[Announcements] CFP - SOC4AI - Workshop at ICSOC 2024

[CASAMAYOR PUJOL, VICTOR]

*SOC4AI - Service-Oriented Computing for AI Applications
*
The SOC4AI workshop at the [International Conference on
Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC2024)](https://icsoc2024.redcad.tn/)
aims to become a premier event dedicated to exploring the dynamic
intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Service-Oriented
Computing (SOC). This workshop serves as a platform for researchers,
practitioners, and industry experts to present and discuss innovative
research, methodologies, and applications that leverage AI through the
application of SOC and enhance SOC using AI techniques.
*## Service-Oriented Computing for AI*
Service-Oriented Computing has revolutionized the way software
applications are designed, implemented, and managed in a similar way
to how AI is revolutionizing so many areas of our lives nowadays. SOC
principles and technologies can significantly contribute to the
development and deployment of AI applications. The primary topics of
this workshop include:

1.	Service-Based AI Architectures: Service-oriented architectures
provide modular, scalable, and interoperable frameworks for developing
AI applications, promoting reusability and ease of integration.
2.	AI as a Service: The SOC paradigm can enable AI capabilities to be
delivered as services, making advanced AI functionalities accessible
to a broader range of users and applications without the need for
in-depth technical expertise.
3.	Orchestration of AI Services: The orchestration of multiple AI
services can create sophisticated AI workflows and composite services,
enhancing the functionality and versatility of AI solutions.
4.	Scalability and Flexibility in AI Deployment: SOC methodologies
facilitate the scalable and flexible deployment of AI models and
services, ensuring they can efficiently handle varying workloads and
adapt to changing requirements.
*## AI for Service-Oriented Computing*
Conversely, by leveraging AI, SOC can also be further enhanced to
achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency, automation, and value
delivery.  Therefore, the workshop will also be open to contributions
regarding applications of AI in Service-Oriented Computing as a
secondary focus, including:

5.	Intelligent Service Discovery and Composition: AI techniques can
improve the discovery, matching, and composition of services, ensuring
that the most relevant services are selected and integrated to meet
specific user requirements dynamically and that service-oriented
architectures are deployed optimally.
6.	Autonomous Service Management: AI-driven solutions can enable the
autonomous management of services, including compliance with customer
agreements and regulations, monitoring, adaptation, and optimization,
reducing the need for human intervention and improving service
reliability and performance.
7.	Predictive Analytics and Maintenance: Machine learning and
predictive analytics can be applied to anticipate service failures,
optimize maintenance schedules, and enhance the overall dependability
of service-oriented systems.
8.	Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI for Service
Interaction: AI-powered NLP and Generative AI can facilitate more
intuitive and efficient human-service interactions, enabling users to
communicate with services through natural language queries and
commands throughout the whole service lifecycle.*
## Relevance to the Conference*
AI is driving the next wave of innovations across industries, while
SOC provides the foundational architecture for distributed, modular,
and flexible AI systems. SOC4AI workshop could be highly relevant to
ICSOC as it addresses the confluence of two transformative fields. By
exploring how AI can enhance SOC and how SOC can support AI, this
workshop aims to uncover new synergies and foster advancements that
will shape the future of computing.
SOC4AI aims to be an essential gathering for those interested in the
transformative potential of combining AI with Service-Oriented
Computing.


*## Important Dates*

*Workshop Papers Submission: 26 September 2024
Authors Notification: 24 October 2024
Workshop date: 3 December 2024*

*## Submission Instructions *
In order to submit your paper to the SOC4AI workshop you must:

 1. Create a new submission for (ICSOC2024 at
easychair)[https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsoc2024].
 2. Choose as track: "Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing for AI
Applications"
 3. Upload and submit your paper.
*## Submission guidelines*
Workshop papers should be **between 8 and 12 Springer's LNCS pages long**.
Apart from such constraints, you should follow the instructions
provided at [ICSOC2024 submission
guidelines](https://icsoc2024.redcad.tn/call-research-papers.html)

Please remember that **at least one author of each accepted paper
should attend to present the paper** and **at least one author for
each paper accepted to a workshop will need to register for the
workshop program**.

Sincerely,

Workshop Chairs.
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