ACSOS 2023: 4th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems York University Toronto, Canada, September 25-29, 2023 |
Conference website | https://2023.acsos.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2023 |
Abstract registration deadline | April 30, 2023 |
Submission deadline | May 5, 2023 |
The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is the leading forum to share the latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, self-adaptation and self-organization. Now in its 4th edition, ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a merger of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO).
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*** Important Dates ***
April 30, 2023: Abstract submission deadline
May 5, 2023: Paper submission deadline
July 5, 2023: Notification to authors
August 5, 2023: Camera Ready Deadline
September 25-29, 2023: ACSOS Conference
*** Challenge and Scope ***
The world is increasingly embracing autonomous systems: in robotics, manufacturing, software engineering, vehicles, data center systems, and precision agriculture to name just a few areas. These systems are bringing autonomy to a whole new level of dynamic decision-making under uncertainty, requiring autonomic behavior (e.g., control theory, cybernetics) and self-reference, leading to a range of self-* properties (e.g., self-awareness, self-adaptation, self-organization), and an approach in which system implementation and its environment are holistically considered.
Despite this rise in autonomic and self-*systems, there remains a wide range of fundamental challenges in understanding how to design, control, reason about, and trust such systems. The IEEE ACSOS conference solicits novel research on these topics, in fundamentals and methods as well as applications for autonomic and self-* systems. ACSOS is particularly proud of its long-standing academic breadth and innovative industry contributions, and regularly features work from computational biologists through to operating systems researchers -- united by the common theme of autonomous systems. The conference program will include research papers, in-practice experience reports, posters, demos, and a doctoral symposium.
ACSOS 2023 solicits contributions from among (but not limited to) the following autonomic and self-adaptive and self-organizing methods and applications:
Fundamentals and Methods
- Systems theory: bio-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; evolution and learning; self-aware computing; organic computing; theoretical frameworks; formal languages; queuing and control theory; requirement and goal expression techniques; uncertainty as a 1st class entity
- System properties: performance; robustness; resilience; dependability and reliability; trustworthiness; resource and energy efficiency; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-protection and cybersecurity; self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self-awareness
- Systems and software engineering: algorithms; design patterns; programming languages; architectures; operating systems and middleware; testing, validation, and assurance methodologies; runtime models; large-scale, decentralized and multi-agent systems; data science and analytics; machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Cross disciplinary methods: approaches that draw inspiration from complex systems, chemistry, psychology, sociology, biology, and ethology
- Socio-technical factors: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; trust, ethics, privacy, social and environmental implications.
Applications
Applications of the autonomic, self-adaptive and self-organizing methods in practice, including but not limited to:
- Hardware and software systems, including operating systems, storage, and networking, across areas such as Internet of Things, cloud, fog and edge computing, and high-performance computing
- Next-generation industry, including cyber-physical systems, smart agriculture, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, or smart (virtual) environments
- Social and hybrid systems, such as crowd or traffic modeling, political or social structures, game theory, virtual reality, interactive systems, and human-machine interfacing.
*** Best Papers ***
We intend to continue the tradition of giving the best papers of the conference an opportunity to publish an extended version in a special issue of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
The Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award will be awarded to a selected paper, as well as the best student paper (where the primary author is a student).
*** Submission Instructions ***
Research Papers (up to 10 pages including images, tables, and references) should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research.
Experience Reports (up to 10 pages including images, tables, and references) cover innovative implementations, novel applications, interesting performance results and experience in applying recent research advance to practical situations on any topics of interest.
Vision Papers (up to 6 pages including images, tables, and references) introduce ground-shaking, provocative, and even controversial ideas; discuss long term perspectives and challenges; focus on overlooked or underrepresented areas, and foster debate.
Research papers and experience reports will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. Vision papers will be part of a separate proceedings volume (the ACSOS Companion). Please see https://2023.acsos.org/track/acsos-2023-papers#Call-for-Papers for full requirements and review criteria.