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 2012 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 2012 Conference Management System for Research Track to submit your papers to SCC 2012 Research Track. Please check the Submission section for more submission details for all tracks.


The technical program of SCC 2012 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 2012 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 the SCC Proceedings and JWSR are included in SCI and EI Compendex. 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.

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 2012. 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 2012 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:


Abstract Submission Deadline: February 25, 2012
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 29, 2012
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 1, 2012
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 15, 2012



Industry Track:


Abstract Submission Deadline: February 25, 2012
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 29, 2012
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 1, 2012
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 15, 2012



Work-in-Progress Track:


Abstract Submission Deadline: February 25, 2012
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 29, 2012
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 8, 2012
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 15, 2012