Overview
ICWS 2018 program committee invites you to participate in the 25th edition of ICWS, to be held on June 25 - June 30, 2018, Seattle, USA.
The International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for researchers, academics, businesses, industry, and standard bodies to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web-based services , identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services. Internet/Web-based services are not limited to Web services. In 2018, we will strive to advance the largest international professional forum on Internet/Web-based services.
ICWS 2018 is a member of Services Conference Federation (SCF). SCF 2018 will have the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: the 25th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2018), the 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018), the 15th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2018), the 7th International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2018), the 7th International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2018), and the 14th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2018), the 3rd International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2018), the 2nd International conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2018), the 2nd International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2018), and the 1st International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018).
From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry. As a major implementation technology for modernizing services industry, Web services are Internet-based programmable application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols. In its 23th version, the program of ICWS 2018 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Web-based services . Some of the topics include Web services specifications and enhancements, Web services discovery and integration, Web services QoS (e.g., security, performance, reliability, fault tolerance, etc.), Web services standards and formalizations, Web services modeling, Web services engineering, Web services testing, Web services-based applications and solutions, Web services realizations, semantics in Web services, Web services supporting Cloud Computing, Web services lifecycle management, and all aspects of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure and middleware.
Publications
Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS indexed by ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath. Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Springer and Services Society.
The integrated CFP Brochure (http://icws.org/2018/CFP-CACM.pdf) has been published in the Communications of ACM in December 2017 and January 2018.
ICWS 2018 has obtained approval from the following journals to organize
-Special Issues in Services Transactions on Services Computing (STSC),
-Special Issues in Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD),
-Special Issues in Services Transactions on Internet of Things (STIOT),
-Special Issues in Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC),
-Special Issues in International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)(Indexed by SCI & EI),
-Special Issues in International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM).
Important Dates
1. Research Track:
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 24, 2018
2. Application Track:
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 24, 2018
3. Short Paper Track:
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 16, 2018 (Extended Deadline)
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 17, 2018
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 24, 2018
Submission System
Topics
The technical program of ICWS 2018 will include a Research Track, an Application Track, and a Short Paper Track. The ICWS 2018 tracks seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Internet/Web based services. Research Track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Web-based services. All papers MUST properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, AIMS, BigData Congress, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including STBD, STCC, STIOT, JWSR, STSC, and IJBPIM (see Literature Recommendations page).
All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest. ICWS 2018 will organize refereed paper reviews in 7 research areas (themes) :
1. Services Discovery, Selection and Recommendation
- Service publishing
- Service search engine
- Collaborative filtering
- Service mining
- Service recommendation
2. Services Composition
- Automatic service composition
- Scientific workflows
- Business process integration and management
- Service coordination and cooperation
- Service selection and composition
- Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet
- Service-based data integration
3. Services QoS Management
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) modeling and management
- Service QoS evaluation and prediction
- Autonomic services
- Web services testing
- Service management and governance
- Performance aspects of cloud and service virtualization
- Validation and testing for Web services
- Service monitoring
- Services reliability management
- Service level agreements
4. Services Security, Privacy and Trust
- Internet service security
- Privacy and trust
- Dependable and secure services
- Encryption, authentication and authorization
- Interactions with underlying protocols
5. Services Applications beyond the Web
- Service implementation and deployment
- Data-centric big services
- Web services for Internet of Things
- Mobile Web services
- Social services
- Scientific service
- Grid and utility services
- Embedded services
- Cloud services
- Personalized services
- Embedded services systems
-Internet-based Services
- Web 2.0 and Web X.0 in Web services
- XaaS (everything as a service)
- Cloud Computing for Internet-based services
- Big Data for Internet-based services
- Social network as services
- RESTful Web services
- Other applications
6. Semantic Services
- Semantic Web services
- Semantic service modeling
- Semantics-based service discovery
- Semantics-based service composition
7. Service Oriented Software Engineering
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Microservices
- Service specification and modeling
- Service evolution
- Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies
- Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud
- Engineering mobile service oriented systems
- Formal methods in services
- Empirical research in/for service-oriented systems engineering
- Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems