# 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.