-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems Datum: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:43:12 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner rochner@sra.uni-hannover.de An: rochner@sra.uni-hannover.de

Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist,

on September 21, 2006, a technical discussion on " Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" is taking place at the University of Passau, Germany. It is co-located with the "Intern. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006)" (September 18 - 20, 2006). Submission deadline for contributions is July 15th. For further information including the Call for Contribution see http://www.iwsos.net.fmi.uni-passau.de/pmsos.html.

Regards, Fabian Rochner

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Overview

Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable.

We aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange.

Important Dates

* Extended abstracts / short paper submission deadline: July 15th 2006, 11:59pm CET * Notification of acceptance: August 1st 2006 * Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th 2006 * Meeting date: September 21st 2006

Paper Submission & Publication

The submitted extended abstracts and short papers will be reviewed and published in form of a Technical Report. The publication of full papers within a Special Issue will depend on the success of the meeting. We solicit submission of selected full papers after the meeting.

Technical Program Co-Chairs

* Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Passau, Germany * Patrick Wüchner, University of Passau, Passau, Germany * Jens B. Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany * Matthias Hollick, University of Technology Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Submissions & Contact

* wuechner@fmi.uni-passau.de