2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
(SERVICES 2026)

The IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE) was established in 2023 as  the successor of the IEEE Conference on Service Computing (IEEE SCC). Building on the foundational principles of service computing and the professional practices of software engineering, SSE provides a premier international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to advance the engineering of next-generation software services. SSE emphasizes the integration of service computing, machine learning, software engineering,pervasive computing, Internet of Things, dependable computing, autonomic systems, and human-centered sciences, enabling emerging, intelligent, and trustworthy service-based applications. 

 

IEEE SSE welcomes original research contributions   and visionary ideas that fall within the following themes. Submissions addressing innovative and emerging topics that advance and empower software services are also strongly encouraged.

 

 

Human in Software Services Engineering

* Human-behavior-driven requirements engineering for software services

* Human-centric software service engineering

* Persuasive software services for human-in-the-loop systems

* Trustworthy behavior modeling of intelligent software for human–cyber–physical  Systems

* Ethical and socially responsible service design

* Cognitive Load Reduction in Developer Experience (DevEx)

 

IoT, Context Awareness, and Autonomy

* Context-aware DevOps platforms for software services

* Microservices-based autonomous IoT service frameworks

* Harmonizing autonomous services under ambiguity and uncertainty

* Integration and interoperability of heterogeneous software services

* Edge intelligence and real-time autonomous services

* Self-healing and self-optimizing IoT service ecosystems

 

Software Services Engineering for AI & AgentOps

* AI-enabled software services engineering

* Software services engineering for responsible and trustworthy AI

* Software services engineering based on large language models (LLMs)

* Digital twins for software services engineering

* Agentic and multi-agent service systems

* Neuro-symbolic AI services

* Versioning and Lifecycle Management of Prompts/Models

* Maintenance and Refactoring of AI-Generated Code

* Evaluation Frameworks for AI Agents

 

Intelligent Operations and Service Management

* Software Supply Chain Security and SBOM Management

* Manageability-preserved dynamic composition of independently administered microservices

* DevOps and continuous service engineering

* Maintenance  and evolution of service-oriented systems

* Intent-centric software service management

* Crossover service convergence and orchestration

* Service observability, telemetry, and digital resilience

* Energy-aware and sustainable service operations

 

Industrial Software Services Engineering

* Software service engineering for the low-altitude economy

* Industrial applications and real-world case studies

* Tools, platforms, and frameworks for software services

* Services for digital healthcare

* Services for smart mobility

* Green and sustainable service computing

* Practical experiences 

 

Cross-Cutting and Visionary Topics

* Service ecosystems for generative AI applications

* Interoperability and standardization of software services

* Benchmarking and reproducibility in service engineering

* Service engineering for mission-critical and safety-critical systems