[alife] Call for Papers: SASO 2015 Workshops
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CALL FOR PAPERS : SASO 2015 WORKSHOPS (http://saso2015.mit.edu/workshops) :
- 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 Maneuvering (DREAM,
http://www.dollabs.com/saso2015ahansdreamworkshop)
- 3rd Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical
Systems (SASO^ST, http://sasost.isse.de)
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Important Dates
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- Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2015
- Paper Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2015
- Workshops dates: September 21 & 25, 2015
- SASO conference : 21-25 September 2015, Boston Massachusetts,
https://saso2015.mit.edu/
(SASO Call for Doctoral Symposium reminder, abstract submission deadline
approaching : https://saso2015.mit.edu/call-doctoral-symposium
- Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2015
- Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2015
- Notifications of Acceptance: July 3, 2015)
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3rd Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FoCAS)
Monday, 21st September 2015
http://focas.eu/saso-2015/
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Scientific Organizers
Professor Giacomo Cabri (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Dr. Nicola Capodieci (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) is a broad term that describes large
scale systems that comprise of many units/nodes, each of which may have
their own individual properties, objectives and actions. Decision-making
in such a system is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and
interaction between the units may lead to the emergence of unexpected
phenomena. CASs are open, in that nodes may enter or leave the
collective at any time, and boundaries between CASs are fluid. The units
can be highly heterogeneous (computers, robots, agents, devices,
biological entities, etc.), each operating at different temporal and
spatial scales, and having different (potentially conflicting)
objectives and goals, even if often the system has a global goal that is
pursued by means of collective actions. Our society increasingly depends
on such systems, in which collections of heterogeneous ‘technological’
nodes are tightly entangled with human and social structures to form
‘artificial societies’. Yet, to properly exploit them, we need to
develop a deeper scientific understanding of the principles by which
they operate, in order to better design them. This workshop solicits
papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can
be used in order to develop a better understanding of the fundamental
factors underpinning the operation of such systems, so that we can
better design, build, and analyse such systems. We welcome
inter-disciplinary approaches.
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2nd Workshop on Quality Assurance for Self-Adaptive, Self-Organising
Systems (QA4SASO)
Monday, 21st September 2015
http://qa4saso.isse.de
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Scientific Organizers
Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany
Franz Wotawa, University Graz, Austria
Benedikt Eberhardinger, University of Augsburg, Germany
Developing self-adaptive, self-organising systems that fulfil the
requirements of different stakeholders is no sim- ple matter. Quality
assurance is required at each phase of the entire development process,
starting from re- quirements elicitation, system architecture design,
agent design, and finally in the implementation of the sys- tem. The
quality of the artefacts from each development phase affects the rest of
the system, since all parts are closely related to each other.
Furthermore, the shift of adaption decisions from design-time to
run-time – necessitated by the need of the systems to adapt to changing
circumstances – makes it difficult, but even more essential, to assure
high quality standards in these kind of systems. Accordingly, the
analysis and evaluation of these self-* systems has to take into account
the specific operational context to achieve high quality standards. The
necessity to investigate this field has already been recognized and
addressed in different communities but so far there exists no platform
to bring all these communities together. Therefore, the workshop will
provide an open stage for discussions about the different aspects of
quality assurance for self-adaptive, self-organising systems.
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1st Workshop on Spatial and COllective PErvasive Computing Systems (SCOPES)
Monday, 21st September 2015
http://www.spatial-computing.org/scopes
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Scientific Organizers
Mirko Viroli (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
Jacob Beal (Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, UK)
This workshop aims at combining three distinct, yet closely related
areas of research, which will likely together play a major role in
producing the key technical results needed to develop large-scale
adaptive distributed systems of future networked scenarios:
* Spatial computing – Spatial computing systems are systems of
individual entities, typically situated in a physical environment,
in which the “functional goals” of the system are generally defined
in terms of the system’s spatial structure. Typically, such systems are
developed following a self-organisation approach,
making spatial patterns arise by emergence.
* Collective adaptive systems – Collective computing systems are
systems of tightly entangled components, achieving an overall goal
through widespread cooperation,
typically relying on self-adaptation techniques and
collective/social intelligence.
* Pervasive computing – Pervasive computing systems and the
“Internet of Things” deal with current and emerging scenarios in which
humans, sensors, mobile, and embedded
devices engage in complex interactions in a shared environment.
