[Event at CIG] [Call-for-Tutorials] ACSOS 2021 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing & Self-Organizing Systems [DEADLINE: July 2nd, 2021]

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*+*  2nd IEEE International Conference on *+*
*+*  Autonomic Computing & Self-Organizing Systems *+*
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*+*  27 September -- 1 October 2021 *+*
*+*  Washington, DC, USA *+*
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https://conf.researchr.org/track/acsos-2021/acsos-2021-workshops-and-tutorials 
<https://conf.researchr.org/track/acsos-2021/acsos-2021-workshops-and-tutorials> 


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   - Tutorial proposal deadline: *July 2nd, 2021*
   - Tutorial acceptance notification: *July 9th, 2021*
   - ACSOS Conference: *September 27th -- October 1st, 2021*

All times in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone.


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*************** Workshops & Tutorials *****************
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ACSOS workshops will provide a meeting place for presenting novel ideas 
in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences 
themselves. Their aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, 
interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas. 
Contributions will be collected in ACSOS Companion Proceedings, 
published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part 
of the IEEE Digital Library.
For more information, please refer to the ACSOS 2021 call for workshops 
and tutorials.

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****** About ACSOS2021 Workshops and Tutorials********
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The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and 
Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is the premier forum for sharing the 
latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, 
self-adaptation and self-organization. The mission of ACSOS is to 
provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and industry 
practitioners to address these challenges to make resources, 
applications, and systems more autonomic, self-adaptive, and 
self-organizing. ACSOS provides a venue to share and present their 
experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and 
in-progress research. The conference program will include technical 
research papers, in-practice experience reports, vision papers, posters, 
demos, and a doctoral symposium.

ACSOS is now seeking proposals for workshops in the areas of autonomous 
and self-adaptive systems to run alongside the main conference. We seek 
workshop proposals on a very broad set of topics within these fields, 
including

- Autonomic and Self-* system properties, theory, engineering, and practice
- Data-driven management
- Mechanisms and principles for self-organisation and self-adaptation
- Socio-technical self-* systems
- Autonomic and self-* concepts applied to hardware systems
- Convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud, and Internet of Things
- Self-adaptive cybersecurity
- Cross disciplinary research

More detail on these topics can be found in the main ACSOS CFP, which is 
reported below.

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**************** Goals and Mission ****************
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The goal of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and 
Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is to provide a forum for sharing the 
latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, 
self-adaptation and self-organization. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a 
merger of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing 
(ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems (SASO).

Emerging large-scale systems (including data centers, cloud computing, 
smart cities, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks, and embedded or 
pervasive environments) are becoming increasingly complex, 
heterogeneous, and difficult to manage. The challenges of designing, 
controlling, managing, monitoring, and evolving such complex systems in 
a principled way led the scientific community to look for inspiration in 
diverse fields, such as biology, biochemistry, physics, complex systems, 
control theory, artificial intelligence, and sociology. To address these 
challenges novel modeling and engineering techniques are needed that 
help to understand how local behavior and global behavior relate to each 
other. Such models and practices are a key condition for understanding, 
controlling, and designing the emergent behavior in autonomic and 
self-adaptive systems.

The mission of ACSOS is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for 
researchers and industry practitioners to address these challenges to 
make resources, applications, and systems more autonomic, self-adaptive, 
and self-organizing. ACSOS provides a venue to share and present their 
experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and 
in-progress research. The conference program will include technical 
research papers, in-practice experience reports, vision papers, posters, 
demos, and a doctoral symposium.

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We invite novel contributions related to the fundamental understanding 
of autonomic computing, self-adaption and self-organization along with 
principles and practices of their engineering and application. The 
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * /Autonomic and Self-* system properties/: robustness; resilience; 
efficient resource management; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; 
self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational 
awareness and self-awareness;
  * /Autonomic and Self-* systems theory/: bio-inspired and 
socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; theoretical frameworks and 
models; languages and formal methods; queuing and control theory; 
requirement and goal expression techniques; uncertainty as a first class 
entity;
  * /Autonomic and Self-* systems engineering/: reusable mechanisms and 
algorithms; design patterns; programming languages; architectures; 
operating systems and middlewares; testing and validation methodologies; 
runtime models; techniques for assurance; platforms and toolkits; 
multi-agent systems;
  * /Autonomic and Self-* systems practice/: case studies from industry, 
experimental setups and data sets, experience reports with established 
autonomic and self-* software;
  * /Data-driven management/: data mining; machine learning; data 
science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and 
manage the behavior of complex systems or establishing self-awareness;
  * /Mechanisms and principles for self-organisation and 
self-adaptation/: inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; evolution, 
logic, and learning; addressing large-scale and decentralized system;
  * /Socio-technical self-* systems/: human and social factors; 
visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness;
  * /Autonomic and self-* concepts applied to hardware systems/: self-* 
materials; self-construction; reconfigurable hardware, self-* properties 
for quantum computing;
  * /Convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud, and Internet of 
Things/: moving artificial intelligence to the edge, collective decision 
processes, in-network learning, distributed reinforcement learning;
  * /Self-adaptive cybersecurity/: intrusion detection, malware 
attribution, zero-trust networks and blockchain-based approaches, 
privacy in self-* systems;
  * /Cross disciplinary research/: approaches that draw inspiration from 
complex systems, artificial intelligence, physics, chemistry, 
psychology, sociology, biology, and ethology.

We invite research papers applying autonomic and self-* approaches to a 
wide range of application areas, including (but not limited to):

  * smart environments: -grids, -cities, -homes, and -manufacturing;
  * Internet of things and cyber-physical systems;
  * robotics, autonomous vehicles, and traffic management;
  * cloud (including serverless), fog, edge computing and data centers;
  * hypervisors, containerization services, orchestration, operating 
systems, and middleware;
  * biological and bio-inspired systems.


Note that separate calls for Poster, Demo, and In-Practice Report 
Submissions will also be issued, as well as a call for participation in 
the Doctoral Symposium.