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ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems
http://esoa.unige.ch/taas
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AIMS AND SCOPES
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue
for high quality research contributions addressing foundational,
engineering, and technological aspects of complex computing systems
exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behavior. TAAS encourages
contributions advancing the state of the art in the understanding,
development, and control of such systems. Contributions are typically
based on sound theoretical models and supported by proper
experimentations/validations. Surveys are welcome too.
TAAS domains of interest include: complexity and emergence in software
systems, self-ware, autonomic computing and communication, multi-agent
systems, peer-to-peer systems, biologically and socially inspired
computing, swarm intelligence, pervasive and mobile computing,
evolutionary computing. The general goal of the journal is to address
the wide range of research being undertaken by an interdisciplinary
computing community and to provide a common platform under which this
work can be published and disseminated.
CONTEXT
Many current systems, such as the World Wide Web, Peer-2-Peer systems,
pervasive computing systems, ad hoc wireless and sensor networks, have
the characteristic of being decentralized and composed of a large number
of autonomous entities. These systems are also typically imbedded in and
interact with highly dynamic environments, where content, network
topology and work load are continuously changing. The capability of
systems to exhibit autonomous and self-adaptive behavior by having their
components autonomously configure their working parameters,
self-organize their interaction patterns, and self-adapt them to
changing environmental conditions is thus a necessary feature. In fact,
the complexity of these systems and their decentralization make any form
of centralized, micro-level control of their behavior impossible or
economically impractical.
The characteristics sketched above are similar to those found in many
complex natural and social systems, whether physical or biological.
Indeed, many natural and social systems have the characteristic of
exhibiting emergent coherent global behaviors without any centralized
control, via contextual local interactions of autonomous components that
dynamically self-organize and self-adapt to changing environmental
conditions.
Accordingly, there is currently an increasing appreciation that modern
applications and systems can gain in robustness, and simplicity, if they
are developed by following the principles of self-organization which one
finds in nature and in society. TAAS clearly welcomes nature-inspired
contributions. Nevertheless, TAAS also welcomes contributions that go
beyond a simple translation of the natural paradigms, by proposing new
mechanisms and approaches, specific of man-made systems, suitable to
facilitate the development of complex and adaptive autonomous computing
systems.
The challenges to be addressed in this field relate to:
* Foundations: to contribute to a new science of autonomous and
adaptive computing systems
* Engineering: to support design and development of applications
and systems which "work by themselves'' and adapt to environmental changes;
* Simulations and Experiments: to reach a better understanding of
the behaviors of complex software systems;
* Verification and Control: to control the behavior of a
decentralized software system and have it properly adapted and evolved.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Systems
* Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
* Emergent Behaviors in Complex Software Systems
* Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Applications
* Self-Organizing Software Agents
* Emergent Behavior in Grid Computing
* Self-Organization in Grid Computing
* Self-Organization in Supply Chain Management
* Self-Organizing Robots
* Self-Organizing Sensor Networks Applications
* Smart Materials and Emergent Behavior
* Self-Assembly Materials
* Self-Organization in Electronic Commerce
* Adaptive Workflow Management Systems
* Emergent Behavior in Information Systems
* Autonomous Business Systems
Computing Paradigms
* Autonomic Computing and Communication
* P2P Computing and Overlay Networks
* Biologically and Socially Inspired Computing
* Evolutionary Computation
* Pervasive and Mobile Computing
* Swarm Intelligence
* Ambient Intelligence
Engineering
* Engineering Autonomous and Adaptive Behavior
* Engineering Emergent Behavior
* Analytic Models of Emergent Behavior
* Interaction Mechanisms for Autonomous and Adaptive Behavior
* Ants-Based Behavior
* Middleware for Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
* Simulation Studies
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-chief
* Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Vice-Editor-in-Chief
* Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem, Boston, USA
Board of Editors
* Karl Aberer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
* Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy
* Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, USA
* Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
* Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Salima Hassas, University of Lyon, France
* Anthony Karageorgos, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Jeff Kephart, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Labs, Japan
* Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK
* Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA
* Omer F. Rana, University of Cardiff, UK
* H. Van Dyke Parunak, Altarum Institute, USA
* David Wolpert, NASA Ames, USA
* Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Editors-in-chief can be reached at [log in to unmask]
Journal web site: http://esoa.unige.ch/taas
REVIEW PROCESS
We plan to return review results within 4 months of submission. This
interval is long enough to ensure quality reviews, and short enough to
ensure reasonable publication delays.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Contributions appearing in ACM journals are original papers that have
not been published elsewhere. Publication of a paper that has been
widely disseminated (e.g., in workshops and conferences) is permitted
only if the Editors judge that the revision contains significant
amplification or clarification of the original material or there is some
significant additional benefit to be gained. Any prior appearance should
be noted on the title page and it is the obligation of the author to
inform the Editor-in-Chief if there are any circumstances concerning the
contribution that bear on this policy. Submission of a manuscript that
is under review by TAAS to another journal or conference without
approval of the Editor-in-Chief is considered to be unethical and, when
discovered, will result in rejection by TAAS.
TAAS reserves the right to impose the revision of, or if necessary to
refuse, a paper – despite its scientific and technical quality –
whenever its content is explicitly unethical or if it supports racism,
sexual or religious discrimination, illegal activities or terrorism;
similarly an article may be refused if the editors deem that it might
harm the political or religious sensitivity of interested readers in any
manner.
FIRST VOLUME PAPERS
Since TAAS is a new journal, the first volume (year 1) of the journal
can also contain a limited number of general, introductory, “magazine
style” papers, devoted to assess the scope of the journal and to
encourage a wider readership (including non-experts). Papers can be
submitted at any time, and will be published, if possible, in the next
issue following acceptance. The inaugural issue is expected for fall 2005.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
TAAS can accept papers in electronic format only. This facilitates both
a quicker editorial review process as well as electronic publication of
accepted papers.
TAAS authors should prepare manuscripts, no longer than 12000 words,
according to the ACM accepted manuscript preparation guidelines. Papers
must be sent either in PostScript or PDF format. Papers exceeding 12000
words may be published, provided that the reviewers and the editors
explicitly consider such a length a necessary requirement for the paper
to be complete and self-contained. Authors should refer to
http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm for formatting their
papers.
Submitted papers must include the following information:
* Authors names and affiliation
* Primary author contact information
* Abstract
* Categories and Subject Descriptors
(http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/)
* References
Papers for the first issues must be sent to [log in to unmask]
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS
Authors of accepted papers will submit a publication packet to ACM
Publications. The packet will include:
* Name and address of contact author, including email address and
phone number.
* PDF or PostScript file of final version.
* Formatted source file (see
www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm).
* A printed copy of the paper.
* Figures in EPS or TIFF format.
* Computing Classification Systems terms
(http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/).
* General terms (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/).
* Additional keywords and phrases (www.acm.org/class/1998).
* Signed copyright form (by the contact author)
(www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html).
The electronic files should be included in a zip file and submitted to
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Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo http://cui.unige.ch/~dimarzo
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