All topics relevant to Internet services lifecycle are of interest. SCC 2018 will organize refereed paperreviews in 9 research areas:

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

Scientific Workflows

• Data Intensive Workflows

• Collborative Scientific Workflows

• Workflow Discovery, Selection and Recommendation

• Workflow Composition

• Workflow Scheduling

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

Microservices

• Development and deployment models of Microservices and Containers

• Deployment environments with microservices where discovery, dynamic binding and version control are managed services provided by the infrastructure.

• DevOps and how microservices and containers help achieve DevOps in IT Organizations

High Assurance Services

• Service-level Fault-tolerance

• Robustness and Resilience

• Availability and Reliability

• Trusted and Reliable Services

Modeling of Services Systems

• 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 Applications (e.g., healthcare, financial, aviation, etc)

Service security and privacy

• Service Security

• Service Security Assurance 

• Service Privacy

SOA Service Applications

• Data Intensive Services

• Mobile Services 

• Cloud Services

• Social Services

• IoT Services

Service Lifecycle Management

• SOA Tooling Practices and Examples

• Service Monitoring and Tracking

• Service Evolving and Adaptation Managmement 

• Systematic Design Method for SOA Solutions

• SOA-based Consulting Services and Design Services 

• SOA Delivery Excellence

• Services for Sustainability and Everyday Living