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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal;">IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES) 2022<o:p></o:p></span></strong>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;">The First IEEE Open Software Services Award</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong>
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal;">Jointly Sponsored by IEEE SERVICES and IEEE TCSVC <br>
</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Application Submission Due: Sunday, 5<sup>th</sup> June 2022</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">The First IEEE Open Software Services Award</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> aims 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”.</span><o:p></o:p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;color:#0070C0;">Submission Due: Sunday, 5<sup>th</sup> June 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Small-team based contributions to “open source software”, “open data”, and/or “open source software based API services” with</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#2E3842;letter-spacing:1.15pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal;"><a href="https://opensource.org/licenses" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:none !important;">https://opensource.org/licenses</a></span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Documents for, e.g., consumers, developers, practitioners, researchers, etc.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Committee members may contact the applicants for clarification on submitted materials.</span>
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<b style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;color:#0070C0;">Award Notification: Monday, 20<sup>th</sup> June 2022</span></b>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Winners will be announced at the website of IEEE SERVICES 2022, <a href="https://conferences.computer.org/services/2022/" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:none !important;">https://conferences.computer.org/services/2022/</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Video for the Awards Ceremony of IEEE SERVICES 2022 will be distributed through the YouTube Channel of IEEE Computer Society.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Each awarded team will receive a cash prize of USD 600 from the IEEE TCSVC.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Student vs. Professional.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<b style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;"><span lang="EN-US">Join the challenge and make a difference now.</span></b>
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<span lang="EN-US">Submission deadline:</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0;">5/06/2022</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:green;"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Submission link:</span><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeservices2022" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:none !important;">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeservices2022</a></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px;color:#00B0F0;">Applications should be submitted to the track “IEEE Open Software Services Award”<br>
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