[agents] The 4th International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems, DSS 2018

[Leonel Aguilar]

We cordially invite you to participate in the 4th International Workshop on
Data-Driven Self-Regulating Systems, DSS 2018.

The 4th International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems, DSS
2018 (http://dss2018.inn.ac/) will be held along with the 12th IEEE
International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
(SASO) (https://saso2018.fbk.eu/). SASO is part of the Foundations and
Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*).

The emergence of pervasive, ubiquitous and artificial intelligence driven
technologies has resulted in unprecedented opportunities for the future
development of techno-socio-economic systems but also highlights risks and
dilemmas related to human autonomy, delegation, privacy, etc. Embedded ICT
technologies range from real time monitoring and assisting systems for
human well-being to systems that mandate the functionality and operations
of traffic management infrastructure, transportation systems, smart grids,
power/gas/water networks, etc. It is estimated that over 50 billion
connected smart devices will be on-line by the year 2020. These autonomous
smart devices powered by ever improving machine learning techniques and
interacting with human users and other devices add to the complexity of our
techno-socio-economic systems. It is evident that regulating these
interacting complex systems of nowadays digital society is a grand
challenge. Regulation needs to consider trade-offs such as the alignment of
technical requirements, e.g. robustness, fault-tolerance, safety and
security, with social or environmental requirements, for instance, fairness
in the utilization of energy resources. Smart, autonomic and
self-regulating mechanisms need to be developed for filtering and reasoning
about data streams in real-time and transform them to valuable information
based on which intelligent adaptive decisions can be made in a
decentralized fashion under a plethora of operational scenarios.

Topics
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Topics and application domains may include (but not limited to) the
following:
--artificial intelligence & machine learning
--self-regulation
--autonomic computing
--Internet of Things
--pervasive/ubiquitous computing
--big data analytics
--cloud computing
--distributed systems
--multi-agent systems
--self-organization
--adaptive mechanisms
--complex systems & (social) networks
--mechanism design & game theory
--intelligent health management
--smart grids
--power/gas/water networks
--transportation/traffic systems
--ambient-assisted living
--social media/networks
--mobile applications
--disease spreading
--evacuation planning

Submission Instructions
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You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above
and other topics related to self-regulating systems. Submitted papers must
not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please,
indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords and
an abstract of no more than 400 words. Papers must be formatted according
to CPS format; see formatting instructions and stylesheets and have a
maximum length of 6 pages. Papers are submitted as PDF files via the
Easychar: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dss2018. Each paper will
receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their
originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
registered and presented at the workshop. Workshop proceedings will be
published in IEEE Computer Society’s Conference Publishing Services.
Authors of distinguished workshop papers may be invited to extend their
workshop papers for their possible publication in a special issue of an
international journal.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline: June 20, 2018
Authors notification: July 9, 2018
Final manuscript Due: July 15, 2018
Workshop date: September 3, 2018

Workshop Chairs
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Leonel Aguilar. - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ver Bilano - Imperial College London
Evangelos Pournaras - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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