2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007)
===================================================================
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2007
July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Theme: Services: Science, Technology, and Business
Celebrating the 2007 IEEE Congress on Services!

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Services Computing (tab.computer.org/tcsc)

Building on its great success in 2004, 2005, and 2006, the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007) continues to bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models with an emerging suite of ground-breaking technology that includes service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process integration and management, grid and utility computing. SCC 2007 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit, IEEE International Services Computing Contest, IEEE SOA Standards Symposium, IEEE Services Computing Workshops, IEEE Services Computing Ph.D. Student Symposium will be featured at this joint event. The theme of SCC 2007 is "Services: Science, Technology, and Business"

Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT and computing technology to help people perform business processes, services, and applications more efficiently and effectively. At the core of a business model is a set of processes that jointly help yield a profit in an organization. As we can see, 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 few challenges and creates a new networked economic structure for supporting different business models. SCC 2007 has the following three major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Services-Centric Business Models, and Business Process Integration and Management.

Authors are invited to submit original, UNPUBLISHED research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Please note that the same paper should not be submitted to SCC 2007 and ICWS 2007 simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from both conferences 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. Detailed Instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2007/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. The enhanced version of the selected papers published in SCC 2007 will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Business Proces!
s Integration and Management (IJBPIM), the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), and possibly other IEEE journals in the field of Services Computing. One Best Paper Award and one Best Student Paper Award will be presented by SCC 2007. The first author of the best student papers should be full-time student.

Review 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 presentati!
on 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."

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
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

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

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007
Paper Submission Due Date: February 12, 2007
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2007
Camera-Ready Copy & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2007

General Chairs of SCC 2007:

Ephraim Feig, IEEE Fellow, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Services Architecture
Motorola, USA

Program Committee Chairs:

W.M.P. van der Aalst. Ph.D.
Professor, the Information Systems (IS) Department
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Program Committee Vice-Chair:

Patrick C. K. Hung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

Technical Steering Committee:

Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA)
Ephraim Feig (Motorola, USA)
Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee , USA)
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Zhiwei Xu (Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), China)
Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)