IEEE SASO Workshops: Call for Papers

[SASO Publicity Chair]

IEEE SASO Workshops: Call for Papers

*** Important Dates ***

Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2013
Paper Acceptance Notification: July 25, 2013
Camera-Ready Deadline: August 14, 2013
Early Registration Deadline: August 21, 2013
Workshop Dates: September 9/13, 2013

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*** Adaptive Host and Network Security ***
                 (AHAN 2013)
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         Monday, September 9th, 2013

   http://www.dollabs.com/ahanssaso2013.htm

Organizing Committee:
     Stuart Wagner, Applied Communication Sciences, NJ, USA
     Robert Laddaga, DOLL Inc., MA, USA
     Robert Watson, University of Cambridge, UK

There is a clear need to develop systems at both the host level and the 
network level to actively adapt to cyber attacks and to provide greater 
protection for networked computation at all levels. The significance of 
this workshop is to bring together researchers from different areas such 
as networking, programming languages, computer hardware, and operating 
systems to gain broad insights into specific research issues related to 
adaptive host and network security, and to foster discussions about 
ongoing research, establish directions for future research and 
collaborations, and identify best practices for adaptive security.

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*** Socially Adaptive and Socio-Aware Information and Communication 
Systems ***
                             (SocioAware 2013)
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                        Monday, September 9th, 2013

http://www.socioaware.net/

Organizing Committee:
     Peter Sturm, University of Trier, Germany
     Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg
     Ingo Scholtes, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
     Markus Esch, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
     Bernd Klasen, University of Luxemburg/SES Astra, Luxemburg

Social services and utilities pervade more and more aspects of our daily 
lives and will conceivably become an integral part of future software 
systems. While it is common and important to investigate how the 
associated gradual convergence of social and technical systems 
influences individuals and society, the fact that this influence is 
mutual is far less explored. Networked computing infrastructures 
involving cloud computing, virtualization techniques, Peer-to-Peer 
technologies or other Internet-based applications are shaped not only by 
technological considerations but, increasingly, also by the social 
structures and processes into which they are embedded. The growing 
interconnectedness of users leads to highly correlated behavior and the 
emergence of collective phenomena which naturally retroact on the 
technical systems by which they are mediated. The workshop seeks to shed 
light on the question how the increasing pervasion of technical 
infrastructures with social aspects affects the engineering of reliable 
and scalable networked computing systems. A particular focus will be 
laid upon the question how the ongoing trend towards a rigorous 
mathematical modeling of self-organization processes in social systems 
(for instance in the language of complex networks, dynamical systems and 
random matrix theory) can influence and inspire the design of 
distributed algorithms, network topologies and communication protocols, 
resulting in what may be called socio-aware networked computing systems.

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*** Trustworthy Self-Organising and Autonomous Systems ***
                           (TSOAS 2013)
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                   Monday, September 9th, 2013

                     http://tsos.isse.de/2013/

Organizing Committee:
     Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany
     Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
     Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo, Norway
     Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, University of Augsburg, Germany

The nature of self-organizing and autonomous systems and cyper-physical 
entities demands that issues of trust and their trustworthiness become a 
primary concern. The Fourth Edition of the Workshop on Trustworthy 
Self-Organizing and Autonomous Systems (TSOS 2013) will provide an open 
stage for discussions about the different facets of trust in 
self-organizing and autonomous systems, how every single one of them can 
be fostered, and how they relate.

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*** Challenges for Achieving Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems ***
                           (AWARE 2013)
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                   Friday, September 13th, 2013

             http://www.aware-project.eu/saso-2013/

Organizing Committee:
     Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
     Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
     Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK

As technology continues to rapidly advance, the management of systems 
becomes increasingly more difficult: systems are likely to be composed 
of heterogeneous devices, the topology of the system can dynamically 
change to device mobility; components of the system are probably 
programmed with different models, and emergent behaviours can occur, not 
pre-programmed into the system. On top of this, users of systems expect 
24/7 reliability, high levels of security, and privacy of their data. 
The scale of the challenge imposed by the necessity to manage these 
systems is such that control can no longer be devolved to a human. 
Systems must be able to manage themselves, delivering high-quality of 
service while at the same time optimising overall performance and 
resource usage. This poses significant challenges - systems must respond 
to ever changing conditions, and continuously adapt to external context 
(such as user requirements and behaviour). Awareness will be required 
across a hierarchy of levels, ranging from an individual component level 
to global levels of patterns of use, system performance, network 
conditions and available resources. The goal of the workshop is to 
identify key challenges involved in creating self-aware systems which 
are capable of autonomous management, and consider methods by which 
these challenges can be addressed.

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*** Computationally Adapted {laws | policies | norms} for 
Self-Organising Systems ***
                                    (CA*OS 2013)
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                          Friday, September 13th, 2013

                http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~dbusquet/CAOS2013/

Organizing Committee:
     Gerrit Anders, University of Augsburg
     Didac Busquets, Imperial College London, UK
     Giuseppe Contissa, European University Institute, Italy
     Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, University of Otago, New Zealand

Many systems, as well as organisations, are characterised by having a 
set of rules that drive (and limit) the interactions amongst their 
components. These rules may range from simple ones to complex legal 
systems, norms, contracts or policies, among others. Examples of this 
kind of systems may be technical systems such as computing grids or 
sensor networks, which have to share limited resources, as well as 
socio-technical systems, with humans involved in the functioning of the 
system, such as in smart grids. While in many cases these rules would be 
fixed, probably set by some authority, there is an increasing need of 
flexibility and openness. This includes changing existing rules, 
generating new ones, deciding who makes the decisions and when these are 
made, setting what happens when agents do not follow the rules, or 
assessing whether a set of rules fits the system's purpose, among 
others. The aim of the workshop is to discuss, based on high quality 
position or research papers, the different aspects, effects, and 
representations of law, norms, and justice in self-organising systems 
and to debate the impact of current and future technical self-organising 
systems on legal systems.

Thank you very much for your attention,

IEEE SASO 2013 workshop chair