Procedures and Important Dates

•  Participant teams should register their participation here before January 27, 2007. Please ignore the request to submit abstract and paper at this moment. We need your name and email address so that we can distribute contest problems.

•  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.