http://icws.org/2024 , November 16 - 19, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand

Theme: AI-Generated Services

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. SCF 2022 was held successfully in Hawaii, USA. The satellite sessions of SCF 2020, 2021 and 2022 were physically held in Shenzhen, China. To celebrate its 21-year-old birthday, SCF 2024 will be held on November 16 - 19, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.

In the past 21 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 2024 defines the future of New ABCDE (AI, Blockchain, Cloud, BigData & IOT) and enters the 5G for Services Era. The theme of SCF 2024 is AI-Generated Services. We are very proud to announce that SCF 2024'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 2024) 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 2024 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 2024 version of ICWS, SCF 2024 highlights the Fifth International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2023) 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 2024 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 2023.

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 2024 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 2024.

See you all on November 16 - 19, 2024. All the invited talks and paper presentations of SCF 2020, SCF 2021 and SCF 2022 are open to all Services Society community members for free. You can watch all presentations through SCF 365.

General Chairs
Ali Arsanjani, Cloud Partner Engineering at Google
Wu Chou, Vice President-Artificial Intelligence & Software at Essenlix Corporation

Coordinating Program Chair 
Liang-Jie Zhang, Shenzhen University

CFO and and International Affairs Chair
Min Luo, Georgia Tech

Operation Committee 
Jing Zeng, China Gridcom Co.,LTD.
Yishuang Ning, Tsinghua University
Sheng He, Tsinghua University
Zhuolin Mei, Jiujiang University

Steering Committee
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech (Co-Chair)
Liang-Jie Zhang, Shenzhen University (Co-Chair)