[agents] ANTIFRAGILE'14: CfP and Latest News

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Dear Sirs, dear Madams,

please consider submitting a paper to ANTIFRAGILE 2014. ANTIFRAGILE’s
Proceedings will be indexed, among others, by SCOPUS and by the Thomson
Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index. Keynote speaker at ANTIFRAGILE
2014 will be Dr. Kennie H. Jones, from NASA, who 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. (Final) deadline for submissions is February 21.

Kind regards,

Vincenzo De Florio

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; Verification and validation of resilience and
     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/).

 

All ANT-2014 accepted papers will be
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 be
indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and
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. 

For more information please contact Vincenzo De Florio
(vincenzo.deflorio at uantwerpen.be) and visit the workshop’s homepage at https://sites.google.com/site/resilience2antifragile/

Final deadline for submission: February 21, 2014

 


 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 


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