[alife] SASO 2010 - extended deadlines

[Martijn Schut]

Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems

Budapest, Hungary, September 27-October 1, 2010

SASO 2010

http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/saso10/

Important Dates
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Abstract submission:                      *** May 3, 2010 ***
Paper submission:                         *** May 10, 2010 ***
Notification:                             June 28, 2010
Camera Ready Version of Accepted Papers:  July 19, 2010
Early registration deadline:              August 13, 2010

The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for the 
foundations of a 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 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, control theory, 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.

The fourth edition of the SASO conference encourages submissions in both 
traditional themes of self-adaptivity and self-organization, as well as 
in emerging areas. Some of these new areas include (but are not limited 
to) Internet-enabled applications, cloud computing, social-networking, 
and the Internet of Things. These are enabling radically new and 
innovative services that will play an increasingly important role in 
society, business, and our day to day lives. The success of both new as 
well as traditional research areas ultimately depends on robust self-* 
hardware, software, networking, and services.

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.

Contributions must 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.

Topics
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The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to:

- Applications and experiences with self-* systems
- Design and engineering for self-* systems (self-organization, 
self-adaptation, self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, 
self-repair, self-configuration, etc.)
- Management and control of self-* systems
- Robustness and dependability of self-* systems
- Control of emergent properties in self-* systems
- Biologically, socially, and physically inspired self-* systems
- Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems

Submission Instructions
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All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE 
Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted 
electronically in PDF format. Please register as authors and submit your 
papers using the SASO 2010 conference management system. The proceedings 
will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available as 
a part of the IEEE digital library. A separate call for poster 
submissions will be launched during March 2010.

Review Criteria
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Papers should present novel ideas in the topic domains listed above, 
clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. 
We expect claims of contribution to be clearly stated and substantiated 
by formal analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and 
so on. Appropriate reference must be made to related work.

Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application 
papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance 
of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment 
domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or 
superiority to alternative approaches. If the application is still early 
work in progress, then the authors are expected to provide strong 
arguments as to why the proposed approach will work in the chosen domain.