-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ACSOS] 8th Interntional Workshop on Self-Improving Systems Integration / Call for Papers & Talks Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 15:40:56 +0200 From: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Tomforde st@informatik.uni-kiel.de To: acsos@lists.uni-wuerzburg.de

********* 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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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