IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) 2025: Call for Papers

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.

ICWS 2025 is part of the 2025 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES, taking place from July 7-12, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland.

Key Dates

• Early Bird Registration Deadline: June 20

Research Areas (Themes)

ICWS will organize refereed paper reviews in the following research areas:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Services Security, Privacy and Trust

   • Service security
   • Privacy and trust
   • Dependable and secure services
   • Service auditing
   • Service policy control
   • Service regulation and governance

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Web 3.0 and Decentralized Services

   • Web 3.0 services leveraging blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized architectures
   • Trustless 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

9. 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

Submission Information

• All topics relevant to Internet/Web based services are of interest.
• The conference welcomes both research and industry contributions.
• Authors are invited to submit full papers, short papers, posters, and presentation-only contributions.

For detailed submission guidelines and procedures, please refer to the "Information for Authors" page: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/info-for-authors/

Keynote Speakers and Organizers

Information regarding keynote speakers and ICWS organizers can be found on the respective pages:

• ICWS Program
• Symposium: Graph Data Mining for Services
• ICWS Organizers