SASO 2014 - Second International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems

The design and operation of computer systems has traditionally been driven by technical aspects and considerations. However, the usage characteristics of information and communication systems are both implicitly and explicitly determined by social interaction and the social graph of users. This aspect is becoming more and more evident with the increasing popularity of social network applications on the internet. This workshop will address all aspects of self-adaptive and self-organising mechanisms in socio-technical systems, covering different perspectives of this exciting research area ranging from normative and trust management systems to socio-inspired design strategies for distributed algorithms, collaboration platforms and communication protocols.
Topic Areas
SASOST systems require a highly interdisciplinary approach, and the establishment of a research community around the creation of such systems is one of the workshop's key objectives. For this purpose, the workshop brings together experts from areas such as distributed computer systems, complex systems and the social sciences to present findings and elaborate on the topic in the following complementary topical sections as well as open panel discussion rounds. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
Laws, norms, and policies in self-organising socio-technical systems
Self-organising norm-governed and contract-based systems
Self-organising and evidence-based policies
Computational justice
Representation of and reasoning about computational laws
Games with mutable rules
Trust in self-organising and autonomous systems
Trust and reputation management in autonomous self-organising systems
Metrics of trust and specialised metrics for single trust facets
Policies and their influence on trustworthiness
Formal methods to analyse, prove, or measure aspects of trust
Evaluations of the effects of trust in self-organising and autonomous systems
Analysis of threats to self-organising and autonomous systems
Transparency and controllability of self-organisation processes and autonomous decisions
Trust-based algorithms, decisions and game theory to deal with uncertainty in self-organising systems
Socially adaptive and socio-aware information and communication systems
Socio-aware overlay topologies
Analysis, modelling and control of information spreading, opinion formation phenomena and collective user behaviour in online social networks and distributed computer systems
Socially adaptive, scalable content distribution
Real-time monitoring and prediction of collective user dynamics
Social adaptation of network protocols and topologies
Simulation and evaluation of interactive networked computing systems with socio-aware behavioural models
Utilisation of social structures for the scalable provision of distributed virtual environments and in application-level routing schemes for Peer-to-Peer, wireless ad-hoc or delay tolerant networks
Socially-inspired algorithms and network topologies for distributed search, consensus, gossiping etc.
Call for Papers
The organizers welcome the submission of short papers not exceeding 6 pages in the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style. We solicit both original research papers as well as position papers. Papers need to be previously unpublished and currently not under review elsewhere.
The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by two to three members of the program committee in a single-blind process. The decision will be based on the motivation of the research, the clarity of the claims of the contribution, the relevance of the research to the domain of self-adaptive and self-organising socio-technical systems, its evaluation, and the thoroughness of the related work comparison. 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.
Call for Talks
The organizers welcome the submission of proposals for talks in the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style not exceeding two pages. We encourage the submission of talks presenting previously published work that is of special interest to the community of the workshop. Moreover, position statements encouraging discussions on the workshop's topics are welcome. The workshop is 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 to three members of the program committee in a single-blind process. The decision will be based on the motivation of the research, the clarity of the claims 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.