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The Thirteenth International Conference on
Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

ICAS 2017
May 21 - 25, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain


Call for Papers

The ICAS 2017 (International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems) is a multi-track event covering related topics on theory and practice on systems automation, autonomous systems and autonomic computing.

The main tracks refer to the general concepts of systems automation, and methodologies and techniques for designing, implementing and deploying autonomous systems. Next tracks develop around design and deployment of context-aware networks, services and applications, and the design and management of self-behavioral networks and services. It is also considering monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems and topics dedicated to specific autonomous entities, namely, satellite systems, nomadic code systems, mobile networks, and robots. It has been recognized that modeling (in all forms this activity is known) is the fundamental for autonomous subsystems, as both managed and management entities must communicate and understand each other. Small-scale and large-scale virtualization and model-driven architecture, as well as management challenges in such architectures are considered. Autonomic features and autonomy requires a fundamental theory behind and solid control mechanisms. These topics give credit to specific advanced practical and theoretical aspects that allow subsystem to expose complex behavior. It is aimed to expose specific advancements on theory and tool in supporting advanced autonomous systems.  Domain case studies (policy, mobility, survivability, privacy, etc.) and specific technology (wireless, wireline, optical, e-commerce, banking, etc.) case studies are targeted. A special track on mobile environments is indented to cover examples and aspects from mobile systems, networks, codes, and robotics.

Pervasive services and mobile computing are emerging as the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This move to a mobile and pervasive environment raises new opportunities and demands on the underlying systems. In particular, they need to be adaptive, self-adaptive, and context-aware.

Adaptive and self-management context-aware systems are difficult to create, they must be able to understand context information and dynamically change their behavior at runtime according to the context. Context information can include the user location, his preferences, his activities, the environmental conditions and the availability of computing and communication resources. Dynamic reconfiguration of the context-aware systems can generate inconsistencies as well as integrity problems, and combinatorial explosion of possible variants of these systems with a high degree of variability can introduce great complexity.

Traditionally, user interface design is a knowledge-intensive task complying with specific domains, yet being user friendly. Besides operational requirements, design recommendations refer to standards of the application domain or corporate guidelines.

Commonly there is a set of general user interface guidelines; the challenge is due to a need for cross-team expertise.  Required knowledge differs from one application domain to another, and the core knowledge is subject to constant changes and to individual perception and skills.

Passive approaches allow designers to initiate the search for information in a knowledge-database to make accessible the design information for designers during the design process. Active approaches, e.g., constraints and critics, have been also developed and tested. These mechanisms deliver information (critics) or restrict the design space (constraints) actively, according to the rules and guidelines. Active and passive approaches are usually combined to capture a useful user interface design.

All these points pose considerable technical challenges and make self-adaptable context-aware systems costly to implement. These technical challenges lead the context-aware system developers to use improved and new concepts for specifying and modeling these systems to ensure quality and to reduce the development effort and costs.

SELFTRENDS

Toward brain-like autonomic and autonomous systems

ROBOTRENDS

Robot-related trends

SYSAT

Advances in system automation

UNMANNED

Driver-less cars and unmanned vehicles

AUTSY

Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

AWARE

Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications

AUTONOMIC

Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services

CLOUD

Cloud computing and Virtualization

MCMAC

Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware

CASES

Automation in specialized mobile environments

ALCOC

Algorithms and theory for control and computation

MODEL

Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

SELF

Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

KUI Knowledge-based user interface
AMMO Adaptive management and mobility

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

SELFTRENDS: Toward brain-like autonomic and autonomous systems

Adaptive robust resource allocation
Optimal self-organized collective actions
Collective adaptation
Active learning
Opportunistic collaborative interactive learning
Adaption fairness
Social and biometric data-aware adaptation
Brain connectivity models
Using unbalanced Datasets
Quantum-inspired optimization
Automated (industrial) assembly environments
Deep neural networks
Multimodal knowledge of the brain
Self-organization in M2M infrastructures
Self-organizing socio-technical systems
Context-aware data self-adaptation
Multi-level loop encapsulation in smart systems
Uncertainty in self-adaptive systems
Adaptive Software defined systems (SDS) scalability
Adaptability in multi-tenant Clouds
Self-aware model-driven systems
Proactive self-adaptation
Self-adaptive urban traffic
Adaptive power profiling
Run-time for self-adaptive systems
Distributed adaptive systems
Self-improving system integration
Self-improving activity recognition systems
Feedback computing
Optimal feedback control
Dynamic adaptive applications
Self-managing Clouds
Decentralized autonomic behavior
Market-adaptive trust
Semantics of self-behavior
Self-organizing patterns
Stability propagation in self-organizing systems
Inconsistency in self-deciding systems
Reasoning problems tractability
Decidability in self-organizing systems

ROBOTRENDS: Robot-related trends

Autonomous aquatic agents
Aerial autonomous robots
Drones control and management
Knowledge-based robot motions
Autonomous mobile robot interaction
Humanoid robots
Intelligent robots
Self-reconfigurable mobile robots
Humanoid imitative learning
Robots in unknown environments
Human centric robots
Adjustable robust optimizations
Moral autonomous agents and human evolution
Cognitive robotics
Robot partnership
Affective communication robots
Human-centric robotics
Visually-impaired and robots
Evolutionary swarm robotics
Robots and human advices
Universal robot hands

SYSAT: Advances in system automation

Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features
Methodologies for automating of design systems
Industrial automation for production chains 
Nonlinear optimization and automation control
Nonlinearities and system stabilization
Automation in safety systems
Structured uncertainty
Open and closed automation loops
Test systems automation
Theory on systems robustness
Fault-tolerant systems 

