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		    Third IEEE International Conference on
		Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
			(IEEE approval pending)

                              SASO  2009

      September 14-18, 2009 - San Francisco, USA

	      http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/saso2009/

		http://www.saso-conference.org/

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The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for laying  
the foundations of a new principled approach to engineering systems,  
networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization.  
To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different  
backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research  
fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks,  
methodologies, tools, and applications. The complexity of current and  
emerging computing systems has led the software engineering,  
distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration  
in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, artificial intelligence,  
sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing  
networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization  
and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets  
of a paradigm shift.

Self-adaptive systems work in a top down manner. They evaluate their  
own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that  
they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when  
better functionality or performance is possible. A challenge is often  
to identify how to change specific behaviors to achieve the desired  
improvement. Self-organizing systems work bottom up. They are composed  
of a large number of components that interact locally according to  
typically simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from  
these local interactions. Here, a challenge is often to predict and  
control the resulting global behavior. This year's edition is  
specifically focused at improving our understanding of the properties  
inherent to self-adaptation and self-organization, a necessary  
requirement for the effective engineering and building of usable self- 
adaptive and self-organizing systems. Contributions should present  
novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and  
experiences in building or
deploying real-world systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc.  
Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given  
family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain  
approach for different systems are particularly encouraged.

PROGRAM
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Monday, September 14th
09:00am-5:00pm	Tutorial Sessions

	• (02:00pm - 05:00pm) Structured overlay networks: Self-organization  
and scalability issues
09:00am-5:00pm	Workshop Sessions

	• (09:00am - 05:00pm) Workshop on Self-Adaptation for Robustness and  
Cooperation in Holonic Multi-agent systems (SARC)
	• (09:00am - 05:00pm) Workshop on Business Applications and Potential  
of self-adaptive and self-organizing systems (SASO-Biz)
	• (09:00am - 05:00pm) Workshop on Spatial Computing (SCW)
Tuesday, September 15th
09:00am-5:00pm	Tutorial Sessions

	• (09:00am - 12:00pm) Organic Computing - Methodology and Applications
	• (02:00pm - 05:00pm) Spatial Computing for Swarms
09:00am-5:00pm	Workshop Sessions

	• (09:00am - 05:00pm) Workshop on the Practice and Theory of  
Programming Collectives (PROTOCOL)
	• (09:00am - 05:00pm) Workshop on Architectures and languages for  
self-managing distributed systems (Self-Man)
	• (09:00am - 05:00pm) Workshop on Metareasoning in Self-Adaptive  
Systems (Metareasoning)
Wednesday, September 16th
08:30am-10:00am	Welcome and Opening Session

	• Opening remarks by Randy Katz, Giovanna Di Marzo
	• Comments by Conference Organizers (General Chairs, Program Chairs,  
Chairs for next SASO)
	• Keynote Address: David Patterson, University of California,  
Berkeley. Topic: Applying Machine Learning to Systems Management
10:00am-10:30am	Coffee break

10:30am-12:00pm	Session 1: Theory

	• Tom Holvoet, Danny Weyns and Paul Valckenaers. Patterns of Delegate  
MAS
	• Andrew Berns and Sukumar Ghosh. Dissecting Self-* Properties
	• Ivana Dusparic and Vinny Cahill. Distributed W-Learning: Multi- 
Policy Optimization in Self-Organizing Systems
12:00am-12:30pm	Introduction to today's posters, Jake Beal, Salima  
Hassas

12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch (Conference Provided) + Poster session

1:30pm-3:00pm	Session 2: Peer-to-peer and Swarms

	• Wojciech Galuba, Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic and Wolfgang  
Kellerer. Self-organized fault-tolerant routing in peer-to-peer overlays
	• Paul L. Snyder, Rachel Greenstadt and Giuseppe Valetto. Myconet: A  
Fungi-inspired Model for Superpeer-based Peer-to-Peer Overlay Topologies
	• Sven Brueckner, Robert Bisson, Theodor Belding and Elizabeth Downs.  
Swarming Polyagents Executing Hierarchical Task Networks
3:00pm-3:30pm	Coffee break

