[agents] 7th conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems - SASO2013

[Jose Luis Fernandez Marquez]

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7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing 
Systems
Philadelphia, PA, USA; 9-13 September 2013 --- 
http://www.saso-conference.org/
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The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for the 
foundations of a principled approach to engineering systems, networks 
and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. To this 
end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different 
backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between research fields, and to 
expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, 
tools, and applications. The complexity of current and emerging 
computing systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems 
and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields 
(e.g., complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, 
sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing 
networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and 
self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets of a 
paradigm shift.


The seventh edition of the SASO conference emphasizes the 
interconnection of research between and within fields: application of 
self-* principles or systems to solve real-world problems or advance 
research in other research domains; advances in self-* mechanisms or 
analyses with potentially broad application; combination and 
interconnection of self-* systems; and extraction of new self-* 
principles or mechanisms from the study of natural or engineered systems.

SASO welcomes novel theoretical or experimental results, and practical 
approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems, 
applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting 
different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or 
demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different 
systems are particularly encouraged.



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Topics
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The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to:

   - Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems

   - Robustness and dependability of self-* systems

   - Control of emergent properties in self-* systems

   -  Biologically, socially, and physically inspired self-* systems

   - Management and control of self-* systems

   - Design and engineering for self-* systems (self-organization, 
self-adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, 
self-repair, self-configuration, etc.)

   -  Applications and experiences with self-* systems