes.

[02/23/2018] Samir Tata and Hemant Jain Chair Industrial Committee

Samir Tata, IBM Research at Almaden, and Hemant Jain, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, were appointed to serve as the Industrial Program Chair and Co-Chair, respectively, for the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services. They will join forces to help develop a strong Industry Program with industrial speakers and panel sessions with panelists from both industry and academia as a cross-fertilization ground to discuss new and emerging technologies on services and applications. Interested contributors are welcome to contact them at stata@us.ibm.com or hemant-jain@utc.edu.

[02/18/2018] Paper Submission Due date extended to March 7, 2018

Due to holiday seasons and the improved efficiency of conference proceedings production, the paper submission due date is further extended to March 7, 2018. Note that this is the last extension for paper submission due date. Encourage authors to submit papers to the selected co-located conferences by the March 7, 2018 due date. In case any technical difficulties in submitting papers to the EasyChair links of selected conferences, send email to the email addresses of the selected conferences as soon as possible and no later than March 7, 2018.

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[02/03/2018] IEEE IMPORTANT NOTICE

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The IEEE World Congress on Services in San Francisco is the latest continuation of a 14-year history of outstanding conferences. The IEEE World Congress on Services is in no way associated with any similarly-named non-IEEE event taking place in Seattle, Washington.

[2/2/2018] Frank Leymann joined the Steering Committee

Professor Frank Leymann, Director of the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, agreed to be appointed to the Steering Committee of the IEEE World Congress on Services Computing to join the other ten renowned professionals in services computing. Here is the list of organizing leaders of IEEE World Congress on Services 2018.

[1/24/2018] The Technical Committee on Service Computing of China Computer Federation (CCF/TCSC) has agreed to be In Cooperation with the IEEE World Congress on Services 2018

The Technical Committee on Service Computing (TCSC) of China Computer Federation (CCF), chaired by Professor Xiaofei Xu, has agreed to be In Cooperation with the IEEE World Congress on Services 2018, to support the Congress.

[11/10/2017] IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS STEERING COMMITTEE FINALIZED

The reconstituted Steering Committee of IEEE Services Congress (IEEE CLOUD/ICWS/SCC/BigDataCongress/EDGE/ICCC/ICIOT) is finalized and comprised of a team of world-renowed scholars in the field:

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair)
Rong Chang, IBM, USA
Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University & Louisana State University, USA
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Lab, USA
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

[7/15/2017] Professor Stephen S. Yau Appointed as General Chair of IEEE 2018 SERVICES

Professor Carl K. Chang, new Steering Committee Chair, appointed Professor Stephan S. Yau (Professor at Arizona State University, IEEE CS President Emeritus) as General Chair of IEEE 2018 SERVICES. IEEE 2018 SERVICES will serve as a platform and umbrella for seven co-located flagship IEEE conferences in the field of Services Computing focusing on various aspects:

IEEE 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018)
IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2018)
IEEE 15th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2018)
IEEE 7th International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2018)
IEEE 2nd International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2018)
IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2018)
IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2018)

[7/15/2017] New Steering Committee Formed

Professor Carl K. Chang (IEEE-CS President Emeritus) has been appointed by the IEEE-CS Vice President for Technical and Conferences Activities to serve the chair of the Steering Committee for IEEE SERVICES. The reconstituted Steering Committee is comprised of a team of world-renowned scholars in the field:

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair)
Rong Chang, IBM, USA
Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University & Louisana State University, USA
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Lab, USA
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA
Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology & Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (PKU)-MOE, China
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

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