Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is an established approach to building large-scale, loosely coupled, distributed applications and, as in many other fields, is currently undergoing a transformative shift due to the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This evolution marks a significant departure from traditional approaches, where service delivery, management, and consumption were guided by predefined rules and workflows. Now, the integration of AI technologies is propelling the field towards new paradigms that harness the power of AI to revolutionize how services are composed, delivered and experienced. Intelligent service computing (ISC) melds the foundational principles of SOC and related architectures with the dynamic, adaptive capabilities of intelligent computing technologies. The emergence of ISC signifies a new era where the potential impacts and research agenda of service.

The 13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and AI (SOCA 2024), upholding its nearly two-decade legacy, will be a forum where traditional Service-Oriented Computing research meets with new and trending approaches based on state of the art AI advancements. As a global platform, it invites a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to discuss ideas and results on services and AI, and its implications across software systems, including areas like Generative Service Design, Intelligent Service Composition, AI-as-a-service (AIaaS), and Service Prompt Engineering

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. We seek for both research (full) and work-in-progress (short) papers.

• Research papers should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results, and should be limited with 8 pages including Figures, Tables & References.

• Work-in-progress papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas, and should be limited with 6 pages including Figures, Tables & References.

The paper can be submitted at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soca2024

All accepted papers should be prepared using the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, no margin smaller than one inch). At maximum, two additional pages are permitted with an over-length page charge. Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed).

List of Topics

• Foundations of Service-Oriented Computing (Service composition, Service design, Service discovery, Service engineering, Service orchestration, Quality of service)

• Foundations of Intelligent Service Computing (Architectures and frameworks for intelligent service computing, Integration of AI techniques, Intelligent service discovery, composition, and orchestration, NLP for service interoperation and interpretation. Prompt engineering for services)

• Cloud Services and Big Data (Cloud, fog, edge computing, Cloud service management, Cloud sustainability and Green ICT, Computing continuum, Data-driven service quality assessment and improvement, Big data analytics for services)

• Physical Services and IoT (Pervasive Service-Oriented Architectures and IoT, Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Grids, IoT as a service, Coordination and orchestration for IoT)

• Services and Humans (Human-robot collaboration in service delivery and assistance, Personalized and context-aware service provisioning, Human-AI interaction and collaboration in ISC systems, Conversational AI interfaces and interactive workflows in ISC)

• Security, Privacy, and Trust (Security and privacy challenges in AI-driven service ecosystems, Trustworthiness and reliability of intelligent service providers, Ethical considerations in intelligent services)

• Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (Real-world applications of intelligent service computing in various domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, e-commerce, logistics, energy, transportation, Quantum service architectures and experiences, Robotics and service architectures for robotics, Success stories and lessons learned from service deployments)

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Conference Co-Chairs
  • Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  • Kwei-Jay Lin, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
• General Executive Chair 
  • Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Program Co-Chairs 
  • Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Victoria Degeler, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• International Liaison & Publicity Chair
  • Hojjat Baghban, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
  • Michał Kalewski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Publication Co-chairs 
  •  A B M Shawkat Ali, University of Fiji, Fiji. 
  • Jashnil Kumar, Fiji National University, Fiji
  • Carrson C. Fung, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Web Chair 
  • Zain Buksh, The University of Fiji, Fiji
• Financial Co-chairs
  • Agnieszka Skiba, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  • Hojjat Baghban, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

Venue

SOCA 2024 will be held on September 9-13, 2024, co-located with DataCom 2024 and IOV 2024 in Poznan, Poland. Conferences will be held in hybrid mode.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to soca2024 at easychair dot org