Message from the General Chair of Congress Symposia

摘要

The Symposia program features insightful discussions among accomplished academic and industry leaders on emerging impactful R&D topics related to services. There are two kinds of symposia at IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES): congress-wide vs. within-conference. Congress-wide symposia, such as the one on digital health as a service, aim at attacking important services research challenges that are not specific to any affiliated conference of IEEE SERVICES. Moreover, a congress-wide symposium can target at a specific services community, e.g., doctoral students, women, education, vertical service professions, etc. A within-conference symposium focuses on shaping future R&D topics that are key to the impact and growth of conference. A symposium program is composed of distinguished speaker presentations, panels, and/or paper presentation sessions. Compared with conference papers, an IEEE SERVICES symposium paper can be an invited visionary/position/survey/experience manuscript.