[Swarm-Modelling] CFP EEDAS 2007: International Workshop on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems

[Tom De Wolf]

Apologies for multiple copies.

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                  The Second International Workshop on 
         Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems 
                              EEDAS 2007
         http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~distrinet/events/eedas/2007/
                       eedas (at) cs.kuleuven.be

                       Jacksonville, Florida, USA
                     to be held in conjunction with
               The Fourth IEEE International Conference on 
                      Autonomic Computing (ICAC'07)
                           June 11th, 2007

               Supported by IEEE Computer Society and ACM

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: *   01 March 2007*
Paper notifications:       *   30 March 2007*
Camera ready paper:        *   13 April 2007*
Workshop date:             *   11 June  2007*

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WORKSHOP THEME
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Autonomic Computing addresses the need for systems to cope with and 
manage complex, highly dynamic, and changing operating conditions 
autonomously. Furthermore, many modern computing systems effectively 
operate in a decentralised fashion, adding an extra layer of complexity 
to the management (or even the prediction) of global system behaviour. 
Autonomic Computing arguably addresses one aspect of the problem 
(autonomous operation of individual units) but doesn’t inherently 
guarantee the emergence of the desired collective behaviour in systems 
where central or global control is impossible for one or several of the 
following reasons:

    * The information needed to make decisions is inherently localised 
      and cannot be gathered centrally (e.g. ad-hoc networks).
    * A highly dynamic context implies that, even when information is 
      gathered centrally, it is obsolete when it reaches the manager.
    * The amount of processing required to orchestrate the system 
      operation is beyond the capability of any participating unit.
    * The centrally computed global solution cannot be practically 
      implemented.
    * Short response time is more critical than efficiency (quick,local 
      reaction to events is better than a globally optimised but
      delayed solution).

Self-organising emergence is an approach to engineering decentralised 
systems so as to make them capable of dynamically adapting to changes 
without external intervention. The global functionality dynamically 
arises from the local autonomous decisions and interactions between 
individual entities based on local information usually communicated 
through local channels (long-range diffusion being typically achieved 
via “gossiping”). These entities are not explicitly aware of the 
resulting global behaviour. The lack of global or central control 
implies the need to design decentralised coordination mechanisms and the 
local rules governing individual behaviour with the explicit objective 
to take full advantage of emergent properties.

The ultimate challenge in engineering fully decentralised autonomous 
systems is to find a disciplined approach to foster globally coherent 
and desired system behaviour. Many research issues are still open, 
mainly because of the lack of a clear step-plan to map the desired 
global behaviour onto a specific set of local decision and interaction 
rules. As a result, exploitation of emergent behaviour in system design 
is still in its infancy. This workshop aims at gathering research 
results that could contribute to addressing this challenge.

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TOPICS
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Particular research topics include, but are not limited to:

Foundation:
    * Theories, models, and decentralised mechanisms for 
      self-organising and emergent behaviour
    * Comparison of typically central/hierarchical autonomic 
      computing versus self-organising emergent approaches
    * Biologically, sociologically, and economically inspired 
      interaction mechanisms: stigmergy, swarm intelligence, markets…
    * Robustness, Stability and Dependability of self-organising 
      emergent systems
    * Contextual and/or environmental awareness in 
      self-organising emergent systems

Engineering:
    * Software architectures for self-organising emergent systems
    * Modelling approaches to support the design of self-organising 
      emergent systems
    * Middleware Technology:
          o for supporting nature-inspired, socially-inspired, and 
            other types of decentralised coordination mechanisms 
          o for supporting decentralised information exchange 
            throughout the system
    * Control of emergent properties in self-organising systems
    * Design of high-level global behaviour from local interactions
    * (Simulation) tools and test-beds for self-organising emergent 
      systems
    * Assessment metrics, performance evaluation, and verification 
      for self-organising emergent systems.

Applications:
    * Experience reports and practical applications of 
      self-organising emergent systems
    * Example application domains (not limited to):
          o Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications;
          o Overlay-networks;
          o Mobile robots;
          o Sensor networks, mobile and/or ad hoc networks (MANETs);
          o Grids;
          o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing;
          o automated transportation and traffic systems;
          o Computer networks, telecom networks;
          o Multi-agent systems;
          o E-business systems and services, 
            e.g. supply chain management;
          o Complex adaptive systems

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SUBMISSIONS
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EEDAS welcomes the submission of original research papers on the general
theme of engineering emergence in autonomic systems which is described 
above. We seek theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as 
applications papers. Papers may report on completed work, descriptions 
of work in progress or discussion papers.

Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the 
program committee. Selection criteria include: relevance, technical 
correctness, originality of contribution and quality of exposition. 
The aim is to encourage diversity in opinion. Papers that present a 
valuable idea but need further development can be accepted as short 
communications. 

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to eedas (at) cs.kuleuven.be.
The submission should not exceed 10 pages A4 format in the two-column
IEEE CS style (style files can be found at 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/). 
For submitting papers in PDF format, please ensure that
the papers can be viewed by a standard reader. Thus we discourage the
use of special character sets.

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PUBLICATION
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All accepted papers will be distributed at the workshop in workshop 
notes/proceedings and made available on the workshop website before 
the workshop.

Subsequently, we aim at a revised selection of papers to be published 
as post-proceedings in a Lecture Notes of Computer Science volume 
(Springer will be contacted for this).

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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    * Tom De Wolf
      DistriNet Labs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    * Fabrice Saffre
      British Telecom Group CTO, UK
    * Richard J. Anthony
      University of Greenwich, UK 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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    * John Mark Agosta, Intel Corp, USA
    * Richard J. Anthony, University of Greenwich, London, UK
    * Seth Bullock, University of Southampton, UK
    * Dave Cliff, University of Southampton, UK
    * Rajarshi Das, IBM, USA
    * Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
    * Yves Demazeau, Laboratoire Leibniz, Institut IMAG, France
    * Jean Louis Deneubourg, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
    * Tom De Wolf, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    * Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
    * Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
    * Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK
    * Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT Toulouse, France
    * Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    * Jeffrey Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
    * Hong Li, Intel Corp, USA
    * Pietro Michiardi, Institut EURECOM, France
    * Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy
    * Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
    * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
    * H. Van Dyke Parunak, NewVectors, USA
    * Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom, UK
    * Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    * Mark Shackleton, British Telcom, UK
    * Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
    * Guy Theraulaz, University of Toulouse, France
    * Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
    * Paul Valckenaers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium


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CONTACT
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Please submit questions or comments to the EEDAS'07 Organizing 
Committee at eedas (at) cs.kuleuven.be

Website: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~distrinet/events/eedas/2007
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