Call for Papers
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 9 research areas (themes):
Service Oriented Systems
● Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
● Service specification and modeling
● Service evolution
● Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies
● Formal methods in services
● Micro-service and service mesh
● Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems
● Secure service lifecycle development
● Service ecosystems
Services Discovery, Composition and Recommendation
● Service publishing and searching
● 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
● Service recommendation

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
● Service security
● Privacy and trust
● Dependable and secure services
● Service auditing
● Service policy control
● Service regulation and governance

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
● Satellite service computing
● Communication 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


AI in Web Services
● Generative AI in Services
● Generative AI as a Service (GaaS)
● Generative AI for API Creation, Integration, testing, and Personalization
● Security and Privacy in Generative AI-Driven Systems
● LLM and Multimodal Models enhanced service discovery, selection, composition
● LLM-driven service recommendation: algorithms, models, and performance
● AI for service customization and personalization
● Machine/Deep learning powered service discovery
● Process mining, anomaly detection, and data processing methods for service composition
● Security and privacy in AI-enhanced service architectures
● Service Reasoning with Generative AI Approaches
● Reinforcement Learning and Transformer Models for Web Services
● Innovative Applications of Generative AI in Web Services
● Explainable AI in Web Services
● Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems

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

Web 3.0 and Decentralized Services
● Web 3.0 services leveraging blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized architectures
● Tustless service environments and decentralized applications (dApps)
● Interoperability and integration challenges in Web 3.0 services
● Service governance, policy enforcement, and legal implications in decentralized ecosystems
● Novel service offerings and revenue models for the Web 3.0 landscape

Emerging Technologies for Advanced Service-Oriented Computing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications

● AI enabled services
● Quantum Service Computing
● Digital Twins
● 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing Techniques
● Blockchain
● Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
● Chatbots and Virtual Assistants
● Low-Code / No-Code Solutions
● Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)
● Green IT
● 5G Technology
● Metaverse Services
● Industry 4.0