Special issue on service-oriented collaborative computing and applications

Today's industries and societies require more advanced technologies to address increasingly complex design issues for products, processes, systems, and services while also meeting the high expectation of customers and sellers. Service-oriented collaborative computing provides technological support to meet these requirements and expectations. This special issue of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing intends to involve researchers and practitioners in different but related fields confront research challenges, issues, as well as research results and solutions in their particular areas of study. The scope of this issue focuses on the research and development of service-oriented collaborative computing technologies and their applications to the design of products, processes, systems and services in an industrial and social viewpoint