[agents] Final CfP - Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO)

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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