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ACSOS 2021 - Call For Papers ***</tt></b><b><tt><b><tt>****</tt></b></tt></b><b><tt><b><tt><b><tt>***</tt></b></tt></b></tt></b><b><tt><b><tt><b><tt><b><tt>***</tt></b></tt></b></tt></b></tt></b><b><tt><b><tt><b><tt><b><tt><b><tt>**+</tt></b></tt></b></tt></b></tt></b>
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</tt><tt><b>+</b> 2nd IEEE International Conference
on <b>+</b><br>
<b>+</b> Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing
Systems <b>+</b></tt><tt><br>
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<b>+</b><br>
</tt><tt><b>+</b> 27 September -- 1 October 2021 – Washington,
DC, USA <b>+</b></tt><tt><br>
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</tt><b><tt>********* Important Dates</tt></b><tt><b> **********</b></tt><br>
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</tt><tt> - Abstract submission deadline: <b>April 16th,
2021</b> </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Paper submission deadline: <b>April 23th, 2021</b>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Notification to authors: <b>June 25th, 2021</b></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - Camera ready: <b>August 13th, 2021</b></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> - ACSOS Conference: <b>September 27th -- October
1st, 2021</b> </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>All times in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone. </tt><tt><br>
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<p><b><tt>************************************<br>
******** Goals and Mission *********<br>
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</p>
<tt>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).<br>
<br>
Emerging large-scale systems (including data centers, cloud
computing, smart cities, cyber-physical systems, sensor
networks, and embedded or pervasive environments) are becoming
increasingly complex, heterogeneous, and difficult to manage.
The challenges of designing, controlling, managing, monitoring,
and evolving such complex systems in a principled way led the
scientific community to look for inspiration in diverse fields,
such as biology, biochemistry, physics, complex systems, control
theory, artificial intelligence, and sociology. To address these
challenges novel modeling and engineering techniques are needed
that help to understand how local behavior and global behavior
relate to each other. Such models and practices are a key
condition for understanding, controlling, and designing the
emergent behavior in autonomic and self-adaptive systems.<br>
<br>
The mission of ACSOS is to provide an interdisciplinary forum
for researchers and industry practitioners to address these
challenges to make resources, applications, and systems more
autonomic, self-adaptive, and self-organizing. ACSOS provides a
venue to share and present their experiences, discuss
challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress
research. The conference program will include technical research
papers, in-practice experience reports, vision papers, posters,
demos, and a doctoral symposium.<br>
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</tt><b><tt>************** Scope</tt></b><tt><b> ***************</b><br>
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</tt><tt>We invite novel contributions related to the fundamental
understanding of autonomic computing, self-adaption and
self-organization along with principles and practices of their
engineering and application. The topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Autonomic and Self-* system properties</i>:
robustness; resilience; efficient resource management;
stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-reference and
reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and
self-awareness;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Autonomic and Self-* systems theory</i>:
bio-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics;
theoretical frameworks and models; languages and formal methods;
queuing and control theory; requirement and goal expression
techniques; uncertainty as a first class entity;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Autonomic and Self-* systems engineering</i>:
reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; programming
languages; architectures; operating systems and middlewares;
testing and validation methodologies; runtime models; techniques
for assurance; platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Autonomic and Self-* systems practice</i>: case
studies from industry, experimental setups and data sets,
experience reports with established autonomic and self-*
software;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Data-driven management</i>: data mining; machine
learning; data science and other statistical techniques to
analyze, understand, and manage the behavior of complex systems
or establishing self-awareness;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Mechanisms and principles for self-organisation
and self-adaptation</i>: inter-operation of self-* mechanisms;
evolution, logic, and learning; addressing large-scale and
decentralized system;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Socio-technical self-* systems</i>: human and
social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective
awareness;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Autonomic and self-* concepts applied to hardware
systems</i>: self-* materials; self-construction;
reconfigurable hardware, self-* properties for quantum
computing;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud, and
Internet of Things</i>: moving artificial intelligence to the
edge, collective decision processes, in-network learning,
distributed reinforcement learning;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Self-adaptive cybersecurity</i>: intrusion
detection, malware attribution, zero-trust networks and
blockchain-based approaches, privacy in self-* systems;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>Cross disciplinary research</i>: approaches that
draw inspiration from complex systems, artificial intelligence,
physics, chemistry, psychology, sociology, biology, and
ethology.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>We invite research papers applying autonomic and self-*
approaches to a wide range of application areas, including (but
not limited to):</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * smart environments: -grids, -cities, -homes, and
-manufacturing;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * Internet of things and cyber-physical systems;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * robotics, autonomous vehicles, and traffic management;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * cloud (including serverless), fog, edge computing and
data centers;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * hypervisors, containerization services, orchestration,
operating systems, and middleware;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * biological and bio-inspired systems.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Note that separate calls for Poster, Demo, and
In-Practice Report Submissions will also be issued, as well as a
call for participation in the Doctoral Symposium. </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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***** </tt></b><b><tt><tt>Submission Instructions</tt> *****<br>
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</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><b>Research papers</b> (<i>up to 10 pages including
images, tables, and references</i>) should present novel ideas
in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this
call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied
research.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><b>Experience Reports</b> (<i>up to 10 pages including
images, tables, and references</i>) cover innovative
implementations, novel applications, interesting performance
results and experience in applying recent research advance to
practical situations on any topics of interest.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><b>Vision Papers</b> (<i>up to 6 pages including images,
tables, and references</i>) introduce ground-shaking,
provocative, and even controversial ideas; discuss long term
perspectives and challenges; focus on overlooked or
underrepresented areas, and foster debate.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>All submissions must indicate a primary and (optionally)
a secondary topic area from the following list:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>RM</i>: Resource Manargement in Data Centers and
Cloud Computing</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>CPS</i>: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet
of Things (IoT)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>SOSA</i>: Theory and Practice of
Self-Organization, Self-Adaptation, and Organic Computing</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>ENG</i>: Software and Systems Engineering for
Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>SYS</i>: Systems theory for Autonomic and
Self-Organizing Systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>DATA</i>: Data-Driven Approaches to Autonomic and
Self-Organizing Systems Analysis and Management</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>NEW</i>: Emerging Computing Paradigms</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>SOC</i>: Socio-technical Autonomic and
Self-Organizing Systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>LANG</i>: Languages and Formal Methods for
Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>COG</i>: Self-Aware, Reflective, and Cognitive
Computing</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>APP</i>: Application Areas for Autonomic and
Self-Organizing Systems such as Autonomous Vehicles, Smart
Cities, Swarms, etc.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>REL</i>: Assurances, security, resilience, and
reliability of Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> * <i>CROSS</i>: Cross-disciplinary research on e.g.,
complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence,
chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>All submissions are required to be formatted according to
the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style
guide: <<a
href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Papers are submitted electronically in PDF format through
the ACSOS 2021 conference management system: <<a
href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acsos21"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acsos21</a>>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Research papers and experience reports will be included
in the conference proceedings that will be published by IEEE
Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE
Digital Library. Vision papers will be part of a separate
proceedings volume (the ACSOS Companion).</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>As per the standard IEEE policies, all submissions should
be original, i.e., they should not have been previously
published in any conference proceedings, book, or journal and
should not currently be under review for another archival
conference. We would like to also highlight IEEE’s policies
regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism:</tt><tt> <<a
href="https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/id-plagiarism.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/id-plagiarism.html</a>>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also
be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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********* Review Criteria *********<br>
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</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><b><i>Research papers</i></b> should highlight both
theoretical and empirical contributions, substantiated by formal
analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative
studies. Appropriate references must be made to related work.
Due to the cross-disciplinary nature of the ACSOS conference, we
encourage papers to be intelligible and relevant to researchers
who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Moreover,
research papers should provide an indication of the real-world
relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description
of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, usability,
and/or comparison to alternative approaches.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><b><i>Experience reports</i></b> should provide insights
into any aspect of design, implementation or management of
self-* systems that would be of benefit to practitioners and the
ACSOS community.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><b><i>Vision Papers</i></b> should introduce innovative,
risky, visionary, and provocative ideas, spotlighting overlooked
areas, raising controversial points, and exploring
cross-disciplinary contaminations.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><i><b>All submissions</b></i> will be rigorously
peer-reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of their
technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance,
presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall
quality.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>We intend to continue the tradition of giving the best
papers of the conference an opportunity to publish an extended
version in a <b><i>special issue</i></b> of ACM Transactions on
Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>The <b><i>Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award</i></b> will
be awarded to a selected paper.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><b><tt><br>
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*** (NEW!)</tt></b><b><tt><b><tt>
***</tt></b> <br>
*** Artifact Evaluation program ***<br>
******************************************</tt></b><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>For the first time, ACSOS introduces an <b><i>artifact
evaluation program</i></b>. To improve reproducibility of
results, <i>authors of accepted papers</i> with a computational
component are invited to submit their code and/or their data to
an <b><i>optional</i></b> artifact evaluation process. A
dedicated committee will be in charge of reproducing the results
presented in the accepted papers. <b><i>Participation in the
program is OPTIONAL and does not impact the paper acceptance
in any way</i></b>. The best artifacts will be awarded the
IEEE ACSOS Best Software Artifact Award. Artifacts that are
successfully reproduced will be highlighted in the conference
program, and they will feature in the corresponding camera ready
paper a badge of reproducibility.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>For more information, please refer to the <font
color="#ff0000">First ACSOS Artifact Evaluation program page</font>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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</b><b>********* Demos & Posters **********</b><b><br>
</b><b>************************************</b><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Posters provide a forum for authors to present their work
in an informal and interactive setting. They allow authors and
interested participants to engage in discussions about their
work. Demonstration should present an existing tool or research
prototype. Authors are expected to perform a live demonstration
on their own hardware during the poster and demonstration
session. Contributions will be collected in <b><i>ACSOS
Companion Proceedings</i></b>, published by IEEE Computer
Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital
Library.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>For more information, please refer to the <font
color="#ff0000">ACSOS 2021 call for posters and demos</font>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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</b><b>***** Workshops and Tutorials ******</b><b><br>
</b><b>************************************</b></tt><b><tt> </tt></b><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>ACSOS workshops will provide a meeting place for
presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more
focused way than the conferences themselves. Their aim is to
stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and
comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas. Contributions will
be collected in <b><i>ACSOS Companion Proceedings</i></b>,
published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as
a part of the IEEE Digital Library.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>For more information, please refer to the <font
color="#ff0000">ACSOS 2021 call for workshops and tutorials</font>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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</b><b>******** Doctoral Symposium ********</b><b><br>
</b><b>************************************</b></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>The Doctoral Symposium provides an international forum
for PhD students working in ACSOS-related research fields to
present their work to a diverse audience of leading experts in
the field, to gain both insightful feedback and discussion
points around their research as well as the invaluable
experience of presenting new research to an international
audience. Contributions will be collected in <i><b>ACSOS
Companion Proceedings</b></i>, published by IEEE Computer
Society Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital
Library.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>For more information, please refer to the <font
color="#ff0000">ACSOS 2021 Doctoral Symposium call for
participation</font>.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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</b><b>*** ACSOS in Practice
***</b><b><br>
</b><b>*** Accelerating Convergence between Academia and
Industry (ACAI) ***</b><b><br>
</b><b>*********************************************************************</b><br>
</tt><tt>.<br>
</tt><tt>ACAI@ACSOS features short vision talks and opportunities
for researchers to brainstorm potential collaborations. We ask
ALL ACAI attendees to submit information about their interests,
qualifications and visions for ACAI.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Contributions will be collected in <i><b>ACSOS Companion
Proceedings</b></i>, published by IEEE Computer Society
Press, and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library.</tt><tt><br>
For more information, please refer to the <font color="#ff0000">ACAI@ACSOS2021
call for papers</font>.</tt> </div>
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