[agents] CfP: 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service Ecosystems: Nature and Socially Inspired Solutions (ASENSIS 2012)

[Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez]

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                                                   CALL FOR PAPERS
                         1st International Workshop on Adaptive Service 
Ecosystems:
                                     Nature and Socially Inspired Solutions
                                                     (ASENSIS 2012)

                                               10 September 2012

                             To be held in conjunction with the
                  Sixth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive 
and Self-Organisizing Systems
                                                      (SASO 2012)
               Lyon, France; 10-14 September 2012 --- 
http://saso2012.univ-lyon1.fr/
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Aims and Scope
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Emerging distributed computing scenarios (mobile, pervasive, and social) 
are characterised by intrinsic openness, decentralisation, and dynamics. 
According, the effective deployment and execution of distributed 
services and applications calls for open service frameworks promoting 
situated and self-adaptive behaviours, and supporting diversity in 
services and long-term evolvability.

This suggests adopting nature-inspired and/or socially-inspired 
approaches, in which services are modelled and deployed as autonomous 
individuals in an ecosystem of other services, data sources, and 
pervasive devices. Accordingly, the self-organising interactions 
patterns among components and the resulting emerging dynamics of the 
system, as those of natural systems or of social systems, can inherently 
exhibit effective properties of self-adaptivity and evolvability.

Although many initiatives (like those named upon digital/business 
service ecosystems) recognise that the complexity of modern service 
systems is comparable to that of natural ecosystems, the idea that 
nature - other than a mean to metaphorically characterise their 
complexity - can become the source of inspiration for their actual 
modelling and implementation is only starting being metabolised.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners, with the aims of unfolding the many challenges related to 
the modelling, design and implementation of adaptive service ecosystems 
in natural and social terms, and identifying promising approaches and 
solutions.

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Important Deadlines
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Abstract submission: July 1st, 2012
Full paper submission: July 4th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 25th, 2012
Camera-ready version of accepted papers: August 24th, 2012
Early registration: August 20th, 2012
All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Hawaii Time (HST).

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Topics of Interest
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Topics include but are not limited to:

     - Models and tools for adaptive service ecosystems
     - Software architectures for emergent distributed service systems
     - Middleware for service ecosystems
     - Bio-inspired self-organising design patterns
     - Coordination models and languages
     - Middleware platforms
     - Dynamic Services composition
     - Adaptive coordination models and patterns
     - Self-organization and coordination
     - Coordination in systems of feedback loops
     - Middleware for adaptive coordination
     - Multiagent systems
     - Methodologies for adaptive and self-organising system engineering

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Papers submission and format
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Papers must be formatted according to IEEE Specifications and be of a 
maximum of 6 pages in length. Submission details are available on the 
workshop website (http://asensis2012.apice.unibo.it/).

Authors are kindly reminded of the IEEE policy on publications and the 
five levels of plagiarism defined by the IEEE. These rules will be 
strictly enforced. In particular, self-plagiarized papers will be 
rejected without further ado.

All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the 
EasyChair submission system using this link 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asensis2012. If you do not 
have an EasyChair account, please register here http://www.easychair.org

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Xplore following the 
workshop.

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Review Process
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All submitted papers will be peers reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.

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Co - Organisers
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Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Institute for Service Sciences, University 
of Geneva
Sara Montagna, DEIS, Universita' di Bologna
Andrea Omicini, DEIS, Universita' di Bologna
Franco Zambonelli, DISMI, Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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Program Committee
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Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Giovanna Di Marzo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Simon Dobson (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria)
Sam Guinea (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Ruth Falconer (University of Abertay, Dundee, UK)
Sam Malek (George Mason University, USA)
Marco Mamei (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Juan A. Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA, Spain)
Kyle Usbeck (Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge)
Giuseppe Valetto (Drexel University USA)
Mirko Viroli (Universita' di Bologna, Italy)
Giuseppe Vizzari (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)