[agents] [SASO'2015] Call for workshops, tutorials, posters, demos, PhD symposium - 21-25 September 2015 - Boston Massachusetts
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Please find detailed calls on the Website:
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- Call for Workshops : http://saso2015.mit.edu/call-workshops
- Call for Tutorials : http://saso2015.mit.edu/call-tutorials
- Call for Posters : http://saso2015.mit.edu/call-posters
- Call for Demos : http://saso2015.mit.edu/call-demos
- Call for Doctoral Consortium :
http://saso2015.mit.edu/call-doctoral-consortium
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Date reminder - the main SASO Conference
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Abstract submission: May 8, 2015
Paper submission: May 22, 2015 (There will be no extensions of this
deadline)
Notification: June 30, 2015
Camera ready copy due: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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Please find below a synthetic overview of the calls :
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
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The SASO 2015 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop
Program to be held along with the technical conference. SASO 2015
workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less
formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Its aim
is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and
comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics,
both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and
Self-Organizing Systems. To motivate the discussion and participation of
all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the
typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more
discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO
community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops
on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are
particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be
one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers,
workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of
workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO
conference.
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Important Dates
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Proposal Submission Deadline: April 20, 2015
Acceptance Notification: April 27, 2015
CFP Submission Deadline: May 4, 2015
Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2015
Paper Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2015
Early Registration Deadline: TBD
Camera-Ready Papers due: August 10, 2015
Workshop notes submission to WS chairs: August 17, 2015
Workshops dates: September 21 & 25, 2015
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CALL FOR TUTORIALS
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FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences 2015
will host a joint tutorial program for the 9th IEEE International
Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System (SASO 2015), The
International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015) and
The 15th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference.
The goal of the tutorial program of FAS* 2015 is to provide an
instructional offer to scholars, practitioners and students attending
the conference, on a range of topics related to self* computing systems.
We plan to accommodate either half-day tutorials (approx. 3.0 hours,
plus one 30-minutes break) and full-day tutorials (approx 6.0 hours,
plus two 30-minutes breaks, and a lunch break). The topic of a tutorial
may range from practical techniques and technologies, to methodologies,
guidelines over standards, to theoretical aspects related to self*
systems (software, networks or services).
The topic areas that fall into the general scope of FAS* conferences, as
well as the focus of this year's conferences, are listed in the Call for
Papers that is available on the FAS* conferences’ web site. Please note
that no marketing or product specific tutorials will be accepted.
Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. Topics
that can capture the interest of a broad audience of scholars,
practitioners or students are preferred.
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Important Dates
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Proposal Submission Deadline: April 20, 2015
Presenter Notification: April 27, 2015
Extended Abstract and Presentation Handouts due: August 17, 2015
Tutorial presentation: September 21-25, 2015
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CALL FOR POSTERS
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The ninth SASO conference continues its tradition of offering poster
sessions, a great opportunity for interactive presentation of emerging
ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on SASO
topics. Poster sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow
authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the
presented work from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can
emerge.
Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and should
contain original cutting-edge ideas, as well as speculative/provocative
ones. Proposals of new research directions and innovative
interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Please find areas
particularly encouraged in the detailed call.
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Important Dates
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Deadline for submission: May 22, 2015
Notification: June 30, 2015
Camera ready copy due: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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CALL FOR DEMOS
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The demonstration track at SASO 2015 aims at providing an opportunity to
participants from academia and industry to present their latest
applications and systems to fellow researchers and practitioners in the
field.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their overall self-*
characteristics, originality and maturity. The committee will
particularly consider system robustness, resilience and scaling
abilities in addition to the self-* functions of the contributions.
Interactivity of the demos will be considered a further asset.
Demonstrations may target:
- virtual systems, such as software applications;
- physical systems, such as robots or sensor networks;
- cyber-physical systems, combining the above;
where physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by
simulation, or hybrid demos using both simulations and real platforms.
We particularly solicit authors to highlight the utility and general
applicability of their contributions, whether for the short, medium or
long term.
This call is open to the full range of conference topics, however we
encourage authors to also consider socio-inspired and normative systems
as focus issue. These comprise self-adaptive and self-organizing
algorithms, platforms and coordination mechanisms which are influenced
by the design or modeling of social and normative systems.
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Important Dates
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Deadline for demo submission : June 15, 2015
Notification: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences 2015
will host a joint tutorial program for the 9th IEEE International
Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System (SASO 2015), The
International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015) and
The 15th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference.
