ecas2020: 5th eCAS Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall Washington, DC, United States, August 21, 2020 |
Conference website | http://ecas2020.apice.unibo.it |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecas2020 |
Submission deadline | June 12, 2020 |
Modern computing systems are becoming ever more collective and are often composed of many distributed and heterogeneous entities. These systems operate under continuous perturbations and environmental change, making manual adjustments infeasible. For a collective system to be resilient, its adaptation must also be collective, in the sense that multiple entities must adapt in a way that addresses critical runtime conditions while preserving the benefits of collaborative interdependencies. Decision-making in such systems is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and interaction between the entities may lead to the emergence of unexpected phenomena.
In such systems, new approaches for and understanding of collective adaptation are needed, to allow: (i) multiple entities to adapt in a coordinated or complementary way, with (ii) negotiations, collective action, or other mechanisms to decide which collective changes are to be made. Collective adaptation also raises a second important challenge: Which parts of the system (things, services, people) should adapt, and how? This is nontrivial, as multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels, and individuals in the collective often have partial information. The challenge is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem.
This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories, principles, and fundamental understanding, that can be used to underpin the design, operation, and analysis of such systems. Case studies, applications showing such approaches in action, and interdisciplinary work are particularly welcome.
The workshop is expected to attract participants from many disciplines, including Autonomic Computing, Biology, Game Theory, Evolutionary Computing, Network Science, Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing, and to be of interest to anyone working with the domain of large-scale self-adaptive systems. In addition, the European Commission has funded seven scientific projects and a Coordination Action in this area, with projects starting at the beginning of 2013. The proposed workshop provides a natural base for the projects to meet and share ideas, yet we stress that the workshop is in no way limited to this audience, and is likely to have broad appeal to a wide range of researchers. Potential audience members might work in application areas relating to large-scale distributed systems, or may come from any of the many disciplines that can provide insights into the operation and design of such systems.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Contributions will be peer reviewed for originality, clarity and readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality. By submitting, the authors confirm that in case of acceptance, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Workshop papers, limited to 6 pages including references, following the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide.
- Talks, submitted as extended abstracts, limited to 1 page including references without formatting restrictions.
Extended abstracts should be relevant to the eCAS community (with a preference for application-focussed talks or lessons learnt) and may report (i) on work having already been (partially) presented elsewhere, or (ii) work at an early stage, where there would be benefit for both the authors and audience in sharing ideas and progress.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: June 12, 2020.
- Acceptance notification: June 30, 2020.
- Camera-ready version due: July 8, 2020.
- Workshop: August 21, 2020.
List of Topics (not limiting)
- Novel theories relating to operating principles of CAS
- Novel design principles for building CAS systems
- Insights into the short and long-term adaptation of CAS systems
- Insights into emergent properties of CAS
- Insights into general properties of large scale, distributed CAS
- Comparing and analyzing approaches to CAS (e.g., distributed and centralized)
- Decision-making approaches in CAS
- Methodologies for studying, analyzing, and building CAS
- Frameworks for analyzing or developing CAS case studies
- Languages, platforms, APIs and other tools for CAS
- Scenarios, case studies, and experience reports of CAS in different contexts (e.g., Smart Mobility, Smart Energy/Smart Grid, Smart Buildings, traffic management, emergency response, etc.)
Publication
Workshop papers will be published on IEEE Xplore by IEEE Computer Society Press, in parallel with the main IEEE ACSOS conference proceedings. Extended abstracts will not be published.
Venue
The conference will be held in the George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall, Washington DC, USA; in conjunction with the 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020, merger of the former ICAC and SASO conferences). For more information follow this link.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Giorgio Audrito and/or Peter Lewis.
Committees
Workshop Chairs
- Giorgio Audrito, Università di Torino, Italy
- Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Steering Committee
- Jacob Beal, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA
- Giacomo Cabri, University of Modena And Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Nicola Capodieci, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, U.K
- Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, U.K
- Mirko Viroli, University of Bologna, Italy
Program Committee (TBA)