2022 1st IEEE Open Software Services Awards

The First IEEE Open Software Services Awards aim to support, inspire, retain, and encourage the importance of “Open-Source Software Services Ecosystems” for services computing R&D and long-lasting impact-making efforts. All are welcome to submit applications to the Award via EasyChair in terms of factual impact-making contributions to “open-source software”, “open data”, and/or “open-source software based API services”.

Professional Awards

Alluxio: An Open-Source Data Orchestration System in the Cloud
Haoyuan Li, Bin Fan, Shouwei Chen, Adit Madan and David Zhu
Alluxio, Inc.
End-to-end Federated Learning Platform
Jinliang Yuan, Jiaxing Sun, Huibing Zhou, Mengwei Xu and Shangguang Wang
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Generative Toolkit for Scientific Discovery (GT4SD)
Matteo Manica, Joris Cadow, Dimitrios Christofidellis, Ashish Dave, Jannis Born, Dean Clarke, Yves Gaetan Nana Teukam, Samuel Hoffman, Matthew Buchan, Enara Vijil, Tim Donovan, Hsiang-Han Hsu, Federico Zipoli, Oliver Schilter, Akihiro Kishimoto, Lisa Hamada, Inkit Padhi, Karl Wehden, Lauren McHugh, Alexy Khrabrov, Payel Das, Seiji Takeda and John Smith
IBM Research
LogPAI: An Open-Source Project for Automated Log Analysis”
Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Zhuangbin Chen, Jinyang Liu, Yintong Huo, Yuxin Su, Zibin Zheng and Michael R. Lyu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong & Sun Yat-sen University & Huawei Noah's Ark Lab & Microsoft Research Asia

Student Awards

Blockchain Networks for Solar PV Electric Vehicles Charging Station to Support and Foster Clean Energy Transition
Takua Mokhamed, Fatima Dakalbab and Omnia Elmutasim
University of Sharjah
Miyamoto! Level Editor
Abdalrahman Mohamed Elsheikh
University of Sharjah

Submissions Due (EXTENDED): Wednesday, 15th June 2022

Small-team based contributions to “open source software”, “open data”, and/or “open source software based API services” with OSI approved licensing terms.
Factual data showing utilization of the open source contributions, e.g., rankings and ratings, download counts, API service invocation statistics, document citation counts, user reviews, etc.
Availability of free access/download URLs for, e.g., public GIT repos, S3 buckets, Docker Hub images, etc.
Documents for, e.g., consumers, developers, practitioners, researchers, etc.
Submissions must include a brief one page description with links and key author profiles.
Committee members may contact the applicants for clarification on submitted materials.

Award Notification: UPDATED - 4 July 2022

Winners will be announced on the Congress website
Video for the Awards Ceremony of IEEE SERVICES 2022 will be available on the YouTube Channel of the IEEE Computer Society.
Each awarded team will receive a cash prize of USD $600 from the IEEE TCSVC.

Categories of interest include:

Submissions from students and professionals are welcome.
Lead student contributors must be active undergraduate/graduate students at application submission time.
Cash prize will be mailed/wired to the winning team leads by IEEE Computer Society staff. U.S. W9 form will be requested in the process.

Submission deadine: June 5, 2022
Applications should be submitted to the track "IEEE Open Software Services Award" in the EasyChair link below.

Submission - EasyChair

Open Software Services Award Organizers

Chairs:
Xuanzhe Liu, Peking University
Manar Abu Talib, University of Sharjah
Komminist Weldemariam, IBM Research Africa Labs

Honorary Chairs:
Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University
Rong N. Chang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan
Shangguang Wang, BUPT

Program Committee Chairs:
Marco Anisetti, University of Milan
Xiao Xue, Tianjin University
Lingyan Zhang, Central South University

Program Committee
Dima Alhadidi, University of Windsor
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University
Imène Brigui, Emlyon Business School
Bayan Mahfoud, University of Sharjah
Susan Malika, IBM
Rabeb Mizouni, Khalifa University
Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State, University
Josef Spillner, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Sirine Taleb, American University of Beirut

About the Technical Community on Services Computing

Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Community on Services Computing (TCSVC) is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas. IEEE TCSVC membership details are available at http://tab.computer.org/tcsvc/