OC 2011 - Workshop Organic Computing

Workshop Organic Computing
By: Emre Cakar
Workshop Organic Computing as part of ICAC 2011
Karlsruhe, Germany
June 14-18, 2011
www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2011/

Submission Deadline: February 21, 2011

Organic Computing (OC) has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. OC is based on the insight that we are increasingly surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems, which are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their environment, communicating freely, and organizing themselves in order to perform the required actions and services. The presence of networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct such systems - which we increasingly depend on ? to be as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation towards human needs as opposed to a pure implementation of the technologically possible is central. In order to achieve these goals, technical systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously, i.e. they will have to exhibit life-like properties. We call those systems “organic”. Hence, an “Organic Computing System” is a technical system, which adapts dynamically to the current conditions of its environment. The vision of Organic Computing and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Engineering. There is a strong overlap with the basic ideas of Autonomic Computing, which it extends with respect to a stronger emphasis on decentralized control and a wider range of technical applications. Central aspects of Organic Computing systems have been and will be inspired by an analysis of information processing in biological systems. The focus of this OC workshop will be, however, the technical application.

From the beginning, OC has been defined as basic research with a strong orientation towards technical applications. OC has been funded in Germany by a Special Priority Programme (SPP) by the DFG. This workshop will be a platform for the presentation of results of the SPP projects as well as projects from the Autonomic Computing community. These presentations will be the basis for a panel discussion on the future directions of OC. The workshop is open for contributions with OC-related topics from inside and outside the SPP.

Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Solicited topics include:

? Self-organization and emergent behavior in technical systems
? Technical usage and controllability of emergence
? Trustworthy self-organizing systems
? Infrastructures and architectures for OC systems
? OC methods in production and logistics
? OC methods in network management
? OC methods in traffic control
? OC methods in energy management
? OC methods in safety and security
? OC methods in other technical applications

Submissions should be made through the following link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=.... Papers should be submitted in pdf or postscript format. They should be formatted according to standard ACM format for conference proceedings (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t...) and not exceed 10 pages.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: February 21, 2011
Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2011
Camera ready papers: April 15, 2011
Workshop: June 18, 2011

Workshop Organization
Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT, Karlsruhe
Theo Ungerer, Univ. of Augsburg

Organizational Contact
C. Müller-Schloer, Emre Cakar
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Institute for Systems Engineering
Appelstr. 4, D-30167 Hannover
{cms,cakar}-AT-sra.uni-hannover.de
Phone: +49 (0) 511-762-19736

Preliminary Program Committee
Sven Brueckner (US)
Peter Dittrich (D)
Andreas Herkersdorf (D)
Mike Hinchey (Ireland)
Hans-Ulrich Heiß (D)
Tom Holvoet (B)
Jörg Hähner (D)
Bob Laddaga (US)
Jianhua Ma (Japan)
Erik Maehle (D)
Gero Mühl (D)
Wolfgang Reif (D)
Wolfgang Rosenstiel (D)
Torben Weis (D)