[agents] Call for participation to the 3rd International Summer School on Adaptive Socio-Technical Pervasive Systems

[Marco Mamei]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO:

 

3rd International PERADA-ASSYST Summer School on Adaptive Socio-Technical
Pervasive Systems.

Budapest, Europa Conference Center.

Sept. 20-27 2010

Funded by PERADA, the EU Coordination Action on Pervasive Adaptation, in
cooperation with ASSYST, the EU Coordination Action on Complex Systems for
Socially Intelligent ICT

 

http://www.perada.eu/summer-school-10

 

BACKGROUND:

Pervasive Adaptation (PERADA) is concerned with models, tools, and
technologies to be used in pervasive information and communication systems
that are capable of autonomously adapting to highly dynamic contexts. The
successful development of future pervasive systems will increasingly require
handling complex interactions between intelligent objects, computers,
sensors and actuators, and intelligent objects of any kind. The real
challenge is to make such interactions fruitful, purposeful, and secure,
despite the constantly changing characteristics of the environment in which
such systems will operate, in the absence of any centralized control.

 

In particular, since ICT systems are increasingly embedded within our
societal and physical environments, the future vision consider the emergence
of pervasive and complex socio-technical ICT systems, seamlessly merging
humans, societies, and ICT networks. On the one hand, these promise to
increase our social and collective intelligence up to very high-levels. One
the other hand, dominating such emerging systems requires the capability of
understanding and dominaring their underlying complexity and direct them
toward socially intelligent behaviors.

 

In this context, the 2010 Edition of the PERADA Summer School is
co-organized with the ASSYST Coordination Action on “Complex Systems for
Socially-Intelligent ICT”, to synergically cover the complementary topics of
interests to these two research areas. In particular, the summer schools
intend to touch both theoretical and practical aspects related to
disciplines spanning from social networking, social simulation, evolutionary
computing, nature- and socially-inspired inspired computing models,
pervasive and mobile computing and networking, with the goal of enabling
student to cross the barriers across these disciplines.

 

The co-location of the Summer School with the IEEE International Conference
on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO –
www.saso-conference.org), opening on Sept. 27, will also give students the
chance of attending to the Workshops and Tutorial being held on the first
day of the conference at no additional charge.

 

FORMAT OF THE SCHOOL:

The format of the school will properly balance the need to expose students
to the latest research findings in the above areas, as well as the need for
students to enforce their capabilities of performing challenging research in
inter-disciplinary teams. To this end, the school will be organized around:

 

a number of tutorials on selected topics offered by leader researchers in
their respective areas of expertise;

a number of short talks to report on inspiring success story, there included
industrial talks

the assignment to small groups of students of a challenging research case
studies, to be developed during the week and eventually leading to a final
presentation of the project

All of which, of course, by proper inter-twining lectures and project
development by social events, equally necessary to enforce community
building.

 

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES:

Students are expected to arrive on day of September 20th, to enjoy the
welcome reception and familiarize with each other and with the speakers, and
to be ready for the summer school program starting on the morning of the
21th.

 

Students are expected to be at the school until the evening of September
26th, to complete the program and the workgroup projects. On September 27th,
at no additional costs, students can choose to attend any of the many
interesting tutorials and workshops that will be held in the context of the
IEEE SASO Conference.

 

LECTURES:

Models and Middleware for Pervasive Service Ecosystems

Franco Zambonelli (Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)

 

Human Activity Recognition

Paul Luckowicz (University of Passau, Germany)

 

Algorithms for Fully Distributed Techno-Social Systems

Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary)

 

The Socio-economics of P2P Systems

David Hales (Delft University, NL)

 

Implicit interactions in pervasive computing

Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)

 

Multilevel Social Intelligence

Jeff Johnson (The Open University, UK)

 

Spatial Computing Approaches for Pervasive Systems

Jake Beal (BBN Technologies, USA)

 

Real life constraints for introducing smart objects & environments in the
consumer market

Rafi Haladjian (Sen.Se Technologies, Sweden)

 

Privacy in Emerging Pervasive Systems

Nikola Serbedzja (Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany)

 

Social Intelligence and Organized Adaptation

Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)

 

How Web Intelligence can Help Adaptive Pervasive Services

Marco Mamei (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

 

Knowledge Unintensive Directions for Open Adaptive Systems

Borbala Katalin Benko (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)

 

Success Stories from the PERADA Projects

The Coordinators of the PERADA Projects

 

ORGANISERS:

Franco Zambonelli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Borbala Katalin Benko (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)

Marco Mamei (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Jeff Johnson (The Open University, UK)

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact: Franco Zambonelli

Email: franco.zambonelli at unimore.it | Website:
http://www.dismi.unimo.it/Members/fzambonelli

 

REGISTRATION:

Registrations are available on a first-come, first-served basis, with the
organisers reserving the right to limit places if necessary. Registrations
close on 1st September. The registration price includes participation in all
summer school lectures and tutorials (in addition to the first day of SASO
tutorials and workshops); single or shared twin room accommodation at the
Europa conference center hotel for 8 days; breakfasts, lunches and coffee
breaks for 8 days; invitation to the summer school welcome reception and the
social dinner.

 

Online registration and payment are available via a SSL secure website
operated by Edinburgh Napier University in conjunction with Barclaycard.
Online payment can be made using VISA, MASTERCARD, DELTA, MAESTRO, SWITCH,
SOLO, JCB, VISA ELECTRON. Online registration and payment is charged in
British pounds sterling at the rates shown below, with Euro fees shown only
as an approximate guide. Payment by bank transfer or cheque is NOT
available. Please indicate at registration if you require any particular
details included on the payment receipt (eg financial code or reference
number).

 

Single room accommodation: 625 GBP (approx 750 EUROS)

Shared twin-room accommodation: 545 GBP (approx 650 EUROS)

 

Register Now:

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