IWSON 2013 - 2013 7th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems

The main themes of IWSOS 2013 are from the fields of techno-social systems and networks-of-networks with their unique and complex blend of cognitive, social, and technological aspects. We will analyse how these systems self-organize, acquire their structure, and evolve. Thus, we aim to advance our understanding of such key infrastructures in our societies and, more generally, of these sorts of self-organizational processes in nature.
We are further interested in learning how to engineer such self-organizing networked systems to have desirable properties including dependability, predictability, and resilience in the face of the inevitable challenges that they face.
Building on the success of its predecessors, this multi-disciplinary workshop aims to bring together leading international researchers from complex systems, distributed systems, and communication networks to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization in networked systems. We invite the submission of manuscripts that present original research results on the themes of self-organization in techno-social systems and networks-of-networks.
Key Topics:
The workshop scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topical areas of self-organizing systems:
Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems
Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society
Structure, characteristics, and dynamics of self-organizing networks
Self-organization in techno-social systems
Self-organized social computation
Self-organized communication systems
Citizen Science
Techniques and tools for modelling self-organizing systems
Tools to quantify self-organization
Control and control parameters of self-organizing systems
Phase transitions in self-organizing systems
Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems
Self-organization in complex networks such as peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc, vehicular, and social networks
Self-organization in socio-economic systems
User and operator-related aspects of man-made self-organizing systems
Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services
Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks
Self-protection, self-configuration, diagnosis, and healing
Self-organizing group and pattern formation
Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and resource allocation
Self-organizing information dissemination and content search
Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems
Risks and limits of self-organization
The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
Social, cognitive, and semantic aspects of self-organization
Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet
Decentralized power management in the smart grid
Important dates:
Extended Submission Deadline: January 18, 2013
Notification of acceptance: February 17, 2013
Camera-ready papers due: February 24, 2013
Conference dates: May 9 ? 10, 2013
Papers:
IWSOS 2013 invites the submission of manuscripts that present original research results which have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international technical program committee and judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness.
The Springer “LNCS Proceedings” style should be used for submission. Templates for LaTeX and Word are available at http://tiny.cc/qiohy.
Full papers should describe original research results. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style (including figures, references, and a short abstract).
Short Papers should be position papers, challenging papers, and papers presenting first results. Short papers are up to 6 pages using the LNCS style (including figures, references, and a short abstract).
Paper submission is now open: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13239
Proceedings:
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2013 to present the paper.
Technical co-sponsors: IFIP TC6 WG6.2, EU FP7 NoE on Internet Science (EINS)