3rd Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration at ICAC 2016
Würzburg, Germany, July 19-22 2016
09:00 – 10:00
Joint Workshop Keynote ( NN )
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:30
10:30 Welcome / Workshop Organisation
Kirstie Bellman / Sven Tomforde / Rolf Würtz
10:45 Keynote: "Goal-oriented Holonic Architectures for
Complex Socio-technical Systems"
Ada Diaconescu (Telecom Paris-Tech, FR)
11:30 Talk 1: "An Organic Computing Perspective on Self-Improving
System Interweaving at Runtime"
Stefan Rudolph (Uni Augsburg, DE)
12:00 Talk 2: "Towards Self-Improving Activity Recognition
Systems based on Probabilistic, Generative Models"
Martin Jänicke (Uni Kassel, DE)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
14:00 Talk 3: "Towards Dynamic Epistemic Learning of Actions for
Self-improving Agents and Multi-agent Systems"
Shuai Wang (Uni Amsterdam, NL)
14:30 Talk 4: "Predictive Load Balancing in Cloud Computing
Environments based on Ensemble Forecasting"
Matthias Sommer (Uni Augsburg, DE)
15:00 Talk 5: "Comparison of Approaches for Self-Improvement in
Self-adaptive Systems"
Christian Krupitzer (Uni Mannheim, DE)
15:30 Talk 6: "Lifelong Learning and Collaboration of Smart Technical
Systems in Open-Ended Environments - Opportunistic
Collaborative Interactive Learning"
Bernhard Sick (Uni Kassel, DE)
16:00 – 16:30
Break
16:30 – 18:00
16:30 Talk 7: "Improving Reliability and Reducing Overhead in
Low-Power Sensor Networks using Trust and Forgiveness"
Jan Kantert (Uni Hannover, DE)
17:00 Talk 8: "Model-Based Cooperative System Engineering and
Integration "
Christopher Landauer (Topcy, US)
17:30 Discussion
18:00 Closing Remarks
Information and communication technology (ICT) pervades every aspect of our daily lives. This inclusion changes our communities and all of our human interactions. It also presents a significant set of challenges in correctly designing and integrating our resulting technical systems. For instance, the embedding of ICT functionality in more and more devices (such as household appliances or thermostats) leads to novel interconnections and a changing structure of the overall system. Not only technical systems are increasingly coupled, a variety of previously isolated natural and human systems have consolidated into a kind of overall system of systems - an interwoven system structure.
This change of structure is fundamental and affects the whole production cycle of technical systems – standard system integration and testing is not feasible any more. The increasingly complex challenges of developing the right type of modelling, analysis, and infrastructure for designing and maintaining ICT infrastructures has continued to motivate the self-organising, autonomic and organic computing systems community.
In this workshop, we intend to study novel approaches to system of system integration and testing by applying self-* principles; specifically we want approaches that allow for a continual process of self-integration among components and systems that is self-improving and evolving over time towards an optimised and stable solution.
Although research in self-organising systems – such as the Organic Computing (OC) and Autonomic Computing (AC) initiatives – has seen an exciting decade of development, in which there has been considerable success in building individual systems, OC/AC is faced with the difficult challenge of integrating multiple self-organising systems, and integrating self-organising systems with traditionally engineered ones as well as naturally occurring human organisations. Meanwhile, although there has been important development in system of systems methodologies (e.g., Service-oriented Architectures, clouds technology etc.), many of these developments lack scalable methods for rapidly proving that new configurations of components/subsystems are correctly used or their changes verified or that these frameworks have pulled together the best possible context-sensitive configuration of resources for a user or another system.
The SISSY workshop continues the successful predecessors held at IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems (SASO14) 2014 in London, UK, and IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC15) 2015 in Grenobles, France. The workshop intends to focus on the important work of applying self-X principles to the integration of “Interwoven Systems" (where an "Interwoven System" is a system cutting across several technical domains, combining traditionally engineered systems, systems making use of self-X properties and methods, and human systems). The goal of the workshop is to identify key challenges involved in creating self-integrating systems and consider methods to achieve continuous self-improvement for this integration process. The workshop specifically targets an interdisciplinary community of researchers (i.e. from systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, socio-technical systems, and the OC/AC domains) in the hope that collective expertise from a range of domains can be leveraged to drive forward research in the area.
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2016 (extended)
* Paper Acceptance Notification: April 30th, 2016 (extended)
* Camera-Ready Papers due: May 1st, 2016
All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible.
The proceedings of all ICAC workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. In addition, papers will be part of the conference proceedings with ISBN number. Indexing by IEEE explore and DBPL is expected.
Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in pdf format. Please submit your papers using the conference management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sissy16
The conference management system is also linked on the website. One of the authors has to register for the conference and workshop.
Kirstie Bellman
The Aerospace Corporation
Kirstie.L.Bellman@aero.org
Sven Tomforde
Universität Augsburg, Organic Computing Group
sven.tomforde@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
Rolf P. Würtz
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Institute for Neural Computation
rolf.wuertz@ini.rub.de
Please contact Sven Tomforde for all enquiries.
Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies
Jean Botex, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Uwe Brinkschulte, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Ada Diaconescu, Paris Telecom-Tech, France
Frank Dürr, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel, Germany
Martin Hoffmann, Volavis GmbH, Germany
Paul Kaufmann, Universität Pderborn, Germany
Jan Kantert, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Chris Landauer, Topcy House, USA
Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
Sebastian von Mammen, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Bivas Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Sanaz Mostaghim, Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Gero Mühl, Universität Rostock, Germany
Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Franz Rammig, Universität Paderborn, Germany
Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Stefan Rudolph, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Gregor Schiele, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Hella Seebach, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Bernhard Sick, Universität Kassel, Germany
Anthony Stein, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Matthias Tichy, Universität Ulm, Germany
Theo Ungerer, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Arno Wacker, Universität Kassel, Germany
Torben Weis, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Stefan Wildermann, Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany
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