SCC 2009 - the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2009)

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc)
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 2009 will contribute in building the pillars of this important science and shaping the future of Service 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 2009 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/utility computing and Web 2.0. The theme of the conference is "Innovation in Globally Integrated Services". SCC 2009 will have the following major tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Service Computing Practices and Applications and Business Aspects of Service Computing.

SCC 2009 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing. SCC 2004 was held in Shanghai, China, September 15-18, 2004 . SCC 2005 was co-located with ICWS 2005 on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA. SCC 2006 was co-located with ICWS 2006 on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. SCC 2007 was co-located with ICWS 2007 on July 9-13, 2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. SCC 2008 was held on July 8-11, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The SCC Proceedings has been included in EI Compendex.

SCC 2009 will concentrate on the science and technology of Business/Application Services and the bridging technologies such as Business Strategy and Design, Business Process Integration and Management, Grid and Utility Computing, and SOA Services and Solutions
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/Utility/Autonomic Computing
Mobile Service 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
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) 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 http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2009/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Enhanced versions of selected papers published in SCC 2009 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), the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC). One Best Paper Award and one Best Student Paper Award will be presented by SCC 2009. 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."


Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due Date: April 6, 2009

Decision Notification (Electronic): May 25, 2009

Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: June 22, 2009

Conference Dates: September 21-25, 2009