The 10th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2013)
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http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2013/

June 27-July 2, 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA (Center of Silicon Valley)


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



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. Like its predecessors, SCC 2013 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 2013 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.

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 orchestration,
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
- 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
- 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


Please use the SCC 2013 Conference Management System for Research Track to submit your
papers to SCC 2013 Research Track. Please check the Submission section for more submission
details for all tracks.

The technical program of SCC 2013 will include a research track, an application and experience
track, an industry track, and a work-in-progress track. The research track will highlight
foundational work that strives to push beyond the limits of existing business services
platforms and products, including experimental efforts, innovative systems and investigations
that identify weaknesses in the existing services computing technology.

The SCC 2013 research tracks seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive
new work in various aspects of services innovation lifecycle management. Research track papers
MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of services computing and properly cite
related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD,
SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including TSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.


All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members.
Accepted and presented papers from all SCC tracks will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected research track
papers will be invited for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services
Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Both TSC and JWSR are
indexed by SCI and EI [Link]. According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008
Journal Citation Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the
Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software
Engineering. SCC Proceedings are EI indexed.

Submitted research & industry track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style)
pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers
and papers beyond the page limit will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts
(in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation
and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process
can be found at conference website.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and
present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at
SCC 2013. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to SCC 2013
Industry Track. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or
solution descriptions may be recommended to the Application and Experience Track, or Industry
Track for further consideration if the session slots are available.


Important Dates:

Research Track:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 11, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 11, 2013
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 15, 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 25, 2013


Industry Track:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 11, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 11, 2013
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 20, 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 25, 2013


Work-in-Progress Track:
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Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 25, 2013
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 25, 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 30, 2013




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registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.


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About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC)
is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of
Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard,
literary and educational areas.

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of
bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology
suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, business
consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration.
This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research
that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services
realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition,
services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization,
as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and
computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.


Contact Information


If you have any questions or queries on SCC 2013, please send email to
scc DOT ieeecs AT gmail DOT com

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