FS 2013 - IEEE 2013 SERVICES Workshop on Future Services (FS 2013)

Services comprise a vital component of the world economy. Technology has enabled a revolutionary
approach both to the creation and delivery of services, modifying the ways we view and perceive our
knowledge environment. The field of services has thus grown extensively, and there is an increasing need
to develop models and techniques for identifying future services which will expand to all areas of
business, government, and academia. The workshop goal is to identify methods that will either predict
future services or propose services for future needs. The scope of identifying future service needs can
be short term (5 years) or long term (20 years). The workshop seeks to define the next generation of
services and bring together big data analysis methods, services analysis techniques, as well as models
from other research areas which can be modified to the area of future services.
?It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.? (Markus M. Ronner, 1918)
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
List of topics
- Methods of predicting future services
- Temporal analysis of big data in the area of services
- Classification of change in service needs over time
- Analysis of future requirements of service areas by domain (such as business, government, or academia)
- Generic methods for identifying the rise and fall of research areas and technology