Connectionists: Autonomic Computing & Self-Organizing Systems: ACSOS 2020 CFP

Tue Jan 14 18:14:35 EST 2020

*** ACSOS 2020 - Call For Papers ***

1st Joint ICAC/SASO International Conference on

Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems

17-21 August 2020 – Washington, DC, USA

https://2020.acsos.org/https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf

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The goal of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and 
Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is to provide a forum for sharing the 
latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, 
self-adaptation and self-organization. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a 
merger of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing 
(ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and 
Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). For more information about the merger, 
as well as up-to-date news, see 
https://conf.researchr.org/news/acsos-2020 or follow us at 
https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf!

*** Important Dates ***

April 1, 2020: Abstract submission deadline

April 8, 2020: Paper submission deadline

June 8, 2020: Notification to authors

July 8, 2020: Camera Ready Deadline

August 17-21, 2020: ACSOS Conference!

*** Challenge and Scope ***

The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services 
can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, 
and dynamics, both internally and in the environment. These issues have 
led the software engineering, distributed systems, and systems 
management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., 
complex systems, control theory, machine learning, chemistry, 
psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and 
managing such computing systems in a principled way. Yet challenges 
remain to build autonomic systems that exhibit the desirable self-* 
properties (i.e., self-organizing, self-adaptive, self-healing, 
self-aware, etc).

The mission of ACSOS is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for 
researchers and industry practitioners to address these challenges to 
make resources, applications, and systems more autonomic, 
self-adaptive,  and self-organising. ACSOS provides a venue to share and 
present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report 
state-of-the-art and in-progress research. The conference program will 
include technical research papers, in-practice experience reports, 
posters, demos, and a doctoral symposium.

We invite novel contributions related to the fundamental understanding 
of autonomic computing, self-adaption and self-organization along with 
principles and practices of their engineering and application. The 
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Autonomic and Self-* system properties: robustness; resilience; 
resource efficiency; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; 
self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational 
awareness and self-awareness;

- Autonomic and Self-* systems theory: bio-inspired and 
socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; theoretical frameworks and 
models; formal languages; queuing and control theory; requirement and 
goal expression techniques; uncertainty as a 1st class entity

- Autonomic and Self-* systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and 
algorithms; design patterns; programming languages; architectures; 
operating systems and middleware; testing and validation methodologies; 
runtime models; techniques for assurance; platforms and toolkits; 
multi-agent systems;

- Data-driven management: data mining; machine learning; data science 
and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage the 
behavior of complex systems or establishing self-awareness;

- Mechanisms and principles for self-organisation and self-adaptation: 
inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; evolution, logic, and learning; 
addressing large-scale and decentralized systems;

- Socio-technical self-* systems: human and social factors; 
visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness;

- Hardware concepts for autonomic computing systems: self-* materials; 
self-construction; reconfigurable hardware;

- Cross disciplinary research: approaches that draw inspiration from 
complex systems, organic computing, artificial intelligence, chemistry, 
psychology, sociology, and biology.

We invite research papers applying autonomic and self-* approaches to a 
wide range of application areas, including:

- Smart grids, smart cities, homes, and manufacturing;

- Cyber-physical systems; autonomous vehicles and robotics; traffic 
management;

- Self-adaptive cybersecurity;

- Internet of Things;

- Cloud computing and data centers;

- Fog/edge computing;

- Hypervisors, operating systems, and middleware.

*** Submission Instructions ***

Research papers will be accepted as either long papers up to 10 pages or 
short papers up to 7 pages (including references) and formatted 
according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style 
guide.

Please submit your papers electronically in PDF format using the ACSOS 
2020 conference management system:https://acsos20.hotcrp.com/ 
<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facsos20.hotcrp.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cp.lewis%40aston.ac.uk%7Cb61b20ceecad4843296e08d783148ef7%7Ca085950c4c2544d5945ab852fa44a221%7C0%7C0%7C637121996626850170&sdata=5%2B0sISjR2cnuXLh49dwlW6ilbfsYVFVMx%2F3Wr1ITt5w%3D&reserved=0>

Note that separate calls for Poster, Demo, and In-Practice Report 
Submissions will also be issued, as well as a call for participation in 
the Doctoral Symposium.

The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and 
made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. As per the 
standard IEEE policies, all submissions should be original, i.e., they 
should not have been previously published in any conference proceedings, 
book, or journal and should not currently be under review for another 
archival conference. We would also like to highlight IEEE’s policies 
regarding plagiarism and Self-plagiarism: 
(https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/id-plagiarism.html 
<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fpublications%2Frights%2Fplagiarism%2Fid-plagiarism.html&data=02%7C01%7Cp.lewis%40aston.ac.uk%7Cb61b20ceecad4843296e08d783148ef7%7Ca085950c4c2544d5945ab852fa44a221%7C0%7C0%7C637121996626850170&sdata=kWhFTeLRr93L7JtICjvWUd6%2Fdez2MBEv6XinOMENMs0%3D&reserved=0>). 
Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged 
to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions.

*** Review Criteria ***

Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research 
context described in this call, motivated by problems from current 
practice or applied research. Both theoretical and empirical 
contributions should be highlighted, substantiated by formal analysis, 
simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative studies. 
Appropriate references must be made to related work. Due to the 
cross-disciplinary nature of the ACSOS conference, we encourage papers 
to be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of 
the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit 
papers describing applications. Application papers should provide an 
indication of the real-world relevance of the problem that is solved, 
including a description of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, 
usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers 
are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights into any aspect 
of design, implementation or management of self-* systems that would be 
of benefit to practitioners and the ACSOS community. All submissions 
will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of 
their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, 
presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality.

The conference organizers will select one paper to be awarded the 
Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award. Selected papers may also be invited for 
publication in a special issue journal on autonomic computing and self 
organizing systems.

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