CALL FOR PAPERS ________________

International Workshop on Staminal Self-Organizing Self-Configuring Self-Evolving Networks-(S4Nets)

To be held in conjunction with IEEE International conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking - MOWNET - 19-21 August, 2013, Montreal CANADA

========================================================================= August 19, 2013

Montreal, CANADA

https://sites.google.com/site/s4nets2013/ ==========================================================================

*****Important Dates*****

Paper submission: May 1, 2013, Decision Notification: May 30, 2013 Camera Ready: June 20, 2013, MoWNet: August 10-21, 2013

*****Scope and Topics of Interests*****

The goal of this Workshop is to go beyond the concept of self-organizing networks and systems by proposing the concept of "STEM-networks". This concept includes the well-known ideas of self-configuration, self-management, self-healing, but it pushes these features even farther until including the concept of node mutation and evolution. The "stemness" term recalls the peculiarity of a biological stem cell, able to evolve and specialize towards a specialized cell. The main difference with the biological counterpart and the our concept of stemness lies on the reversibility of the process. Each node is able to opportunistically configure its-self based on the specific task that needs to be accomplished. Strictly related to the stemness concept is not only selfness property of the system that come out in a straightforward way but also swarm concept. In fact, devices evolve and organize to each other by accomplishing simple sub-task, each of one is part of a bigger task.

In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:

- New technology enabling and involving the concept of self-organization - New advancements in Software Defined Networking - Cooperation and coordination algorithms and protocols for services differentiation and quality of service (QoS) provision - Controlled mobility strategies to support self-organizing networks - Bio Inspired Models for Self Organization - Topology control schemes in S4 communications networks - Self-organizing group and pattern formation - Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and resource allocation - Self-organizing information dissemination and content search - Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems - Risks and limits of self-organization - Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet - Multi-disciplinary approaches and solutions for novel S4 methodologies

*****Submissions Guidelines*****

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the deadline of 30 May 2013. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS. All papers describing original work must be written in English and should be no more than 6 printed pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures, and references. For full details, please visit the following website: https://sites.google.com/site/s4nets2013/

***Workshop Co-Chairs***

Gianluca Aloi, University of Calabria, Italy

Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy

Valeria Loscri', University of Calabria, Italy

Pasquale Pace, University of Calabria, Italy

Giuseppe Ruggeri, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria

***TPC Members***

Kaushik Roy Chowdhury - Northeastern University, USA

Claudia Campolo - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Ali Ghandour - American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Yi Hong - Monash University, Australia

Antonio Iera - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Gustavo Marfia - University of Bologna, Italy

Nathalie Mitton - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France

Antonella Molinaro - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Enrico Natalizio - Compiegne Technology University, France

Paul Patras - National University of Ireland, Ireland

Tahiry Razafindralambo - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France

Violet Syriotuk - Arizona State University, USA

Zhili Sun - University of Surrey, UK