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============== SAKS 2011  Worskhop at KIVS 2011| Call for Papers 
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CALL FOR PAPERS

SAKS 2011 Workshop at KIVS 2011:  Self-Organising, Adaptive, 
Context-Sensitive Distributed Systems

March 10-11, 2011 - Kiel, Germany


General page: 
http://www.kivs11.de/lang/en/workshops/workshop-on-self-organising-context-sensitive-adaptive-systems-saks
Submission: https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission of papers: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2010
Final version of paper: December 19, 2010

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MOTIVATION

The increasing distribution and interconnection of applications in a 
world that is more and more pervaded by information technology leads to 
significant challenges for the development of these applications. 
Ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems require increasingly complex 
systems that cannot be configured manually or controlled statically 
anymore. This is the point where this workshop starts by addressing new 
requirements for such systems: dynamic adaptation, autonomy, and 
self-properties as well as their respective implementations.

In particular, this workshop aims at offering a podium where these 
research questions will be discussed with respect to current main-stream 
technologies such as SOA and MDA, and with an additional focus on the 
development of methods. Questions addressed include: Can we control the 
phenomena of self-organization and emergence in such systems, or should 
we suppress them? Can self-organization and emergence be planned in the 
system design and if so, what methods and tools should we use? Is it 
possible to extend systems which were initially designed statically and 
for manual control with the desired properties for autonomous 
management? What are the methods for such a re-design or re-engineering? 
How do such methods and architectures fit together?

Case studies and practical suitability of systems with adaptivity, 
autonomy and self-properties are of particular interest because they are 
crucial for the success of the research discussed here as well as for 
its future development. In addition, interdisciplinary openness is an 
essential key to the success of this workshop. Main-stream techniques, 
architectures, and methods are brought into contact with new design 
methods that are, for instance, inspired by Bionics or influenced by 
Complex Systems Research.

Still, newly introduced technologies raise more questions beyond those 
of purely technical nature. Can we make real use of adaptivity and 
self-organization, outside of our labs, in the large scale? Are such 
concepts ready to use in daily appliances? What are the chances and 
opportunities of this new kind of information technology? Finally there 
are many non-technical questions that usually fail to be discussed 
adequately, mainly concerning societal and legal impact of the 
application of these systems. Can we safely delegate control away from 
our immediate influence? How can we achieve a sufficient level of trust? 
Could there be legal consequences of adaptation?

With this selection of topics we aim at a strictly interdisciplinary 
course, distinguishing this workshop from many others in this area of 
research which commonly focus on technical issues. Our objective is to 
shed light on the multitude of aspects in an adaptive, self-organizing 
world, pervading our daily lives.

OBJECTIVES

This workshop, as part of KIVS 2011 in Kiel, continues the successful 
workshop series SAKS that has been focusing on the research areas of 
self-organization and adaptivity in the years 2006-2010, already twice 
as a workshop of KIVS conferences. The SAKS workshop aims at 
strengthening cooperation among the stakeholders and lifting the 
visibility of research and development activities in the German-speaking 
countries to international scope. We also welcome representatives from 
industry, providing valuable feedback from experiences and application, 
helping to explore common interests.
Organization
Depending on the number of accepted contributions, the workshop is 
planned for one whole day or two half days. The program of the workshop 
will consist of the presentation of the selected papers, an invited 
talk, and a panel discussion.




TOPICS of INTEREST
The workshop scope encompasses topics of self-organization and 
adaptation in information technology systems from technical, 
application-oriented, economical, societal, and legal points of view.

Technical challenged of self-organizing and adaptive systems

- Construction and evaluation of systems with self-properties
- Biologically inspired approaches for self-organization and adaptation
- Autonomic and Organic Computing
- Software architectures for autonomous and ubiquitous systems
- Self-organization in Service-oriented architectures
- Self-organization in robotics
- Adaptivity in applications and middleware
- Context models and context processing
- Methodologies for developing personalized context-sensitive services
- Integration of users into the development cycle
- Stakeholders in service development and usage
- User-centric design, user interfaces, and usage concepts for adaptive 
and context-aware systems

Societal and legal implications in an adaptive world

- Trust and reliability in self-organizing systems
- Social-aware design of adaptive and context-aware systems
- Application domain-specific requirements and solutions
- Liability and responsibility

New opportunities by self-organization and adaptation

- Industrial requirements and projects
- Research prototypes and experiences
- New value chains, business, service, and provider models for adaptive 
and context-aware systems

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submissions are managed by the ConfTool-System; a SAKS-2011-Page 
(https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/) has been set up. Submissions can be 
either written on English or German and have to be submitted as a 
PDF-File. Long papers should have up to 12 pages; short papers up to 6 
pages; industry papers, as extended abstracts, can have 1-2 pages.

Please use one of the following templates:
LaTeX-Class: 
http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/ECEASST-cls-XXX-WowKiVS11.tar.gz
LaTeX-Class as zip : 
http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/ECEASST-cls-XXX-WowKiVS11.zip
Word-Word-Template: http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/WowKiVS11.doc

Submissions: https://www.conftool.com/kivs11/
Please submit your paper - independently from the template - only as a 
PDF-File.

If your text processing engine does not support the output of PDF-Files, 
please use one of the PDF-Writers that are available free of charge.

Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee with regard to 
their content's quality and relevance to the workshop.  If we receive a 
minimum number of submissions, we will publish the selected papers in 
the Open-Access-Journal Electronic Communications of the EASST.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of papers: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 28, 2010
Final version of paper: December 19, 2010


Organization committee
Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg
Wolfgang Renz, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Michael Zapf, University of Kassel

Program committee (tentative)
Uwe Baumgarten,Technische Universität München
Markus Bick,ESCP Europe Campus Berlin
Walter Blocher,Universität Kassel
Thilo Böhmann,International Business School of Service Management Hamburg
Volker Boehme-Neßler,Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
Georg Borges,Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Lars Braubach,Universität Hamburg
Klaus David,Universität Kassel
Kurt Geihs,Universität Kassel
Klaus Herrmann,Universität Stuttgart
Thomas Hoeren,Universität Münster
Reinhold Kröger,Fachhochschule Wiesbaden
Winfried Lamersdorf,Universität Hamburg
Jan-Marco Leimeister,Universität Kassel
Klaus Mößner,Universität Surrey (UK)
Gero Mühl,Universität Rostock
Andreas Polze,Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Wolfgang Renz,Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg
Alexander Roßnagel,Universität Kassel
Gregor Schiele,Universität Mannheim
Matthias Trier,Technische Universität Berlin
Manfred Wojciechowski,Fraunhofer ISST
Michael Zapf,Universität Kassel