ICWS 2023 Chairs Message
2023
IEEE International Conference onWeb 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, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services.All topics regarding Webbased services lifecycle study and management align with the theme of ICWS.From a technology foundation perspective, Service Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.As a major implementation technology for modernizing services industry, Web services are Internet-based programmable application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols.In its 20th edition, the program of ICWS 2023 continues to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Internet and Web-based services.Some of the topics include services discovery, selection and recommendation, service-oriented technology trends, service composition, service QoS management, service security, privacy and trust, semantic services, service applications beyond the Web, services and data/Big Data, and service-oriented software engineering.