The peer-to-peer application (listed below) reminded me to tell the List that Microsoft's Zune has automatic wifi connectivity to any other Zune player within range. I imagine someone out there could do something cool with this (assuming, of course, they sell ;-)
NY Times article at: Microsoft Counting on a Twist to Make Zune Shine in Shadow of iPod By MICHEL MARRIOTT The Zune, scheduled to be released on Monday, is a digital music and video player that can wirelessly exchange content. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Guerin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:42 PM Subject: [FRIAM] CFP: IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems > 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 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
