The International Conference on Web Services or ICWS denotes an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners focused on
Web services. Since 2018 there are two ICWS events, one is sponsored by Services Society and Springer, and the other is sponsored by the
IEEE
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Computer Society (IEEE ICWS). The IEEE ICWS event has an 'A' rating in the Conference Portal - Core and an 'A' rating in the
Excellence in Research for Australia
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.
Areas of focus
ICWS features
research papers
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with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of
IT services. Some of the topics include Web services
specifications
A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. A specification is often a type of technical standard.
There are different types of technical or engineering specificati ...
and enhancements, Web services discovery and
integration, Web services
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, Web services standards and formalizations, Web services modeling, Web services-oriented
software engineering
Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development.
A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...
, Web services-oriented
software testing
Software testing is the act of examining the artifacts and the behavior of the software under test by validation and verification. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to apprecia ...
, Web services-based applications and solutions, Web services realizations,
semantics
Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comp ...
in Web services, and all aspects of
Service-Oriented Architecture
In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...
(SOA) infrastructure.
History
The International Conference on Web Services was founded by Dr.
Liang-Jie Zhang in June 2003, Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the first ICWS-Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe'03), founded by Dr.
Liang-Jie Zhang with Prof.
Mario Jeckle, was held in Germany in Oct, 2003. In 2004, ICWS-Europe was changed to the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), held in Erfurt, Germany. In 2012, ECOWS was formally merged into ICWS. Since then, the entire Services Computing community combined the efforts and focused on one prime international forum for web-based services: ICWS.
References
External links
International Conference on Web ServicesIEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing
Computer science conferences
Academic conferences
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