CFP for the Upcoming 2006 IEEE Services Computing

[Jeandie LIM]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006) 

http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2006/org.html 

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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of IEEE Computer Society!

September 18-22, 2006, Hyatt Regency at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, USA

http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2006 

http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2006/cfp.html 

Theme: Services, Solutions, and Business Models of Services Computing

 

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

Technical Committee on Services Computing (tab.computer.org/tcsc)

 

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006) is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of IEEE Computer Society! Building on its great success in 2004 and 2005, SCC 2006 continues to bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models with an emerging suite of ground-breaking technology that includes service-oriented architecture, business process integration and management, grid/utility/autonomic computing and mobile computing such as ad-hoc networks (MANETs). SCC 2006 will be co-located with the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), the 30th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006), and the 2006 IEEE Workshops on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP 2006). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit and IEEE International Services Computing Contest will be featured at this joint event. The theme of SCC 2006 is "Services, Solutions, and Business Models of Services Computing"

 

Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business processes 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 processes 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 2006 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. 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/2006/. 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 2006 will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), and possibly other reputable journals. One Best Paper award and 1-3 Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by SCC 2006. The first author of the best student papers should be full-time student. Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

 

Foundations of Services Computing

- Services Science

- Services Modeling and Implementation

- Services Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance

- Services Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle

- Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks

- Services-based Grid/Utility/Autonomic Computing

- Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)

- Services Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration

- Services Security, Privacy and Trust

- Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)

- Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing

- Case Studies in Services Computing

 

Services-Centric Business Models

- Business Services Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment

- Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities

- Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Services Control

- Services Revenue Models, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and Fee-for-Service.

- Services Strategic Alliance and Partners

- Services Network Economic Structures and Effects

- Ontology and Business Services 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 Services Solution 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 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

- Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management

 

Important Dates:

 

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 16, 2006

Paper Submission Due Date: January 16, 2006

Decision Notification (Electronic): April 24, 2006

Camera-Ready Copy & Pre-registration Due: May 31, 2006

 

General Chairs of SCC 2006:

 

Hemant Jain, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor; Tata Consultancy Services Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

 

Zhiwei Xu, Professor, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), China

 

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

 

Program Committee Chairs:

 

J. Leon Zhao, Ph.D., Professor and Honeywell Fellow, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, USA

 

M. Brian Blake, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057

 

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

 

Publicity Chair:

 

Steve Miller, Ph.D.

Dean, the School of Information Systems

Singapore Management University, Singapore

 

Panel Chair:

 

Hsing Kenny Cheng, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Decision and Information Systems

University of Florida, USA

 

Work-in-Progress Chair:

 

Zhi-Hong Mao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Pittsburgh, USA

 

Technical Program Committee:

 

Wil van der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherland)

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Marquette University, USA)

Anne H. Anderson (Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA)

Akhilesh Bajaj (The University of Tulsa, USA)

Roger Barga (Microsoft Research, USA)

Krishna Bhagavatula (Tata Consultancy Services, USA)

Martin Bichler (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany)

Paul Buhler (College of Charleston, USA)

Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Rong N. Chang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Kaushal Chari (University of South Florida, USA)

Guoqing Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

Jian Chen (Tsinghua University, China)

Kenny Cheng (University of Florida, USA)

Lucy Cherkasova (HP Laboratories, USA)

S.C. Cheung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Roger Chiang (University of Cincinnati, USA)

Dickson K.W. Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong)

Cecil Eng Huang Chua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Farhad Daneshgar (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Haluk Demirkan (Arizona State University, USA)

Jorg Desel (The Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany)

Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Opher Etzion (IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel)

Ming Fan (University of Washington, USA)

Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)

Michael Goul (Arizona State University, USA)

Dominic Greenwood (Whitestein Technologies AG, New Zealand)

Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan)

Hakan Hacigumus (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Yanbo Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Kees van Hee (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherland)

Alan Hevner (University of South Florida, USA)

Peter Hrastnik (E3 Competence Center, Austria)

Michael N. Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)

Kazuo Iwano (IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan)

Stefan Jablonski (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany)

Varghese S. Jacob (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Daniel S. Katz (JPL/Caltech, USA)

Roger King (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

Jeffrey T. Kreulen (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Akhil Kumar (Penn State University, USA)

Dongwon Lee (Penn State University, USA)

Yann-Hang Lee (Arizona State University, USA)

Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, USA)

Ying Li (IBM China Research Lab, China)

Min Luo (IBM Global Services, USA)

Sanjay K. Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)

Leo Mark (Georgia Tech, USA)

E. Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Rob Mikula (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

Prasenjit Mitra (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Aris M. Ouksel (The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)

Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China)

Trung Pham (DIcentral Corporation, USA)

Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)

Berthold Reinwald (