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CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th IFIP International Workshop on Self-Organized Systems (IWSOS 2011)

To be held at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2011

Important dates:

• Submission deadline full papers:
• Submission deadline challenge papers:
• Notification full papers:
• Notification challenge papers:

Workshop Scope

IWSOS 2011 is the fifth workshop in a series of annual multidisciplinary events dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems.

The concept of self-organization is becoming increasingly popular in various branches of technology. A self-organizing system may be characterized by global, coordinated activity arising spontaneously from local interactions between the system's components. This activity is distributed over all components, without a central controller supervising or directing the behavior. Self-organization relates the behavior of the individual components (the microscopic level) to the resulting structure and functionality of the overall system (the macroscopic level). Simple interactions at the microscopic level may give rise to complex behavior at the macroscopic level.

The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization in networks and networked systems is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and dynamics of future networked systems. This is because traditional methods tend to be reductionistic, i.e. they neglect the effect of interactions between components. However, in complex networked systems, interactions cannot be ignored, since they are relevant for the future state of the system. In this sense, self-organization becomes a useful approach for dealing with the complexity inherent in networked systems.

Examples of applications and potential areas.

Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization in networked systems. Topics include, but are not limited to the following.

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TEXT FROM LAST YEAR:

Future networks will form complex networks integrating wired and wireless infrastructures with mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as high availability and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited.

Research into networked systems started a few years ago to systematically investigate self organization and has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems is being investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like control theory and complex systems research, are being applied to networked systems to analyze their controllability and behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems are studied that draw on approaches like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks.

Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self organization in networked systems. Topics include, but are not limited to the following.

Key Topics

• Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems
• Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems
• Self-configuration and self-optimization
• Self-organizing group and pattern formation
• Self-organizing synchronization
• Self-organizing resource allocation
• Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation and coordination
• Self-organizing information dissemination and content search
• Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems, including self-protection, diagnosis, and healing
• Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems
• Structure and dynamics of self-organizing networks
• Risks and limits of self-organization
• The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
• User and operator-related aspects of human-made self-organizing systems
• Applications of self-organizing networks and networked systems

Furthermore:

• Use of game theory and evolutionary algorithms for self-organization
• Use of biologically or socially-inspired approaches for self-organization
• Use of control theory for self-organization

The workshop addresses self-organization different types of technological networks, for example, but not limited to:

• Communication and computer networks (e.g., peer-to-peer networks, vehicular networks, zeroconfiguration protocols)
• Transport networks (e.g., autonomous traffic lights)
• Energy networks (e.g., decentralized power management in the smart grid)
• Robot networks (e.g., collaborative unmanned ground or aerial vehicles)

I suppose that philosophical aspects would be a bit out of the workshop scope?

Papers

IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results or research ideas, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness.

The Springer "LNCS Proceedings" style should be used for submission. Templates are for LaTeX and Word available at http://tiny.cc/qiohy. Click http://iwsos2010.tm.kit.edu for detailed information for authors.

Full Papers

Full papers should describe original research results. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style (including figures, references, and a short abstract). The submission deadline for full papers is __________.

Challenge Papers

Submissions should be position papers, challenging papers, and papers presenting first results. The papers must be up to 6 pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and must include a short abstract. The submission deadline for full papers is ___________.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS to present the paper.

Posters and Demonstrations

To complement the main technical program of IWSOS 2010, we are soliciting extended abstracts (up to two pages, LNCS style) that describe posters and demonstrations that will be presented at an informal session during the workshop. This session should provide a platform to present and discuss work-in-progress and demonstrations. The abstracts will be collected and made available at the event.

Keynote Speakers

Steven Strogatz? (CG asks)

Hermann Haken?

Networks: Vespignani, Newman, Barabasi???