[agents] Extended Deadline: 2nd Workshop on Trustworthy Self-Organizing Systems (TSOS 2011) @ SASO 2011, Deadline July 11, 2011

[Jan-Philipp Steghoefer]

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                        TSOS 2011
     2nd Workshop on Trustworthy Self-Organizing Systems
            October 3rd, 2011; Ann Arbor, MI, USA
                  http://tsos.isse.de

                 Affiliated to SASO 2011
           Fifth IEEE International Conference on
          Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

             EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 11, 2011
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(Apologies for cross-posting.)

To accomodate requests for late submissions, we have EXTENDED the
DEADLINE for paper submissions to JULY 11, 2011.

Call for Papers
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The issues of trust and reputation in multi-agent systems have received
a lot of attention. Also, formal methods to guarantee functional
correctness, safety, and security as well as techniques to ensure
reliability in distributed, self-organizing systems have been
investigated by diverse research groups from different communities.
Furthermore, the role of humans as the users of self-organizing and
self-adaptive systems and the usability of such systems has been subject
of research. These different facets of the same problem have so far been
considered only separately and many have regarded security, safety, etc.
as complementary to trust.

However, the overall trustworthiness of a self-organizing system is
connected to all the aforementioned properties and should be regarded
holistically. The facets of trust qualify the relationships between the
components of the system and between the user and the system. Functional
correctness, security, safety, and reliability are facets that have to
be ensured for the system's components as well as for the system as a
whole. The classical notions of trust and reputation in MAS also apply
to this relationship between system components. The relationship between
the system and the user is influenced by the transparency and
consistency of the system towards the user and most importantly by its
usability, i.e., the way the user is informed about self-organizing
processes and allowed to interact with the system.

The nature of self-organizing systems demands that issues of trust and
its different facets become a primary concern. Many interacting adaptive
entities, emergent behavior, and a highly dynamic environment prompt the
designer of such a system to consider trust in every aspect of the
engineering process. Not only will a thorough consideration of trust
yield a more robust and more secure system, but the incorporation of
trust can also lead to gains with regard to performance and ease of use.
In domains in which systems have to be certified, the formal treatment
of trust and its facets in self-organizing systems is a necessity.

Topics
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The workshop will provide an open stage for discussions about the
different facets of trust in self-organizing systems, how every single
one of them can be fostered, and how they relate. Further examples for
topics of interest are:

* Metrics of trust and specialized metrics for single trust facets
* Policies and their influence on trustworthiness
* Trust management systems for self-organizing systems
* Formal methods to analyze, prove, or measure aspects of trust
* Trust and reputation in multi-agent systems and systems of systems
* Adaptive user interfaces
* Visualization, transparency and controllability of self-organization
  processes
* Measuring and evaluating user trust in self-organizing systems
* Engineering of trustworthy self-organizing systems
* Evaluations of the effects of trust in self-organizing systems
* Using trust to deal with uncertainty
* Trust and game theory


Aim of the Workshop
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The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers of different
communities like Multi-Agent Systems, Autonomic Computing, Organic
Computing, Trust Management, Security, and Distributed Systems to
discuss – based on high quality research papers and position papers –
the different aspects of trust in self-adaptive and self-organizing
systems and to create a sense of the overarching concepts and problems
that are associated with a holistic view on trustworthy self-organizing
systems. The workshop is an opportunity to promote this view and to
engage in discussions about the interconnectedness of the different
facets and their interplay in self-organizing systems..


Audience
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The workshop is aimed at researchers that have been investigating one of
the trust aspects (functional correctness, safety, security,
reliability, credibility, usability) in self-organizing systems or that
have been looking into trust and its different shapes. We explicitly
encourage participation of researchers from different communities within
computer science. The workshop will be set in an informal and
cooperative atmosphere with ample time allotted to discussions.


Keynote
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We are very happy to welcome Steve Marsh, Communications Research Centre
Canada, as a keynote speaker at TSOS 2011.


Important Dates
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* EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 11, 2011
* Acceptance Notification: July 25, 2011
* Camera-ready version: August 25, 2011
* Workshop: October 3, 2011


Paper Submission
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The workshop organizers solicit both original research papers as well as
position papers on the topics outlined in the Call for Papers. Each
paper will be reviewed in a double-blind process. The decision will be
based on the motivation of the research, the clarity of the claims of
the contribution, the relevance of the research to the domain of
self-organizing systems, its evaluation, and the thoroughness of the
related work comparison. Submitted papers must not have been previously
published or submitted elsewhere.

The proceedings of all SASO workshops will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library.

Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and formatted according to the
IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted
electronically in pdf format. Please submit your papers using EasyChair
at <http://tsos.isse.de/submission.html>. One of the authors has to register
for the conference and workshop.


Workshop Organization
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Wolfgang Reif
Augsburg University, Germany
Institute for Software & Systems Engineering
reif at informatik.uni-augsburg.de

Christian Müller-Schloer
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Institute for Systems Engineering
cms at sra.uni-hannover.de

Audun Jøsang
University of Oslo, Norway
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
josang at matnat.uio.no

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer
Augsburg University, Germany
Institute for Software & Systems Engineering
Universitätsstr. 6a
D-86159 Augsburg
steghoefer at informatik.uni-augsburg.de
+49 (0) 821 598-2177
(Please contact for all enquiries.)


Program Committee
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* Elisabeth André, Augsburg University
* Radu Calinescu, Oxford University
* Rino Falcone, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
* Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
* Jörg Hähner, Leibniz University Hannover
* Tom Holvoet, Katholike Universiteit Leuven
* Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University
* Martin Purvis, Otago University
* Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
* Onn Shehory, IBM Research Labs Haifa
* Graeme Smith, Queensland University Brisbane
* Theo Ungerer, Augsburg University


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Dipl.-Inf. Jan-Philipp Steghöfer
Lehrstuhl für Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen
Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg

Raum 3041 N, Universitätsstr. 6a, 86159 Augsburg

FON:    (+49) 821/598-2177
MAIL:   steghoefer at informatik.uni-augsburg.de