Service creation takes place from when market needs for a new service are identified and analyzed and customer service requirements are expressed, until the service actually gets implemented and deployed. As such it is the core activity during development of new services, and its importance grows bigger as the complexity of services increases. Service creation is concerned with methodologies for developing new services, formalisms for modeling concepts, static and dynamic properties of services, etc., and tools and environments that support the development of services. In this section a variety of papers addressing several aspects of service creation appear.