The theme of SCC 2026 is:

Agentic AI as a Service for User-Centric Services Computing

Agentic AI introduces software entities that can understand objectives, formulate plans, invoke resources, coordinate with other agents and people, and perform multi-step tasks. When these capabilities are delivered as services, they create new opportunities to build adaptive and outcome-oriented service systems.

However, autonomy alone does not make a service valuable. Agentic services must remain aligned with user goals, organizational policies, operational constraints, and societal expectations.

For SCC, the central question is therefore:

How can agentic capabilities be engineered, delivered, managed, and governed as user-centric services that create dependable real-world value?

Agentic AI as a Service transforms Services Computing:

• From provider-defined functions to user-goal-oriented services

• From static service workflows to adaptive orchestration

• From isolated automation to human–agent collaboration

• From service availability to dependable task completion

• From conventional Quality of Service to quality of outcome and experience

• From one-time delivery to continuous value co-creation

• From service management to lifecycle governance of autonomous services

Addressing this transformation requires advances in service capability modeling, service contracts, composition, orchestration, lifecycle management, quality evaluation, trust, governance, human oversight, and service economics.

SCC 2026 invites researchers and practitioners to develop the foundations of responsible, dependable, and value-oriented agentic service systems.

SCC focuses on the general principles, engineering methods, lifecycle processes, management mechanisms, and value models of computing-enabled services.

Research whose primary contribution concerns Web interfaces and protocols, cloud infrastructure, big-data technologies, edge computing, the Internet of Things, cognitive computing, or blockchain should be submitted to the corresponding SCF conference unless it makes a clear contribution to Services Computing.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Agentic and AI-Enabled Services

• Agentic AI as a Service

• Agent capability and service models

• Human–agent and multi-agent service collaboration

• Adaptive service planning, composition, and orchestration

• AI-generated and self-evolving services

• Trust, safety, accountability, and oversight of agentic services

2. Service Modeling, Architecture, and Engineering

• Service-oriented and capability-oriented architectures

• Service modeling, specification, design, and implementation

• Service contracts, policies, and quality attributes

• Microservice and event-driven service systems

• Model-driven and AI-assisted service engineering

• Legacy modernization and enterprise service transformation

3. Service Composition, Processes, and Lifecycle

• Service discovery, selection, recommendation, and composition

• Service orchestration, choreography, and mediation

• Business-process integration and management

• Adaptive and context-aware service processes

• Service deployment, operation, evolution, and retirement

• Continuous service innovation and lifecycle optimization

4. Service Quality, Management, and Governance

• Quality of Service, Quality of Experience, and quality of outcome

• Service reliability, resilience, availability, and performance

• Service monitoring, evaluation, assurance, and optimization

• Service-level agreements and outcome-based contracts

• Service security, privacy, trust, and compliance

• Governance and risk management for autonomous services

5. User-Centric Service Innovation and Value

• User-centric and human-centered service design

• Service personalization and context-aware delivery

• Service experience and user-value evaluation

• Service innovation methods and lifecycle

• Service ecosystems, marketplaces, and value networks

• Service economics, pricing, business models, and value co-creation

6. Enterprise and Industry Service Systems

• Enterprise services and business transformation

• Industry-specific service systems and platforms

• Public, healthcare, financial, educational, and scientific services

• Smart manufacturing, logistics, mobility, and urban services

• Cross-organizational service integration

Large-scale deployment studies and industry experience

The SCC 2026 technical program includes four submission tracks.

Research Track

The Research Track welcomes original and technically rigorous contributions that advance the theories, models, architectures, methods, or engineering foundations of Services Computing.

Research papers should:

• Clearly define the service-related research problem

• Explain the novelty relative to relevant literature

• Present technically sound methods or models

• Provide rigorous and reproducible evaluation

• Discuss limitations and threats to validity

• Demonstrate a generalizable contribution to Services Computing

Application and Industry Track

The Application and Industry Track focuses on innovative service systems, deployed solutions, organizational practices, and evidence-based industry experience.

Papers should:

• Describe a significant real-world service problem

• Explain the service architecture and implementation

• Present deployment evidence or measurable outcomes

• Discuss organizational and operational constraints

• Identify transferable engineering or management lessons

• Clarify the practical or system-level innovation

Papers in this track do not need to introduce a new algorithm. However, they should make a substantive contribution through service-system design, integration, deployment evidence, operational innovation, or generalizable practical knowledge.

