The SOC4AI workshop at the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC2024) , 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.

Submission Guidelines

Follow the instructions provided at the workshop website.

List of Topics

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:

• Service-Based AI Architectures: Service-oriented architectures provide modular, scalable, and interoperable frameworks for developing AI applications, promoting reusability and ease of integration.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Committees

Program Committee

To be completed.

• Andrea Morichetta, TU Wien
• Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa
• Boris Sedlak, TU Wien
• Carlos Canal, University of Málaga
• Enrique Moguel, University of Extremadura
• Javier Berrocal, University of Extremadura
• Inmaculada Medina Bulo, University of Cádiz
• Lauri Loven, University of Oulu
• Pablo Fernandez, University of Sevilla
• Praveen Kumar Donta, Stockholm University
• Sebstian Werner, TU Berlin

Organizing Committee

• José Antonio Parejo Maestre
• José María García
• Víctor Casamayor Pujol

Publication

SOC4AI proceedings will be published along with ICSOC proceedings in a Springer LNCS volume.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Tunis, Tunisia, 3 December 2024

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to japarejo@us.es