DSS 2015 - International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems

The emergence of pervasive and ubiquitous technologies together with social media has resulted in unprecedented opportunities to reason about the complexity of our society based on magnitudes of data. Embedded ICT technologies mandate the functionality and operations of several techno-socio-economic systems such as traffic systems, transportation systems, Smart Grids, power/gas/water networks, etc. It is estimated that over 50 billion connected smart devices will be online by the year 2020. Moreover, social media provide invaluable insights about the complexity of our social interactions and how these interactions influence the sustainability of several ICT-enabled techno-socio-economic systems. These observations show that regulating online the complex systems of our nowadays digital society is a grant challenge. Regulating concerns trade-offs such as the alignment of technical requirements, e.g. robustness, fault-tolerance, safety and security, with social or environmental requirements, for instance, fairness in the utilization of energy resources. The scale of nowadays data cannot tackle the challenge by itself as data may convey ungrounded correlations and biased predictions. Smart self-regulating mechanisms are required that can filter data streams and transform data to valuable information based on which intelligent real-time decisions can be made in a decentralized fashion under a plethora of operational scenarios.
The aim of the International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems is to foster interactions between researchers of different disciplines working on challenges about the self-regulation of techno-socio-economic systems. It also aims to promote communication and exchange of ideas between academia and industry.
Topics
Topics and application domains may include (but not limited to) the following:
self-regulation
distributed systems
multi-agent systems
peer-to-peer systems
self-organization
adaptive mechanisms
complex systems
complex networks
mechanism design
game theory
control systems
Internet of Things
pervasive/ubiquitous computing
Big Data
machine learning
data mining
(real-time) data analytics
privacy
security
policy-making
Smart Grids
power/gas/water networks
traffic systems
manufacturing systems
transportation systems
ambient-assisted living
social media/networks
mobile applications
disease spreading
Workshop Chairs
Evangelos Pournaras - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Izabela Moise - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Program Committee
Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Johannes Klinglmayr, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Chuanyou Li, INRIA, France
Konstantina Mentesidi, CENER, Spain
Stijn Vandael, University of Delaware, USA
Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Catalin Leordeanu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Viet Trung Tran, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Mark Yao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Christian Hinrichs, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Koen van Dam, Imperial College London, UK
Norbert Blenn, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2015
Authors Notification: May 20, 2015
Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2015