The theme of SCContest 2007 is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). It is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing . SCContest 2007 is supported by IBM Research ( Services Computing ) and SAP Research (USA).
Procedures and Important Dates
• Participant teams should register
their participation
here before January 27, 2007.
• Contest problems will be distributed to those registered participants on January
29, 2007.
• The final paper submission is due on April
7, 2007. The paper should include problem background, modeling analysis, technical explanation, result analysis, SOA methodology, innovation and a web site that hosts a live demonstration. It should be limited to 8 pages and follows the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines.
• The contest review result will be notified on May
5, 2007. 50% of the participation teams will receive a framed
certification from IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing,
among which no more than six teams will be selected to the SCC
2007 Conference. These teams will have their paper published in the SCC 2007 proceeding per some pre-requisite. The actual standing will be reviewed again and announced at the conference.
• A camera-ready paper copy is due on May 19, 2007 for those selected to be published in the SCC 2007 proceedings. At least one author is required to attend the conference and present the paper.
Team Structure
A contest team is made of at most 5 full-time undergraduate/graduate students, a professor as an advisor and/or coordinator
Software Platforms
There is no special preference on particular software platform. Participants can choose their preferred software platform in their contest.
Contest Awards
• A framed certificate presented by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing ,
• Contest Exhibition with live demo and posters, co-located with SCC2007 and ICWS2007 conferences,
• One Complementary Registration for SCC2007 under that condition that one team member should register first,
• Total around $1000 cash award will be given the teams.
Contest Committee Chair
Dr. Zhixiong Chen (Mercy College, USA)
Contest Committee co-Chairs
Dr. Charles A. Shoniregun
(University of East London, United Kingdom)
Dr. Yuan-Chwen You (Creative Entrepreneurship
Consulting, Inc. China)
Contest Committee
Dr. Carolyn McGregor (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Dr. Hong Cai (IBM China, China)
Dr. Hongli Yang (Peking University, China)
Dr. Ingo Melzer (DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany)
Dr. Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Dr. Jinghai Rao (CMU, USA)
Dr. Masashide Nakamura (Software Engineering Lab, NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada)
Dr. Rivalino Matias (K4B Consulting, Switzerlan)
Dr. Rong N. Chang (T J Research Center, USA)
Dr. Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria)
Dr. Vojislav B Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Dr. Wu Chou (Avaya Labs Research, USA)
Dr. Yingli Tian (IBM T J Research Center, IBM)
Contest Advisory Committee
Dr. Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Dr. Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA)
Dr. Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc, USA)
Dr. Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Dr. Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee,
USA)
Dr. Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago,
USA)
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang (Chair of IEEE Technical
Committee on Services Computing)
Dr. Nagaraj Rao (Mercy College, USA)
Dr. Zhiwei Xu (Institute of Computing Technology (ICT,
China)