A special track of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC‘17) looking for contributions.
COLLECTIVE ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
Special Track of the 32nd
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (
SAC‘17)
http://sac-cas2017.apice.unibo.it
April 3 - 7, 2017 Marrakech, Morocco
Nowadays, most aspects of our daily life are affected by pervasive technology, consisting of massive numbers of heterogeneous units/nodes (computers, devices, software applications, smart objects, etc.), complex interactions, and humans-in-the-loop. The distributed and open nature of these systems and their large scale make sensing, decision-making, planning and acting possibly highly dispersed: this may cause on the one hand the emergence of unexpected phenomena, but on the other hand it can be the key to support inherent adaptation and resilience.
These complex systems are typically referred to as Collective Adaptive Systems (
CAS). They have to be equipped with dynamic and autonomous adaptation capabilities, to deal with changes in their working environments and within themselves.
CAS involve huge collections of cooperating components, trading off individual tasks, properties, objectives and actions, with overall system goals.
To properly engineer and exploit
CAS, a deep scientific understanding of the principles underpinning their operation is required. The development of
CAS is closely related to other contemporary (software) engineering approaches, such as component-based systems and middleware platforms, as well as other Computer Science areas, such as Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, Agent-based Programming, Pervasive Computing, Internet of Things, and Autonomic Computing. This track aims at providing a common forum for discussing the various different viewpoints over
CAS, attracting relevant and consistent contributions from different research communities, with the ultimate goal of filling the gap between theory and practice, hence paving the way towards implementation of relevant applications.
The Special Track on Collective Adaptive Systems takes deliberately a broad view of what
CAS are and how they should be designed, analysed, built and deployed. In particular, the track’s interest is both in the foundational view (e.g., theories, methods, formalisms, models) and the practical aspects (e.g., development methodologies, programming languages, middleware, development and runtime environments, tools). Moreover, also applications of
CAS solutions to real-world case studies are welcomed.
Major topics of interest this year will include the following:
- Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques for CAS
- CAS technologies and infrastructures
- CAS applications
- Scenarios, case studies and experience reports of CAS
- Formal aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification) in CAS development
- Business Processes in CAS - Self-* and emerging properties of CAS
- Security and privacy in CAS - Policy-based coordination and self-adaptation in CAS
- Middleware platforms for CAS
- Software architectures and engineering methodologies for CAS
Important Dates
Sep 15, 2016: Papers and
SRC research abstracts submission
Nov 10, 2016: Author notification
Nov 25, 2016: Camera-ready copies
Dec 10, 2016: Author registration
Programme Co-Chairs
Mirko Viroli Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy
http://mirkoviroli.apice.unibo.it email:
mirko.viroli@unibo.it
Francesco Tiezzi University of Camerino, Italy
http://tiezzi.unicam.it/ email: francesco.tiezzi@ unicam.it
Program Committee Members
- Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA
- Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
- Tomas Bures, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Daniel Coore, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
- Ferruccio Damiani, University of Torino, Italy Rocco De Nicola, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
- Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneve, Switzerland
- Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews
- Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
- Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany
- Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Hung La, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Peter Lewis, Aston University, UK
- Alberto Lluch Lafuente, DTU, Denmark
- Michele Loreti, University of Firenze, Italy
- Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Carlo Pinciroli, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
- Rosario Pugliese, University of Firenze, Italy
- Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
- Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden
- Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Proceedings
Papers accepted for the Special Track on Collective Adaptive Systems will be published by
ACM both in the
SAC 2017 proceedings and in the Digital Library.
CAS Special Track organisers also plan to invite authors of selected papers for a Special Issue in a high impact journal, such as
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems or Science of Computer Programming.
Paper submission and format
All papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that currently are not under review in any conference or journal.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must
NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the authors’ information.
Submitted papers must be in the
ACM two-column page format (doc template, pdf template, latex template). The length of the papers is 6 pages (included in the registration) plus up to 2 extra pages (at extra charge), i.e. total 8 pages maximum.
Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending
SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the
ACM/
IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the
ACM/
IEEE digital library.
Submission is entirely automated via the
STAR Submission System, which is available from:
Poster Sessions
Papers that received high reviews (that is acceptable by reviewer standards) but were not accepted due to space limitation can be invited for the poster session. Poster should be not longer than 3 pages (included in the registration) plus 1 extra page (at extra charge), i.e. total 4 pages maximum. The poster session procedures and details will be posted on
SAC 2017 website as soon as they become available.
Student research abstracts competition
Graduate students are invited to submit Student Research Competition (
SRC) abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in
ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at
SAC 2017 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. All research abstract submissions will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners with expertise in the track focus area to which they are submitted. Authors of selected abstracts (up to 20 students) will have the opportunity to give poster and oral presentations of their work and compete for three top-winning places. The winners will receive medals, cash awards, and
SIGAPP recognition certificates during the conference banquet. Invited students receive
SRC travel support (
US$500) and are eligible to apply to the
SIGAPP Student Travel Award Program (
STAP) for additional travel support.