THE COVID-19 pandemic has brought the global society to a historic turning point. While the current pandemic is transforming our normal lives in an unprecedented way, the computing and information services ecosystem have provided the much-needed support to the continuity of the social interactions and the organizational functions. As COVID-19 continues to transform the global society, it is also exposing the weaknesses of the current services ecosystems and newer research challenges to further leveraging emerging computing and services technologies to provide secure, privacy-aware and resilient infrastructure and services during pandemics. The goal of this special issue has been to solicit impactful research papers that will be of immediate value to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as for future pandemic and crises.

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客座社论：关于 COVID-19 和未来大流行病的服务计算特刊


COVID-19 大流行将全球社会带到了历史性转折点。当前的疫情正在以前所未有的方式改变我们的正常生活，计算和信息服务生态系统为社会互动和组织功能的连续性提供了急需的支持。随着 COVID-19 继续改变全球社会，它也暴露了当前服务生态系统的弱点和新的研究挑战，以进一步利用新兴的计算和服务技术在大流行期间提供安全、隐私意识和弹性的基础设施和服务。本期特刊的目标是征集有影响力的研究论文，这些论文对当前的 COVID-19 大流行以及未来的大流行和危机具有直接价值。