SERVICES 2009 Ph.D. Symposium

Call for Papers

The Ph.D. Symposium, part of the 2009 Fourth IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009) (Part I), is organized to bring together Ph.D. students and graduates working on topics related to the various aspects of SERVICES 2009 conference topic areas. The goal of the symposium is to offer Ph.D. students and graduates the opportunity to summarize, present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive manner. Papers submitted to the Ph.D. symposium must summarize an ongoing or completed Ph.D. thesis. 

Topics of Interests include:

Foundations of Services Computing

• Service Modeling and Implementation
• Service Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance
• Service Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
• Services Repository and Registry
• Formal Methods for SOA

Business Process Integration and Management

• Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
• Extended Business Collaboration (eBC) Architecture and Solutions
• Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
• Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
• Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus

Submission:

The submissions should address specifically doctoral work of the student and the following elements are recommended:

• A clear description of the research question and its significance.
• A clear description of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the existing solutions.
• A discussion of any proposed ideas, and the results achieved so far.
• A clear description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem domain.
• A discussion of why and how the suggested solution is new or better than the existing approaches to solve the problem.

The paper length should not exceed four pages. The intention of this symposium is to support and inspire Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Accepted Ph.D. papers will be published in the 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009) (Part I) proceedings. Student participants can register at student rate. 

Please use the Ph.D. Symposium Paper Submission and Review System at ERVICES 2009 (Part I) to submit your Ph.D. Symposium Abstracts/Papers to SERVICES 2008 (Part I).

Important Dates:

Submission of Ph.D. Paper:     March 24, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:     April 7, 2009
Camera Ready:        April 18, 2009

Contact Address:
services2009 AT servicescomputing.org