From Lidia.Yamamoto@unibas.ch Mon Jan 24 11:43:00 2005 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:41:47 +0100 From: Lidia Yamamoto To: info-autonomic@autonomic-communication.org Subject: INFO-Autonomic: CFP: New Journal - ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:39:43 +0100 From: Giovanna Di Marzo To: christian.tschudin@unibas.ch Subject: CFP: New Journal - ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems [We apologize for multiple postings] ***************************************************************** N E W J O U R N A L ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems http://esoa.unige.ch/taas CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** AIMS AND SCOPES ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of complex computing systems exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behavior. TAAS encourages contributions advancing the state of the art in the understanding, development, and control of such systems. Contributions are typically based on sound theoretical models and supported by proper experimentations/validations. Surveys are welcome too. TAAS domains of interest include: complexity and emergence in software systems, self-ware, autonomic computing and communication, multi-agent systems, peer-to-peer systems, biologically and socially inspired computing, swarm intelligence, pervasive and mobile computing, evolutionary computing. The general goal of the journal is to address the wide range of research being undertaken by an interdisciplinary computing community and to provide a common platform under which this work can be published and disseminated. CONTEXT Many current systems, such as the World Wide Web, Peer-2-Peer systems, pervasive computing systems, ad hoc wireless and sensor networks, have the characteristic of being decentralized and composed of a large number of autonomous entities. These systems are also typically imbedded in and interact with highly dynamic environments, where content, network topology and work load are continuously changing. The capability of systems to exhibit autonomous and self-adaptive behavior by having their components autonomously configure their working parameters, self-organize their interaction patterns, and self-adapt them to changing environmental conditions is thus a necessary feature. In fact, the complexity of these systems and their decentralization make any form of centralized, micro-level control of their behavior impossible or economically impractical. The characteristics sketched above are similar to those found in many complex natural and social systems, whether physical or biological. Indeed, many natural and social systems have the characteristic of exhibiting emergent coherent global behaviors without any centralized control, via contextual local interactions of autonomous components that dynamically self-organize and self-adapt to changing environmental conditions. Accordingly, there is currently an increasing appreciation that modern applications and systems can gain in robustness, and simplicity, if they are developed by following the principles of self-organization which one finds in nature and in society. TAAS clearly welcomes nature-inspired contributions. Nevertheless, TAAS also welcomes contributions that go beyond a simple translation of the natural paradigms, by proposing new mechanisms and approaches, specific of man-made systems, suitable to facilitate the development of complex and adaptive autonomous computing systems. The challenges to be addressed in this field relate to: * Foundations: to contribute to a new science of autonomous and adaptive computing systems * Engineering: to support design and development of applications and systems which "work by themselves'' and adapt to environmental changes; * Simulations and Experiments: to reach a better understanding of the behaviors of complex software systems; * Verification and Control: to control the behavior of a decentralized software system and have it properly adapted and evolved. TOPICS OF INTEREST Systems * Autonomous and Adaptive Systems * Emergent Behaviors in Complex Software Systems * Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Applications * Self-Organizing Software Agents * Emergent Behavior in Grid Computing * Self-Organization in Grid Computing * Self-Organization in Supply Chain Management * Self-Organizing Robots * Self-Organizing Sensor Networks Applications * Smart Materials and Emergent Behavior * Self-Assembly Materials * Self-Organization in Electronic Commerce * Adaptive Workflow Management Systems * Emergent Behavior in Information Systems * Autonomous Business Systems Computing Paradigms * Autonomic Computing and Communication * P2P Computing and Overlay Networks * Biologically and Socially Inspired Computing * Evolutionary Computation * Pervasive and Mobile Computing * Swarm Intelligence * Ambient Intelligence Engineering * Engineering Autonomous and Adaptive Behavior * Engineering Emergent Behavior * Analytic Models of Emergent Behavior * Interaction Mechanisms for Autonomous and Adaptive Behavior * Ants-Based Behavior * Middleware for Autonomous and Adaptive Systems * Simulation Studies EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-chief * Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland Vice-Editor-in-Chief * Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem, Boston, USA Board of Editors * Karl Aberer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland * Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy * Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, USA * Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium * Les Gasser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Salima Hassas, University of Lyon, France * Anthony Karageorgos, University of Thessaly, Greece * Jeff Kephart, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA * Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Labs, Japan * Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK * Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA * Omer F. Rana, University of Cardiff, UK * H. Van Dyke Parunak, Altarum Institute, USA * David Wolpert, NASA Ames, USA * Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Editors-in-chief can be reached at taas@cui.unige.ch Journal web site: http://esoa.unige.ch/taas REVIEW PROCESS We plan to return review results within 4 months of submission. This interval is long enough to ensure quality reviews, and short enough to ensure reasonable publication delays. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Contributions appearing in ACM journals are original papers that have not been published elsewhere. Publication of a paper that has been widely disseminated (e.g., in workshops and conferences) is permitted only if the Editors judge that the revision contains significant amplification or clarification of the original material or there is some significant additional benefit to be gained. Any prior appearance should be noted on the title page and it is the obligation of the author to inform the Editor-in-Chief if there are any circumstances concerning the contribution that bear on this policy. Submission of a manuscript that is under review by TAAS to another journal or conference without approval of the Editor-in-Chief is considered to be unethical and, when discovered, will result in rejection by TAAS. TAAS reserves the right to impose the revision of, or if necessary to refuse, a paper Â~V despite its scientific and technical quality Â~V whenever its content is explicitly unethical or if it supports racism, sexual or religious discrimination, illegal activities or terrorism; similarly an article may be refused if the editors deem that it might harm the political or religious sensitivity of interested readers in any manner. FIRST VOLUME PAPERS Since TAAS is a new journal, the first volume (year 1) of the journal can also contain a limited number of general, introductory, Â~Smagazine styleÂ~T papers, devoted to assess the scope of the journal and to encourage a wider readership (including non-experts). Papers can be submitted at any time, and will be published, if possible, in the next issue following acceptance. The inaugural issue is expected for fall 2005. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION TAAS can accept papers in electronic format only. This facilitates both a quicker editorial review process as well as electronic publication of accepted papers. TAAS authors should prepare manuscripts, no longer than 12000 words, according to the ACM accepted manuscript preparation guidelines. Papers must be sent either in PostScript or PDF format. Papers exceeding 12000 words may be published, provided that the reviewers and the editors explicitly consider such a length a necessary requirement for the paper to be complete and self-contained. Authors should refer to http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm for formatting their papers. Submitted papers must include the following information: * Authors names and affiliation * Primary author contact information * Abstract * Categories and Subject Descriptors (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/) * References Papers for the first issues must be sent to taas@cui.unige.ch INSTRUCTIONS FOR PUBLICATION OF ACCEPTED PAPERS Authors of accepted papers will submit a publication packet to ACM Publications. The packet will include: * Name and address of contact author, including email address and phone number. * PDF or PostScript file of final version. * Formatted source file (see www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/submission.htm). * A printed copy of the paper. * Figures in EPS or TIFF format. * Computing Classification Systems terms (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/). * General terms (http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~jacm/CR/1991/). * Additional keywords and phrases (www.acm.org/class/1998). * Signed copyright form (by the contact author) (www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html). The electronic files should be included in a zip file and submitted to taas@cui.unige.ch. -- Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo http://cui.unige.ch/~dimarzo