[agents] CFP SELF-ORGANIZING ARCHITECTURES (SOAR @ ICAC 2010)

[Danny Weyns]

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                  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


                 Second International Workshop on
              SELF-ORGANIZING ARCHITECTURES (SOAR'10)

                 Keynote speaker Jeff Kephart, IBM 

        http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/soar/2010/ 
               soar [at] cs [dot] kuleuven [dot] be
			
                        To be held at the
                 7th International Conference on 
              Autonomic Computing and Communications
           http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2010/
                
               7th June 2010, Washington DC, USA


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline  :  February 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance :  March 8, 2010
Camera ready paper         :  April, 2010
Workshop                   :  Planned on June 7, 2010

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INTRODUCTION

Self-management, a key facet of autonomic computing, has been 
proposed as an effective approach to tackle the complexity 
associated with the design and management of modern-day software 
systems. Two prominent communities that have been studying 
techniques for engineering the software for these kinds of systems 
are the community of self-adaptive systems and the community of 
self-organizing systems. Researchers on self-adaptive systems 
mostly take an architecture-centric focus on developing top-down 
solutions. In this approach, the system reflects upon itself and 
based on a set of goals the system adapts itself to internal 
changes, changes in its requirements or in the environment in 
which it is deployed. Researchers of self-organizing systems 
mostly take an algorithmic/organizational focus on developing 
bottom-up solutions. In this approach, the system components 
adapt their local behavior and patterns of interaction to changing 
conditions and cooperatively realize adaptation. Self-organizing 
approaches are often inspired by biological or natural phenomena.

Whereas both lines of research have been successful at alleviating 
some of the associated challenges of constructing self-managing 
systems, persistent challenges remain, in particular for building 
complex distributed self-managing systems. Among the hard 
challenges in the architecture-centric approach are handling 
uncertainty and providing decentralized scalable solutions. Some 
of the hard challenges in the self-organizing approach are 
connecting local interactions with global system behavior, and 
accommodating a disciplined engineering approach. The awareness 
grows that for building complex distributed self-managing systems, 
principles from both self-adaptive systems and self-organizing 
systems have to be combined. The general goal of “Self-Organizing 
ARchitectures” (SOAR) is to provide a middle ground that combines 
the architectural perspective of self-adaptive systems with the 
algorithmic perspective of self-organizing systems. 


TOPICS OF INTEREST

The general goal of “Self-Organizing ARchitectures” (SOAR) is to 
provide a middle ground that combines the architectural perspective
 of self-adaptive systems with the algorithmic perspective of 
self-organizing systems. Concretely, the workshop aims to identify 
the critical challenges and advance state of the art in self-
organizing architectures by tackling the following key questions: 

- What are the implications of a decentralized setting in 
  architecture-centric self-adaptive systems in which there is no 
  single point for managing the adaptations? 
- How can the algorithms and coordination mechanisms of 
  self-organizing approaches be exploited to decentralize the 
  control in self-adaptive systems? 
- How can the architectural patterns, frameworks, and middleware 
  solutions of self-adaptive approaches be exploited to enhance 
  the engineering of practical self-organizing systems? 

The workshop will have a highly interactive program with focused 
presentations and break out sessions for discussion, Presentations 
will be selected based on the relevance of the submitted papers to 
the key questions mentioned above. In addition, we plan to invite 
a number of experienced researchers for invited papers on the 
different topics. 

Topics of interest to SOAR include, but are not limited to: 

- Architectural patterns and tactics for self-organizing 
  architectures 
- Decentralization of reflective architectures for self-adaptive 
  systems 
- Decentralized control in dynamic software architecture 
- Multi-agent system architectures 
- Self-representations in decentralized systems 
- Dealing with uncertainty in self-adaptive systems 
- Control of emergent properties in self-adaptive systems 
- Instrumentation for realizing decentralized self-adaptation 
- (Ultra) large-scale self-adaptive systems 
- Self-adaptation and software product lines 
- Application of principles from biology, sociology and physics to 
  engineer self-adaptive systems 
- Quality of service concerns in self-adaptive systems 
- Applications of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems 

SOAR will be of interest to researchers, software engineers, 
practitioners, and students with an interest in tackling the 
challenges and developing practical solutions for complex 
distributed self-managing systems in which central control is not 
an option. Some examples of domains of interest are web-scale 
information systems, intelligent transportation systems, the power 
grid, and robotics. 


SUBMISSION

SOAR welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, 
methodological as well as application papers which focus on the 
topics outlined above. Papers may report on completed work, 
descriptions of work-in-progress, or discussion topics.

Submisions can be either regular papers and short papers:

 * Regular papers should be between 6 and 8 pages, including the 
   text, figures, and references.
 * Short papers should be between 2 and 4 pages, including the 
   text, figures, and references.

The submissions must be formatted according to the ACM proceedings 
format. 

Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair SOAR 2010 website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soar2010 

Further instructions for submissions are available on the website. 
 
For any questions, send your email to: 
          soar [at] cs [dot] kuleuven [dot] be


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

* Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
* Jesper Andersson, Växjö University, Sweden
* Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University, UK
* Yuriy Brun, University of Southern California, USA
* David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
* Holger Giese, University of Postdam, Germany
* Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Jeffrey Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Mark Klein, Software Engineering Institute, USA
* Flavio Oquendo, Université de Bretagne-Sud, France
* Van Parunak, Vector Research Center, USA
* Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel 
* Ladan Tahvildari, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Mirko Viroli, Università di Bologna, Italy


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