CfP: 1st Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems

[Giacomo Cabri]

Call for Papers

1st Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems
Tuesday 7th July 2015 @ ICAC 2015, Grenoble, F

Paper Submission April 13, 2015
Notification May 15, 2015
Camera Ready May 22, 2015
Workshops July 07, 2015

Workshop website: http://www.agentgroup.unimore.it/DAS2015/
Conference website: http://icac2015.imag.fr

On the account of the recent advances in technology, computational 
systems have to be thought as ever growing distributed artificial 
environments in which requirements, constituent components and user 
needs dynamically change in unpredictable ways. Coping with such 
uncertainties represents an interesting challenge for the designer of 
these systems, specifically regarding how to guarantee adaptivity 
towards both functional and non-functional requirements, as well as 
autonomously handling coordination and collaboration aspects among 
constituent units that have to act as autonomous and heterogeneous 
agents. These agents more often rely on incomplete information regarding 
the whole system in which they are integrated, but yet, in order to 
foster their Self-* properties, they need to discover, learn and evolve 
their behavior by taking into account how other agents are performing 
within the considered environment. The purpose of this workshop is 
therefore to create an useful forum of discussion on how Self-* 
properties and design & implementation concepts that are nowadays 
considered in Autonomic Computing literature can be extended and 
exploited in case of distributed autonomous systems , hence how to 
create adaptivity as a whole by starting from single autonomous units. 
Practitioners and researchers are therefore invited to submit 
interesting contributions both in theoretical work and real world 
applications so to create a fruitful discussion regarding the presented 
challenges and the following related topics:

* Distributed learning and experience sharing among agents
* Advances in Multi-Agent System coordination
* Formal methods and languages for distributed adaptive systems
* Modelling distributed adaptive systems
* Collectivism in distributed adaptive systems
* Optimization in distributed adaptive systems
* Framework and design patterns for distributed adaptive systems
* Bio-inspired and evolutionary approaches to distributed adaptive systems
* Tools and simulation software for distributed adaptive systems
* Case studies and real world applications.

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not 
currently under review. Papers will be judged on originality, 
significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the 
broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report on 
experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate 
quantitative evaluation if at all possible.

The maximum number of allowed pages is 6.

Author Kit/Submission Instructions can be found at:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

The submission of paper can be done by EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dasicac2015

Accepted papers will be included in the ICAC Workshop 2015 Proceedings, 
which will be published in IEEE Xplore.

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the 
workshop.


Program Chairs
Antonio Bucchiarone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy 
bucchiarone at fbk.eu
Giacomo Cabri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy 
giacomo.cabri at unimore.it
Nicola Capodieci, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy 
nicola.capodieci at unimore.it
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada haibinz at nipissingu.ca


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| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Associate Professor
| Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2058320 fax +39-059-2055216
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