3:30pm-5:00pm	Session 3: Swarms

	• Arnaud Glad, Olivier Buffer, Olivier Simonin and François  
Charpillet. Self-Organization of Patrolling-Ant Algorithms
	• Sven Brueckner. Swarming Geographic Event Profiling, Link Analysis,  
and Prediction
	• Rodolphe Charrier, Christine Bourjot and François Charpillet. Study  
of Self-adaptation Mechanisms in a Swarm of Logistic Agents
Thursday, September 17th
8:30am-10:00am	Session 1: Sensor Networks

	• Rosalind Wang, George Mathews, Don Price and Mikhail Prokopenko.  
Optimising Sensor Layouts for Direct Measurement of Discrete Variables
	• Peter Janacik and Alexander Kujat. Biologically-Inspired  
Construction of Connected k-Hop Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor  
Networks
	• Dan Marinescu, Chen Yu and Gabriela Marinescu. Self-organization of  
Very Large Sensor Networks Based on Small-worlds Principles
10:00am-10:30am	Coffee break

10:30am-12:00pm Self-management and Cloud Computing, Panel Moderator:  
Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna)
Participants:

	• John Wilkes (Google)
	• Tal Klein (Citrix Systems)
	• Mazin Yousif (Intel/Numonyx)
	• Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale)
	• Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford University)

12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch (Conference Provided, Posters available in the  
lunch area)

1:30pm-3:00pm Session 2: Hardware and Networking

	• Andreas Bernauer, Oliver Bringmann and Wolfgang Rosenstiel. Generic  
Self-Adaptation to Reduce Design Effort for System-on-Chip
	• Uwe Brinkschulte and Mathias Pacher. A Theoretical Examination of a  
Self-Adaptation Approach to Improve the Real-Time Capabilities in  
Multi-Threaded Microprocessors
	• Stefan Wildermann, Tobias Ziermann and Jürgen Teich. Self- 
organizing Bandwidth Sharing in Priority-based Medium Access
3:00pm-3:30pm	Coffee break

3:30pm-5:00pm	Session 3: Robotics

	• Yaochu Jin, Hongliang Guo and Yan Meng. Robustness Analysis and  
Failure Recovery of A Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Robot System
	• Emre Cakar and Christian Müller-Schloer. Self-Organising  
Interaction Patterns of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Multi-Agent  
Populations
	• Lukas König and Hartmut Schmeck. A Completely Evolvable Genotype- 
Phenotype Mapping for Evolutionary Robotics
Friday, September 18th
08:30am-10:00am Session 1: Sensor Networks

	• Dirk Niebuhr, Andreas Rausch, Cornel Klein, Jürgen Reichmann and  
Reiner Schmid. Guaranteeing Correctness of Component Bindings in  
Dynamic Adaptive Systems based on Runtime Testing
	• Joshua Jones, Chris Parnin, Avik Sinhraroy, Spencer Rugaber and  
Ashok Goel. Teleological Software Adaptation
	• Cyril BALLAGNY, Nabil Hameurlain and Franck Barbier. MOCAS: a State- 
Based Component Model for Self-Adaptation
10:00am-10:30am Coffee break

10:30am-12:00pm Session 2: Distributed Control and Learning

	• Alexandra Brintrup, Tao Gong, Andreas Ligtvoet, Chris Davis, Willem  
van Willigen and Edward Robinson. Distributed control of emergence:  
lying agents in particle swarms and ant colonies
	• David B. Knoester and Philip K. McKinley. Evolution of  
Probabilistic Consensus in Digital Organisms
	• Mohammad Ahmad Munawar, Miao Jiang, Thomas Reidemeister and Paul.  
A. S. Ward. Filtering system metrics for minimal correlation-based  
self-monitoring
12:00pm-1:30pm Lunch (on your own)

1:30pm-3:00pm Session 3: Applications

	• Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia and Ludmila Cherkasova. Satisfying  
Service Level Objectives in a Self-Managing Resource Pool
	• Fahad Javed and Naveed Arshad. AdOpt: An Adaptive Optimization  
Framework for Large-scale Power Distribution Systems
	• Jiaming Li, Geoff James and Geoff Poulton. Set-Points Based Optimal  
Multi-Agent Coordination for Controlling Distributed Energy Loads
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

03:30pm-4:30pm Postnote Presentation, Michael Jordan, University of  
Califronia, Berkeley. Topic: Recent Developments in Distributed  
Machine Learning.

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