Industrial Self-Coordination Workshop (SASO InSeCo)

Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT and smart supply chain management systems are some of the core trends that are reshaping the way manufacturing and businesses operate. These technological developments have the potential to significantly improve automation and information exchange in manufacturing. At the same time, researchers and business practitioners are investigating modular structured smart factories to monitor physical processes and to make decentralised decisions. Smart, Industrial Internet of Things systems provide data, for data-driven self-organizing cyber-physical systems, that communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans in real time. The Internet of Services, in both, internal and cross-organizational services are offered and used by participants of the value chain. At the same time, technologies such as those offered by the Distributed Ledger technologies, Smart Contracts and the blockchain concept provide mechanisms for coordination and trust without the need for Trusted Third Parties.
In this workshop we combine broader concepts related to value chains, supply management and manufacturing, with the focus on the blockchain and other emerging technologies for decentralised coordination in the cyber-physical realm.

Submission Guidelines

The organisers welcome the submission of short papers not exceeding 6 two-column pages in the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style. We solicit both original research papers as well as position papers. The submissions need to be previously unpublished and currently not under review elsewhere. Furthermore, we encourage the submission of proposals for talks that present previously published work of special interest to the workshop community. Position statements encouraging discussions on the workshop's topics are also welcome. These proposals should also adhere to the two-column IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style, not exceeding two pages. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and share research results with a wider audience in an interdisciplinary environment.

Each submission will be peer-reviewed by two members of the programme committee in a single-blind process. The decision will be based on the motivation of the research, the clarity of the contribution and the relevance of the research to the domain of self-adaptive and self-organising socio-technical systems. In particular, submissions that promise to fuel discussions, which bring together results and issues from different disciplines and which thus contribute to the strengthening of an interdisciplinary community, will be given preference.

List of Topics

• Intelligent, reconfigurable, flexible, or automated manufacturing systems
• The use of self-* principles in manufacturing
• Agent-based and multi-agent systems for manufacturing
• Socio-technical aspects of manufacturing systems
• Autonomic supply chain systems
• Sustainable economies through self-* principles
• Conceptual frameworks, architectures, and control concepts for self-* manufacturing systems
• Practical or theoretical models and decision-making support methods for self-learning, context-awareness, and self-* principles in manufacturing systems
• Visions and future trends of self-* manufacturing systems
• Cloud manufacturing
• Blockchain technologies
• Digital currencies, digital token systems
• Smart contracts
• Autonomous Organisations and Autonomous Institutions
• Decentralised governance and decision making models
• Distributed and self-organizing coordination

Program Committee (tentative list)

• David Sonstebo, IOTA Foundation, Norway
• Slobodan Petrovic, NTNU IIK, Norway
• Edgar Lopez, NTNU IIK, Norway
• Christopher Frantz, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
• Svetan Ratchev, IfAM, University of Nottingham, UK

Organizing committee

• David Sanderson David.Sanderson / at / nottingham.ac.uk
• Mariusz Nowostawski Mariusz.Nowostawski / at / ntnu.no

Publication

Accepted papers will be published as a bundle with the main conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press and will be submitted to the indexing companies.

Venue

The conference will be held on the campus of University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Mariusz.Nowostawski / at / ntnu.no or David.Sanderson / at / nottingham.ac.uk.