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From Services University
Services now account for more than half of the U.S. economy and are rapidly adopted by most of the countries in the world. As a foundational discipline in the modern services industry, Services Computing addresses how to enable IT technology to help people perform business services more efficiently and effectively.
Services Society ([1]), a professional organization, is promoting research and technical collaboration on Services Computing (SC) based Modern Services Science among academia and industrial professionals. Services Society is a dedicated not-for-profit organization (501(c)(3) status has been approved by IRS, USA) of promoting “Services University” program worldwide with collaborations with other organizations such as IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC, [2]), which was founded in 2003. Since then, IEEE TC-SVC has sponsored a series of flagship international conferences including: IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), IEEE Asia Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC), European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), and World Congress on Services (SERVICES). In 2008, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) was formally launched. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) was also launched in 2009.
In order to further Services Computing education in universities so as to educate qualified professionals, a pilot Services University (SU) program was launched at the 2007 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2007) in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The SU program comprises three major activities: Services Computing Schools, certificate development, and education methodology summit. All those activities validates the results of the Services Computing Curriculum Initiative (SCCI). In 2008, we successfully organized the Summer School on Services Computing in July in Hawaii and the Fall School on Services Computing in September in Beijing. In July 2009, we successfully organized the Summer School on Services Computing in Los Angeles, USA. The 2009 Fall School on Cloud Computing was held in September in Bangalore, India.
Links:
Services Society ([3])
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC, [4])
About Services Computing Curriculum Initiative (SCCI)
Services Computing has been recognized as a new foundational discipline of the modern services industry. But there are few systematic guidelines for undergraduate and graduate programs. Services Computing Curriculum Initiative (SCCI, [5]) is an attempt to systematically integrate the best practices and result in the creation of Services Computing degree programs that are suitable for accreditation processes. Several such initiatives have been launched in a number of countries and regions.
The Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) within the IEEE Computer Society is leading the SCCI, which are being contributed by a broad, internationally based group of volunteers and participants from industry, academia, and professional societies. It is the belief of this broad based community that an innovative and agile approach to curriculum creation to meet the fast emerging needs for educating and producing more future service-centric professionals must be employed in the 21st century. This paper presents the objectives, architectural framework, body of knowledge, guidelines, recommended methods for course composition, and future directions of SCCI.
