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********* SISSY 2020 - Call for Papers & Talks *********
7th International Workshop on Self-Improving Systems Integration (SISSY)
21 August 2020 – Washington, DC, USA & online
At the 1st IEEE International Joint ICAC/SASO Conference on
Autonomic Computing & Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS)
https://sissy.telecom-paristech.fr/
https://2020.acsos.org/
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COVID statement:
We would first like to express our empathy and condolences with
those affected by COVID-19 so far, and those who will have a
difficult 2020. The SISSY Organising Committee has been monitoring
the situation surrounding COVID-19 and considering what impact
this may have on events scheduled for later in the year, such as
ours.
At this point we would like to announce and confirm that:
* SISSY will take place, and on its original dates in August (17th
or 21st).
* Depending on the travel restrictions being in place in August,
we'll decide about oportunites to present virtually.
* All accepted contributions will become part of the IEEE
proceedings of ACSOS, regardless of whether a physical or virtual
presentation is given.
* Whether the main conference (ACSOS 2020) and its workshops
become entirely virtual or hybrid is a decision that we will make
when we know more, and by the end of May/begin of June at the
latest. This is to ensure people have ample time to make travel
arrangements, in the case of physical attendance.
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Call for Papers
Information and communication technology (ICT) pervades every
aspect
of our daily lives. This inclusion changes our communities and all
of
our human interactions. It also presents a significant set of
challenges in correctly designing and integrating our resulting
technical systems. For instance, the embedding of ICT
functionality in
more and more devices (such as household appliances or
thermostats)
leads to novel interconnections and a changing structure of the
overall system. Not only technical systems are increasingly
coupled, a
variety of previously isolated natural and human systems have
consolidated into a kind of overall system of systems - an
interwoven
system structure.
This change of structure is fundamental and affects the whole
production cycle of technical systems standard system
integration
and testing is not feasible any more. The increasingly complex
challenges of developing the right type of modelling, analysis,
and
infrastructure for designing and maintaining ICT infrastructures
has
continued to motivate the self-organising, autonomic and organic
computing systems community.
In this workshop, we intend to study novel approaches to system of
system integration and testing by applying self-* principles;
specifically we want approaches that allow for a continual process
of
self-integration among components and systems that is
self-improving
and evolving over time towards an optimised and stable solution.
Although research in self-organising systems such as the Organic
Computing (OC) and Autonomic Computing (AC) initiatives has seen
an exciting decade of development, in which there has been
considerable success in building individual systems, OC/AC is
faced
with the difficult challenge of integrating multiple
self-organising
systems, and integrating self-organising systems with
traditionally
engineered ones as well as naturally occurring human
organisations. Meanwhile, although there has been important
development in system of systems methodologies (e.g.,
Service-oriented
Architectures, clouds technology etc.), many of these developments
lack scalable methods for rapidly proving that new configurations
of
components/subsystems are correctly used or their changes verified
or
that these frameworks have pulled together the best possible
context-sensitive configuration of resources for a user or another
system.
The SISSY workshop continues the successful predecessors held at
IEEE
International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising
Systems
(SASO14) 2014 in London, UK, IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Autonomic Computing (ICAC15) 2015 in Grenobles, France, at
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC16)
2016
in Würzburg, Germany, at the IEEE International Conference on
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems (SASO17) 2017 in Tucson,
AZ,
US, at the IEEE Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems
Conference (FAS*18) 2018 in Trento, Italy, and at the IEEE
Foundations
and Applications of Self* Systems Conference (FAS*19) 2018 in
Umea,
Sweden.
The workshop intends to focus on the important work of applying
self-X principles to the integration of "Interwoven
Systems" (where an "Interwoven System" is a system cutting across
several technical domains, combining traditionally engineered
systems,
systems making use of self-X properties and methods, and human
systems). The goal of the workshop is to identify key challenges
involved in creating self-integrating systems and consider methods
to
achieve continuous self-improvement for this integration process.
The
workshop specifically targets an interdisciplinary community of
researchers (i.e. from systems engineering, complex adaptive
systems,
socio-technical systems, and the OC/AC domains) in the hope that
collective expertise from a range of domains can be leveraged to
drive
forward research in the area.
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Paper Submission
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. Authors are strongly encouraged to report on
concepts, experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an
appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible.
We ask for two types of papers:
a) 2 to 4 page position papers as a basis for discussion.
b) 6 page full papers
The proceedings of all ACSOS workshops will be published by IEEE
Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE
digital library. In addition, papers will be part of the
conference proceedings with ISBN number. Indexing by IEEE explore
and DBPL is expected.
Submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE Computer
Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically
in pdf format. Please submit your papers using the conference
management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sissy2020
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Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: May 27th, 2020
Paper Acceptance Notification: June 24th, 2020
Camera-Ready Papers due: July 8th, 2020
Workshop August 21st or 17th, 2020
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Workshop Organisation
Kirstie Bellman
Topcy House Consulting, USA
bellmanhome@yahoo.com
Ada Diaconescu
Telecom Paris-Tech, France
ada.diaconescu@telecom-paristech.fr
Lukas Esterle
Aarhus University, Denmark
lukas.esterle@eng.au.dk
Sven Tomforde
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
st@informatik.uni-kiel.de
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Programme Committee
- Kirstie Bellman, Topcy House, USA
- Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt, Germany
- Ada Diaconescu, Telecom Paris, France
- Lukas Esterle, Aarhus University, Danmark
- Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa, USA
- Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel, Germany
- Christian Gruhl, Universität Kassel, Germany
- Joerg Haehner, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck, Germany
- Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Christian Krupitzer, Universität Würzburg, Germany
- Chris Landauer, The Aerospace Company, USA
- Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
- Gero Mühl, Universität Rostock, Germany
- Phyllis Nelson, Cal Poly Pomona, USA
- Evangelos Pournaras, Leeds University, UK
- Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Stefan Rudolph, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Gregor Schiele, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Anthony Stein, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Christopher Steward, Ohio State University, USA
- Sven Tomforde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
- Stefan Wildermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany