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<tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">********* eCAS 2020 - Call for Papers & Talks *********</span></tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
5th eCAS Workshop on </span></tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: 400;">Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems</span></tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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At the 1st </span></tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IEEE International Joint ICAC/SASO Conference on
Autonomic Computing & Self-Organizing Systems</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (ACSOS)
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</tt></b><tt>- <b>NEW:</b> Workshop paper & talk submission deadline: June 19, 2020</tt><tt>
</tt><tt>- </tt><tt>Workshop paper & talk notification: June 30, 2020</tt><tt>
</tt><tt>- Camera-Ready Versions due: July 8, 2020</tt><tt>
</tt><tt>- Workshop: August 21, 2020</tt><tt>
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</tt></b><tt>In line with the rest of ACSOS 2020, </tt><b><tt>eCAS 2020 will be fully online</tt></b><b>.
</b>Please see the full statement on the ACSOS website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://2020.acsos.org/news#ACSOS-2020-will-take-place-online">https://2020.acsos.org/news#ACSOS-2020-will-take-place-online</a><b>
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<tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>*** About the eCAS Workshop Series ***</b></span></tt></tt><br>
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<tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Modern computing systems are becoming ever more collective and are often composed of many distributed and heterogeneous entities. These systems operate under continuous perturbations and environmental change, making manual adjustments infeasible. For a collective system to be resilient, its adaptation must also be collective, in the sense that multiple entities must adapt in a way that addresses critical runtime conditions while preserving the benefits of collaborative interdependencies. Decision-making in such systems is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and interaction between the entities may lead to the emergence of unexpected phenomena.
In such systems, new approaches for and understanding of collective adaptation are needed, to allow: (i) multiple entities to adapt in a coordinated or complementary way, with (ii) negotiations, collective action, or other mechanisms to decide which collective changes are to be made. Collective adaptation also raises a second important challenge: Which parts of the system (things, services, people) should adapt, and how? This is nontrivial, as multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels, and individuals in the collective often have partial information. The challenge is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem.
This workshop solicits papers and talks that address new methodologies, theories, principles, and fundamental understanding, that can be used to underpin the design, operation, and analysis of such systems. Case studies, applications showing such approaches in action, and interdisciplinary work are particularly welcome.
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</tt><tt> - Novel theories relating to operating principles of CAS</tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Novel design principles for building CAS systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Insights into the short and long-term adaptation of CAS
systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Insights into emergent properties of CAS</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Insights into general properties of large scale,
distributed CAS</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Comparing and analyzing approaches to CAS (e.g.,
distributed and centralized)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Decision-making approaches in CAS</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Methodologies for studying, analyzing, and building CAS</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Frameworks for analyzing or developing CAS case studies</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Languages, platforms, APIs and other tools for CAS</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Scenarios, case studies, and experience reports of CAS
in different contexts (e.g., Smart Mobility, Smart Energy/Smart
Grid, Smart Buildings, traffic management, emergency response,
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2020 will be the 5th installment in the eCAS workshop series.
For more information about eCAS, check out our web pages:
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*** About the IEEE ACSOS Conference ***</b>
The goal of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is to provide a forum for sharing the latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, self-adaptation and self-organization. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a merger of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). For more information about the merger, as well as up-to-date news, see <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://2020.acsos.org/news/">https://2020.acsos.org/news/</a> or follow us at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf" moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf</a>!</span></tt><tt><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> </tt><tt><b><span>*** Scope ***<br>
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</tt><tt> </tt><tt> The eCAS workshop series attracts participants
from many disciplines, including Autonomic Computing, Biology,
Game Theory, Evolutionary Computing, Network Science,
Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing, and to be of
interest to anyone working with the domain of large-scale
self-adaptive systems. In addition, the European Commission has
funded seven scientific projects and a Coordination Action in this
area, with projects starting at the beginning of 2013. The
proposed workshop provides a natural base for the projects to meet
and share ideas, yet we stress that the workshop is in no way
limited to this audience, and is likely to have broad appeal to a
wide range of researchers. Potential audience members might work
in application areas relating to large-scale distributed systems,
or may come from any of the many disciplines that can provide
insights into the operation and design of such systems.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> </tt><tt><b><span>*** Submission Details and Review
Process ***<br>
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</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Contributions will be peer reviewed for
originality, clarity and readability, relevance to themes,
soundness, and overall quality. We solicit the following types of
contributions:</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> - Workshop papers, limited to 6 pages including
references, following the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings
style guide.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> - Talks, submitted as extended abstracts, limited to 1
page including references, without formatting restrictions.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Workshop papers will be published on IEEE Xplore
in parallel with the main IEEE ACSOS conference proceedings.
Extended abstracts will not be published, should be relevant to
the eCAS community (with a preference for application-focussed
talks or lessons learnt) and may report (i) on work having already
been (partially) presented elsewhere, or (ii) work at an early
stage, where there would be benefit for both the authors and
audience in sharing ideas and progress. All contributions should
be submitted in PDF format using the Easychair login page:</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> By submitting, the authors confirm that in case of
acceptance, at least one author will attend (possibly virtually)
the workshop to present the work.</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt> </tt><tt><b><span>*** Workshop organizers ***<br>
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</span></b></tt><tt><span>Please don't hesitate to get in touch
with the organizers with any queries.</span></tt><tt><b><span></span></b></tt><tt><span class="wikiexternallink"><br>
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- Giorgio Audrito</span></tt><tt>, Università di Torino, Italy,
</tt><tt><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:giorgio.audrito@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">giorgio.audrito@gmail.com</a></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - </tt><tt><span class="wikiexternallink">Peter Lewis</span></tt><tt>,
Aston University, Birmingham, UK, </tt><tt><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.lewis@aston.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">p.lewis@aston.ac.uk</a></tt><tt><br>
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