I noticed that the title and many of the topics of the conference could be interpreted as referring as natural self-organizing systems as well as man made ones, and wrote the organizers asking if they would want to receive submissions concerning "methods for identifying and documenting the the spacial and process structures and developmental milestones of natural self-organizing systems". I think one of the main design problems of man made systems is our reading problem for natural ones.
What do you think they'll answer??? Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:42 PM > To: [email protected] > 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
