SCC 2012 - IEEE SCC 2012 9th International Conference on Service Computing

The IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC)
IEEE Computer Society

URL: http://conferences.computer.org/scc/

Services account for a major part of the IT industry today. Companies increasingly like to focus on their core expertise area and use IT services to address all their peripheral needs. Services Computing is a new science which aims to study and better understand the foundations of this highly popular industry. It covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services.

Since 2004, the International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) has provided a platform for practitioners to present the latest advances in services science. Like its predecessors, SCC 2010 will contribute in building the pillars of this important science and shaping the future of Services Computing.

Services Computing currently shapes the thinking of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to many opportunities and challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for supporting different business models.

SCC will help in bridging the gap between business services and information technology by driving research in technologies such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, service engineering and grid and cloud computing and Web 2.0.

SCC will have the following major tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Services Computing Practices and Applications and Business Aspects of Services Computing.

SCC is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing. The International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) covers the whole lifecycle of innovation research and enabling technologies, which includes enterprise modeling, business consulting, solution creation, services delivery, services orchestrtaion, services optimization, services management, services marketing, services delivery and cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, and Web services technologies and standards.

Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

Foundations of Services Computing

Services Science
Service Modeling and Implementation
Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance Service
Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks
Service-based Grid/Cloud/Autonomic Computing
Mobile Services Computing
Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
Service Security, Privacy and Trust
Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
Services Repository and Registry
Formal Methods for SOA
Service Discovery
Services Engineering Practices and Case Studies
Enterprise Architecture
Services-Centric Business Models

Business Service Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities
Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Service Control
Service Revenue Models and Utility Computing, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and Fee-for-Service
Service Strategic Alliance and Partners
Service Network Economic Structures and Effects
Ontology and Business Service Rules
Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models
Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business Models
Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies
Industry Service Solution Patterns
Service Interaction Patterns
Case Studies in Services-Centric Business Models (e.g., healthcare, financial, aviation, etc)
Business Process Integration and Management

Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, Integration and Management
Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
Collaborative Business Processes
Extended Business Collaboration (eBC) Architecture and Solutions
Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management
Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Integration and Management
Security, Privacy and Trust in Business Process Management
Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management
Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
Monitoring of Services, Process Mining, and Quality of Service
Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management
SOA Tools, Solutions and Services
SOA Tooling Practices and Examples

Systematic Design Method for SOA Solutions
SOA based Consulting Services and Design Services
SOA Delivery Excellence
Service-Oriented Computing for service orientation
Authors are invited to submit original, UNPUBLISHED research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Duplicate submissions will be rejected from all conferences or journals without review. Manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceeding style: IEEE Formatting Information) pages and be printed on 10 or 11 size font. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Please visit the latest Services Computing Taxonomy to identify your innovation areas when you prepare your papers.

Detailed Instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at the submission page. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be published in the CD-ROM and On-line versions of the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Enhanced versions of selected papers published in SCC 2010 will be invited for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC, http://computer.org/tsc), International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), and the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR).

One Best Paper Award and one Best Student Paper Award will be presented by SCC. The first author of the best student papers should be a full-time student.

Review and Presentation Policy

"IEEE Policy and professional ethics requires 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. Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers.

An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript."