As Services Computing becoming the foundational discipline in the modern services industry, it is critical to train more Services Computing professionals and practitioners for the society. The global Services University program offers 2008 Fall School on Services Computing (SU-08). SU-08 is a two-day forum co-located with IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008, http://www.icws.org) and 2008 IEEE Congress on Services Computing (SERVICES 2008 Part II).

CURRICULUM
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Part 1: Foundations of Services Computing
- The Principle of Services and Services Computing
- e-Business Evolution
- Web Services Modeling
- Web Services Publishing and Discovery
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Services Relationship Modeling
- SOA and Web Services Standards
- Solution-Level Quality of Service in SOA

Part 2: Realization of Services Computing
- Requirements Driven Services Composition
- Services Value Chain Collaboration
- Business Process Management and Integration
- Business Grid

Part 3: Consulting Methods and Services Delivery of Services Computing
- Enterprise Modeling
- Project Based Business Performance Management
- Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology
- End to End Services Delivery Platform and Methodology
- Software As Services and Services As Software

CONFIRMED INSTRUCTORS
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Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Dr. Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA
Dr. Hong Cai, IBM China Research Lab, China
Dr. Ephraim Feig, IEEE Fellow, San Diego USA

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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- ICWS/SERVICES 2008 Participants: $200 (IEEE Member), $300 (non-IEEE Member)
- Non ICWS/SERVICES 2008 Participants: $300 (IEEE Member), $400 (non-IEEE Member)

Online Registration System: http://confhub.com
Registration includes a stack of PowerPoint presentation slides and a free textbook (for fall school use only, Amazon price: $169): Liang-Jie Zhang, Jia Zhang, Hong Cai, Services Computing, 2007, Springer Verlag and Tsinghua University Press.

CERTIFICATES
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IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC) will issue full-time participants a certificate of appreciation for completing the 2008 Fall School on Services Computing…

Any query, please send an email to su@servicescomputing.org.