UNMANNED: Driver-less cars and unmanned vehicles

Self-driving cars
Drones
Terrestrial unmanned vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Underwater unmanned vehicles
Unmanned sea surface vehicles
Collision control
Traffic surveillance challenges
Path planning and estimation
Communication between unmanned vehicles
Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in civil airspace
Unmanned vehicular clusters
Designing unmanned vehicular-based systems
Safety of unmanned vehicles
Commercial and surveillance applications
Emergency applications
Legal aspects of unmanned vehicular systems
Testbeds and pilot experiments

AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems
Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy
Design methodologies for autonomous systems
Composing autonomous systems
Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems
Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems
Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems
Delegation and trust in autonomous systems
Centralized and distributed autonomous systems
Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems
Dependability in autonomous systems
Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems
Monitoring and control in autonomous systems
Performance and security in autonomous systems
Management of autonomous systems
Testing autonomous systems
Maintainability of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications

Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications
Modeling context-aware systems
Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts
Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems
User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems
Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems
Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations 

AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services

Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms
Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities
Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms
Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems
Autonomic computing and GRID networking
Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems
Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems
Experiences with autonomic computing systems 

CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

Hardware-as-a-service
Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]
Platform-as-service
On-demand computing models
Cloud Computing programming and application development
Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures
Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues
Performance and QoS
Dynamic resource provisioning
Power-efficiency and Cloud computing
Load balancing
Application streaming
Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies
Custom platforms
Large-scale compute infrastructures
Managing applications in the clouds
Data centers
Process in the clouds
Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures
Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare)
Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application)
Virtualization platforms
Open virtualization format
Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems

Agent-based autonomous systems
Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems
Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing 
Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment
Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware 

CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems,
Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems
Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems
Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems
Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code
Performance in nomadic code systems
Case studies systems for mobile robot systems
Guidance in an a priori unknown environment
Coaching/learning techniques,
Pose maintenance, and mapping
Sensing for autonomous vehicles
Planning for autonomous vehicles
Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks,           

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

Control theory and specific characteristics
Types of computation theories
Tools for computation and control
Algorithms and data structures
Special algorithmic techniques
Algorithmic applications
Domain case studies
Technologies case studies for computation and control
Application-aware networking

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages
Model-driven architectures (MDA)
Service-oriented architectures (SOA)
Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals
Enabled applications through virtualization
Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques
Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation
Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques
Management of virtualized systems
Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies
Making virtualization real
On-demand utilities
Adaptive enterprise
Managing utility-based systems 
Development environments, tools, prototypes 

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability
Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems
Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems
Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems
Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability
Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems
Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems
Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.)
System stability in the presence of context inconsistency
Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems 
Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems
Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems
Scalability of self-adaptable context-aware systems  

KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW
User interface design in autonomic systems
Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design
Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process
Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces
Requirements for interface knowledge representation
Levels for knowledge-based user interface
User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior
Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces
Intelligent user interface for real-time systems
Planning-based control of interface animation
Model-based user interface design
Knowledge-based user interface migration
Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing
Knowledge-based user interface management systems
3D User interface design
Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces
User-interfaces in a domestic environment
Centralised control in the home
User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled
User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobility impaired
Interfacing with ambient intelligence systems
Assisted living interfaces
Interfaces for security/alarm systems

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

QoE and adaptation in mobile environments.
Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21)
Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. )
Admission control resource allocation algorithms
Monitoring and feedback systems
Link adaptation mechanisms
Cross layer approaches
Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios)
QoE vs NQoS mapping systems
Congestion control mechanisms
Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...)
Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)

 

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper)

January 3 February 6, 2017

Notification

March 3 March 4, 2017

Registration

March 18, 2017

Camera ready

April 9, 2017

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Contribution types

  • regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
  • posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
  • demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
  • doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

FORMATS

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available.

Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).

CONTRIBUTION TYPE

Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
These contributions could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Short papers (work in progress) (up to 4 pages long) (oral presentation)
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. These contributions represent partial achievements of longer-term projects. They could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Ideas contributions (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
This category is dedicated to new ideas in their very early stage. Idea contributions are expression of yet to be developed approaches, with pros/cons, not yet consolidated. Ideas contributions are intended for a debate and audience feedback. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Idea. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Ideas explanation page. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Extended abstracts (2 pages long) (oral presentation)
Extended abstracts summarize a long potential publication with noticeable results. It is intended for sharing yet to be written, or further on intended for a journal publication. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Extended abstract. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Posters (paper-based, two pages long) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. A two-page paper summarizes a presentation intended to be a POSTER. This allows an author to summarize a series of results and expose them via a big number of figures, graphics and tables. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster Two Pages. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 8-10 presentation slides are suggested. Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, in addition to the oral presentation.

Posters (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. This type of contribution only requires a 8-10 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
8-10 presentation slides are suggested. Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, additionally to the oral presentation.

Presentations (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
These contributions represent technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations. This type of contribution only requires a 12-14 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Presentation (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Demos (two pages) [posted on www.iaria.org]
Demos represent special contributions where a tool, an implementation of an application, or a freshly implemented system is presented in its alfa/beta version. It might also be intended for thsoe new application to gather the attendee opinion. A two-page summary for a demo is intended to be. It would be scheduled in special time spots, to ensure a maximum attendance from the participants. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Demos. The Demos paper will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.

Doctoral forum submissions: (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
There contributions refer to PhD dissertations, new PhD approaches, and PhD out-of-the-book thinking, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type Doctoral forum. 12-14 presentation slides are suggested.

Tutorial proposals
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for 2-3 hour long. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to tutorial proposal

Panel proposals
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA site.
Please send your proposals to panel proposal

Workshop proposals
See http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

Mini Symposium proposal
See http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

 
 

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