Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy. Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively. As we can see, Services Computing currently shapes the processes of business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service delivery, and software architecture design, development and deployment.

APSCC 2006 has the following major research tracks: Foundations of Services Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Grid/Utility Computing, and Business Performance Management Services and Business Integration.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Foundations of Services Computing
    • Services science
    • Business Strategy and Design
    • Services Modeling
    • Service-oriented business consulting methodology and utilities
    • Services delivery
    • Services value chain and innovation lifecycle

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
    • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
    • SOA Solution Stack
    • SOA Industry Standards
    • SOA Industry Solutions

Business Process Management and Business Integration
    • Enterprise Modeling
    • Business process modeling, transformation and integration
    • Business performance management
    • Software architecture design, development and deployment (software as a service)
    • Application integration services (e.g. Enterprise Service Bus)
    • Service Level Automation and Orchestration
    • Industry solution patterns
    • e-Business solutions

Grid/Utility Computing
    • Grid Computing
    • Utility Computing
    • Utility Business Services