[agents] CFP - Special Issue on Collective Adaptive Systems

[Katarzyna Wasielewska]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
(www.scpe.org)

Special Issue on Collective Adaptive Systems

Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) is a broad term that describes large 
scale systems that comprise of many units/nodes, each of which may have 
their own individual properties, objectives and actions. Decision-making 
in such a system is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and 
interaction between the units may lead to the emergence of unexpected 
phenomena. CASs are open, in that nodes may enter or leave the 
collective at any time, and boundaries between CASs are fluid. The units 
can be highly heterogeneous (computers, robots, agents, devices, 
biological entities, etc.), each operating at different temporal and 
spatial scales, and having different (potentially conflicting) 
objectives and goals, even if often the system has a global goal that is 
pursued by means of collective actions. Our society increasingly depends 
on such systems, in which collections of heterogeneous ‘technological’ 
nodes are tightly entangled with human and social structures to form 
‘artificial societies’. Yet, to properly exploit them, we need to 
develop a deeper scientific understanding of the principles by which 
they operate, in order to better design them.

The special issue will feature articles that concern different and 
interdisciplinary aspects of collective adaptive systems, as specified 
in the following list of topics.

TOPICS

Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

- Novel theories relating to operating principles of CAS
- Novel design principles for building CAS systems
- Insights into the short and long term adaptation of CAS systems
- Insights into Emergent Properties of CAS
- Insights into general properties of large scale, distributed CAS
- Methodologies for studying, analysing and building CAS
- Frameworks for analysing or developing CAS
- Case-studies/Scenarios that can be used to investigate CAS properties

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission: December 15th, 2014
- Author notification: January 31st 2015
- Revised papers (for major revisions): February 28th 2015
- Author notification (for major revisions): April 15th, 2015
- Camera Ready papers due: May 31th, 2015
- Expected publication: September, 2015

SUBMISSION DETAILS

The special issue seeks original, unpublished work on technologies 
enabling collaboration. The authors of the best papers form 
FoCAS at SASO2014 will be invited to submit an extended version to this 
special issue.

The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-review process and papers will be 
sent to at least two independent referees. Papers that do not merit 
publication (for any reason) can be rejected by the Special Issue 
Editors without further review.

Submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's 
instructions, which can be found at: 
http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS

- Prof. Giacomo Cabri. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Prof. Emma Hart. Edinburgh Napier University, UK

SCALABLE COMPUTING PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE

The journal focus on algorithm development, implementation and execution 
on parallel and distributed architectures, as well on application of 
parallel and distributed computing to the solution of real-life 
problems. SCPE provides immediate open access to its content. The 
journal is submitted for indexation in Scopus SciVerse, The Collection 
of Computer Science Bibliographies, Directory of Open Access Journals 
(DOAJ), EBSCO, dblp - Computer Science Bibliography, CiteFactor, Index 
Copernicus, Open Access Library, J-Gate, ZDB, AcademicKeys, BibNet 
Project at University of Utah, ZENODO, Journal Click. In 2013, the 
SCPE's SNIP (Scopus Source Normalized Impact per Paper) was 0.619 and 
SCPE's SJR (Scimago Journal Ranking) was 0.151 (previous year values 
where: SNIP 0.376 and SJR 0.105). SCPE's SJIF factor was 2.785 in 2012.