The aim of FAS* Doctoral Symposium is to provide an international forum
for PhD Students working in any of the areas addressed by FAS*. PhD
students have the opportunity to discuss their research in an
international forum, and with a panel of well-known experts in the field.
PhD students working in any area addressed by the FAS* conferences can
submit a paper describing the core problem of their PhD research and its
relevance by providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to
address, the motivation of the interest and novelty of the underlying
research challenges, the explanation of the main ideas by examples, and
a description of the proposed research plan and expected results.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Self-* systems theory;
- Self-* systems engineering;
- Self-* system properties;
- Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems;
- Applications and experiences of self-* systems;
- Autonomic Cloud Computing;
- Autonomics for Extreme Scales;
- Autonomic Computing Foundations and Design Methods;
- Autonomic Computing Systems, Tools and Applications;
- P2P techniques and algorithms;
- Experience with widely-deployed and commercial systems and applications;
- Measurement and modeling of P2P systems, cloud systems, and
large-scale distributed systems;
- P2P applications and systems running in the Internet, in clouds, and
in mobile systems;
- Semantic overlay networks and semantic query routing;
- Information retrieval and query support;
- Security, privacy, anonymity, and anti-censorship;
- P2P economics, participation incentives, trust, reputation,
incentives, fairness, policy enforcement;
- Overlay architectures and technologies;
- Performance, availability, robustness, and scalability;
- New applications of P2P technologies;
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Important Dates
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Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015
Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015
Notifications of Acceptance: July 3, 2015
Camera ready copy due: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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SASO 2015 Call for Demos
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Overview
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The demonstration track at SASO 2015 aims at providing an opportunity to participants from academia and industry to present their latest applications and systems to fellow researchers and practitioners in the field.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their overall self-* characteristics, originality and maturity. The committee will particularly consider system robustness, resilience and scaling abilities in addition to the self-* functions of the contributions. Interactivity of the demos will be considered a further asset.
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Demonstrations may target:
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- virtual systems, such as software applications;
- physical systems, such as robots or sensor networks;
- cyber-physical systems, combining the above;
where physical systems might be presented either with real equipment, by simulation, or hybrid demos using both simulations and real platforms.
We particularly solicit authors to highlight the utility and general applicability of their contributions, whether for the short, medium or long term.
This call is open to the full range of conference topics, however we encourage authors to also consider socio-inspired and normative systems as focus issue. These comprise self-adaptive and self-organizing algorithms, platforms and coordination mechanisms which are influenced by the design or modeling of social and normative systems.
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Submission
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Demonstration submissions must include:
a short paper (2 pages, conference format) describing the system and its self-* capabilities; if accepted, papers will be published in the official proceedings;
a URL of a website providing a self-explanatory video showing the system at work; and (optionally) allowing viewers to interact with the real system or with an emulator.
Electronic submission: Not available yet.
At the conference, software applications will be presented on computers. For cyber-physical systems, if possible, authors are invited to bring their equipment (smart devices, sensors, actuators, robots, et cetera). Software simulations or video recordings can be accepted as an alternative. Additionally, authors must bring a poster summarizing their system and demo.
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Important Dates
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Deadline for demo submission : June 15, 2015
Notification: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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Evaluation and Awards
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Submitted demos will undergo a selection process based to equal parts on the quality of the short paper (novelty and impact, technical soundness and presentation) and the online demo system (design, degree of innovation, technical solution, applicability, clarity of the contribution and potential of reuse).
At least one author of accepted demos is required to register to the conference and to do an on-site presentation and demonstration of the contributions to the evaluation committee, as well as the other conference attendees.
The evaluation committee, consisting of the Demo Program Committee members attending the conference, will award a prize for the best demo in each system category, with cyber-physical systems classifying for both.
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For More Information
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Please contact the chairs for any questions regarding the Demonstration session.
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Demonstration Chair
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Sokratis Kartakis, Imperial College London, UK
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Call for Doctoral Consortium
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The aim of FAS* Doctoral Symposium is to provide an international forum for PhD Students working in any of the areas addressed by FAS*. PhD students have the opportunity to discuss their research in an international forum, and with a panel of well-known experts in the field.
