-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [fai-saso] Cal for Papers and extended Abstracts / SISSY Workshop at SASO/ICAC 2019 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:36:39 +0100 From: Sven Tomforde stomforde@uni-kassel.de To: fai-saso@listserv.uni-augsburg.de

*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, and at the IEEE Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems  Conference (FAS*18) 2018 in Trento, Italy. 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 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) 8 page full papers

The proceedings of all SASO / FAS* 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=sissy19 https://www.organic-computing.de/mailster/4297/b2a6db54e564a0762b543c2761c605e8/aHR0cHM6Ly9lYXN5Y2hhaXIub3JnL2NvbmZlcmVuY2VzLz9jb25mPXNpc3N5MTk/1

One of the authors has to register for the conference and workshop.

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*Important Dates*

Paper Submission Deadline: *the 26th of March, 2019 (extended / hard)* Paper Acceptance Notification: the 12th of April, 2019 Camera-Ready Papers due: the 20th of April, 2019

Workshop either 16th or 20th of June, 2019

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*Workshop Organisation*

Kirstie Bellman The Aerospace Corporation Kirstie.L.Bellman@aero.org

Ada Diaconescu Telecom Paris-Tech ada.diaconescu@telecom-paristech.fr

Sven Tomforde Universität Kassel, Intelligent Embedded Systems Group stomforde@uni-kassel.de

Please contact Sven Tomforde for all enquiries.

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*Programme Committee* (from 2018 - to be updated)

* Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg * Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt, Germany * Lukas Esterle, Aston University, Birmingham, UK * Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa, USA * Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel, Germany * Christian Gruhl, Universität Kassel, Germany * Joerg Haehner, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Martin Hoffmann, Volavis GmbH, Germany * Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Paul Kaufmann, Universität Paderborn, Germany * Christian Krupitzer, Universität Würzburg, Germany * Chris Landauer, The Aerospace Company, USA * Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK * Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany * Sebastian von Mammen, Universität Würzburg, Germany * Sanaz Mostaghim, Universität Magdeburg, Germany * Gero Mühl, Universität Rostock, Germany * Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany * Phyllis Nelson, Cal Poly Pomona, USA * Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Stefan Rudolph, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Hella Seebach, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Bernhard Sick, Universität Kassel, Germany * Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Anthony Stein, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Christopher Steward, Ohio State University, USA * Claudio Juan Tessone, ETH Zürich, Switzerland * Arno Wacker, Universität Kassel, Germany * Stefan Wildermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany