[AISWorld] (DEADLINE EXTENDED) Call for Demos and Resources_ICSOC 2024

[SAOUSSEN CHEIKHROUHOU]

*Call for Demos and Resources*

The goal of the ICSOC Demos and Resources track is to provide opportunities
for participants from both academia and industry to present their latest
development in Service Oriented Computing. The following proposals are
particularly welcome:

   - Novel Service Applications and Implementations, including:
      - Data Science
      - Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Services and Process Automation
      - Crowdsourcing and Social Services
      - Internet of Things (IoT) Services
      - Cloud and Edge Services
      - Quantum Services
      - Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
   - Service-oriented Architecture Showcases
   - Design-support tools (platforms, Open APIs, low-code solutions)
   - Integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs
   - Best practices for microservices and API Engineering
   - Resources originating either from academic initiatives or industrial
   experiences, including:
      - Datasets
      - Taxonomies
      - Labelled and annotated logs and corpora
      - Quantitative/qualitative benchmarks



- Submission Deadline: 13 October 2024
    - Author Notification: 30 October 2024
    - Camera Ready & Registration: 5 November 2024





Important dates

Submission deadline (extended):8 October 2024  13 October 2024

Authors Notification: 21 October 2024   30 October 2024

Author registration:   28 October 2024   5 November 2024

Camera-ready:           29 October 2024   5 November 2024

Conference dates:      3-6 December 2024





All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth time (AOE = GMT – 12). Check the
time in the AOE Zone here: https://time.is/AOE.




*Demonstrations Submissions*

Submissions accepted for the Demos and Resources track will be notified to
the authors and advertised on the ICSOC 2024 website. Accepted submissions
will be included in the post-conference proceedings. Each submission must
consist of a paper (*maximum length 5 pages*) where the authors should
highlight the significance of the tool or the resource for the ICSOC
Community, the innovation of the tool or the resource, its main
characteristics or features and the necessary bibliographical
references. Moreover,
the paper should contain the following elements:

   - *for tools demonstrations*: a description aimed at demonstrating the
   maturity of the tool, the technologies used, the use cases on which the
   tool could be applied, the tool features such as scalability and usability;
   the paper should contain a URL linking to a demonstration video of no more
   than 5 minutes in duration (QuickTime or YouTube format) showing and
   explaining the execution of the system; finally, the paper should provide
   the organizers with a list of requirements for the demo setting at the
   conference;
   - *for resources expositions*: a description of the data model and
   schema of the resource, to help the reader understand how to interpret the
   information from the exposed resource; descriptive statistics of the
   resource; instructions on how to download and use the resource, with focus
   on specific use cases; a link to a publicly accessible and persistently
   available repository (e.g., GitHub, BitBucket, etc.) to download and cite
   the resource, including all necessary license specifications.

Please note that papers should be formatted according to the Springer’s
LNCS Formatting Guidelines
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?countryChanged=true>.
Submissions must be in English. All papers must be submitted electronically
in PDF to the Demo Submission System in
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsoc2024*.*



For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference and
present the paper.
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*Selection Process*

The submission and selection process for the ICSOC 2024 Demos and Resources
will be separate from that of the main conference. Each submission will be
assessed by the Demos Program Committee. The authors will receive a brief
evaluation report with the notification. The evaluation criteria are:

   - Relevance to the ICSOC conference
   - Significance and originality
   - Content and presentation
   - Maturity and readiness of the demonstration
   - Availability of material and clarity of instructions
   - Potential impact in the intended application domain
   - Potential interest to a broader audience

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*Best Demonstration Award*

The “Best Demonstration” Awards will be given to the demos that the
Demonstration Program Committee judges to be the best in quality,
execution, and impact among all the accepted demos in the conference.
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*Demonstration Chairs*

·       Amel Bennaceur, Open University, United Kingdom

·       Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, University of Sfax, Tunisia