This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Symposium and Summer School on Service-Oriented Computing, SummerSOC 2024, held in Crete, Greece, during June 24–29, 2024.

The 8 revised full papers and 1 short paper presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. quantum computing;

.- Modeling the Digital World.

.- API-driven Cloud-Edge Orchestration with PULCEO: A Proof of Concept.

.- An Orchestrator for the Dynamic Extension of Automotive E/E Architectures to the Cloud.

.- Integrating Artifact Translation into Model Transformation Processes.

.- Evaluating Cloud-native Deployment Options with a Focus on Reliability Aspects.

.- Towards a Taxonomy of Infrastructure as Code Misconfigurations: An Ansible Study.

.- Quantum Computing.

.- Minimial-Risk Training Samples for QNN Training from Measurements.

.- Exploring the Cost Landscape of Variational Quantum Algorithms.

.- Data Platforms.

.- A service-based pipeline for complex linguistic tasks adopting LLMs and Knowledge Graphs.

.- Design and Implementation of a High Performance Domain Name Service on Com modity Hardware.