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CALL FOR PAPERS
New Trends in Network Architectures and Services:
International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
(IWSOS 2006)
September 18 - 20, 2006
University of Passau, Germany
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwsos
* Paper abstract deadline: March 23rd 2006, 11:59pm CET
* Paper submission deadline: April 1st 2006, 11:59pm CET
Overview:
The evolution of the Internet reveals surprising turns and obstacles.
Centralized approaches of introducing new services and architectures
consistently failed to materialize at large scale. Quality of Service,
group communication, or mobility support are only some examples for the
difficulty with orchestrated approaches. The success story of the
Internet,
on the other hand, is strongly linked to decentralization. Robustness
to failures
or flexibility in introducing new applications such as the World Wide
Web or
Peer-to-Peer systems have been key momentum to technological advancements
and economics. Future networks are envisioned to be highly complex and
difficult to manage due to heterogeneity of networks, spontaneous
set-up of
networks, and the envisioned number of interconnected devices, appliances,
and artifacts. The question that poses itself is whether
self-organization can
be exploited to a larger scale for solving some of the pending
problems for
such future networks. Self-organization may even play a key architectural
role of the future Internet for enhanced flexibility and evolvability.
It is the
goal of this workshop to bring together leading international and
multi-disciplinary
researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the
potentials in
self-organization and the means to achieve it.
Key Topics:
The key topics of the workshop include but are not restricted to:
- Self-organization, self-management, self-configuration, and
self-optimization
- Self-protection, self-diagnosis, and self-healing
- Autonomic networking
- Emergence and related theoretical concepts
- Networks for pervasive and ubiquitous computing
- Sensor and ad-hoc networks, e.g.: smart dust
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Self-organizing satellite networks
- Group forming networks
- Networks and organic computing
- GRID computing and Web Services
- Application domains: the autonomic and self-organizing home network
- Security and self-organization
- Quality of service / service level agreement and self-organization
- The role of self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence
- The evolutionary principles of the Internet
- Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks
- Accountability and self-organization
- Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross layering
- Self-organization in role-based and multilevel systems
- The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
- Inspiring models of self-organizing in nature and society
- Robustness and fault tolerance
- Risks in self-organization
- The (un-)controllability of self-organizing or emergent systems
Important Dates:
* Paper abstract deadline: March 23rd 2006, 11:59pm CET
* Paper submission deadline: April 1st 2006, 11:59pm CET
* Notification of acceptance: May 15th 2006
* Camera-ready papers due: June 15th 2006, 11:59pm CET
* Author registration deadline: June 15th 2006, 11:59 CET
* Early registration deadline: August 1st, 2006
* Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th, 2006
* Workshop dates: September 18th - 20th 2006
* Workshop reception and welcome party: September 17th 2006
Steering Committee:
* Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany
* David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
* Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA
Program Chairs:
* Hermann De Meer
University of Passau
Passau, Germany
* James Sterbenz
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
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