[FRIAM] CFP: IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

[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.


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From: "Stephen Guerin" <stephen.guerin at redfish.com>
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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
>
>
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