[Announcements] Call for Papers "7th International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration" (SISSY'20)

[Christian Krupitzer]

Dear Colleagues,

We apologize if you received multiple CFPs for the 7th International 
Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY'20).

===================== Call for Paper =====================

Held together with the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic 
Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020)
Location: Washington D.C., USA
Date: August 17-21, 2020

Submission deadline: May 27th, 2020

Website: https://sissy.telecom-paristech.fr/

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COVID statement:

We would first like to express our empathy and condolences with those 
affected by COVID-19 so far, and those who will have a difficult 2020. 
The SISSY Organising Committee has been monitoring the situation 
surrounding COVID-19 and considering what impact this may have on events 
scheduled for later in the year, such as ours.

At this point we would like to announce and confirm that:
* SISSY will take place, and on its original dates in August (17th or 21st).
* Depending on the travel restrictions being in place in August, we'll 
decide about oportunites to present virtually.
* All accepted contributions will become part of the IEEE proceedings of 
ACSOS, regardless of whether a physical or virtual presentation is given.
* Whether the main conference (ACSOS 2020) and its workshops become 
entirely virtual or hybrid is a decision that we will make when we know 
more, and by the end of May/begin of June at the latest. This is to 
ensure people have ample time to make travel arrangements, in the case 
of physical attendance.


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Call for Papers

Information and communication technology (ICT) pervades every aspect
of our daily lives. This inclusion changes our communities and all of
our human interactions. It also presents a significant set of
challenges in correctly designing and integrating our resulting
technical systems. For instance, the embedding of ICT functionality in
more and more devices (such as household appliances or thermostats)
leads to novel interconnections and a changing structure of the
overall system. Not only technical systems are increasingly coupled, a
variety of previously isolated natural and human systems have
consolidated into a kind of overall system of systems - an interwoven
system structure.

This change of structure is fundamental and affects the whole
production cycle of technical systems – standard system integration
and testing is not feasible any more. The increasingly complex
challenges of developing the right type of modelling, analysis, and
infrastructure for designing and maintaining ICT infrastructures has
continued to motivate the self-organising, autonomic and organic
computing systems community.

In this workshop, we intend to study novel approaches to system of
system integration and testing by applying self-* principles;
specifically we want approaches that allow for a continual process of
self-integration among components and systems that is self-improving
and evolving over time towards an optimised and stable solution.

Although research in self-organising systems – such as the Organic
Computing (OC) and Autonomic Computing (AC) initiatives – has seen
an exciting decade of development, in which there has been
considerable success in building individual systems, OC/AC is faced
with the difficult challenge of integrating multiple self-organising
systems, and integrating self-organising systems with traditionally
engineered ones as well as naturally occurring human
organisations. Meanwhile, although there has been important
development in system of systems methodologies (e.g., Service-oriented
Architectures, clouds technology etc.), many of these developments
lack scalable methods for rapidly proving that new configurations of
components/subsystems are correctly used or their changes verified or
that these frameworks have pulled together the best possible
context-sensitive configuration of resources for a user or another
system.

The SISSY workshop continues the successful predecessors held at IEEE
International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems
(SASO14) 2014 in London, UK, IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Autonomic Computing (ICAC15) 2015 in Grenobles, France, at
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC16) 2016
in Würzburg, Germany, at the IEEE International Conference on
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems (SASO17) 2017 in Tucson, AZ,
US, at the IEEE Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems
Conference (FAS*18) 2018 in Trento, Italy, and at the IEEE Foundations
and Applications of Self* Systems Conference (FAS*19) 2018 in Umea,
Sweden.

The workshop intends to focus on the important work of applying
self-X principles to the integration of "Interwoven
Systems" (where an "Interwoven System" is a system cutting across
several technical domains, combining traditionally engineered systems,
systems making use of self-X properties and methods, and human
systems). The goal of the workshop is to identify key challenges
involved in creating self-integrating systems and consider methods to
achieve continuous self-improvement for this integration process. The
workshop specifically targets an interdisciplinary community of
researchers (i.e. from systems engineering, complex adaptive systems,
socio-technical systems, and the OC/AC domains) in the hope that
collective expertise from a range of domains can be leveraged to drive
forward research in the area.

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Paper Submission

Papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not 
currently under review. Papers will be judged on originality, 
significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the 
broader community. Authors are strongly encouraged to report on 
concepts, experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an 
appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible.

We ask for two types of papers:
a) 2 to 4 page position papers as a basis for discussion.
b) 6 page full papers

The proceedings of all ACSOS workshops will be published by IEEE 
Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE digital 
library. In addition, papers will be part of the conference proceedings 
with ISBN number. Indexing by IEEE explore and DBPL is expected.

Submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society 
Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in pdf 
format. Please submit your papers using the conference management system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sissy20

One of the authors has to register for the conference and workshop.

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Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:     May 27th, 2020
Paper Acceptance Notification:     June 24th, 2020
Camera-Ready Papers due:     July 8th, 2020
Workshop             August 21st or 17th, 2020

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Workshop Organisation

Kirstie Bellman
Topcy House Consulting, USA
bellmanhome at yahoo.com

Ada Diaconescu
Telecom Paris-Tech, France
ada.diaconescu at telecom-paristech.fr

Lukas Esterle
Aarhus University, Denmark
lukas.esterle at eng.au.dk

Sven Tomforde
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
st at informatik.uni-kiel.de

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Programme Committee
- Kirstie Bellman, Topcy House, USA
- Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt, Germany
- Ada Diaconescu, Telecom Paris, France
- Lukas Esterle, Aarhus University, Danmark
- Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa, USA
- Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel, Germany
- Christian Gruhl, Universität Kassel, Germany
- Joerg Haehner, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck, Germany
- Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Christian Krupitzer, Universität Würzburg, Germany
- Chris Landauer, The Aerospace Company, USA
- Peter Lewis, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
- Gero Mühl, Universität Rostock, Germany
- Phyllis Nelson, Cal Poly Pomona, USA
- Evangelos Pournaras, Leeds University, UK
- Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Stefan Rudolph, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Gregor Schiele, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Anthony Stein, Universität Augsburg, Germany
- Christopher Steward, Ohio State University, USA
- Sven Tomforde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
- Stefan Wildermann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany