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