ICSOC 2026 Symposium on Generative AI and Services
For more than two decades, service computing has been a key technical driver for revolutionizing the modern Web-based software industry, which has brought profound economic and societal transformations. The recent advance in artificial intelligence, in particular generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large models, provides an exciting paradigm shift in service computing. For instance, with large language models (LLMs), it is now possible to automate service composition, in both front end (e.g., service goals and service composition definition) and back end (e.g., service selection, service orchestration, and service deployment), using natural language prompts and LLM agents. While GenAI and LLMs provide unprecedented opportunities in service computing, there remain many open challenges due to several significant issues of these technologies such as non-transparent and opaque nature of LLMs, training data dependencies, and most seriously, hallucinations (e.g., non-existent services). This symposium aims to provide a platform for researchers and industry practitioners to share recent advancements and to exchange views on addressing these challenges.
Topics of Interest
This symposium seeks original and high-quality submissions related to, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- LLM-empowered Agent as a Service (AaaS)
- LLMs and service composition
- LLMs and service optimization
- QoS-aware LLM agents orchestration
- Safety in LLMs and service composition
- Scalability in GenAI-based service composition
- Service augmentation, natural/multi-modal conversations
- Evaluation of GenAI agent-enabled enterprise ecosystem
- Sustainability of GenAI and service computing
- Security and privacy of GenAI-based services
- Interpretability and transparency of GenAI-based services
- Fairness of GenAI-based services
- Semantics in LLMs and service computing
- AaaS and embodied services in metaverse environment
- GenAI services and edge computing
- GenAI and service oriented education
- Applications and use cases of GenAI and large model services
Important Dates (tentative)
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| Paper submission | 31 July 2026 |
| Notification to authors | 15 September 2026 |
| Camera-ready papers due | 1 October 2026 |
| Early registration due | 1 October 2026 |
| Symposium date | 1 December 2026 |
Submission and Publication
Authors are invited to submit papers (with a maximum length of 15 pages, including references) using (Springer LNCS format). Authors must upload their paper as PDF file using the easychair by selecting "Symposium on GenAI and Services" track.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee for ensuring high quality. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer.
At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the symposium. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ICSOC conference to be found on their website: http://www.icsoc.org/
Symposium Chairs
- Boualem Benatallah, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
- Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
This symposium will be a combination of invited talks from leading experts, panel discussions, and research paper presentations.