[agents] Last Mile, January 27 || ADAPTIVE 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:
 
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 Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ADAPTIVE 2014.
 
The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014.
 
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ADAPTIVE 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
 
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
 
ADAPTIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications
 
May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
 

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ADAPTIVE14.html
 
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPADAPTIVE14.html
 
- regular papers
 
- short papers (work in progress)
 
- posters
 
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitADAPTIVE14.html
 

Submission deadline: January 27, 2014
 
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
 

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org
 
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
 
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
 

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
 
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
 
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
 
Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
 

ADAPTIVE 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
 

Fundamentals and design of adaptive systems
 
    Fundamentals on adaptive and self-adapting systems; Frameworks and architectures for adaptive supporting platforms; Architectures for adaptive applications; Specification of adaptive behavior; Specification of adaptive structures and topologies; Design and implementation of adaptive components; Composition of adaptive behaviors and structures; Adaptive individual and collective behavior and structures; Adaptive deterministic and non-deterministic behavior; Semantic modeling
 
Adaptive entities
 
    Adaptive environments; Adaptive hardware configurations; Adaptive software applications; Adaptive protocols; Adaptive algorithms; Adaptive and interactive interfaces; Adaptive filters; Adaptive clock speeds; Adaptive schedulers; Adaptive load balancers
 
Adaptive mechanisms
 
    Adaptive real-time strategies; Learning-based adaptive strategies; Adaptive mechanisms (trees, ant algorithms, fuzzy-logic, etc. ); Agent based-adaptive mechanisms; Policy- based adaptation; Feedback-based adaptive systems; Context-aware adaptation; User-aware adaptation
 
Adaptive applications
 
    Adaptive artificial intelligence in computer wargames; Intelligent complex adaptive systems; Adaptive virtualization; Adaptive social networks; Adaptive entertainment applications; Adaptive disaster recovery systems; Anticipative adaptive systems; Fault-tolerant adaptive systems; Adaptive ad hoc networks; Application domains, e,g.,  building (AEC projects, simulation models, facility management), tourism, etc.; Adaptive economic applications (finance, stock exchange, regulatory decisions, etc.); Adaptive vehicular traffic
 
Adaptivity in robot systems
 
    Adaptive robot behavior; self-organization and emergence; flexible and reconfigurable robot structures; adaptation in collective and swarm robotics
 
Self-adaptation
 
    Theory of self-adaptation and control; Self-adaptive networks, systems, and applications; Self-adaptive services; Self-adaptive behavior and topology/structure; Specification of self-adaptive behavioral control
 
Self-adaptation applications
 
    Self-monitoring and self-management; Self-configuration, self-healing, self-management; Self-defense, self-protection, self-diagnosis; Self-adaptation of overlay networks; Self-adaptation in ad hoc sensor networks; Context-aware self-adaptation of networks and services
 
Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems
 
    Trust models for adaptive systems; Trust models for self-organizing and autonomics systems; Agent-based trust models for cooperation; Privacy and Security in self-organizing and adaptive systems; Human and social factors involved in trust and adaptation; Applications of trust and security on adaptive systems, with a focus on web-based applications, social networks, social search; Trust models for self-organizing systems of information (wikis, forums, blogs.); Trust and personalisation for enabling adaptation; Models for learning trust and the evolution of trust; Decentralised trust models; Case studies; Theoretical trust models for self-adaptation
 
Metrics for adaptive and self-adaptive systems
 
    Stability and convergence; Optimal (self-) adaptation; Accuracy validation of (self-) adaptation; Real-time (self-) adaptive performance
 
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 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComADAPTIVE14.html
 
ADAPTIVE Advisory Chairs
 Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
 Thomas H. Morris, Mississippi State University, USA
 Serge Kernbach, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 Antonio Bucchiarone, FBK-IRST of Trento, Italy
 Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
 Marc Kurz, Johannes Kepler University Linz - Institute for Pervasive Computing, Austria
 
ADAPTIVE Industry/Research Chairs
 Dalimír Orfánus, ABB Corporate Research Center, Norway
 Weirong Jiang, Xilinx Research Labs, San Jose, USA
 
ADAPTIVE Publicity Chairs
 Kier Dugan, University of Southampton, UK
 Kai Nehring, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
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