PhD students working in any area addressed by the FAS* conferences can submit a paper describing the core problem of their PhD research and its relevance by providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address, the motivation of the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, the explanation of the main ideas by examples, and a description of the proposed research plan and expected results.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Self-* systems theory;
- Self-* systems engineering;
- Self-* system properties;
- Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems;
- Applications and experiences of self-* systems;
- Autonomic Cloud Computing;
- Autonomics for Extreme Scales;
- Autonomic Computing Foundations and Design Methods;
- Autonomic Computing Systems, Tools and Applications;
- P2P techniques and algorithms;
- Experience with widely-deployed and commercial systems and applications;
- Measurement and modeling of P2P systems, cloud systems, and large-scale distributed systems;
- P2P applications and systems running in the Internet, in clouds, and in mobile systems;
- Semantic overlay networks and semantic query routing;
- Information retrieval and query support;
- Security, privacy, anonymity, and anti-censorship;
- P2P economics, participation incentives, trust, reputation, incentives, fairness, policy enforcement;
- Overlay architectures and technologies;
- Performance, availability, robustness, and scalability;
- New applications of P2P technologies;
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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All submissions should be 6 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in PDF format. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the FAS* 2015 PhD Symposium management system, which is located at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fasphd2015
Submissions must be single-author, on the topic of the doctoral work. The name of the supervisor must be clearly marked (« supervised by … ») on the paper, under the author’s name.
Submissions should be written using the following structure:
- Problem: describe the problem that must be solved by the PhD student and motivate its relevance.
- Motivating Scenario and Research Challenges: present a simple scenario in a specific application domain to motivate the research and highlight its challenges.
- State of the art: position the work with respects to relevant related work.
- Methodology: present the methodology that will be adopted.
- Current Status: describe the current status of the work and the preliminary results that have been already reached.
- Research Plan: conclude specifying the plan for the overall PhD.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015
- Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015
- Notifications of Acceptance: July 3, 2015
- Camera ready copy due: July 17, 2015
- Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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REVIEW PROCESS, FORMAT OF THE SYMPOSIUM, and AWARD
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Each submission will be reviewed by at least two experts of the PhD Symposium organization and will be evaluated in terms of their relevance to the FAS* topics, motivation and research challenges, soundness of the methodology proposed and feasibility of the research plan.
Each accepted paper will have two different opportunities to be presented. Besides the full presentation during the PhD Symposium session, during the main conference, a “PhD Elevator Pitch Session” will be organized where each PhD student will showcase his/her research shortly.
The Best Doctoral Symposium paper will be selected and the award will be presented during the main conference.
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INVITED TALK
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Dr. Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London) – Title: “How To Get a PhD in Self-Organizing Systems”.
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PhD SYMPOSIUM EXPERTS
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- Luciano Baresi, DEIB - Politecnico di Milano – Italy
- Geoffrey Fox - Indiana University Bloomington, USA
- Kurt Geihs – Universitaet Kassel
- Salim Hariri University of Arizona, USA
- Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
- Julie McCann - Imperial College, UK
- Alberto Montresor, University of Trento – Italy
- Manish Parashar - Rutgers University, USA
- Jeremy Pitt – Imperial College London – UK
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Doctoral Symposium Chair: Antonio Bucchiarone (FBK-DAS, Trento, Italy)
For information, email to bucchiarone at fbk.eu
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SASO 2015 Call for Tutorials Call for Posters
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Overview
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The ninth SASO conference continues its tradition of offering poster sessions, a great opportunity for interactive presentation of emerging ideas, late-breaking results, experiences, and challenges on SASO topics. Poster sessions are informal and highly interactive, and allow authors and participants to engage in in-depth discussions about the presented work from which new collaborations, ideas, and solutions can emerge.
Posters should cover the same key areas as Research Papers and should contain original cutting-edge ideas, as well as speculative/provocative ones. Proposals of new research directions and innovative interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Submissions in the following areas are particularly encouraged:
- Self-* systems theories, frameworks, models, and paradigms, including the ones inspired by the biological, social, and physical worlds.
- Self-* systems engineering: goals and requirements, hardware and software design, deployment, management and control, validation.
- Properties of self-* systems: self-organisation and emergent behaviour, self- adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self- configuration, etc.
- Evaluation of self-* systems: methods for performance, robustness, and dependability assessment and analysis.
- Social self-* systems: emergent human behaviour, crowdsourcing, collective awareness, gamification and serious games.
- Applications and experiences with self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, power systems, large networks, large data centers, and cloud computing.
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Submission Process
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For evaluation and selection, authors should submit a two-page extended abstract of their poster. The format of this extended abstract must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and it shall be submitted electronically in PDF format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available here.
Electronic submission: Not available yet.
