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SASO 2014 - CALL FOR DEMOS AND POSTERS
8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
London, UK; 8-12 September 2014
http://www.saso-conference.org
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1. CALL FOR DEMOS
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— IMPORTANT DATES: —
Deadline for demo submission: June 25, 2014
Notification of acceptance or rejection: July 25, 2014
Demo session date: September, 2014
— CALL FOR DEMOS: —
The demonstration track at SASO 2014 aims at providing an opportunity to participants from academia and industry to present their latest applications and systems to fellow researchers and practitioners in the field.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their overall self-* characteristics, originality and maturity. The committee will particularly consider system robustness, resilience and scaling abilities in addition to the self-* functions of the contributions. Interactivity of the demos will be considered a further asset.
Demonstrations may target:
* virtual systems, such as software applications;
* physical systems, such as robots or sensor networks;
* cyber-physical systems, combining the above;
where physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid demos using both simulations and real platforms.
We particularly solicit authors to highlight the utility and general applicability of their contributions, whether for the short, medium or long term.
This call is open to the full range of conference topics, however we encourage authors to also consider socio-inspired and normative systems as focus issue. These comprise self-adaptive and self-organizing algorithms, platforms and coordination mechanisms which are influenced by the design or modeling of social and normative systems.
For a detailed list of relevant topics, please refer to the SASO 2014 website or SASO 2014 CFP.
— SUBMISSION: —
Demo submissions must include:
* a short paper (2 pages, conference format) describing the system and its self-* capabilities; if accepted, papers will be published in the official proceedings;
* a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work; and (optionally) allowing viewers to interact with the real system or with an emulator.
Electronic submission: http://www.saso-conference.org http://www.saso-conference.org
At the conference, software applications will be presented on computers. For cyber-physical systems, if possible, authors are invited to bring their equipment (smart devices, sensors, actuators, robots, et cetera). Software simulations or video recordings can be accepted as an alternative. Additionally, authors must bring a poster summarizing their system and demo.
— EVALUATION AND AWARDS: —
Submitted demos will undergo a selection process based to equal parts on the quality of the short paper (novelty and impact, technical soundness and presentation) and the online demo system (design, degree of innovation, technical solution, applicability, clarity of the contribution and potential of reuse).
At least one author of accepted demos is required to register to the conference and to do an on-site presentation and demonstration of the contributions to the evaluation committee, as well as the other conference attendees.
The evaluation committee, consisting of the Demo Program Committee members attending the conference, will award a prize for the best demo in each system category, with cyber-physical systems classifying for both.
— ORGANIZATION: —
Please contact the chairs for any questions regarding the Demo session. The list of committee members comprising an international group of judges from academia and industry will be made available as soon as possible.
— CHAIRS: —
* Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, LU; Email: jean.botev@uni.lu mailto:jean.botev@uni.lu
* Maite Lopez-Sanchez, University of Barcelona, ES; Email: maite_lopez@ub.edu mailto:maite_lopez@ub.edu
— PROGRAM COMMITTEE: —
* Tina Balke, University of Surrey, UK
* Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, University of Geneva, CH
* Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, DE
* Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, AI Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), ES
* Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, LU
* Ingo Scholtes ETH Zurich, CH
* Jaime Simão Sichman, University of São Paulo, BR
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2. CALL FOR POSTERS
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Important Dates
(All deadlines are at 11:59 PM GMT)
Deadline for submission: June 9, 2014
Notification of acceptance or rejection: June 30, 2014
Camera ready poster abstract due: July 18, 2014
Early registration deadline: August 22, 2014
Call for Posters
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Overview
The seventh SASO conference continues its tradition of offering poster sessions, a great
opportunity for interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences,
and challenges on SASO topics. Poster sessions are informal and highly interactive, and
allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work
from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can emerge.
Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and should contain original
cutting-edge ideas, as well as speculative/provocative ones. Proposals of new research
directions and innovative interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Submissions in the
following areas are particularly encouraged:
Self-* systems theories, frameworks, models, and paradigms, including the ones
inspired by the biological, social, and physical worlds.
Self-* systems engineering: goals and requirements, hardware and software design,
deployment, management and control, validation.
Properties of self-* systems: self-organisation and emergent behaviour, self-
adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-
configuration, etc.
Evaluation of self-* systems: methods for performance, robustness, and dependability
assessment and analysis.
Social self-* systems: emergent human behaviour, crowdsourcing, collective
awareness, gamification and serious games.
Applications and experiences with self-* systems: cyber security, transportation,
computational sustainability, power systems, large networks, large data centers, and
cloud computing.
Submission Process
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For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract of their
poster. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society
Press proceedings style guide and it shall be submitted electronically in PDF format.
Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at the conference site.
Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2014 conference management system. Poster authors should use
the poster track for their submissions.
Accepted Posters
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If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking
into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer
Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters will be advertised in the final program, and
authors' two-page extended abstracts will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE
Digital Library.
Poster Content
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Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved poster session, taking into
consideration that all posters should include the following information:
- The purpose and goals of the work.
- Any background and motivation needed to understand the work.
- Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work.
- A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer
to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is
especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results
towards them.
- The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted
posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted
posters.
- Where to find additional information
This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work how to
contact the authors, including email addresses citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information.
Poster Layout Guidelines
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The format of posters and the nature of poster sessions require authors to capture the viewers'
attention effectively, and present core concepts so as to clearly position the context of their
research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically
the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a
large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and
that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. The recommended size for the
poster is A0 and all poster authors are required to print and bring their posters at the
conference.
Attendance
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At least one of the poster authors is required to register at the conference and will be required
to give a brief presentation of the poster in the interactive poster session, as well as staying
with the poster to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the
scheduled poster sessions.
Contact details
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For additional information, clarification, or questions, please contact the Poster Chairs.
Iva Bojić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (iva.bojic@fer.hr mailto:iva.bojic@fer.hr)
Regis Riveret, Imperial College, UK (r.riveret@imperial.ac.uk mailto:r.riveret@imperial.ac.uk)
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Gustaf Neumann