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********************************************************************* * Preliminary Call for Papers * * IWSOS 2013 * 7th International Workshop on Self-organizing Systems * * Palma de Mallorca, Spain * May 8-10, 2013 * * Paper Submission Deadline: November 18, 2012 * ********************************************************************

** Website

Further information and updates will be available at http://innaxis.org/events/iwsos-2013/

** Scope

The main themes of IWSOS 2013 are from the fields of techno-social systems and networks-of-networks with their unique and complex blend of cognitive, social, and technological aspects. We will analyse how these systems self-organize, acquire their structure, and evolve. Thus, we aim to advance our understanding of such key infrastructures in our societies and, more generally, of these sorts of self-organizational processes in nature.

We are further interested in learning how to engineer such self-organizing networked systems to have desirable properties including dependability, predictability, and resilience in the face of the inevitable challenges that they face.

Building on the success of its predecessors, this multi-disciplinary workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers from complex systems, distributed systems, and communication networks to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization in networked systems. We invite the submission of manuscripts that present original research results on the themes of self-organization in techno-social systems and networks-of-networks.

** Key Topics

The workshop scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topical areas of self-organizing systems:

- Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems - Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society - Structure, characteristics, and dynamics of self-organizing networks - Self-organization in techno-social systems - Self-organized social computation - Self-organized communication systems - Citizen Science - Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems - Tools to quantify self-organization - Control and control parameters of self-organizing systems - Phase transitions in self-organizing systems - Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems - Self-organization in complex networks such as peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc, vehicular, and social networks - Self-organization in socio-economic systems - User and operator-related aspects of man-made self-organizing systems - Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services - Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks - Self-protection, self-configuration, diagnosis, and healing - 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 - The human in the loop of self-organizing networks - Social, cognitive, and semantic aspects of self-organization - Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet - Decentralized power management in the smart grid

** Important Dates

Submission deadline: November 18, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2013 Camera-ready papers due: February 3, 2013 Conference dates: May 8-10, 2013

** Papers

IWSOS 2013 invites the submission of manuscripts that present original research results which have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international technical program committee and judged on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness.

** Proceedings

Publication by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series is planned and currently under negotiation.

** Committees

* General Chairs Maxi San Miguel, IFISC (CSIC-University Balearic Islands), Spain Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany

* Organization Chair Carlos Álvarez Pereira, Innaxis, Spain

* Program Chairs Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austria Vittorio Loreto, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

* Publicity Chairs Karin Anna Hummel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

* Local Organization Chairs Paula Lopez-Catalá, Innaxis, Spain Arantxa Villar, Innaxis, Spain

* Steering Committee Hermann de Meer, Univ. Passau, Germany David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (IFIP TC6 Representative) Karin Anna Hummel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shlomo Havlin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

* Technical Program Committee (tentative list, more to be added) Karl Aberer, EPFL Andrea Baronchelli, Northeastern University Marc Barthelemy, Institut de Physique Théorique Raffaele Bruno, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation Turin Albert Diaz-Guilera, Universitat de Barcelona Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University Linz Santo Fortunato, Aalto University Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Boudewijn Haverkort, University of Twente Poul Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Karin Anna Hummel, ETH Zurich Sebastian Lehnhoff, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology Hein Meling, University of Stavanger Mirco Musolesi, University of Burmingham Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Andreas Riener, Johannes Kepler University Linz Kave Salamatian, Universite De SavoieMarc Barthelemy Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University Paul Smith, Austrian Institute of Technology Bosiljka Tadic, Jozef Stefan Institute Dirk Trossen, University of Cambridge