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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and
Self-Organizing Systems
- SASO 2018 -
September 3-7, 2018
Trento, Italy
https://saso2018.fbk.eu
Part of FAS* - Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems
Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic
Computing (ICAC 2018)
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AIMS AND MOTIVATION
The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
conference series (SASO) is to
provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of
research on the foundations of
engineered systems that self-adapt and self-organize. The
complexity of current and
emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized
by issues such as scale,
heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics in the environment. This
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, chemistry,
psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of
designing and managing such
computing systems in a principled way. In this endeavor,
self-organization and
self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated
approaches. They form the basis
of many other so-called self-* properties, such as
self-configuration, self-healing, or
self-optimization. SASO aims to be an interdisciplinary
meeting, where contributions from
participants with different backgrounds leads to the fostering
of a cross-pollination of
ideas, and where innovative theories, frameworks,
methodologies, tools, and applications
can emerge.
SCOPE
The twelfth edition of the SASO conference embraces this
interdisciplinary nature, and
welcomes novel contributions to both the foundational and
application-focused dimensions
of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. We are
looking for contributions
that present new fundamental understanding of self-adaptive
and self-organizing systems
and how they can be engineered and used.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Self-* Systems theory: nature-inspired and
socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics;
inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; theoretical frameworks
and models; control theory;
- Self-* System properties: robustness; resilience;
stability; anti-fragility; diversity;
self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior;
computational awareness and
self-awareness;
- Self-* Systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and
algorithms; design patterns;
architectures; methodologies; software and middleware
development frameworks and methods;
platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems;
- Theory and practice of self-organization: self-governance,
change management,
electronic institutions, distributed consensus, commons,
knowledge management, and the
general use of rules, policies, etc. in self-* systems;
- Theory and practice of self-adaptation: mechanisms for
adaptation, including evolution,
logic, learning; adaptability, plasticity, flexibility;
- Socio-technical self-* systems: human and social factors;
visualization; crowdsourcing
and collective awareness; humans-in-the-loop; ethics and
humanities in self-* systems;
- Data-driven approaches to self-* systems: data mining;
machine learning; data science
and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and
manage the behavior of
complex systems;
- Self-adaptive and self-organizing hardware: self-*
materials; self-construction;
reconfigurable hardware;
- Self-* Systems Education: experience reports; curricula;
innovative course concepts;
methodological aspects of self-* systems education;
- Applications and experiences with self-* systems: smart
grid, smart cities, smart
homes, adaptive industrial plants, cyber-physical systems;
autonomous vehicles and
robotics; traffic management; self-adaptive cyber-security;
Internet of Things; fog/edge
computing; etc.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: April 16, 2018
Paper submission: April 23, 2018
Notification: June 4, 2018
Camera ready copy due: July 2, 2018
Conference: September 3-7, 2018
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions can have up to 10 pages formatted according to the
standard IEEE Computer
Society Press proceedings style guide. Please submit your
papers electronically in PDF
format using the SASO 2018 conference management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saso2018
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 and Demo
Submissions will also be issued. As per the standard IEEE
policies, all submissions should
be original, i.e., they should not have been previously
published in any conference
proceedings, book, or journal and should not currently be
under review for another
archival conference. We would like to also highlight IEEE’s
policies regarding plagiarism
and self-plagiarism (
http://www.ieee.org/.../ID_Plagiarism.html).
Where relevant and
appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to
participate in the Demo or Poster
Sessions.
REVIEW CRITERIA
Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary
research context described in
this call, motivated by problems from current practice or
applied research. Both
theoretical and empirical contributions should be highlighted,
substantiated by formal
analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative
studies, etc. Appropriate
references must be made to related work. Due to the
cross-disciplinary nature of the SASO
conference, we encourage papers to 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 should provide an
indication of the real-world
relevance of the problem that is solved, including a
description of the domain, and an
evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to
alternative approaches. Experience
papers are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights
into any aspect of design,
implementation or management of self-* systems that would be
of benefit to practitioners
and the SASO community. All submissions will be rigorously
peer reviewed and evaluated
based on the quality of their technical contribution,
originality, soundness,
significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the
art, and overall quality.
CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIRS
Antonio Bucchiarone (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, IT)
Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, IT)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Jake Beal (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)
Nelly Bencomo (Aston University, UK)
Jean Botev (University of Luxembourg, LU)