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* CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND POSTERS *
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* The Second International Workshop *
* on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2007) *
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* Technical Sponsors: IEEE, ACM, IFIP *
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* The English Lake District, UK *
* 11 - 13 September, 2007 *
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* http://www.iwsos.org/2007 *
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To complement the main technical programme of IWSOS 2007, we are
soliciting extended abstracts that describe posters and demonstrations
that will be presented at an informal session during the workshop. This
session will be an excellent opportunity to exhibit and discuss
work-in-progress and demonstrations to members of the self-organizing
systems community, and gain important initial feedback and exposure for
your research. The technical scope for the extended abstracts is the
same as for the workshop. Abstracts will be published on-line and
printed in a separate mini-proceedings made available at the event.
Authors of accepted poster and demonstration proposals will be eligible
for early registration rates for the workshop after the published
cut-off date.
Workshop Scope
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Future networked systems will, to some degree, need to be
self-organizing. For example, they will be deployed in remote and
hostile environments, where manual setup and configuration may be
undesirable or impossible. Some networks, such as mobile ad-hoc
networks, will be spontaneously deployed, have a dynamic population, and
may be short-lived. The time it takes traditional management activities
to converge, where people are in the control loop, is unsuitably long
for these kinds of network. Furthermore, the potential scale and
complexity of future networked systems, including the future Internet,
will make some form of self-organization highly desirable and perhaps a
necessity. The complexity of these networked systems will come from the
heterogeneity of the devices, communication technologies and protocols,
and stringent user requirements (e.g. resilience) that they will need to
support.
Research into self-organizing networked systems is in its infancy, and
there is a multitude of open issues to be addressed. For example,
self-organization will need to be implemented in a decentralized way for
scalability and resilience reasons; approaches to achieve this will need
to be found. The controllability and also the emergent behavior of
self-organizing systems will need to be addressed. It is probable that
programmable networking technologies will be needed to support the
dynamic behaviour of self-organizing systems; what shape this
programmability will take and how it can be deployed in a safe way will
need to be investigated. We should also try to understand how
self-organization can play a key architectural role in the future
Internet for enhanced flexibility and evolvability amongst its other
desirable properties.
Building on the success of its predecessor, and now only in its second
year, this workshop aims to bring together leading international
researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential
of self-organization and the means to achieve it.
The key topics of the workshop include, but are not restricted to:
* Self-organization and self-management
* Self-configuration and self-optimization
* Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing
* Autonomic networking principles and practice
* Networks for pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Sensor and ad-hoc networks, e.g. smart dust
* Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks
* Group-forming networks and techniques
* Visualization of network system state
* Methods for operator directed configuration and management of
large, complex networks
* The role of programmable networks for self-organization
* Inspiring models of self-organizing in nature and society
* Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home networks
* Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization
* Resilience, robustness and fault tolerance for networked systems
* Security and self-organization in networked systems
* Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet
* Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence
* Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks
* Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering
* Self-organization in role-based and multilevel systems
* The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
* Risks in self-organization, risk management techniques
* The (un-)controllability of self-organizing or emergent systems
Important Dates
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Extended abstract due: Friday 27th July, 2007, 17:00 GMT
Notification of acceptance: Friday 3rd August, 2007
Camera-ready extended abstract due: Friday 10th August, 2007, 17:00 GMT
Expiry of extended early registration deadline for accepted
contributions: Friday 10th August, 2007, 17:00 GMT
Submission Instructions
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Extended abstracts should be 1 to 2 pages in length, and contain the
following items:
- a title.
- authors and their affiliations.
- a description of the technical contribution of the poster or
demonstration to be presented.
Additionally, demonstration proposals must include a single page that
details space, power, network, and special/additional equipment
requirements. This will not be published in the mini-proceedings.
The extended abstract should be submitted in the Springer LNCS format
(see http://www.springer.de/lncs/ and follow the "For Authors" link for
more details) as a PDF file to: [log in to unmask]
Contact Information
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URL: http://www.iwsos.org/2007
Email: [log in to unmask]
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