[alife] SASO 2009 - Call for Workshops

[Tom Holvoet]

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			CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

                   Third International Conference on
      Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2009)

	      San Francisco, September 14-18, 2009

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

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

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The SASO 2009 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop  
Program to be held along with the technical conference. SASO 2009  
workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less  
formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Its  
aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and  
comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific  
topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self- 
Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. Members from all areas of the  
SASO community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review.  
Workshops on new and emerging topics, or on applications, are  
particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will  
be one full day in duration. Post-proceedings of the workshops will be  
announced later. Workshop organizers and attendees are expected to  
register both for their workshop and the main SASO conference.

Important Dates for Workshops
- 	MARCH 31, 2009 - Proposal Submission Deadline
-	APRIL 10, 2009 - Acceptance Notification
-	APRIL 15 2009 - Deadline for Posting Workshops Call for Papers
-	JULY 10,  2009 - Submission of contributions to workshops
-	AUGUST  5, 2009 - Workshop papers acceptance notification
-	AUGUST 10, 2009 - Deadline for posting a Call for Participation
-	AUGUST 20, 2009 - Deadline for complete workshop notes submission to  
Workshops chairs.

Workshop chair
-	APRIL 15, 2009 - SASO 2009 Workshops Announced
-	AUGUST 10, 2009 - Call for Participation for the whole series of  
workshops
-	SEPTEMBER, 2009 -  SASO 2009 WORKSHOPS



SASO 2009 Workshops - REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length,  
and should contain the
following information:
-	Title of the workshop.
-	A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the  
workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the  
relevance of the workshop to the main conference.
-	A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
-	A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if  
any, and their relation to the proposed workshop.
-	Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when  
and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and  
affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered  
attendees.
-	A preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing  
the workshop. This should include a brief description of how the  
organizers intend to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop.
-	Description of paper review process and acceptance standards in  
order to keep the highly-qualified workshop.
-	If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees.
-	The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email  
addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This  
committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about  
the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should  
include individuals from multiple institutions.
-	The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee.
-	A description of the qualifications of the individual committee  
members with respect to organizing a SASO workshop, including a list  
of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed  
organizing committee, if any.
-	List of potential program committee members, including their title  
and affiliations.
-	Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day).
-	A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.)  
where the workshop is planned to be advertised.

Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to potential  
participants for comments before submission. All proposals should be  
submitted by electronic mail, to the SASO 2009 Workshops Chairs:

Indranil Gupta (indy at cs.uiuc.edu) and Masayuki Murata (murata at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp 
)
in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than: March 31,  
2009

Prospective organizers will be notified of the committee's decision no  
later than: April 10, 2009

The selection of the workshops to be included in the final SASO 2009  
Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including: the  
scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the  
proposal, balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and the  
capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of  
proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or  
audiences may be requested to merge their proposals.



RESPONSIBILITIES of SASO 2009 and Workshop Organizers

For all accepted proposals, SASO 2009 will be responsible for:
-	Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
-	Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshop.
-	Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
-	Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the  
finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for  
SASO.

Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:
-	Setting up a web site for the workshop.
-	Advertising the workshop (and the main SASO conference), and issuing  
a call for papers (by April 15, 2009) and a call for participation (by  
August 10, 2009).
-	Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of  
acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent  
and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves  
to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions and notifications of  
acceptance: July 10, 2009: Submissions of contributions to workshops;  
August 5, 2009: Notifications.
-	Making the PDF of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop  
chair by August 20, 2009, as well as a list of audio-visual  
requirements and any special room requirements.
-	Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register  
to the workshop and to the main conference (at least one author must  
register for both the workshop and the conference for the paper to  
appear in the workshop notes and post-proceedings).
-	Prepare post-proceedings including revised versions of papers  
(Deadlines to be communicated in due time)

SASO reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above  
responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register  
for the workshop to support its running costs.

SUBMISSIONS AND ENQUIRIES
Please send proposals and inquiries to:
Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. 201 N.  
Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL, USA 61801. indy at cs.uiuc.edu
Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univeristy. 1-32 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka  
560-0043, Japan Japan. murata at ist.osaka-u.c.jp