[Event at CIG] ACSOS 2023: Call for Workshops

[ACSOS Publicity Chairs]

*** ACSOS 2023 - Call for Workshops *******************

4th IEEE International Conference on
Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems

25-29 September 2023 - Toronto, Canada

https://2023.acsos.org/
https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf

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The world is increasingly embracing autonomous systems: in robotics,
manufacturing, software engineering, vehicles, data center systems,
and precision agriculture to name just a few areas. These systems are
bringing autonomy to a whole new level of dynamic decision-making
under uncertainty, requiring autonomic behavior (e.g., control theory,
cybernetics) and self-reference, leading to a range of self-*
properties (e.g., self-awareness, self-adaptation, self-organization),
and an approach in which system implementation and its environment are
holistically considered.

Despite this rise in autonomic and self-* systems, there remains a
wide range of fundamental challenges in understanding how to design,
control, reason about, and trust such systems. The IEEE ACSOS
conference solicits novel research on these topics, in fundamentals
and methods as well as applications for autonomic and self-* systems.

ACSOS is particularly proud of its long-standing academic breadth and
innovative industry contributions, and regularly features work from
computational biologists through to operating systems researchers –
united by the common theme of autonomous systems. Now in its 4th
edition, 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).

The workshops at ACSOS 2023 provide a forum for groups of 20-50
participants to present and discuss novel research ideas on autonomic
computing, self-adaptive, and self-organizing systems. Workshops can
take on a number of forms, including but not limited to being
organized around emerging research areas, challenging problems, and
industrial applications.

*** Important dates ***

Proposal submission deadline:  March 15th, 2023
Acceptance notification:       April 7th, 2023
Call for papers online:        April 28th, 2023
Workshop dates:                TBD (expected Sept.
                                     25th and Sept. 29th, 2023)

We will have an ongoing evaluation of the proposals after their
submissions (i.e., workshops might be accepted before the acceptance
notification).

*** Workshop proposals ***

Proposals for workshops should be organized as a preliminary call for
papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of
the workshop, with a maximum of two pages and contain the following
information:

* Title of the workshop.

* A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the
   workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the
   relevance of the workshop to the main conference. * The names,
   affiliations, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed
   workshop organizing committee. We strongly encourage the organizing
   committee to consist of at least two people coming from multiple
   institutions knowledgeable about the technical issues to be
   addressed.

* The primary email address(es) for contacting the organizing
   committee.

* Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).

* A brief description of the workshop format.

* The workshop deadlines, both internal and external, aligned with the
   ACSOS timeline.

* Description of the paper review process and acceptance standards in
   order to keep the workshop high in quality. Accepted workshop papers
   will be published in the proceedings and submitted for inclusion to
   IEEE Xplore. Papers must thus be in the same format as the
   conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length.
   Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have
   been taken. All papers must be reviewed by an International
   Technical Program Committee with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper.

* List of potential program committee members, including their titles
   and affiliations.

* List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants.

Please also provide the following information (not restricted to the
two pages for the above proposal):

* Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when
   and where it has been offered in the past, names and affiliations of
   organizers, number of submissions, acceptances, and number of
   registered and present attendees. Note: This is for workshops that
   are in their second edition or later.

* Expected number of submissions, accepted papers, and attendees (for
   all workshops).

For new workshops, which would be in the first edition if accepted,
please also provide the following (not restricted to the two pages for
the above proposal):

* List of researchers/practitioners who would be likely to submit a
   paper to the workshop.

Workshop proposals should be sent as a PDF via email to:

   workshops at acsos.org