Short Paper Track

The Short Paper Track welcomes focused contributions, including:

• Promising early-stage research

• Novel service concepts or architectural designs

• Emerging challenges and research visions

• Datasets, benchmarks, tools, and reusable artifacts

• Focused empirical findings or negative results

• Concise application and deployment reports

Short papers must clearly state their contribution, supporting evidence, relationship to prior work, and limitations.

Special Paper Track

The Special Paper Track addresses designated emerging topics and community priorities announced by SCC 2026. Submissions should follow the requirements of the corresponding special-track call.

All submissions must report original and unpublished work and must not be under review elsewhere at the time of submission.

Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Papers will be evaluated according to:

• Relevance to SCC

• Originality and significance

• Technical or practical quality

• Strength of evidence

• Clarity and organization

• Reproducibility

• Research or real-world impact

Papers should position their contributions accurately within the relevant international literature. Authors are encouraged to cite SCC and other conferences or journals when genuinely relevant. Citation of any particular venue is not required.

Research Track and Application and Industry Track manuscripts are limited to 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Short Paper Track manuscripts are limited to 8 pages. Authors may purchase up to two additional pages, subject to the applicable publication fee. Special Paper Track submissions should follow the page limits specified in the corresponding call.

Authors must use the official Springer LNCS templates:

• Microsoft Word template

• LaTeX template

Electronic submission in PDF or Word format is required. Manuscripts that do not follow the required format or exceed the permitted page limit may be returned without review.

A Research Track submission that primarily presents an application or deployed solution may be recommended for consideration by the Application and Industry Track.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for SCC 2026 and present the work at the conference.

Research Track

Submit to the SCC 2026 Research Track: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34937&track=136072

Application and Industry Track

Submit to the SCC 2026 Application and Industry Track: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34937&track=136071

Short Paper Track

Submit to the SCC 2026 Short Paper Track: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34937&track=136073

Special Paper Track

Submit to the SCC 2026 Special Paper Track: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34937&track=136074

Detailed instructions for manuscript preparation, submission, review, panels, tutorials, and workshops are available on the SCF author-guidance pages.

Accepted and presented SCC 2026 papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which are scheduled to appear in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Springer makes LNCS proceedings available to major abstracting and indexing services. Final inclusion of a volume or individual paper is determined by the policies and selection criteria of each indexing service.

Under the current SCF publication arrangement, the SCC 2026 proceedings are expected to become freely accessible through SpringerLink four years after publication.

Extended versions of selected papers may be invited to relevant partner journals. Journal submissions must include substantial extensions and will undergo the journal’s independent editorial and peer-review process.

SCC 2026 will recognize outstanding contributions through:

• Best Paper Award

• Best Student Paper Award

For the Best Student Paper Award, the first author must be a full-time student.

Services Computing emerged from the convergence of distributed computing, Service-Oriented Architecture, business-process management, enterprise integration, and the growing services economy. It has since developed into a multidisciplinary field connecting computing technologies with service engineering, organizational processes, business innovation, and value creation.

Recent SCC conferences were held in Seattle in 2018, San Diego in 2019, virtually in 2020 and 2021, Hawaii in 2022, Shenzhen in 2023, Bangkok in 2024, and Hong Kong in 2025.

SCC 2026 continues this development by examining how agentic intelligence can be transformed into manageable, trustworthy, and user-centric services.

SCC is a member of the Smart Computing Frontier, a federation of ten co-located international conferences.

Within SCF, SCC focuses on the general foundations and lifecycle of computing-enabled services—from service modeling and engineering to delivery, management, governance, and value realization.

Its scope is complementary to the other SCF conferences:

• ICWS focuses on Web interfaces, APIs, protocols, and Web-based services.

• CLOUD focuses on cloud platforms, infrastructure, virtualization, and resource management.

• BigData focuses on large-scale data technologies and analytics.

• AIMS focuses on artificial intelligence and multimodal services.

• EDGE focuses on edge-computing architectures and systems.

• ICIOT focuses on Internet of Things technologies and applications.

• ICCC focuses on cognitive computing.

• ICBC focuses on blockchain technologies and trusted ecosystems.

• METAVERSE focuses on immersive and virtual digital environments.

This structure supports cross-conference collaboration while preserving SCC’s distinctive identity as the conference devoted to Services Computing.