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Important Dates
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Deadline for submission: May 22, 2015
Notification: June 30, 2015
Camera ready copy due: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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Accepted Posters
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If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Posters will be advertised in the final program, and authors' two-page extended abstracts will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the conference proceedings. Abstracts will also be available as part of the IEEE Digital Library.
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Poster Content
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Authors shall prepare their poster for presentation in the reserved poster session, taking into consideration that all posters should include the following information:
The purpose and goals of the work.
Any background and motivation needed to understand the work.
Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work.
A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them.
The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters.
Where to find additional information. This should include but is not restricted to: a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work how to contact the authors, including email addresses citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information.
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Poster Layout Guidelines
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The format of posters and the nature of poster sessions require authors to capture the viewers' attention effectively, and present core concepts so as to clearly position the context of their research work. For this reason, graphic representations, figures, and screen shots are typically the main medium of communication in successful posters. Few attendees will stop to read a large poster with dense text. If screen shots are used, please ensure that they print legibly and that the fonts are large enough to be read easily once printed. The recommended size for the poster is A0 and all poster authors are required to print and bring their posters at the conference.
Attendance
At least one of the poster authors is required to register at the conference and will be required to give a brief presentation of the poster in the interactive poster session, as well as staying with the poster to discuss the work with conference attendees for the duration of the scheduled poster sessions.
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For More Information
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For additional information, clarification, or questions, please contact the Poster Chair.
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Poster Chair
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Sokratis Kartakis, Imperial College London, UK
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Call for Tutorials
FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences
9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System (SASO 2015)
The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015)
The 15th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference
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Important Dates
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The exact deadlines are at 11:59 PM ET (Eastern Time Zone).
- Proposal Submission Deadline: April 20, 2015
- Presenter Notification: April 27, 2015
- Extended Abstract and Presentation Handouts due: August 17, 2015
- Tutorial presentation: September 21-25, 2015
FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences 2015 will host a joint tutorial program, hosted by MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the week of September 21-25, 2015.
FAS* federates the 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System (SASO 2015), The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015) and The 15th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference. For detailed information about SASO 2015, CAC 2015 and P2P 2015 please visit their respective conference websites.
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The goal of the tutorial program of FAS* 2015 is to provide an instructional offer to scholars, practitioners and students attending the conference, on a range of topics related to self* computing systems.
We plan to accommodate either half-day tutorials (approx. 3.0 hours, plus one 30-minutes break) and full-day tutorials (approx 6.0 hours, plus two 30-minutes breaks, and a lunch break). The topic of a tutorial may range from practical techniques and technologies, to methodologies, guidelines over standards, to theoretical aspects related to self* systems (software, networks or services).
The topic areas that fall into the general scope of FAS* conferences, as well as the focus of this year's conferences, are listed in the Call for Papers that is available on the FAS* conferences’ web site. Please note that no marketing or product specific tutorials will be accepted.
Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. Topics that can capture the interest of a broad audience of scholars, practitioners or students are preferred.
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Review Process
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Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated by the FAS* organizing committee according to relevance and to FAS* conferences and their communities, attractiveness and novelty of the topic, consistency with the focus of the conference, general fit within the overall tutorial program, and previous teaching experience of the proposers.
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Submission Guidelines
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Tutorial proposals must not be longer than three pages, in the same format of the FAS* research papers, that is, compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style.
Please make sure the submission includes the following elements:
- title of the tutorial;
- preferred duration (half-day or full-day);
- intended level (introductory, intermediate, or advanced) and prerequisites;
- contact information for all presenters, including full name, affiliation, email address, full postal address, phone and fax number, URL of personal homepage;
- short bio of all presenters including prior teaching and tutorial experiences;
- description of the material covered by the tutorial, not exceeding two pages (approx. 1500 words): must include a proposed structure of the content to be presented;
- identification of the target audience (e.g., researchers, teachers, practitioners, students);
- references of publications (books, papers etc.) the tutorial builds on;
- indication of whether the submission of a tutorial paper (see below) is planned.
All proposals should be submitted as a PDF document via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fas2015
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Accepted Proposals
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Once notified that the tutorial has been accepted, tutorial proposers should prepare a two-page extended abstract - compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style - describing the content of the tutorial, in addition to the handout material that is going to be distributed to the participants to their tutorial. Both the extended abstract and the handout material must be ready and submitted to the Tutorial Chair by the deadline noted above.
