Resuming the three successful service computing contests (2006, 2007, 2008), we extend this contest to a wider scope in 2009. The Service Cup 2009 has two categories: the Service Computing Contest is open to university students and professors to demonstrate results from course projects or research projects, and the Service Industry Contest is open to the practitioners from industry to show case their products or development projects. It is still an open contest that the teams can choose any context to demonstrate the capacities of SOA in a wide range of applications. In the past contests, the contest teams have worked on exciting applications from public safety, health, information management and retrieval, education and so on. We are expecting the contest participants to explore the new frontiers of SOA techniques.

Each team is required to submit a technical paper and build a demo system which should be accessible on line. The finalists will be invited to ICWS 2009 in LA, USA for on-site contest. The The papers of the finalists will be published in the proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009) which is collected in IEEE Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing sponsors travel awards to the top teams in final list. NSF funding for student travel is pending.