[alife] Call for participation: SASO'15, 21-25 September, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Wed Jul 29 01:59:27 PDT 2015

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems
(SASO 2015)

MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 21-25 September 2015

https://saso2015.mit.edu/

Part of FAS* -- Foundation and Applications of Self-* Computing Conferences
Co-located with:
The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2015)
The 15th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference (P2P 2015)

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GREATLY REDUCED HOTEL RATES AVAILABLE TILL AUGUST 21!

The 2015 edition of the SASO conference series will be held in 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and hosted by MIT in the week of September 21 
to September 25, 2015.

The aim of the Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems conference 
series (SASO) 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. The ninth edition of the SASO 
conference embraces the inter-disciplinarity and the scientific, 
empirical and application dimensions of self-* systems; it thus aims to 
attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster 
cross-pollination between research fields, and to expose and discuss 
innovative theories, design principles, frameworks, methodologies, 
tools, and applications.

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Registration

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The Early Registration deadline is September 4, 2015.
Deadline for reduced hotel rates is August 21, 2015.

Registration is available at:
https://saso2015.mit.edu/registration

A single registration fee includes access to the main conference, 
tutorials,
workshops, and the doctoral symposium. Moreover, it includes a 
conference kit
with  electronic proceedings, all coffee breaks, lunches, free entrance 
to the
Welcome Reception and Conference Dinner.

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Technical Program

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We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer six keynotes 
together with CAC and P2P, including among others:
* Albert-László Barabási, Center for Complex Network Research - Barabási 
Lab, Northeastern University Physics Department
* Yang-Yu Liu, Harvard Medical School
* Azer Bestavros, Boston University
* Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna.

Full papers:
* An Approach to Robust Resource Allocation in Large-Scale Systems of 
Systems
* Multi-satellite mission planning using a self-adaptive multi-agent system
* Distributed Recovery for Enterprise Services
* Self-organising Zooms for Decentralised Redundancy Management in 
Visual Sensor Networks
* Active Learning for Efficient Sampling of Control Models of Collectives
* Distributed Current Flow Betweenness Centrality
* Multi-agent Self-organization and Reorganization to Adapt M2M 
Infrastructures
* Darwin in Smart Power Grids - Evolutionary Game Theory for Analyzing 
Self-Organization in Demand-Side Aggregation
* A Generic Social Capital Framework for Optimising Self-Organised 
Collective Action
* Foraging-inspired Self-organisation for Terrain Exploration with 
Failure-prone Agents
* Efficient Engineering of Complex Self-Organizing Systems by 
Self-Stabilising Fields
* PeerMatcher: Decentralized Partnership Formation
* Combining Conflicting Environmental and Task Requirements in 
Evolutionary Robotics
* Self-managed sensor network scheduling using Bayesian dynamic linear 
models

Short papers:
* A Mutual Influence Detection Algorithm for Systems with Local 
Performance Measurement
* Value-Sensitive Design of Self-Organisation
* Ashbian homeostasis as non-autonomous adaptation
* Reciprocal Agents for Self-Organization in Large-Scale Allocation 
Problems

Posters:
* Social Amoeba Dictyostelium Discoideum As an Inspiration for Swarm 
Robotics
* Creating Complex Applications Via Self-Adapting Autonomous Agents in 
an Intelligent System Framework
* Self-directed weight management by feedback from a self-adaptive 
metabolic health monitoring system
* Cyber-Physical-Social System Self-Organization: Ontology-Based 
Multi-Level Approach and Case Study
* Citizen-driven flood mapping in Jakarta - A self-organising 
socio-technical system
* Hierarchical Service-Oriented Architecture for Development of 
Autonomic Systems
* Sustainable Safety in Mobile Multi-Robot Systems via Collective 
Adaptation
* Towards a spatial language for run-time assessments in self-organizing 
systems

Demo:
* Towards Self-Adaptation on Real-World Hardware: a Preliminary 
Lightweight Programming Framework

In addition, six workshops are planned to be available to conference 
attendees free of charge:
* 3rd Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FoCAS) 
http://focas.eu/saso-2015/
* 2nd Workshop on Quality Assurance for Self-Adaptive, Self-Organising 
Systems (QA4SASO) http://qa4saso.isse.de
* 1st Workshop on Spatial and COllective PErvasive Computing Systems 
(SCOPES) http://www.spatial-computing.org/scopes
* 9th Workshop on Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL) 
http://www.lero.ie/dspl2015
* Workshop on Diagnosing, Reacting, Evading And Manoeuvring (DREAM) 
http://www.dollabs.com/saso2015ahansdreamworkshop
* 3rd Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical 
Systems (SASO^ST) http://sasost.isse.de

Several tutorials, including:
* "Enabling Software-Defined Federations using CometCloud". Organizers: 
Javier Diaz-Montes, Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
* "Fundamentals of Autonomic Cloud Security". Organizer: Salim Hariri 
(University of Arizona)

Doctoral symposium, including research ideas on:
* Cross layer Anomaly based intrusion detection system
* Testing Self-Organizing, Adaptive Systems
* Incentive Mechanisms for Social Computing
* Quality trade-offs in self-protecting systems
* Network Attack Detection and Mitigation
* Multi-Agent Collaboration in Distributed Self-Adaptive Systems
* Keynote by Dr. Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London): "How To Get a 
PhD in Self-Organizing Systems"

The detailed program of scientific papers and posters is available at:
https://saso2015.mit.edu/accepted-papers

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Social events

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Welcome Reception at the MIT Museum (Tuesday)
http://web.mit.edu/museum/

Dinner Cruise in Boston Bay (Wednesday)

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Venue and accommodation

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The conference will take place at the Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel at 
the edge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There are special 
rates available for participants. For more information, please refer to 
http://saso2015.mit.edu/venue

Greatly reduced rates for rooms at the conference hotel are available 
until August 21. Details are available at http://saso2015.mit.edu/venue

Hotels near the venue may be found at the MIT Institute Events site:
http://web.mit.edu/institute-events/visitor/stay.html

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Organisation

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General Chairs
Howard E Shrobe, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA
Julie A McCann, Imperial College London, UK

Programme Chairs
Gregory Sullivan, Draper Labs, Cambridge, MA, USA
Emma Hart, Director CEC, Edingurgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Technical 
University, Gothenburg, Sweden

Local Arrangements Chair
Paul Robertson, Dynamic Object Labs, Lexington, MA, USA