2025 IEEE World Congress on Services  |  Helsinki, Finland  |  July 7-12

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