Call for papers - Workshop on Socio-Economics Inspiring Self-Managed Systems and Concepts (SEISMYC-2010), September 27th, 2010, Budapest, Hungary http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/SEISMYC2010

Today's complex systems are required to be able to adapt themselves (their internal structure or behavior), as well as to participate autonomously in larger, self-organizing systems. As a result they should be able to manage themselves without any human intervention - they should be self-managed (including the self-monitoring, self-healing, self-configuration, etc. ? self-*).

Analogously, in our world, enterprises, public institutions or other socio-economic systems manage themselves autonomously. They make decisions on how to adapt their structure and behavior, and how to organize with other entities in the environment, thus creating more complex, self-organizing systems. They are "aware" of their own identity on multiple levels of individuals, teams, organizations and networks and they recognize their capabilities and the status of their current parameters (e.g., financial data or inventory). Based on this self-awareness and autonomy, they make decisions on how to act in a particular situation, how to interact with their environment, and how to coordinate information and actions on global and strategic levels with other actors on local and operative levels.

The goal of this workshop is to address the challenges of the development of Self-Managing Systems by making entities in such a system able to manage and adapt themselves inspired by how organizations manage and adapt themselves in a socio-economic system. We believe that relating these two fields and transferring the knowledge from social and economic sciences can benefit the development of self-managing systems (including self-adaptive and self-organizing systems). In addition, if built upon similar principles to those employed in socio-economic systems, self-managing systems may be more easily integrated into such socio-economic systems and the society in general. The insights from economics, management science, organizational theory and related socio-economic areas leading to self-* properties of socio-economic organizations are of particular interest for this workshop. The inspiration can come through policies, principles, (symbolic) domain models, algorithms, organizational patterns; focusing on the knowledge transfer from socio-economics as well as on the technical realization of these principles within technical, self-managing systems.

The workshop is interesting and beneficiary for a broad and diverse audience of researchers and professionals, spanning the computer science, engineering, cybernetic, socio-economic and mathematical communities. Based on this diversity, a number of areas are of interest to this workshop, including but not limited to complex systems, distributed systems, autonomic computing, networks (e.g., ad hoc, sensor), ubiquitous computing, and even some other complex infrastructures (e.g., complex transport systems, smart grids).

Furthermore, researchers and professionals dealing with social aspects of technical systems in general (e.g. risk analysis, social acceptance, pervasive technologies, human-computer interaction), and interrelations between socio-economic and technical aspects might be interested in exploiting the material covered by the accepted papers regarding their own fields.

SEISMYC workshop will focus on  (but not be limited to) the following topics of interest:

* Identification of concepts, principles, phenomena and key properties in the management of companies and other socio-economic systems that are the most likely to contribute to the development of self-managing systems;

* Architectures, models, algorithms, languages and control techniques for self-* systems inspired by economics, management science, organizational theory, etc;

* Methods for transferring socio-economic concepts and principles to technical systems (knowledge-oriented approaches, trans-disciplinary research approaches, design science approaches, etc.);

* Modeling organization and dynamics of socio-economic systems with perspective on self-organization, self-adaptation, and global planning, e.g., adaptive organizational models;

* Knowledge monitoring and reasoning mechanisms for distributed systems based on socio-economic systems;

* Pervasive supervision, governance, identity, trust and reputation mechanisms for self-* systems using socio-economic principles;

* Utility functions in the context of self-managing systems;

* Technical implementation and integration of socio-economic principles in self-managing systems, e.g., based on particular existing or new technologies as symbolic models, ontologies, reasoning, policies, etc.;and

* Integration of self-managing systems in society.

Important Dates:

- Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2010

- Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2010

The SEISMYC workshop is part of SASO-2010 (http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/saso10/index.php), the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and published in IEEE Explore.


Organizing Committee:

- Prof. Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster
- UK Prof. Sven-Volker Rehm, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany 
- Dr. Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 
- Dr. Edin Arnautovic, Vienna University of Technology (TUW), Austria