Call for Papers
SASO 2007
International Conference on
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
(approval pending)
in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS
(approval pending)
The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering,
distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in
diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new
ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor,
self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a
paradigm shift.
Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global
behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not
accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or
performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are
composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to
simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local
interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by
studying only the local properties of its parts.
This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and
conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or
practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc.
Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of
systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different
systems are particularly encouraged.
Topics
o Self-* properties:
- self-organization
- self-adaptiveness
- self-management
- self-monitoring
- self-tuning
- self-repair
- self-configuration
- etc.
o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control
of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering
and control of emergent properties in self-*
systems
o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems
Systems & Technologies
o P2P applications
o Mobile robots
o Sensor networks
o Mobile ad hoc networks
o Grids
o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic
communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent
systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems
Research Communities
o Distributed artificial intelligence
o Networking
o Software engineering
o Distributed systems
o Integrated management
o Robotics
o Knowledge-based systems
o Machine learning
o Control theory
o Mathematical optimization
Organization
General Co-Chairs:
Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA
Program Committee Chairs:
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe
Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged,
Hungary
Finance Chair:
Paul Robertson, MIT, USA
Applications Track Chair:
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Tutorial Chair:
David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy
Panel Chair:
Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA
Publicity Chair:
Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany
Sponsor Chair:
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland
Local Arrangements Chair:
Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA
Submission Instructions
See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted
according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide.
Important Dates
Submission: January 31, 2007
Notification: March 19, 2007
Final paper: April 6, 2007
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