CfP: SASO2013 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

[Marcelo Serrano Zanetti]

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                                                  CALL FOR PAPERS

     Seventh IEEE  International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems
                                                     (SASO 2013)

        Philadelphia (PA), USA; 9-13 September 2013 --- 
https://www.cs.drexel.edu/saso2013/
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    Aims and Scope
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The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference 
series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the foundations of a principled 
approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on 
self-adaptation and self-organization. The complexity of current and 
emerging networks, software and services, especially in dealing with 
dynamics in the environment and problem domain, has led the software 
engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for 
inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, 
artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of 
designing and managing such computing systems. In this endeavour, 
self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising 
interrelated approaches.

Many significant research problems exist related to self-adaptive or 
self-organizing systems. A challenge in self-adaptation is often to 
identify how to change specific behavior to achieve the desired 
improvement. Another major challenge is to predict and control the 
global system behavior resulting from self-organization. Yet more 
challenges arise from the confluence of self-adaptation with 
self-organization. For instance, how do self-* mechanisms that work well 
independently operate in combination? How are meso-level structures 
formed which leverage micro-level behavior to achieve desirable 
macro-level outcomes, and avoid undesirable ones?

The seventh edition of the SASO conference embraces the 
inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, empirical and application 
dimensions of self-* systems; it thus aims to attract participants with 
different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between research 
fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, 
methodologies, tools, and applications.
SASO welcomes novel results on both self-adaptive and self-organizing 
systems research  It seeks to emphasize the interconnection of basic 
research between and within fields, and the increasing protrusion of 
self-* systems into the human sphere, evaluating their impact on 
society, environmental sustainability, commerce, living/working spaces 
and critical infrastructure. Therefore contributions are welcomed that: 
apply self-* principles to solve real-world problems; unpick the 
entanglement of self-* systems and human users in socio-technical 
systems; present advances in self-* mechanisms or analyses with 
potentially broad application; investigate the combination and 
interconnection of self-* mechanisms; and/or identify and evaluate new 
self-* principles or mechanisms from the study of natural or engineered 
systems.

Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results, or 
practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world 
systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting 
different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or 
demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different 
systems, are equally encouraged. Where relevant and appropriate, 
accepted papers will also be encouraged to submit accompanying papers 
for the Demo or Poster Sessions.


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    Important Dates
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Abstract submission         May 3, 2013
Paper submission            May 10, 2013
Notification                June 21, 2013
Camera ready copy due       July 19, 2013

Early registration          August 21, 2013

Conference                  September 9-13, 2013


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    Topics of Interest
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The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to:

- Self-* systems theory: theoretical frameworks and models; 
biologically- and socially-inspired paradigms; inter-operation of self-* 
mechanisms;
- Self-* systems engineering: hardware, software and middleware 
development frameworks and methods, platforms and toolkits; self-* 
materials;
- Self-* system properties: robustness, resilience and stability; 
emergence; computational awareness and self-awareness; reflection;
- Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems: human factors and 
visualization; self-* social computers; crowdsourcing and collective 
awareness;
- Applications and experiences of self-* systems: cyber security, 
transportation, computational sustainability, big data and creative 
commons, power systems.


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    Submission Instructions
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All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE 
Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted 
electronically in PDF format. Please register as authors and submit your 
papers using the SASO 2013 conference management system. The proceedings 
will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as 
a part of the IEEE digital library. Note that a separate call for poster 
submissions has also been issued.


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    Review Criteria
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Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research 
context described in this call, clearly motivated by problems from 
current practice or applied research. We expect both theoretical and 
empirical contributions to be clearly stated, substantiated by formal 
analysis, animation or simulation, experimental evaluations, comparative 
studies, and so on. Appropriate reference must be made to related work. 
Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, papers must be 
intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same 
specialized sub-field.

Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. 
Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real 
world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description 
of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, 
usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers 
are also welcome but they must clearly state the insight into any aspect 
of design, implementation or management of self-* systems which is of 
benefit to practitioners and the SASO community


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    Program Chairs
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Tom Holvoet
KU Leuven, Belgium

Jeremy Pitt
Imperial College London, England

Ichiro Satoh
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan