SCF 2018 Call for Proposals (Community Support), June 25-30, 2018, Seattle, USA

Introduction of the SCF 2018

The term “Services Conference Federation (SCF)” is our conference umbrella's code name for all services-related conferences.

SCF 2018 defines the future of New ABC (AI, Blockchain & Cloud). As its founding conference member, the International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) was first conceived in June 2003 in Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the First International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe'03) was held in Germany in Oct, 2003. ICWS-Europe'03 is an extended event of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003) in Europe. In 2004, ICWS-Europe was changed to the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), which was held at Erfurt, Germany. To celebrate its 16-year-old birthday, ICWS 2018 will be held on June 25 - June 30, 2018, Seattle, USA.

In the past 15 years, ICWS community has been expanded from Web engineering innovations to scientific research for the whole services industry.The service delivery platforms have been expanded to mobile platforms, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and edge computing. The services ecosystem is gradually enabled, value added, and intelligence embedded through enabling technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and cognitive computing. In the coming years, all the transactions with multiple parties involved will be transformed to blockchain.

We are very proud to announce that SCF 2018's 10 co-located theme topic conferences will all center around "services", while each focusing on exploring different themes (web-based services, cloud-based services, Big Data-based services, services innovation lifecycle, AI-driven ubiquitous services, blockchain driven trust service-ecosystems, industry-specific services and applications, and emerging service-oriented technologies).

SCF 2018 (http://www.icws.org ) will be held on June 25 - June 30, 2018, Seattle, USA. You can also find our CFP Brochure (http://icws.org/2018/CFP-CACM.pdf) in the Communications of ACM in December 2017 and January 2018 (Backcover). Some highlights of SCF 2018 are shown below:

SCF 2018 Highlights:
- Bigger Platform: The he 10 collocated conferences (SCF 2018) get sponsorship from the Services Society which is the largest not-for-profits organization (501 c(3)) dedicated for serving more than 30,000 worldwide researchers and practitioners. Bigger platform means bigger opportunities to all volunteers. Meanwhile, Springer provides sponsorship to best paper awards and other professional activities. All the 10 conference proceedings will be published by Springer and indexed in ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.

- Brighter Future: SCF launches the First International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018) to build the fundamental infrastructure for enabling secure and trusted services ecosystems. It will also lead our community members to create their own brighter future.

- Better Model: SCF 2018 leverages the invented Conference Blockchain Model (CBM) to innovate the organizing practices for all the 10 theme conferences. Senior researchers in the field are welcome to submit proposals to serve as CBM Ambassador for an individual conference to start better interactions during your leadership practices for organizing SCF 2018.

Look forward to your great contributions as a volunteer, author, and conference participant for the fast-growing worldwide services innovations community. If you would like to contribute to SCF 2018 as a leading volunteer or try the new Conference Blockchain Model, please feel free to fill in the online form (http://icws.org/2018/open.html) to become a conference volunteer. For other queries or questions, please feel free to visit our conference web sites and find contact information on SCF 2018.

Call for Community Support (CS) Proposals

Universities, research institutes, and other non-profit organizations from all over the world are welcome to submit your CS proposals to SCF 2018.

Each CS proposal should include:

  • Your organization name
  • A short summary of your organization (less than 200 words)
  • Logo of your organization
  • URL of your organization
  • A short description of what value your organization will provide to SCF 2018

Please submit your Community Support proposal as a single PDF using the online proposal submission system (http://www.confhub.com/conf.php?id=768) by selecting “Community Support Proposal” as the topic.

All the Community Support members of SCF 2018 will automatically become the Community Support members of the 10 co-located events including ICWS 2018, CLOUD 2018, SCC 2018, AIMS 2018, BigData Congress 2018, SERVICES 2018, EDGE 2018, ICCC 2018, ICIOT 2018, and ICBC 2018.

Benefit:

  • Your logo will be put on the conference web site
  • Your logo will be put in the Conference Advance Program (online and printed)
  • Your organization name will be listed in the acknowledgment part on SCF 2018 conference web sites and Services Society’s web site
  • Organization publications (maximum of 2 pages) inserted into conference bags

Look forward to your great contributions as a community support provider for the fast-growing worldwide Services Innovation community. For other queries or questions, please feel free to visit our conference web sites and find contact information on SCF 2018 (confs@servicessociety.org).

See you all on June 25 - June 30, 2018, Seattle, USA.


====== Members of SCF 2018 ======

SCF includes 10 service-oriented conferences: ICWS, CLOUD, SCC, BigData Congress, AIMS, SERVICES, ICIOT, EDGE, ICCC and ICBC. The SCF 2018 member list is as follows:

[1] The 2018International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2018, http://icws.org/2018) is the flagship theme-topic conference for Web-based services, featuring Web services modeling, development, publishing, discovery, composition, testing, adaptation, delivery, as well as the latest API standards.

[2] The 2018 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2018, http://thecloudcomputing.org/2018) is the flagship theme-topic conference for modeling, developing, publishing, monitoring, managing, delivering XaaS (everything as a service) in the context of various types of cloud environments.

[3] The 2018 International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2018, http://bigdatacongress.org/2018) is the emerging theme-topic conference for quantitative analysis of impact on business insights from Big Data analytics.

[4] The 2018 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2018, http://thescc.org/2018) is the flagship theme-topic conference for services innovation lifecycle that includes enterprise modeling, business consulting, solution creation, services orchestration, services optimization, services management, services marketing, business process integration and management.

[5] The 2018 International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2018, http://ai1000.org/2018) is the emerging theme-topic conference for the science and technology of artificial intelligence, and the development, publication, discovery, orchestration, invocation, testing, delivery, and certification of AI-enabled services and mobile applications.

[6] The 2018 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2018, http://servicescongress.org/2018) puts its focus on emerging service-oriented technologies and the industry-specific services and solutions.

[7] The 2018 International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2018, http://thecognitivecomputing.org/2018) puts its focus on the Sensing Intelligence (SI) as a Service (SIaaS) that makes system listen, speak, see, smell, taste, understand, interact, and walk.

[8] The 2018 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2018, http://iciot.org/2018) puts its focus on the creation of Internet of Things technologies and development of IOT services.

[9] The 2018 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2018, http://theedgecomputing.org/2018/) puts its focus on the state of the art and practice of edge computing including but not limited to localized resource sharing and connections with the cloud.

[10] The 2018 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018, http://blockchain1000.org/2018/) concentrates on blockchain-based services and enabling technologies.

 


Community Support Members

Global Experts Federation

Shenzhen Association of Internet of Things

 

China Computer Federation ShenZhen

 

PINGAN Technology

 

Contact Information

If you have any questions or queries on AIMS 2018, please send email to aims AT ServicesSociety.org.

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Please join the worldwide services innovation community as a member or student member of the Services Society at http://membership.ServicesInnovations.org. You are also welcome to join our social network on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6546793.