Description

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 of FS 2013 include, but are not limited to:

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

Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. All papers should be in PDF and submitted via the submission system:
http://www.confhub.com/conf.php?id=286

First time users need to register with the system first. All the papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the Proceedings of the 9th IEEE 2013 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2013) which will be published by IEEE Computer Society.

A special edition for IEEE Transaction on Services Computing (TSC) on Future Services is currently under consideration. Selected papers accepted by the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version for the consideration of this special issue.