-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Workshop "Organic Computing" at ARCS 2007 Datum: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner rochner@sra.uni-hannover.de An: rochner@sra.uni-hannover.de

Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist,

at ARCS 2007, taking place March 12-15, 2007 at Zurich, a workshop on Organic Computing will take place on the last day of the conference. Deadline for submissions to this workshop is December 21st. Further details on the conference can be found at http://arcs07.ethz.ch/.

Regards, Fabian Rochner

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WORKSHOP

ORGANIC COMPUTING - TOOLS, APPLICATIONS AND ARCHITECTURES March 15, 2007, ETH Zürich

Organic Computing has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Organic Computing is based on the insight that in the near future we will be surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems equipped with sensors and actuators to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to support people at work and in their everyday life. This presence of networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems - which we increasingly depend on - as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation of these systems towards human needs as opposed to a pure implementation of the technologically possible seems absolutely central. In order to achieve these goals, our technical systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously, i.e. they will have to exhibit life-like properties. We call those systems "organic". Hence, an "Organic Computing System" is a technical system, which adapts dynamically to the current conditions of its environment. It will be self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of Organic Computing and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Engineering. Central aspects of Organic Computing systems have been and will be inspired by an analysis of information processing in biological systems. The focus of this OC workshop will be on technical applications, tools and architectures for organic computing systems.

Workshop topics - tools and toolboxes for organic computing - organic computing applications - architectures for organic computing - self-X in production systems - complex adaptive systems - technical usage and controllability of emergence

Deadlines Submission until Dec. 21, 2006 Notification of acceptance Jan. 13, 2007 Final version until Jan. 21, 2007

Submission of papers Papers can be submitted in PDF format in english. The papers should have a maximum of 10 pages and must be formatted in the VDE-Verlag style. http://www.vde-verlag.de/buecher/tagungd.html Papers must be submitted at http://ocws07.informatik.uni-augsburg.de

Worshop chairs Wolfgang Trumler, University of Augsburg Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg

Program committee Bernhard Bauer, Universität Augsburg Jürgen Becker, Universität Karlsruhe Michael Beigl, Universität Braunschweig Uwe Brinkschulte, Universität Karlsruhe Martin Emele, Robert Bosch GmbH Dietmar Fey, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena Stefan Fischer, Universität Lübeck Hans-Ulrich Heiß, TU Berlin Jörg Henkel, Universität Karlsruhe Andreas Herkersdorf, TU München Christian Hochberger, TU Dresden Wolfgang Karl, Universität Karlsruhe Paul Lukowicz, Universität Passau Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck Christoph von der Malsburg, Universität Bochum Christian Müller-Schloer, Universität Hannover Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg Jochen Schiller, Freie Universität Berlin Hartmut Schmeck, Universität Karlsruhe Bernhard Sick, Universität Passau Dirk Timmermann, Universität Rostock