[AISWorld] Call For Participation: IEEE SERVICES 2018

[Patrick Hung]

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***** Call For Participation *****

2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (BIGDATA CONGRESS/CLOUD/EDGE/ICCC/ICIOT/ICWS/SCC)
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JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA

Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society
In Cooperation: CCF TCSC
Community Support: IBM Research

Website: http://conferences.computer.org/services/2018/


2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2018) will be held on July 2-7, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA. The scope of the Congress will cover all aspects of innovative services computing and applications, current and emerging. It involves various systems and networking aspects, such as cloud, edge, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as other research and technologies, such as intelligent computing, learning techniques, and big data, including quality factors, such as high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness.

There are 389 paper presentations in Congress with the following seven conferences:

* 2018 IEEE International Congress on Big Data (IEEE BIGDATA CONGRESS 2018)
  General Chair: Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University
  General Co-Chair: Francisco Herrera, University of Granada
  Program Chair: Shadi Ibrahim, Inria
  Program Co-Chair: Isaac Triguero, University of Nottingham
  Program Co-Chair: Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore

* 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2018)
  General Chair: Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University
  General Co-Chair: Daniel A. Reed, University of Iowa
  Program Chair: Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab
  Program Co-Chair: Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

* 2018 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (IEEE EDGE 2018)
  General Chair: Andrzej Andrzeo, Deakin University
  General Co-Chair: Dennis Gannon, Indiana University
  Program Chair: Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University
  Program Co-Chair: Shangguang Wang, Beiing University of Posts and Telecommunications

* 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (IEEE ICCC 2018)
  General Chair: Jeffrey Tsai, Asia University
  General Co-Chair: Ernesto Damiani, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano
  Program Chair: Xiaoqing “Frank” Liu, University of Arkansas
  Program Co-Chair: Incheon Paik, University of Aizu

* 2018 IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (IEEE ICIOT 2018)
  General Chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research
  General Co-Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
  Program Chair: Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology
  Program Co-Chair: Zibin Zheng, Sun Yat-Sen University

* 2018 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2018)
  Generl Chair: Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University & Louisiana State University
  General Co-Chair: Nimish Radia, Ericsson Research
  Program Chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas, Dallas
  Program Co-Chair: Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University

* 2018 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2018)
  General Chair: Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology
  General Co-Chair: Michael Goul, Arizona State University
  Program Chair: Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego
  Program Co-Chair: Yan Wang, Macquarie University

In addition, there are 4 keynote speeches, 4 plenary panels, 4 tutorials, 3 industry program sessions, a poster session, and a special track on Women in Services Computing.

Keynote Speech #1: Impact of AI on Services Industry by Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University
Keynote Speech #2: Blockchains Untangled: Public, Private, Smart Contracts, Applications, Issues by C. Mohan, IBM Research
Keynote Speech #3: Data-Centric Smart Big Service: New Challenges and New Development by Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology
Keynote Speech #4: Service Engineering the Fabric of IoT, People, and Systems by Schahram Dustdar, the Technical University of Vienna

Plenary Panel #1: Security and Privacy of Innovative Critical Services chaired by Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University
Plenary Panel #2: Recent Advances and Future Directions of Blockchain Technologies and Services Applications chaired by Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Plenary Panel #3: Innovative Services and Integrated Solutions chaired by Lorraine M. Herger, IBM Research
Plenary Panel #4: Big Data-as-a-Service: Hype, Reality, Opportunities chaired by Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University

Tutorial #1: Blockchain in Services Applications by Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Tutorial #2: Cognitive IT Service Management in Real-World: Challenges, Technologies and Practices by Fanjing Meng, IBM Research
Tutorial #3: Big Data Services, Security and Privacy by Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas
Tutorial #4: Programming Microservices in Service Agent Oriented Language Environment by Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University

Industry Program Session #1: Big Data and Cognitive Computing
Industry Program Session #2: Cloud Computing and IoT – 1
Industry Program Session #3: Cloud Computing and IoT - 2


Registration: http://conferences.computer.org/services/2018/registration/

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:

SERVICES CONGRESS GENERAL CHAIR
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University

STEERING COMMITTEE
Chair: Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Rong N. Chang, IBM
Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan
Ian Foster, University of Chicago
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University
Michael Goul, Arizona State University
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart
Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University

PANELS COMMITTEE
Chair: M. Brian Blake, Drexel University
Co-Chair: Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

WORKSHOPS COMMITTEE
Chair: Carl Chang, Iowa State University
Co-Chair: Dennis Gannon, Indiana University

INDUSTRY PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair: Samir Tata, IBM Research at Almaden
Co-Chair: Hemant Jain, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Dean Hildebrand, Google Cloud
Michael Maximilien, IBM
Rao Mikkilineni, C3DNA
Youngchoon Park, Johnson Control
Maja Vukovic, IBM

FINANCE CHAIR
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University

REGISTRATION CHAIR
Jingwei Yang, James Madison University

PUBLICATION CHAIR
Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University

CONGRESS REVIEW PANEL
Mari Abe, IBM Japan
Forres Bao, Iowa State University
Morris Chang, South Florida University
William Chu, Tunghai University
Xianjun Deng, St. Francis Xavier University
Kenneth Fletcher, University of Massachusetts Boston
Kehua Guo, Central South Universty
Lorraine Herger, IBM Research
Hemant Jain, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Gueyoung Jung, AT&T Labs-Research
Bing Li, Google
Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Lousiana State University
Katsunori Oyama, Nihon University
Sandeep Pisharody, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lianyong Qi, QuFu Normal University
Weizhong Qian, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University
Jin Tian, Iowa State University
Minghua Wang, St Francis Xavier University
Wei Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University
Zhijie Wang, Arizona State University
Huijun Wu, Twitter
Haihua Xie, Peking University Founder IT Group
Jingwei Yang, James Madison University
Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University
Zhiyong Zhang, Henan University of Science and Technology
Zhibin Zhou, Huawei Inc.

PUBLICITY TEAM
Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Christopher C. K. Chan, Ryerson University (Co-Head Web Master)
Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University
Hamad Binsalleeh, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty
Marcelo Fantinato, University of Sao Paulo
Young Yoon, Hongik University
Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys
Uwe Breitenbücher, University of Stuttgart
Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University
Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma
Mohammad Aazam, Carnegie Mellon University
Bhekisipho Twala, University of South Africa
Aniqa Wakil, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Assisstant)

If you have any questions or queries on IEEE SERVICES 2018, please send email to: ieeecs.services at gmail.com?