Ephraim Feig

Message from the ICWS 2 16 general chairs

The long-term goal of ICWS is to establish a reputable and respectable conference for the international community of researchers and practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of Web Services, and to identify emerging research topics and define the future of Web Services computing. ICWS 2016 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) and the Services Society (SS). ICWS 2016 is the flagship conference of the 2016 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2016), celebrating the research accomplishments of the community along with other events to explore “Services” (Science and Technology), as promoted by the IEEE Computer Society in 2003!

Message from the SERVICES 2010 General Chair and Program Co-Chairs

SERVICES 2010 is in its sixth year and its theme is modernization of the services industry. This congress emphasizes the science and technology of modernizing services industries with latest methods and technologies, including the services, cloud computing, and web services. The three keynote addresses, a keynote panel, three regular panels, and eleven workshops constitute a comprehensive program for the theme of the congress.

Smarter SOA

The purpose of this panel is to present a broad range of best practices of SOA strategization and operationalization in the use of Web services in real-world SOA implementations. The focus will be on the common challenges and issues encountered in SOA projects. Topics include, but are not limited to, tenets, methodology, architecture, service management, standards, tools, process, organization, governance, security, and quality of services. Practitioners guides and anti-patterns as well as trends will be discussed in the context. Real-life pragmatic solutions to business problems will be exemplified and illustrated in case studies.

Design and Delivery Practices of the Summer School on Services Computing

Services computing has been recognized as a new foundational discipline of the modern services industry. The Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) within IEEE Computer Society is leading an initiative to promote Services Computing Curriculum around the world. This paper defines eleven key knowledge areas in the field of Services Computing. Based on defined knowledge areas, we report 2008 Summer School on Services Computing (Summer School), as a case study and pilot project to show how to dynamically compose reusable knowledge areas into expected courses. We present the design and delivery practices of Summer School, as well as experiences and lessons learned from the program.

Services computing in action: Services architectures

This panel is devoted to the topic of Services Architectures, which play a significant role in the effective operations and delivery of services businesses today.

Panel Session 1: Software and Services: Where Do They Meet?

This panel aims to explore the intrinsic and multi-facet relationships between software and services and the effects of such relationships on the coupling and transformation of computing and business and the embedding of service oriented architecture (SOA) into future computing and business management environments. Today, more and more software are augmented with service oriented packaging. At the same time, more and more business and government services are provided and offered in the form of software. The key focus of this panel is to discuss and debate: (1) Where software and services will meet? (2) Can and how the dynamic and multi-facet relationships between software and services are modeled and exploited? (3) What can be leveraged in this endeavor from the perspective of Web services, business transformation, and consumer demand?

Mobile Web Services Trend Perspectives

Web Services are finding their way into mobile devices in several disparate islands: We can find WS proxies connected via proprietary wireless connectors to mobile devices (Blackberry MDS), the beginnings of a web service consumer stack in mobile java (JSR172), web service identity federation stacks built into smartphone operating systems (Series 60, Windows Live for Mobile), Web Services “Lite” in the form of Ajax (Opera) on browsers and widgets for mobile devices).

Software and Services: Where do they meet?

This panel aims to explore the intrinsic and multi-facet relationships between software and services and the effects of such relationships on the coupling and transformation of computing and business and the embedding of service oriented architecture (SOA) into future computing and business management environments. Today, more and more software are augmented with service oriented packaging. At the same time, more and more business and government services are provided and offered in the form of software. The key focus of this panel is to discuss and debate

Five years of software as a service: the good, the bad and the ugly

Summary form only given. Software as a service (SAS) was introduced with the promise of lowering the costs associated with business software applications. To enable SAS and similar software service deployments to function smoothly, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) were introduced and have been quickly evolving for the past five years. Now, with SOAs well understood and software development environments so efficient, the return to insourcing, especially in the larger enterprises, is cutting into the earlier SAS gains. Providers for the mid-market, on the other hand, are wrestling with the dual problem - how to survive with on-demand requirements in a low margin arena? For many of the early pioneers in SAS and SOA, the past year has been one of tough demands from customers and harsh reactions from financial markets, as they continue to figure out how to survive in challenging, unchartered waters.

Experiences with Service Computing - A view from the Business World

Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy. “Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of Services Innovation Research, which leverages IT and computing technology to model, create, and manage business solutions, scientific applications, as well as modernized services. The underneath technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration.” (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc)