IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) is a journal that focuses on research on the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are central in services computing; the emerging field of Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Business Process Integration, Solution Performance Management, Services Operations and Management.
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IEEE Transactions on Services Computing Seeks Editor in Chief for 2013-2014 Terms

The IEEE Computer Society seeks applicants for the position of editor in chief, serving two-year terms starting 1 January 2013. Prospective candidates are asked to provide (as PDF files), by 1 March 2012, a complete curriculum vitae, a brief plan for the publication’s future, and a letter of support from their institution or employer.

Read more at: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/pressroom/Publications-Seek-Editors-in-Chief-for-2013-2014-Terms.

From the October-December 2011 Issue...

Server-Side Streaming Processing of WS-Security

By Nils Gruschka, Meiko Jensen, Luigi Lo Iacono, and Norbert Luttenberger

Featured article With SOAP-based web services leaving the stadium of being an explorative set of new technologies and entering the stage of mature and fundamental building blocks for service-driven business processes—and in some cases even for mission-critical systems—the demand for nonfunctional requirements including efficiency as well as security and dependability commonly increases rapidly. Although web services are capable of coupling heterogeneous information systems in a flexible and cost-efficient way, the processing efficiency and robustness against certain attacks do not fulfill industry-strength requirements...

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Editorials and Announcements

Announcement—eBooks of issues of TSC can now be downloaded from the Computer Society Digital Library
Announcement—Congrats to TSC's Editor-in-Chief, LJ Zhang, on winning the the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award!

Guest Editorial—Security and Dependability in SOA and Business Processes (Oct-Dec 2011)
Guest Editorial—Services Composition and Virtualization Technologies (July-Sept 2011)
Editorial—Quality-Driven Service and Workflow Management (April-June 2010)
Editorial—EIC Editorial: Application-Driven Management of Service Systems (Jan-Mar 2011)
Editorial—Data Intelligance (Oct-Dec 2010)
Guest Editorial—Special Section on Query Models and Efficient Selection of Web Services (July-Sept 2010)
Guest Editorial—Special Issue on Modeling and Implementation of Service Enterprise Systems (April-June 2010)
Editorial—Context-Aware Application (Jan-Mar 2010)
Guest Editorial—Special Section on Transactional Web Services (Jan-Mar 2010)

Annual Index—2011 TSC Annual Index (PDF)

Upcoming Special Sections

Special Issue on Security and Dependability in SOA and Business Processes
Special Issue on Cloud Computing
Special Issue on Social and Economic Computing

TSC is indexed in ISI