http://icws.org/2022 , December 10 - 14, 2022, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Theme: Digital Transformation

As the founding member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF), the first International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) was held in June 2003 in Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the First International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe 2003) was held in Germany in October 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. Sponsored by Services Society and Springer, SCF 2018 and SCF 2019 were held successfully in Seattle and San Diego, USA. SCF 2020 and SCF 2021 were held successfully online. The satellite sessions of SCF 2020 and SCF 2021 were physically held in Shenzhen, China. To celebrate its 20-year-old birthday, SCF 2022 will be held on December 10 - 14, 2022, Honolulu Hawaii, USA and Satellite Sessions in Sanya, Hainan, China.

In the past 19 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 and immersive experiences with multiple parties involved will be transformed to blockchain and metaverse.

Based on the technology trends and best practices in the field, the Services Conference Federation (SCF) will continue serving as the conference umbrella's code name for all services-related conferences. SCF 2022 defines the future of New ABCDE (AI, Blockchain, Cloud, BigData & IOT) and enters the 5G for Services Era. The theme of SCF 2022 is Digital Transformation. We are very proud to announce that SCF 2022'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, metaverse services and applications, and emerging service-oriented technologies).

- Bigger Platform: The 10 collocated conferences (SCF 2022) get sponsorship from the Services Society which is the world-leading not-for-profits organization (501 c(3)) dedicated for serving more than 30,000 worldwide Services Computing researchers and practitioners. Bigger platform means bigger opportunities to all volunteers, authors and participants. Meanwhile, Springer provides sponsorship to best paper awards and other professional activities. All the 10 conference proceedings of SCF 2022 will be published by Springer and indexed in Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.

- Brighter Future: While celebrating 2022 version of ICWS, SCF 2022 highlights the Fifth International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2022) 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 2022 will continue to leverage 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 2022.

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 2022 as a leading volunteer or try the new Conference Blockchain Model, please feel free to contact us 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 2022.

See you all on December 10 - 14, 2022. All the invited talks and paper presentations of SCF 2020 and SCF 2021 are open to all Services Society community members for free. You can watch all presentations through SCF 365.

General Chairs
Dr. Ali Arsanjani, Cloud Partner Engineering at Google

Dr. Wu Chou, Artificial Intelligence & Software at Essenlix Corporation

Coordinating Program Chair
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd

CFO and and International Affairs Chair
Dr. Min Luo, Georgia Tech

Steering Committee
Prof. Calton Pu, Georgia Tech (Co-Chair)
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd (Co-Chair)