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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>[Apologies for multiple copies]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Complexity Journal, JCR Impact Factor in 2017: 1,829<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Special Issue on Scalable Distributed Decision-Making and Coordination in Large and Complex Systems: Methods, Techniques, and Models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Scope:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>-----<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Human society, global economy, and Internet are becoming ever more decentralized while millions of computers connected to the Internet facilitate engineering of systems whose scale goes beyond spatial and computational boundaries of individual organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The decision-making authority in this context is distributed throughout a system and the decisions are made locally arising from interactions of an individual with the rest of the system and with its environment. A desired global behavior following the identifiable interest of the whole system is the result of system intelligence that emerges from the system’s belief system and system’s collective actions and, as such, is a shift away from the hierarchical system paradigm. Distributed Decision-Making (DDM) models are usually used to support group decision-making in such large and complex systems where each agent holds only limited information and where the cooperation between agents is crucial for the system’s performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In this special issue, we invite the submission of original research articles that focus on the design and implementation of new methods, techniques, and models that adapt or hybridize findings from Distributed Optimization, Multi-Agent Systems, Network Science, and Distributed Computing and facilitate distributed/parallel/multi-agent decision-making and coordination for solving complex computational and real-life problems in large systems. Moreover, we welcome articles focused on any aspect of intelligent and distributed decision-making and coordination in large and complex systems including its formal analysis, with an intention to balance between theoretical research ideas and their practicability. Review articles on the State-of-the-Art in DDM are also welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM and distributed coordination models and algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM architectures and protocols<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM ownership<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Delegation and direct participation in DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span>Emerging behaviors in DDM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Fault-tolerance, reliability, and availability in DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Hybrid DDM in systems involving software agents and human actors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Individual versus system DDM performance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> (Meta)-heuristics for DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Network intelligence and DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Resolving gridlocks in DDM organizational structure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Self-organization and adaptability of DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Specification, semantics, verification, and testing of DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Time-efficiency in DDM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM in groups and crowds, Internet, logistics, multi-robot systems, and transport<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM in intelligent grid and cloud infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM in mobile adaptive networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> DDM in unmanned aerial vehicles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission Guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We solicit original contributions relevant to the special issue that have not been published/presented earlier and are not under submission at any other venue. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 40% of new material to be considered for the special issue. Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at <a href="https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/complexity/sddm/">https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/complexity/sddm/</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>New Submission Deadline Friday, 26 April 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Publication Date September 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guest Editors<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Marin Lujak, IMT Lille Douai, Douai, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=IT>Stefano Giordani, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT> Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT> </span><span lang=ES>Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>Marin Lujak<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR'>IMT Lille Douai<br>Informatique et Automatique<br>941, rue Charles Bourseul<br>59508 Douai Cedex, France</span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>