IEEE SSE 2023: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering Hyatt Regency Chicago Chicago, IL, United States, July 2-8, 2023 |
Conference website | https://conferences.computer.org/sse/2023/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeesse2023 |
Submission deadline | March 25, 2023 |
2023 IEEE World Congress on Services
2023 International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE)
July 3-5, 2023
Chicago, Illinois, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Software as a service (SaaS) – a framework for encapsulating and delivering applications as services has been a very popular architecture of choice for many business applications. Instead of installing and maintaining software, services are accessed on the cloud, avoiding complex and costly software and hardware management. The framework has been a great success primarily due to how it allows for cost-effective modular service requirements decomposition and modular service composition during the development, operation, maintenance, and evolution of the encapsulated software and the underlying computing platform.
But despite the successes and unparalleled popularity, next generation of software services are increasingly pressured to become more than just encapsulated code with a service interface. Demands abound for such services to be context and situation-aware, driven by behaviors observed and captured from both the environment and humans, intrinsically modifying their service delivery behavior accordingly. They are also expected to be self-aware and autonomous, sentient of their own offerings and intelligent to reason about other opportunities that can be afforded by autonomously teaming and bonding with other self-aware services. And with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), services are further required to be ultra-mobile, ultra-fine-grained, ultra-trustworthy, and ultra-intelligent, capable of learning from their own data as well as their peers. Such IoT services must survive the presence of unavoidable uncertainties from the data, the analytics, and the environment, and must cope with unpredictable ambiguities brought about by end-user interactions.
Moreover, human-centric concerns in service design are expanding beyond the traditional focus to include developers, operators and end-users, alike, in the end-to-end process of developing, deploying, managing and evolving such services as the underlying technologies change and evolve.
Next generation software services are therefore anticipated to be the superheroes that, in addition to encapsulating service code, do somehow apply state-of-the-art techniques that cuts across the areas of service computing, machine learning, software engineering, pervasive computing, IoT, dependable computing, psychophysiological or brain science, autonomics, among others, to support the emerging cutting-edge applications of the future. Recognizing the need for a disruptive approach to enabling next generation software services, the IEEE World Congress on Services has dedicated a special symposium organized by academic and industrial leaders from the software engineering and services computing communities to chart a way forward. The International Symposium on Advances in Software Services Engineering which was held in 2021 and 2022 has concluded with a set of recommendations, which is a cross-cutting declaration and a manifesto of a new field of study named Software Service Engineering (SSE), based on the prevalent body of knowledge and professional practice of software engineering methods and tools, as well as advances in the other disciplines as described above. This inaugural International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE) will aim to further establish this field and to organize the participation and contributions of its constituent R&D communities.
Original research and bold ideas that fall under the following themes are sought. Other innovative and novel themes are also encouraged:
- Human in the loop
- Human-Behavior-Driven Requirements Engineering for Software Services
- Human-Centric Software Service Engineering
- Influential and Persuasive Software Services for Human-in-the-loop Systems
- IoT: Context awareness & Autonomy
- Context-Aware DevOps Platforms for Software Services
- Microservices-Based Autonomous IoT Service Frameworks
- Harmonizing Autonomous Services with Ambiguities and Uncertainties
- NextGen SSE
- Trustworthiness-by-Design Architecture for Software Services
- AI-Enabled Software Service Engineering
- Software Service Engineering for Responsible AI
- Intelligent Operations
- Manageability-Preserved Dynamic Composition of Individually Administered Microservices
- DevOps and service engineering
- Maintenance of service-oriented systems
- Industrial SSE
- Applications and case studies
- Tools
- Experiences
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
- Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Program Co-Chairs
- Tiberiu Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
- Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia
Publicity Team
- Hua Ming, Oakland University, USA
- Ahmed Khaled, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
- Xin Peng, Fudan University, China
- Jaejoon Lee, University of East Angelia, UK
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style
- Please download the paper template in WORD, LaTeX or Overleaf.
- Page limits:
- Every "Regular Paper" manuscript can include 7 to 10 pages for the main contents (including all text, footnotes, figures, tables and appendices) with additional pages for appropriate references.
- Every "Short Paper" manuscript can include 4 to 6 pages for the main contents (including all text, footnotes, figures, tables and appendices) with additional pages for appropriate references. Although the focus is narrow, “Short Paper” submissions must present factual nontrivial research results. Per reviewers’ comments, a “Regular Paper” manuscript may be conditionally accepted as a “Short Paper” should necessary content improvements and length reduction be doable in time.
- Every “Work-in-Progress” (WIP) manuscript can include up to 3 pages (including main contents and references). WIP manuscripts must present innovative ideas with promising impact.
- Number of Keywords: Five to eight keywords for each paper
- File format: One single PDF file without embedded videos
- Authorship: The list of authors cannot be changed after the submission deadline. Program Committee Members are welcome to be contributing authors of the submissions. However, to avoid conflict of interests, no submissions can be co-authored by a General Chair or a Program Chair of the conference, nor a Congress General Chair or a Congress Program Chair. Invited manuscripts are excluded from acceptance rate calculation and are handled separately with different EasyChair submission instructions.
- Anonymous manuscripts: All conferences affiliated with IEEE SERVICES implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded.
Manuscripts that violate any of the rules will regretfully be desk rejected without review.
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Award certificates and IEEE TCSVC cash prizes will be provided to "Best Paper" or "Best Student Paper" winners. All authors of accepted papers are encouraged to extend their papers with sufficient new research contributions and submit them to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals.