[agents] Latest news about ANTIFRAGILE 2014: Keynote, blog, and CfP

Tue Jan 7 14:58:00 EST 2014

Dear Sirs, dear Madams,

I'm very glad to be able to announce that Dr. Kennie H.
Jones from NASA kindly agreed to give a keynote speech at ANTIFRAGILE 2014! Dr.
Jones will report about the role that antifragile engineering is playing within
NASA and how this research direction may provide an answer to the design
challenges of large and complex reliable systems.

Antifragile and resilience engineering are gaining momentum,
and their application span through multiple and interconnected domains. Sharing
ideas and creating communities of thought and practice is thus an important and
timely opportunity. I invite you to collaborate with me on this by exchanging
ideas, e.g., through my blog on the engineering aspects of elasticity,
resilience, and antifragility:

      http://eraclios.blogspot.be/

In my latest posts I focus on community resilience and
describe a tentative answer to its challenges.

This is also to remind you of the deadline for submitting
papers to ANTIFRAGILE 2014. Please find herein the CfP for your convenience. 

I thank you very much and use the occasion to wish you the
very best for the new year just begun!

-- Vincenzo De Florio

ANTIFRAGILE 2014

1st International Workshop “From Dependable to Resilient, from Resilient to
Antifragile Ambients and Systems”

As well-known, dependability refers to a system’s trustworthiness and measures
several aspects of the quality of its services – for instance how reliable,
available, safe, or maintainable those services are. Resilience differs from
dependability in that it focuses on the system itself rather that its services;
it implies that the system when subjected to faults and changes 1) will
continue distributing its services 2) without losing its peculiar traits, its
identity: the system will “stay the same”. Antifragility goes one step further
and suggests that certain systems could actually “get better”, namely improve
their system-environment fit, when subjected (to some system-specific extent)
to faults and changes. Recent studies of Professor N. Taleb introduced the
concept of antifragility and provided a characterization of the behaviors
enacted by antifragile systems. The engineering of antifragile computer-based
systems is a challenge that, once met, would allow systems and ambients to
self-evolve and self-improve by learning from accidents and mistakes in a way
not dissimilar to that of human beings. Learning how to design and craft antifragile
systems is an extraordinary challenge whose tackling is likely to reverberate
on many a computer engineering field. New methods, programming languages, even
custom platforms will have to be designed. The expected returns are
extraordinary as well: antifragile computer engineering promises to enable
realizing truly autonomic systems and ambients able to meta-adapt to changing
circumstances; to self-adjust to dynamically changing environments and
ambients; to self-organize so as to track dynamically and proactively optimal
strategies to sustain scalability, high-performance, and energy efficiency; to
personalize their aspects and behaviors after each and every user. And to learn
how to get better while doing it. 

The ambition and mission of ANTIFRAGILE is to enhance the
awareness of the above challenges and to begin a discussion on how computer and
software engineering may address them. As a design aspect cross-cutting through
all system and communication layers, antifragile engineering will require
multi-disciplinary visions and approaches able to bridge the gaps between
“distant” research communities so as to  

•    propose novel solutions to design and develop antifragile
systems and ambients;  

•    devise conceptual models and paradigms for antifragility; 

•    provide analytical and simulation models and tools to
measure systems ability to withstand faults, adjust to new environments, and
enhance their resilience in the process; 

•    foster the exchange of ideas and lively discussions able to
drive future research and development efforts in the area. 

The main topics of the workshop
include, but are not limited to:

•    Conceptual frameworks for antifragile systems, ambients,
and behaviours;

•    Dependability, resilience, and antifragile requirements and
open issues;

•    Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing
antifragile systems and behaviours;

•    Frameworks and techniques enabling resilient and
antifragile applications; 

•    Antifragile human-machine interaction;

•    End-to-end approaches towards antifragile services;

•    Autonomic antifragile behaviours;

•    Middleware architectures and mechanisms for resilience and
antifragility;

•    Theoretical foundation of resilient and antifragile
behaviours;

•    Formal modeling of resilience and antifragility;

•    Programming language support for resilience and
antifragility;

•    Machine learning as a foundation of resilient and
antifragile architectures;

•    Antifragility and resiliency against malicious attacks;

•    Antifragility and the Cloud;

•    Service Level Agreements for Antifragility; 

•    Antifragile and resilient services.

ANTIFRAGILE
is co-located with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems,
Networks and Technologies, June 2 - 5, 2014, Hasselt, Belgium (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/).

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: January 31, 2014 (extended).

Review reports sent to authors: March 1, 2014

Final submission deadline: April 4, 2014

Workshop date: day to be scheduled in [June 2, June 5], 2014

Submission information: 

All accepted papers will be printed in
the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access
Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is
hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier
content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be
freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by
Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers
will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will
be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference
website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed
in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).. Selected
papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international
journals.

Formatting instructions and templates are available at http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/#paperSubmissions.

Maximum number of pages is 6.

Submissions will be managed through Easychair via the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=antifragile2014.

Outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be
considered for publication in special issues of renowned international
journals.

Programme Committee: 

·  CHAIR: Vincenzo De Florio,
PATS/Universiteit Antwerpen and PATS/iMinds, Antwerp, Belgium

·  Abraham Ajith, MIR Labs &
Southern Illinois University, USA

· 
Mohamed Bakhouya, School of Engineering, Aalto University, Helsinki,
Finland

· 
Enrico Barbierato, Oracle, Pavia, Italy

· 
Maher Ben Jemaa, National School of Engineering of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

· 
Gabriella Caporaletti,  EICAS Automazione, Torino, Italy

· 
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona,
Spain

· 
Walid Chainbi, University of Sousse, Tunisia

· 
Andrea Clematis, CNR - IMATI, Genova, Italy

· 
Antonio Coronato, Institute for High Performance Computing and
Networking, Italian National Research Council, Naples, Italy

· 
Masoud Daneshtalab, University of Turku, Finland

· 
Jose Luis de la Vara, Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway

· 
Tom Dhaene,  INTEC / University of Ghent, Belgium

· 
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI Institute, Italian National Research
Council, Pisa, Italy

· 
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

· 
Masoumeh Ebrahimi, University of Turku, Finland

· 
Fernando Ferri,  Institute for Research on Population and Social
Policies, Rome, Italy

· 
Jaafar Gaber, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort,
France

· 
Cristina Gacek, Centre for Software Reliability, City University London,
London, UK

· 
Matteo Gagliolo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

· 
Liang Guang, University of Turku, Finland

· 
Muddesar Iqbal, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan

· 
Kennie H. Jones, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.

· 
Bryan Knowles, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky,
U.S.A.

· 
Marc Leeman, BARCO, Belgium

· 
Levi Lúcio, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

· 
Danilo Mandic, Imperial College, London, UK

· 
Leo G Marcus, The Aerospace Corporation, U.S.A.

· 
Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

· 
Daniele Miorandi, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

· 
Thabo Mophiring, Emanation, Johannesburg, South Africa

· 
Ethiopia Nigussie, University of Turku, Finland

· 
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Greece

· 
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

· 
Nearcos Paspallis, UCLan Cyprus, Larnaca, Cyprus

· 
Juha Plosila, University of Turku, Finland

· 
Massimiliano Rak, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Aversa,
Italy

· 
Philipp Reinecke, Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany

· 
Matthieu Roy, Dependability Group, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

· 
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

· 
Kathleen Spaey,  PATS group, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

· 
Basile Starynkevitch,  CEA LIST Institute, Paris, France

· 
Lorenzo Strigini, Centre for Software Reliability, City University
London, London, UK

· 
Hong Sun,  AGFA healthcare, Ghent, Belgium

· 
David Taniar, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

· 
Gianluca Tempesti, Department of Electronics, University of York, York,
UK

· 
Dora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

· 
Eric Verhulst, Altreonic, Belgium

· 
Xinheng Wang, University of the West of Scotland, UK

· 
Katinka Wolter, Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin,
Berlin, Germany

· 
Yan Zhang,  Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

For
more information please contact Vincenzo De Florio (vincenzo.deflorio at
uantwerpen.be)

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