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    Call for Papers  ---  Submission deadline Nov 5, 2012

    Workshop on 

    Self-organising, adaptive, and context-sensitive 
    distributed systems (SACS 2013)

    in conjunction with Networked Systems (NetSys) 2013

    Stuttgart, Germany, March 11-15, 2013

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Scope
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Ubiquitous computing has been a strong vision of contemporary computer science
for the last decade, initially with respect to its potential for innovative 
services, but then also considering socio-technical implications. From a 
technical point of view the management of highly complex, heterogeneous and 
distributed systems still raises many interesting questions. Self-organisation,
autonomous behaviour, and adaptation are important concerns, and the numerous 
theoretical and prototypical approaches to these challenges still have to prove
their value in everyday applications.

However, the conception and realisation of these autonomous, adaptive systems 
cannot be constrained to technical challenges only. How about the usability of
such context-aware, adaptive applications outside of the research labs in our 
real environment? Will they provide new chances for improving life quality in
various societal environments? Do we have to put a special focus on societal 
and also legal implications when these systems are deployed on a broad scale?
How do we ensure trust in a complex system that is working outside of our 
direct influence?

SACS 2013 is the first international edition of the successful, previously 
national workshop series SAKS that started in 2006. The workshop is 
intentionally directed at a multidisciplinary audience. It will shed light 
on the wide field of technical, societal, and legal considerations that need 
to be part of a comprehensive analysis of the state-of-the-art of information 
technology research in complex, autonomous systems.

Whereas the preceding SAKS workshops were mainly intended to provide a forum 
for German national research activities, we expect this workshop to play a 
significant part in linking together contributors on an international scale. 
We especially welcome research papers, reports, and discussion contributions 
from industry.

The workshop program will consist of the presentations of the selected peer 
reviewed contributions, an invited talk, and a discussion session.


Workshop Topics
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The following list specifies the major fields of interest for this workshop; 
related topics are certainly welcome.

==== Self-organisation and adaptation from a technical view ====

* Construction and evaluation of self-organising systems
* Biologically inspired approaches
* Architectures and frameworks for autonomous and ubiquitous systems
* Self-organisation in service-oriented architectures
* Adaptive applications and middleware
* Context models and context processing
* Collective sensing, collective awareness, collective intelligence
* Design methodologies for personalised, context-sensitive services
* Integration of users into the development process for autonomous systems
* User-centric design, user interfaces, and usage patterns

==== Social and legal implications in a world of adaptive IT ====

* Trust and reliability for adaptive, context sensitive systems
* Society-aware design of adaptive, context sensitive systems
* Application domain-specific requirements
* Responsibility and liability

==== Self-organisation and adaptation as enabling technologies ====

* Industrial requirements and projects
* Research prototypes and experience reports
* New value chains, new business / service / provider models

Contributions submitted to the workshop will be peer-reviewed and selected 
according to their quality and suitability for the workshop scope and 
discussion potential. As we address an international audience, English 
will be the workshop language.


Workshop Organization
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Klaus David, University of Kassel, david@uni-kassel.de
Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, geihs@uni-kassel.de
Michael Zapf, G. S. Ohm University of Appl. Sc. Nuremberg, 
michael.zapf@ohm-hochschule.de


Program Committee
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Markus Bick (ESCP Europe / Berlin)
Volker Boehme-Neßler (HTW Berlin)
Georg Borges (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Lars Braubach (Universität Hamburg)
Klaus David (University of Kassel)
Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel)
Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool)
Thomas Hoeren (WWU Münster)
Reinhold Kröger (Univ. of Applied Sciences RheinMain)
Rico Kusber (University of Kassel)
Winfried Lamersdorf (Universität Hamburg)
Jan-Marco Leimeister (University of Kassel)
Klaus Mößner (University of Surrey)
Gero Mühl (University of Rostock)
Christian Müller-Schloer (University of Hannover)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London)
Andreas Polze (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
Wolfgang Renz (Hamburg Univ. of Applied Sciences)
Alexander Roßnagel (Univ. of Kassel)
Jan Sudeikat (Hamburg Energie GmbH)
Ante Vilenica (Universität Hamburg)
Manfred Wojciechowski (Fraunhofer ISST)
Franco Zambonelli (Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Michael Zapf (Univ. of Applied Sciences Nuremberg)


Submissions and important dates
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Submission deadline: Nov 5, 2012
Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacs2013
Notification of authors: Dec 3, 2012
Camera-ready copy: Dec 21, 2012

Publication via ECEASST (http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst/index)
Size of contributions: up to 12 pages
Paper format: to be defined, will comply with common ECEASST format.