# ICWS — IEEE International Conference on Web Services

- **Submission deadline**: 2026-03-08
- **Notification date**: 2026-05-10
- **Conference date**: 2026-07-13
- **Location**: Sydney, Australia
- **Rankings**: CCF B · CORE A · QUALIS A1
- **Conference Partner Index**: 88.7/100 (ranked #88, confidence 1.00, algorithm 1.1) — how this is computed: https://www.myhuiban.com/ranking
- **Trackers**: 125
- **Attendees**: 27
- **Canonical page**: https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/233

## Acceptance history

| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 168 | 30 | 17.9% |
| 2013 | 127 | 24 | 18.9% |
| 2012 | 171 | 29 | 17% |
| 2004 | 230 | 66 | 28.7% |

## 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 in the era of Agentic AI, 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 11 research areas (themes): Service Discovery, Selection and Recommendation * Service publishing * Service search engines * Service recommendation * Agent-based service negotiation and binding * Service reasoning and Intent understanding * Intent-driven orchestration & placement Services Composition & Multi-Agent Services * (Multi-Agent) Service Coordination & Cooperation * World Model-based Multi-Agent Service Simulation * Automatic service composition * Scientific workflows * Business process integration and management * Service-based data integration * Data-driven service composition * Knowledge-driven service composition * Service orchestration and choreography for the future Internet * Service protocols for autonomous agents (e.g., MCP, A2A) 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 * Machine-Negotiable Service Level Agreements (SLAs) * LLM service acceleration for QoS-aware Systems Services Security, Privacy and Trust * Internet service security * Service Privacy and trust * Dependable and secure services * Service auditing * Service policy control * Policy, regulation and governance & Servitization * Secure LLM-as-a-Service: Threat Modeling and Defensive Architectures 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 * Services for Artificial Intelligence * (Smart) Cybersecurity services * Other applications Service Oriented Systems * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) * Micro-service and service mesh * 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 * CI/CD for Service-Oriented Systems AI in Web Services * AI for service customization and personalization * Machine/Deep learning powered service discovery * Graph Data Mining for Services * Process mining, anomaly detection, and data processing methods for service composition * Security and privacy in AI-enhanced service architectures * 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 * AI agent service management and MCP-based architecture 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 * Benchmarks for large language model services * Benchmarks for LLM agent services 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 Large/Small Model Collaboration Services * Cloud–edge–device collaboration frameworks for large/small model service deployment * Architectures and design patterns for collaborative large and small model services * Service-oriented orchestration and workflow optimization involving large and small model components * Large/small model collaboration for service discovery, selection, and recommendation * Trust, security, and privacy in collaborative large–small model service ecosystems * Agent-based coordination of heterogeneous large and small model services Emerging Technologies for Advanced Service-Oriented Computing: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications * 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/VR/AR services * Industry 4.0 * Sustainability and energy footprint of Service Oriented Systems

## Related conferences

- ICWS' — International Conference on Web Services — https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/4618
- SERVICES — IEEE World Congress on Services — https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/127
- The Web Conference — The ACM Web Conference — https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/137
- WEB — International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments — https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/3732
- EC-Web — International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies — https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/565

## Related journals

- Journal of Internet Services and Applications — https://www.myhuiban.com/journal/431
- Software & Systems Modeling — https://www.myhuiban.com/journal/99
- Pattern Recognition — https://www.myhuiban.com/journal/198
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems — https://www.myhuiban.com/journal/188
- Information Sciences — https://www.myhuiban.com/journal/115

---
Source: Conference Partner — https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/233 (rankings reproduced from CCF / ICORE / QUALIS; data cached up to 1 hour)