CFP: IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

[Stephen Guerin]

                          Call for Papers
                            SASO 2007
                   International Conference on
            Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

                Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007
              http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/

                 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
           Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
                        (approval pending)

                   in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS
                        (approval pending)

The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering,
distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in
diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or 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 facets of a
paradigm shift.

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. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are
composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to
simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local
interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by
studying only the local properties of its parts.

This  edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and
conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or
practical experience with building systems, 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

o Self-* properties:
  - self-organization
  - self-adaptiveness
  - self-management
  - self-monitoring
  - self-tuning
  - self-repair
  - self-configuration
  - etc.
o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control
of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering
and control of emergent properties in self-*
  systems
o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems

Systems & Technologies

o P2P applications
o Mobile robots
o Sensor networks
o Mobile ad hoc networks
o Grids
o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic
communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent
systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems

Research Communities

o Distributed artificial intelligence
o Networking
o Software engineering
o Distributed systems
o Integrated management
o Robotics
o Knowledge-based systems
o Machine learning
o Control theory
o Mathematical optimization

Organization

General Co-Chairs:
Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA

Program Committee Chairs:
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe
Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged,
Hungary

Finance Chair:
Paul Robertson, MIT, USA

Applications Track Chair:
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Tutorial Chair:
David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy

Panel Chair:
Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA

Publicity Chair:
Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Sponsor Chair:
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland

Local Arrangements Chair:
Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA

Submission Instructions

See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted
according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide.

Important Dates

Submission: January 31, 2007
Notification: March 19, 2007
Final paper: April 6, 2007

[David Breecker]

The peer-to-peer application (listed below) reminded me to tell the List
that Microsoft's Zune has automatic wifi connectivity to any other Zune
player within range.  I imagine someone out there could do something cool
with this (assuming, of course, they sell ;-)

NY Times article at:
Microsoft Counting on a Twist to Make Zune Shine in Shadow of iPod
By MICHEL MARRIOTT
The Zune, scheduled to be released on Monday, is a digital music and video
player that can wirelessly exchange content.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Guerin" <[hidden email]>
To: <friam at redfish.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:42 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] CFP: IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

>                          Call for Papers
>                            SASO 2007
>                   International Conference on
>            Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
>
>                Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007
>              http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
>
>                 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
>           Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
>                        (approval pending)
>
>                   in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS
>                        (approval pending)
>
> The complexity of current computer systems has led the software
> engineering,
> distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in
> diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or 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 facets
> of a
> paradigm shift.
>
> 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. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are
> composed of a large number of components that interact locally according
> to
> simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local
> interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global
> system by
> studying only the local properties of its parts.
>
> This  edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative
> and
> conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical
> results, or
> practical experience with building systems, 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
>
> o Self-* properties:
>  - self-organization
>  - self-adaptiveness
>  - self-management
>  - self-monitoring
>  - self-tuning
>  - self-repair
>  - self-configuration
>  - etc.
> o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and
> control
> of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o
> Engineering
> and control of emergent properties in self-*
>  systems
> o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems
>
> Systems & Technologies
>
> o P2P applications
> o Mobile robots
> o Sensor networks
> o Mobile ad hoc networks
> o Grids
> o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic
> communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o
> Multi-agent
> systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems
>
> Research Communities
>
> o Distributed artificial intelligence
> o Networking
> o Software engineering
> o Distributed systems
> o Integrated management
> o Robotics
> o Knowledge-based systems
> o Machine learning
> o Control theory
> o Mathematical optimization
>
> Organization
>
> General Co-Chairs:
> Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA
>
> Program Committee Chairs:
> Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
> Jean-Philippe
> Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged,
> Hungary
>
> Finance Chair:
> Paul Robertson, MIT, USA
>
> Applications Track Chair:
> Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
>
> Tutorial Chair:
> David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy
>
> Panel Chair:
> Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA
>
> Publicity Chair:
> Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany
>
> Sponsor Chair:
> Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland
>
> Local Arrangements Chair:
> Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA
>
> Submission Instructions
>
> See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted
> according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide.
>
> Important Dates
>
> Submission: January 31, 2007
> Notification: March 19, 2007
> Final paper: April 6, 2007
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>

[Douglas Roberts-2]

I'd just as zune they didn't. I have no more room for another OS-centric
device than I have for, well, an OS-centered OS.

I'll stick with one of these, thank you very much.  It doesn't care what OS
you used to gather up your multi-media collection.

http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(2057)-SDMX4-8192-Sansa_e280_MP3_Player_8GB.aspx

or

http://www.samsung.com/sg/products/audio/mp3player/index.asp

--
Doug Roberts, RTI International
droberts at rti.org
doug at parrot-farm.net
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

On 11/14/06, David Breecker <David at breeckerassociates.com> wrote:
>
> The peer-to-peer application (listed below) reminded me to tell the List
> that Microsoft's Zune has automatic wifi connectivity to any other Zune
> player within range.  I imagine someone out there could do something cool
> with this (assuming, of course, they sell ;-)
>
>
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[Phil Henshaw-2]

I noticed that the title and many of the topics of the conference could
be interpreted as referring as natural self-organizing systems as well
as man made ones, and wrote the organizers asking if they would want to
receive submissions concerning "methods for identifying and documenting
the the spacial and process structures and developmental milestones of
natural self-organizing systems".   I think one of the main design
problems of man made systems is our reading problem for natural ones.


What do you think they'll answer???


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:42 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] CFP: IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
>
>
>                           Call for Papers
>                             SASO 2007
>                    International Conference on
>             Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
>
>                 Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007
>               http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
>
>                  Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
>            Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
>                         (approval pending)
>
>                    in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS
>                         (approval pending)
>
> The complexity of current computer systems has led the
> software engineering, distributed systems and management
> communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g.,
> robotics, artificial intelligence or 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 facets of a
> paradigm shift.
>
> 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. Self-organizing systems work
> bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components
> that interact locally according to simple rules. The global
> behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions,
> and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system
> by studying only the local properties of its parts.
>
> This  edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed
> to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should
> present novel theoretical results, or practical experience
> with building systems, 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
>
> o Self-* properties:
>   - self-organization
>   - self-adaptiveness
>   - self-management
>   - self-monitoring
>   - self-tuning
>   - self-repair
>   - self-configuration
>   - etc.
> o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o
> Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and
> dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of
> emergent properties in self-*
>   systems
> o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems
>
> Systems & Technologies
>
> o P2P applications
> o Mobile robots
> o Sensor networks
> o Mobile ad hoc networks
> o Grids
> o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic
> computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks,
> telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business
> systems and services o Complex adaptive systems
>
> Research Communities
>
> o Distributed artificial intelligence
> o Networking
> o Software engineering
> o Distributed systems
> o Integrated management
> o Robotics
> o Knowledge-based systems
> o Machine learning
> o Control theory
> o Mathematical optimization
>
> Organization
>
> General Co-Chairs:
> Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E.
> Shrobe, MIT, USA
>
> Program Committee Chairs:
> Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London,
> UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark
> Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary
>
> Finance Chair:
> Paul Robertson, MIT, USA
>
> Applications Track Chair:
> Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
>
> Tutorial Chair:
> David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy
>
> Panel Chair:
> Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA
>
> Publicity Chair:
> Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany
>
> Sponsor Chair:
> Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland
>
> Local Arrangements Chair:
> Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA
>
> Submission Instructions
>
> See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages
> and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press
> style guide.
>
> Important Dates
>
> Submission: January 31, 2007
> Notification: March 19, 2007
> Final paper: April 6, 2007
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>