IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web-based services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services. All topics regarding Web-based services lifecycle study and management align with the theme of ICWS. In 2017, we will celebrate our 24th version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on Internet/Web based services.
ICWS is co-located with IEEE 2017 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2017), the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2017), the 14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2017), the 6th International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2017), and the 6th IEEE International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2017). All six co-located theme topic conferences will all center around "services," while each focusing on exploring different themes (industry-specific services and enaling technologies, web-based services, cloud-based services, Big Data-based services, services innovation lifecycle, and mobile services).
From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry. As a major implementation technology for modernizing services industry, Web services are Internet-based programmable application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols. In its 24th version, the program of ICWS 2017 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Internet and web-based services. Some of the topics include Web services discovery and composition, Web services specifications and enhancements, Web services QoS (e.g., security, performance, reliability, fault tolerance, etc.), Web services standards and formalizations, Web services modeling, Web services engineering, Web services testing, Web services-based applications and solutions, Web services realizations, semantics in Web services, Web services supporting Cloud Computing, Web services lifecycle management, and all aspects of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure and middleware.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for special issues in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Services Computing, 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]. ICWS Proceedings are EI indexed.