One of the most distinguishing requirements upon Information and Communication Technologies is today's ever-changing, highly open dynamic environments in which large-scale ICT systems are situated to operate. Challenges for ICT systems engineering immediately arise including, e.g., systems scalability, systems ultra-dependability, systems convergence against uncertainty and emergence, and so forth. In recent years, emergence, adaptation, self-organization, self-management, etc. have received extensive interests in both academics and industries of software, computing and communications.

CODS'11 conference aims to provide an international forum for the researchers and practitioners in the related subject areas to exchange research results, experiences, as well as the visions of the future and the scientific and practical problems that challenge the current technology development.

Technical Scopes

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.

Track 01 Autonomic Networking and the Internet

- intelligent networks control/management

- context-aware networks

- future internet

- internet traffic models and self-monitoring

- next generation networks architectures and protocols

- self-managed, self-configured networks, systems and services

- self-optimization of network performance

- self-organization and emergent behavior in P2P networks

- self-organization and self-configuration of networks

- self-organized ad hoc sensor networks

- self-protection, self-diagnosis, and self-healing of networking

- SLA/contract based network management for next generation networks

- user level programming of network services

Track 02 Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications

- 4G mobile communications and beyond

- ad hoc wireless networks

- cognitive radio

- future wireless communications

- wireless broadband services

- wireless mesh networks

- wireless sensor networks

- WiMax

Track 03 Distributed/Collaborative Systems

- collaborative computing

- distributed computing

- distributed data storage

- distributed enterprise computing

- distributed multimedia systems

- distributed resource management

- distributed workflow management

- high-performance computing

- middleware technology

- parallel and distributed processing

- utility computing

Track 04 Service-Oriented Computing and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs)

- cloud computing

- distributed problem solving environments

- distributed knowledge-based systems

- e-science, e-commerce, e-healthcare

- grid computing

- grid resource management

- knowledge/semantic grids

- open grid service architectures

- virtual organization systems

- virtualized computing

- service discovery, composition and choreography

- service interaction/discovery protocols

- service programming

- service virtualization

- service-oriented architectures in converging networked environments

- service-oriented architectures in networking and communications

- service-oriented computing

- service-oriented software and systems engineering

Track 05 Self-organized Distributed Systems

- complex distributed systems

- emergence in distributed systems

- open complex systems

- peer-to-peer systems

Track 06 Web Systems

- semantic webs

- sensor webs

- social networks

- web architectures

- web based distributed systems

- web programming

- web services

Track 07 Multi-Agent Systems

- autonomous agents

- collective/social intelligence

- distributed knowledge based systems

- distributed problem solving environments

- distributed intelligence

- knowledge grids

- multi-agent systems

- multi-robotic systems

- swarm intelligence

Track 08 Distributed Embedded Systems

- distributed manufacturing/production

- networked/wireless automation

- networked/distributed embedded systems

- networked/wireless robotics, swarm robotics

- supply chain collaboration and coordination

Track 09 Pervasive Systems

- ambient intelligence

- distributed power generation

- networked/wireless embedded systems

- pervasive computing/communications, pervasive services

- smart pervasive systems

- system-on-chip, MEMS, NEMS

- ubiquitous computing

Track 10 Trustworthiness of Distributed Systems

- cloud security

- GSI (grid security infrastructure)

- internet security

- network security

- reliability and dependability of distributed systems

- security and privacy in distributed systems

- security in mobile/ubiquitous computing

- security in Service-Oriented Architecture/Computing

- web service security

Track 11 Industrial Application Systems

- distributed automation systems

- distributed manufacturing

- holonic manufacturing

- industrial informatics

- industrial networks and communications

- Internet of Things in industrial applications

- RFID and sensor networks in industrial plants

- service-oriented architectures (SOAs) of industrial automation

- supply-chain management

Track 12 Healthcare Systems

- healthcare systems architectures

- service-oriented architectures (SOAs) of health care systems

- pervasive healthcare

- healthcare supply-chain management

Important Dates, Submission, Proceedings and Journal Publications

General Chairs

Professor Dr  Heinz Jürgen Müller

Faculty of Business Informatics and Mathematics

Mannheim University

D-68131 Mannheim, Germany

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Professor Dr Huaglory Tianfield

Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow, G4 0BA, United Kingdom

E-mail

Program Chair

Professor Dr Rainer Unland

Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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“Experience is this valuable asset which allows us to identify the 
mistake immediately when we are doing it again and again!” 

“Erfahrung ist jener kostbare Besitz, der uns befähigt, einen Fehler 
sofort zu erkennen, wenn wir ihn immer wieder machen.” 


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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland 
University of Duisburg-Essen 
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB) 
Practical Computer Science, especially Data Management Systems and 
Knowledge Representation 
Schuetzenbahn 70 
45117 Essen, Germany 
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421 
IP-Tel. Skype: unlandr Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460 
Email: Rainer.Unland at icb.uni-due.de 
WWW: http://www.dawis.wiwi.uni-due.de/ 
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