Symposium on Self-* Systems – Biological Foundations and Technological Applications

Symposium on Self-* Systems – Biological Foundations and Technological Applications

part of EMCSR 2012, the 21st European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research

April 10-13, 2012, Vienna, Austria

http://www.emcsr.net/

Call for papers

Part 1. Biologically and Socially Inspired Self-* Systems

Chairs: Vesna Sesum-Cavic, Institute of Computer Languages, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and Carlos Gershenson, Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

The increased complexity in today’s’ IT industry is one of the top problems and important obstacles. Self-organization appears as one promising way to cope with the increased complexity. Generally, self-* systems should posses as many self-* properties as possible (self-healing, self-tuning, self-learning,…) in order to achieve self-organization. Self-organization surrounds us. Many interesting self-mechanisms exist in our environment from which we can learn a lot. A careful observation of mechanisms in nature and society can discover some new tools that could beneficially be applied to different IT-problems. This conference track will focus on both biologically and socially based self-* systems. The papers could be theoretically based as well as with practical applications to important IT-problems.

Session 1: Biologically Inspired Self-* Systems (chair: V.C.)
Session 2: Socially Inspired Self-* Systems (chair: C.G.)

For further information contact vesna@complang.tuwien.ac.at and cgg@unam.mx.

Part 2. Self-Organizing Networked Systems

Chairs: Wilfried Elmenreich, Networked and Embedded Systems, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, and Carlos Gershenson, Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Part 2 of this symposium will present and discuss current and novel approaches for applications of self-organizing systems.

A self-organizing system typically consists of many networked entities that organize themselves and cooperate through the exchange of information without the need of a centralized control instance but using a distributed approach. Information is exchanged locally among individual entities in the frame of the fulfillment of a certain global objective. Some simple and high-level rules in the individual entities lead to sophisticated functionality of the overall system. Many examples of successful distributed localized organization can be found in nature (e.g., ants, fireflies).

Self-organizing systems have various favorable properties:

• They typically adapt very easily to changes from inside and outside the system.
• Additional entities can be added and will be assimilated into the global system.
• Entities may be removed without too much affect on the global system, and other entities may take over crucial tasks of them.
• Furthermore, self-organizing systems scale very well and there is no bottleneck of a central authority.

Research into self-organizing networked systems not only has technical and user-oriented aims, it also enables a high degree of interdisciplinarity.

We encounter self-organizing systems on an almost daily basis in:

• the formations of swarms of fish and migratory birds
• the interplay of termites when they build their hills
• the activity of body cells during the healing of wounds.

In many areas of nature, single individuals or organisms work together without central coordination, but in perfect harmony. Large areas of the economy have already been functioning for many years according to this paradigm.

It is the aim of this symposium to create a forum for exchanging ideas, discuss solutions and share experiences among researchers and developers of self-organizing systems applications.
For further information contact wilfried.elmenreich@uni-klu.ac.at and cgg@unam.mx.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Edgar Morin, Péter Csermely, and Péter Érdi.

Submission details:

For submission and conference details, please visit http://www.emcsr.net/?page_id=55

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: January 14, 2012 extended to January 20, 2012
Notifications:             January 27, 2012
Schedule published:   February 7, 2012
Conference:                April10-13, 2012