CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2012)

December 6 -8, 2012, Guilin, China

http://grid.hust.edu.cn/apscc2012/

Special issues on some SCI/SCIE and EI indexed journals
--IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (SCI)
--Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Wiley (SCI)
--Journal of SuperComputing (SCI)
--Future Generation Computer Systems (SCI)
--1-2 EI indexed journals

The services computing is a new cross-discipline that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT/telecommunication services. The goal of services computing is to develop new computing technology and thereby enable more advanced IT/telecommunication services to support business services more efficiently and effectively.

IEEE APSCC 2012 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT/telecommunication-driven business services and application services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of Services Computing.

Previous APSCC conferences were held in GuangZhou, China (2006), Tsukuba Science City, Japan (2007), Yilan, Taiwan China (2008), Biopolis Singapore (2009),Hangzhou China (2010), and Jeju Korea (2011). As the 7th event in the increasingly popular series, APSCC 2012 expects to attract outstanding researchers from all over the world to Guilin - the world famous beautiful city in China. And IEEE APSCC 2012 is an IEEE CS sponsored conference, which will be hosted by Huazhong University of Science and Technology (http://www.hust.edu.cn).

Topics:
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Topics of interest for each of the main research tracks of the 2012 conference edition include, but are not limited to:

1. Business Process Integration and Management

Application integration services (e.g., Enterprise Service Bus)
Business performance management
E-business solutions
Enterprise modeling
Industry solution patterns
Linkage between IT services and business services
Mathematical foundation of business process modeling,integration and management
Security, privacy and trust in business process management
Service computing process modeling, transformation and integration
Service level automation and orchestration
Software architecture design, development and deployment (e.g., Software as a Service)

2. Cloud/Utility/Web Computing

Cloud computing
Resource acquisition models in cloud/utility computing
Security management, analysis for cloud/utility services
System performance evaluation, analysis and management
Utility business services
Utility computing
Web computing
Web service discovery and negotiation
Web service management and collaboration
Web service security and privacy

3. Foundations of Services Computing

Formal methods for services computing
Service-oriented business consulting methodologies and utilities
Services composition
Services delivery
Services discovery
Services modeling
Services science
Services value chain and innovation lifecycle

4. Mobile/Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing

Human interface for mobile/ubiquitous/pervasive environments
Mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile wireless Internet
Mobile/ubiquitous security
Mobile/ubiquitous/pervasive quality of service (QoS) adaptation
Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth
Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio network
Wireless sensor networks

5. Service-centric Computing Models

Business strategy and design
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
SOA industry solutions
SOA industry standards
SOA solution stack
Telecommunication Services
Fixed-mobile convergence

6. Integration of telecommunication SOA and Web services

Service orchestration
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
Service-oriented Telco architectures and business processes
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
Next generation networks
Quality of service (QoS) and billing

Submissions:
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* To submit a paper to APSCC 2012 please visit the conference
web site http://cse.stfx.ca/~apscc2012/sub/; the submissions rules can be: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/apscc2012/callforpapers.html
* Proposals for workshops and tutorials are welcome
* Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by IEEE.
* For further inquiries, please contact one of the program committee chairs
at apscc2012@gmail.com

Important dates:
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Submission deadline: July 5, 2012
Author notification: August 15, 2012
Camera-ready manuscript: Sept. 1, 2012
Author registration: Sept. 1, 2012
Workshops Proposals: June 20, 2012