2024 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)

The 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, to identify emerging research topics, and to define the future of Web-based services. Areas  include services modeling, development, publishing, discovery, recommendation, composition, testing, adaptation, and delivery, and Web services applications and standards.

All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest. ICWS will organize refereed paper reviews in 8 research areas (themes):

[Special Track] Generative AI in Web Services

• LLM and Multimodal Models enhanced service discovery, selection, composition
• LLM-driven service recommendation: algorithms, models, and performance
• Service Reasoning with Generative AI Approaches
• Generative AI as a Service (GaaS)
• Reinforcement Learning and Transformer Models for Web Services
• Security and Privacy in Generative AI-Driven Systems
• Innovative Applications of Generative AI in Web Services

[Special Track] Datasets & Benchmarking for Service Computing Community

• Development and sharing of standard datasets
• Establishment of reliable and meaningful benchmarks
• Techniques for dataset creation, pre-processing, curation, and management in service computing
• Novel methodologies for performance evaluation using established benchmarks

Service Discovery, Selection and Recommendation

• Service publishing
• Service search engines
• Collaborative filtering
• Service recommendation
• Service reasoning
• Machine/Deep learning powered service discovery

Services Composition

• Automatic service composition
• Scientific workflows
• Business process integration and management
• Service coordination and cooperation
• Service-based data integration
• Data-driven service composition
• Knowledge-driven service composition
• Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet

Services QoS Management

• Quality-of-Service (QoS) modeling and management
• Service QoS evaluation and prediction
• Autonomic services
• Web services testing
• Performance aspects of cloud and service virtualization
• Service level agreements

Services Security, Privacy and Trust

• Internet service security
• Privacy and trust
• Dependable and secure services
• Service auditing
• Service policy control
• Policy, regulation and governance & Servitization

Service Applications beyond the Web

• Web Services for the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Services in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
• Social networks and services
• Cloud services
• Edge services
• Mobile web services
• XaaS (everything as a service)
• Service-based processing and querying
• Service-based recommendation and prediction
• Crowdsourcing Services, Conversational Services
• Metaverse/VR/AR services
• Services for Artificial Intelligence
• (Smart) Cybersecurity services
• Other applications

Service Oriented Systems

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Service specification and modeling
• Service evolution
• Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies
• Formal methods in services
• Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems
• Secure service lifecycle development