SOCO 2021: 4th International Workshop of Self-Organised Construction Virtual participation is possible. Washington D.C., DC, United States, August 31, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.selforganisedconstruction.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soco20210 |
Submission deadline | July 16, 2021 |
Are you working on construction or self-assembly, for example, with robots, cyber-physical systems, agents, or social insects? The SOCO workshop focuses on self-organizing strategies to build architecture.
4th International Workshop on Self-Organised Construction (SOCO 2021)
As part of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems - ACSOS 2021. The SOCO workshop will be co-located with the main conference which is scheduled to take place Mon 27 September - Fri 1 October 2021 Washington, DC. Virtual participation is possible.
http://www.selforganisedconstruction.org
https://conf.researchr.org/track/acsos-2021/acsos-2021-workshops-and-tutorials
- Important Deadlines -
• Submission deadline: July 16, 2021
• Acceptance notification: August 1, 2021
• Camera-ready papers due: August 13, 2021
- Summary -
The SOCO workshop is on self-organised construction. We want to cumulate, present, discuss, and advance new research results from theory and practice, as well as novel scientific concepts and methodologies. Originally inspired by nest construction in social insects, the general concept relies on a large number of agents that coordinate their construction efforts by prompting and reacting to local stimuli. Recently, with the wake of robotic swarms and novel material processing approaches, self-organising construction is quickly gaining tremendous transformative significance in the context of various design and construction processes. The relevant research areas include: autonomous construction, maintenance, supervision, and renovation of buildings and infrastructure, as well as biological nest construction, fundamental models and robotic control methods, structural engineering, architectural design, industrial assembly, landscape architecture, and city infrastructure. Our focus is on the design and management of self-organising construction from a computational perspective. We especially would like to encourage vision papers, presenting challenges for the future of self-organised construction. To expand the scope, compared to the previous editions of the workshop, we encourage participation from industry and will include two invited industry talks.
- Special Interests -
• Self-organising biologically inspired construction models
• Analysis and design of coordinating construction algorithms
• Agent-based simulations of building usage
• Self-organising robot groups and swarms for construction
• Computational metrics for evaluating complex structures (e.g., complexity, energy efficiency, structural integrity of buildings)
• Parameterisation, evaluation, optimisation of artefact utilisation and purpose
• Decentralised supply chains of construction materials
• Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for self-organised construction and maintenance
• 3D printing technologies for self-organised construction
• Applications in architectural design, building engineering, landscaping, industrial design, engineering and manufacture and swarm robotics
• Interfaces for human inspection and control of self-organising construction systems
• Modelling and simulation techniques, tools and platforms for self-organising construction
- Submissions -
We welcome submissions of:
• Research papers, which should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
• Experience Reports, which cover innovative implementations, novel applications, interesting performance results and experience in applying recent research advance to practical situations on any topics of interest.
• Vision Papers, which introduce ground-shaking, provocative, and even controversial ideas; discuss long term perspectives and challenges; focus on overlooked or underrepresented areas, and foster debate.
Papers in all three directions are limited to 6 pages, including images, tables, and references.
We ask authors to ensure that their submissions comply with the high standards in ingenuity and quality as expected by the ACSOS conference in general. Submission to SOCO will be evaluated in a single-blind reviewing process by the workshop committee members. Accepted papers will be submitted for publication to ACSOS' workshop proceedings through IEEE. All papers need to follow the IEEE DL format of the ACSOS conference and follow the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. We will do a high-quality international peer review in a rapid 2 week form. Each paper will have at least 3 reviews.
Submit your contribution at SOCO 2021's EasyChair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soco20210
- Organisors -
• Mary Katherine Heinrich, Université libre de Bruxelles
• Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck
• Sebastian von Mammen, University of Würzburg