The International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web-based services, to identify emerging research topics, and to define the future of Web-based services. Areas  include services modeling, development, publishing, discovery, recommendation, composition, testing, adaptation, and delivery, and Web services applications and standards.

All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest. ICWS will organize refereed paper reviews in 8 research areas (themes):

[Special Track] Generative AI in Web Services

    LLM and Multimodal Models enhanced service discovery, selection, composition
    LLM-driven service recommendation: algorithms, models, and performance
    Service Reasoning with Generative AI Approaches
    Generative AI as a Service (GaaS)
    Reinforcement Learning and Transformer Models for Web Services
    Security and Privacy in Generative AI-Driven Systems
    Innovative Applications of Generative AI in Web Services

[Special Track] 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

Service Discovery, Selection and Recommendation

    Service publishing
    Service search engines
    Collaborative filtering
    Service recommendation
    Service reasoning
    Machine/Deep learning powered service discovery

Services Composition

    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

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

    Internet service security
    Privacy and trust
    Dependable and secure services
    Service auditing
    Service policy control
    Policy, regulation and governance & Servitization

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
    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

Service Oriented Systems

    Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
    Service specification and modeling
    Service evolution
    Service Oriented Software Engineering methodologies
    Formal methods in services
    Software engineering for adaptive service-oriented systems
    Secure service lifecycle development