[alife] CfP Extended Abstracts - Workshop on Self-Organising Construction, SOCO 2016

[Dr. Sebastian von Mammen]

** Apologies for cross-posting **

Call for Extended Abstracts, Submission Deadline this Friday, July 15!

1st International Workshop on Self-Organising Construction (SOCO)
(Int. Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self-* Systems of the SASO and ICCAC conferences)

Augsburg, Germany, September 16 2016

http://vonmammen.org/soco2016/ <http://vonmammen.org/soco2016/>

The workshop on Self-organising Construction (SOCO) is one of the International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self-* Systems (FAS*W) held in the context of the IEEE International Conferences on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising systems (SASO) and on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC).

Our key theme is self-organising construction and we aim at cumulating, presenting, discussing and advancing new research results from theory and practice as well as novel scientific concepts and methodologies. Originally inspired by nest construction in social insects, the general concept relies on a large number of agents that coordinate their construction efforts by prompting and reacting to local stimuli. Very recently, with the wake of robotic swarms and novel material processing approaches, including for instance 3D printing techniques and innovative deployment of carbon fibres, self-organising construction is quickly gaining tremendous transformative significance in the context of various design and construction processes. These include also the construction, extension and renovation of architectural buildings, engineering design, industrial assembly and manufacture, and landscape architecture. Aligned with the host conference, we solicit for submissions that highlight the design and management of self-organising construction from a computational perspective.

The following aspects are of special interest:

- Self-organising biologically inspired construction models
- Analysis and design of coordinating construction algorithms
- Agent-based simulation of building usage
- Self-organising robot groups and swarms for construction
- Computational metrics for evaluating complex structures, e.g. the complexity, energy efficiency, structural integrity of buildings
- Parameterisation, evaluation, optimisation of artefact (e.g. building) utilisation and purpose
- Decentralised supply chains of construction materials
- Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for self-organised construction and maintenance
- 3D printing technologies for self-organised construction
- Applications in architectural design, building engineering, landscaping, industrial design, engineering and manufacture and swarm robotics
- Interfaces for human inspection and control of self-organising construction systems
- Modelling and simulation techniques, tools and platforms for self-organising construction

Submissions

Submitted extended abstracts of two pages will be evaluated in a single-blind reviewing process by the workshop committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the FAS* workshop proceedings through IEEE. All papers need to follow the IEEE DL format of the SASO conference and follow the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. Please submit your paper through EasyChair (URLs can be found on the workshop's website).

Regarding the extended abstracts, we are looking for innovative concepts to master challenges of self-organising construction as well as novel theoretical or experimental results, novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks or tools, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems and applications. We ask the authors to ensure that their submissions comply with the high standards in ingenuity and quality as expected by the SASO conference in general.

Submission deadline: July 15, 2016

Organisors

- Sebastian von Mammen, University of Augsburg
- Heiko Hamann, University of Paderborn
- Ingo Mauser, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

PC Members

- Phil Ayres, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark
- Marco Dorigo, UniversitÈ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Kasper Stoy, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Guy Theraulaz, UniversitÈ Paul Sabatier, France
- Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University, USA
- Ales Zamuda, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Peter Bentley, University College London, UK
- Peter Dittrich, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
- Justin Werfel, Harvard University, USA
- Ilaria Mazzoleni, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA
- Kirstin Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
- Rene Doursat, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK  
- Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
- Nils Napp, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
- Joshua Taron, University of Calgary, Canada

Looking forward to receiving your contributions and/or to welcoming you at the workshop!

—
Dr. Sebastian von Mammen
Universität Augsburg
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Lehrstuhl für Organic Computing
Eichleitnerstr. 30
86159 Augsburg

mail: sebastian.von.mammen at informatik.uni-augsburg.de
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