The goal of this workshop is to foster the creation of general-purpose
solutions for supporting the develop- ment of these kinds of systems,
particularly as regards generalizable techniques and architectures.
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9th Workshop on Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL)
Friday, 25th September 2015
http://www.lero.ie/dspl2015
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Scientific Organizers
Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland)
Klaus Schmid (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
Sooyong Park (Sogang University, South Korea)
Peter Ho Ing (Sogang University, South Korea)
In domains such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing, service robotics,
unmanned aerial vehicles, etc., the importance and complexity of
software are increasing more than ever. These domains are characterized
above all by extensive variation both in requirements and resource
constraints. The Software Product Line (SPL) approach has been receiving
increased attention as a means to cope with this, specifically as
software engineers and developers are faced with increasing pressure to
deliver high-quality software more quickly and economically. More
importantly, modern computing and network environments demand a high
degree of adaptability from software systems. Computing environments,
user requirements and interface mechanisms between software and hardware
devices like sensors may change dynamically during run-time. Therefore,
in these kinds of dynamic environments, application of SPL needs to be
changed from a static perspective to a dynamic perspective, where
systems capable of modifying their own behavior with respect to changes
in its operating environment are achieved by dynamically rebinding
variation points at runtime. This is the idea of Dynamic Software
Product Lines (DSPL). Dynamic Software Product Lines is an emerging and
promising area of research with clear overlaps to other areas of
research besides SPL, notably: Self-* (adapting/managing/healing, …)
systems, dynamic architectures and Engineering.
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Workshop on Diagnosing, Reacting, Evading And Maneuvering (DREAM)
Friday, September 25th 2015
http://www.dollabs.com/saso2015ahansdreamworkshop
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Scientific Organizers
Scott Alexander (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)
Paul Robertson (DOLL, Inc. USA)
Greg Sullivan (Draper Labs)
Over the past decade the threat of cyber attacks on critical commercial
and government infrastructure has been growing at an alarming rate to a
point where it is now considered to be a major threat in the world.
Current approaches to cyber security involve building fast-growing
multi-million line systems that attempt to detect and remove attacking
software. Meanwhile, cyber exploits continue to multiply in number, but
their size continues to be a couple of hundred lines of code. Related
factors are that the defenders have to defend the entire system where
attackers only have to find a single hole. These disparities of effort
means that the current defensive approaches to cyber security can at
best fight a holding action. The workshop is intended to explore
game-changing approaches to cyber security that focus on adaptation.
There is a clear need to develop systems at both the host level and the
network level to actively adapt to cyber attacks and to provide greater
protection for networked computation at all levels. Adaptation provides
the ability to dodge an attack but certain reactions can result in self
denial-of-service attacks. Maneuvering can lead the attacker astray,
even into a trap. For example reconfiguration of the network to move
computation out of the line-of-fire while making the original
configuration appear live to the attacker can not only lead the attacker
away from important assets but also allow the attackers actions to be
monitored. How can we diagnose the nature of an attack and how can such
diagnoses help in surviving an attack?
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3rd Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical
Systems (SASO^ST)
Friday, 25th September 2015
http://sasost.isse.de
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Scientific Organizers
Gerrit Anders (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Dr. Jean Botev (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Dr. Markus Esch (Fraunhofer Institute for Communication,
Information Processing and Ergonomics, Germany)
The design and operation of computer systems has traditionally been
driven by technical aspects and considerations. However, the usage
characteristics of information and communication systems are both
implicitly and explicitly determined by social interaction and the
social graph of users. This aspect is becoming more and more evident
with the increasing popularity of social network applications on the
internet. This workshop will address all aspects of self-adaptive and
self-organising mechanisms in socio- technical systems, covering
different perspectives of this exciting research area ranging from
normative and trust management systems to socio-inspired design
strategies for distributed algorithms, collaboration platforms, and
communication protocols. SASO ^ ST systems require a highly
interdisciplinary approach, and the establishment of a research
community around the creation of such systems is one of the workshop’s
key objectives. For this purpose, the workshop brings together experts
from areas such as distributed computer systems, complex systems, and
the social sciences to present findings and elaborate on the topic in
the following complementary topical sections as well as open panel
discussion rounds.
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