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Apologies for cross-posting Submission deadline: 15th May 2015 22nd July 2015, 10am-1pm, York, UK Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) is a broad term that describes large-scale systems that comprise of many units/nodes, each of which may have their own individual properties, objectives and actions. Decision-making in such a system is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and interaction between the units may lead to the emergence of unexpected phenomena. CAS are open, in that nodes may enter or leave the collective at any time, and boundaries between CASs are fluid. The units can be highly heterogeneous (computers, robots, agents, devices, biological entities, etc.), each operating at different temporal and spatial scales, and having different (potentially conflicting) objectives and goals. Understanding the mechanisms that underpin the design and operation of CAS systems poses significant challenges: the workshop solicits discussion papers that will stimulate the thinking and discussion required to progress research within collective adaptive systems. Call for participation This workshop solicits discussion papers that will stimulate the thinking and discussion required to progress research within Collective Adaptive Systems. Rather than describing technical results, we solicit two-three page extended abstracts that do one or more of the following: * describe radical or inspirational approaches and ideas * identify open problems in current thinking * propose controversial ideas * propose novel application areas * raise doubts about current approaches * identify the most significant challenges/hurdles to be overcome Abstracts are likely to draw on inter-disciplinary research, e.g. from communities such as ALife, Biology, Game Theory, Evolutionary Computing, Network Science, Complexity, Swarm Intelligence etc. Chairs Emma Hart - Edinburgh Napier University Ben Paechter - Edinburgh Napier University Submission Maximum three page PDF abstract emailed to Prof. Emma Hart ([log in to unmask]) with 'FoCAS@ECAL Submission' as the email header. Deadline is 15th May 2015. All accepted authors will be invited to submit an article to the FoCAS Magazine: www.focas-reading-room.eu. Main ECAL site: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/ Callum Egan Media Producer Edinburgh Napier University Room C43 10 Colinton Road EH10 5DT