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Ivan Rodero, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (irodero AT rutgers.edu)
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SASO 2015 Call For Workshops
at the Ninth IEEE International Conference
on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015)
Cambridge, MA
September 21 & 25, 2015
http://saso2015.mit.edu
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The SASO 2015 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conference. SASO 2015 workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Its aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO conference.
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- Proposal Submission Deadline: April 20, 2015
- Acceptance Notification: April 27, 2015
- CFP Submission Deadline: May 4, 2015
- Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2015
- Paper Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2015
- Early Registration Deadline: TBD
- Camera-Ready Papers due: August 10, 2015
- Workshop notes submission to WS chairs: August 17, 2015
- Workshops dates: September 21 & 25, 2015
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SASO 2015 Workshops - Requirements for Submission
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Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information:
- Title of the workshop.
- A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference.
- Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length.
- The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions.
- The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee.
- Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).
- A brief description of the workshop format.
- List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations.
- List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable).
The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including:
- A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
- A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop.
- Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees.
- A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any.
- A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised.
All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the SASO 2015 Workshops Chair.
The selection of the workshops to be included in the final SASO 2015 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including:
- the scientific/technical interest of the topics,
- the quality of the proposal,
- complementarity with the conference topics,
- balance and distinctness of workshop topics,
- and the capacity of the conference workshop program.
Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals.
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For all accepted proposals, SASO 2015 will be responsible for:
- Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
- Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshop.
- Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
- Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for SASO.
- Arranging for publication of proceedings.
Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:
- Setting up a web site for the workshop.
- Advertising the workshop (and the main SASO conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation.
- Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee.
- Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements.
- Writing a 1-page organizers introduction for your proceedings.
- Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings).
SASO reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs.
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Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to the SASO 2015 workshop chair: Gauthier Picard (MINES Saint-Etienne, France) gauthier.picard at emse.fr
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
(SASO 2015)
Boston Massachusetts; 21-25 September 2015
https://saso2015.mit.edu/
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Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences
Collocated with:
The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015)
The 15th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference (P2P 2015)
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Aims and Scope
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The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference series (SASO) 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. The complexity of current and emerging networks, software and services, especially
in dealing with dynamics in the environment and problem domain, 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
such computing systems. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches. They form the basis for
many other self-* properties, such as self-configuration, self-healing, or self-optimization. Systems exhibiting such properties are often referred to as self-* systems.
The ninth edition of the SASO conference embraces the inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, empirical, and application dimensions of self-* systems and welcomes
novel results on both self-adaptive and self-organizing systems research. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Self-* systems theory: theoretical frameworks and models; biologically- and socially-inspired paradigms; inter-operation of self-* mechanisms;
- Self-* systems engineering: reusable mechanisms, design patterns, architectures, methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods, platforms
and toolkits; hardware; self-* materials;
- Self-* system properties: robustness, resilience and stability; emergence; computational awareness and self-awareness; reflection;
- Self-* cyber-physical and socio-technical systems: human factors and visualization; self-* social computers; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; human-in-the-loop;
- Applications and experiences of self-* systems: cyber security, transportation, computational sustainability, big data and creative commons, power systems; swarm systems and robotics.
- Self-* in education: experience reports; curricula; innovative course concepts; methodological aspects of self-* systems education
Contributions must present novel theoretical or experimental results; novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks or tools; or practical
approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems and applications. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given
family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged. Likewise, papers describing substantial
innovation or insights in the use and communication of self-* systems in the classroom are welcome.
Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions.
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Important Dates
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Abstract submission: May 8, 2015
Paper submission: May 22, 2015 (There will be no extensions of this deadline!)
Notification: June 30, 2015
Camera ready copy due: July 17, 2015
Conference: September 21-25, 2015
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Submission Instructions
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All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in PDF format.
Please register as authors and submit your papers using the SASO 2015 conference management system that will be announced on the website.
The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. Note that a separate Call for Poster Submissions
will also be issued.
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Review Criteria
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Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
We expect both theoretical and empirical contributions to be clearly stated, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on.
Appropriate reference must be made to related work. Because SASO is a cross-disciplinary conference, papers must be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not
members of the same specialized sub-field.
Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome but they must clearly state the insight into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems which is of benefit to practitioners and the SASO community.
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Conference General Chairs
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Howard E Shrobe
MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
Julie A McCann
Imperial College London, UK
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Program Chairs
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Emma Hart
Edinburgh Napier University
Gregory Sullivan
BAE Systems AIT
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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