CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007) July 9-11, 2007 Boston, Mass., USA http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Co-Sponsors: ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGART, IEEE SMC Society REGISTRATION DETAILS http://www.regonline.com/SASO_reg ADVANCE PROGRAM http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html ==================== Sunday, July 8, 2007 ==================== Tutorials --------- * "Global-to-Local Programming: Design and Analysis for Amorphous Computers" Radhika Nagpal and Daniel Yamins (Harvard University, USA) * "Introduction to Complex Systems and Applications to Engineering" Yaneer Bar-Yam (New England Complex Systems Institute, USA) * "Engineering Self-Organizing Applications" Sven A. Brueckner and H. Van Dyke Parunak (NewVectors LLC, USA) * "Peer-to-Peer Systems and Gossip Algorithms" Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Szeged, Hungary) ==================== Monday, July 9, 2007 ==================== Keynote Address 1 ----------------- "99% (Biological) Inspiration" Michael G. Hinchey, NASA, USA Research Track, Session 1: Design Methodology, Foundations ---------------------------------------------------------- * "Novel Mathematics-Inspired Algorithms for Self-Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Computing" Steve Ko, Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA), Yookyung Jo (Cornell University, USA) * "Self-Organizing Replica Placement -- A Case Study on Emergence" Klaus Herrmann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) * "A Space- and Time-Continuous Model of Self-Organizing Robot Swarms for Design Support" Heiko Hamann, Heinz Woern (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) * "A Nonlinear Multiagent System Designed for Swarm Intelligence: The Logistic MAS" Rodolphe Charrier, Francois Charpillet, Christine Bourjot (LORIA and Nancy University, France) Research Track, Session 2: Provocative Ideas -------------------------------------------- * "Text and Graphics Control on a Paintable Computer" William Butera (Intel, USA) * "Neural Network of a Cognitive Crow: An Interacting Map Based Architecture" Vishwanathan Mohan, Pietro Morasso (University of Genova, Italy) * "Evolution of Cooperative Information Gathering in Self-Replicating Digital Organisms" Benjamin Beckmann, Philip McKinley, David Knoester, Charles Ofria (Michigan State University, USA) Research Track, Session 3: Synchronization/Desynchronization ------------------------------------------------------------ * "Firefly-Inspired Heartbeat Synchronization in Overlay Networks" Ozalp Babaoglu, Toni Binci (University of Bologna, Italy), Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Szeged, Hungary), Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) * "Desynchronization: The Theory of Self-Organizing Algorithms for Round-Robin Scheduling" Ankit Patel, Julius Degesys, Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University, USA) * "Clustering Distributed Energy Resources for Large-Scale Demand Management" Elth Ogston (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Astrid Zeman, Mikhail Prokopenko, Geoffrey James (CSIRO ICT Center, Australia) Plenary Panel 1 --------------- "An Industrial Perspective on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems" Panel Chair: J.P. Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Panelists: * Bruno Klauser, Cisco, Switzerland * Ashvin Sanghvi, Microsoft, USA * Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK * Mark Berman, BBN Technologies, USA * Gregory T. Sullivan, BAE Systems, USA * Scott Alexander, Telcordia, USA ====================== Tuesday, July 10, 2007 ====================== Research Track, Session 4: P2P Systems -------------------------------------- * "Merging Intra-Planetary Index Structures: Decentralized Bootstrapping of Overlays" Anwitaman Datta (National Technical University, Singapore) * "An Amortized Tit-for-Tat Protocol for Exchanging Bandwidth instead of Content in P2P Networks" Pawel Garbacki, Dick Epema (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Maarten van Steen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * "Aggregation Dynamics in Service Overlay Networks" Pietro Michiardi (Institut Eurecom, France), Paul Marrow, Richard Tateson, Fabrice Saffre (BT, UK) Research Track, Session 5: Data Collection and Aggregation ---------------------------------------------------------- * "Shruti: A Self-Tuning Hierarchical Aggregation System" Praveen Yalagandula (HP Labs, USA), Mike Dahlin (University of Texas at Austin, USA) * "An Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC) Approach to Distributed Network Community Mining" Bo Yang (Jilin University, P.R. China), Jiming Liu (University of Windsor, Canada) * "Self-Organized Data-Gathering Scheme for Multi-Sink Sensor Networks Inspired by Swarm Intelligence" Yuichi Kiri, Masashi Sugano, Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) Plenary Panel 2: Engineering Emergence -------------------------------------- Panel Chair: Karen Haigh, BBN Technologies Panelists: TBA Research Track, Session 6: Combinatorial Optimization ----------------------------------------------------- * "On Scaling Multi-Agent Task Reallocation Using Market-Based Approach" Rajesh Karmani, Timo Latvala, Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) * "Distributed Frequency Assignment Using Cooperative Self-Organization" Gauthier Picard, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, Pierre Glize (IRIT Toulouse, France) * "An Adaptive Strategy for Resource Allocation Modeled as Minority Game" Ka-man Lam, Ho-fung Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Research Track, Session 7: Management and Control ------------------------------------------------- * "Controlling Access to Preserve QoS in a Self-Aware Network" Erol Gelenbe, Georgia Sakellari (Imperial College London, UK), Maurizio D'Arienzo (University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy) * "Leveraging Resource Prediction for Anticipatory Dynamic Configuration" Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Mary Shaw, Bradley Schmerl (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Joao Sousa (George Mason University, USA) * "Towards Supporting Interactions between Self-Managed Cells" Alberto Schaeffer-Filho, Emil Lupu, Naranker Dulay, Sye Loong Keoh, Morris Sloman (Imperial College London, UK), Steven Heeps, Stephen Strowes, Joe Sventek (University of Glasgow, UK) ======================== Wednesday, July 11, 2007 ======================== Keynote Address 2 ----------------- "Designing for Applications Unanticipated by the Designer" Gerald Jay Sussman, MIT, USA Research Track, Session 8: Security ----------------------------------- * "Identifying Malicious Peers Before It's Too Late: A Decentralized Secure Peer Sampling Service" Gian Paolo Jesi, David Hales (University of Bologna), Maarten van Steen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * "Storm: A Secure Overlay for P2P Reputation Management" Aina Ravoaja, Emmanuelle Anceaume (IRISA, France) * "e-SAFE: An Extensible, Secure and Fault Tolerant Storage System" Sandip Agarwala, Arnab Paul, Umakishore Ramachandran, Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Plenary Panel 3: Self-Organizing and Self-Adaptive Networks ----------------------------------------------------------- Panel Chair: Scott Alexander, Telcordia Panelists: TBA Work-in-Progress Track, Session 1: Software Engineering and Multiagent Systems ----------------------------------------------------------- * "Designing Self-Organising Emergent Systems Based on Information Flows and Feedback Loops" T. De Wolf, T. Holvoet (Univ. of Leuven, Belgium) * "Toward Requirements Engineering for Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems" J. Seudeikat, W. Renz (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany) * "On the Problem of Over-Clustering in Tuple-Based Coordination Systems" R. Menezes (Florida Institute of Tech., USA), M. Casadei, M. Viroli (Univ. of Bologna, Italy), R. Tolksdorf (Freie Univ. of Berlin, Germany) * "Task Selection in Multi-Agent Swarms Using Adaptive Bid Auctions" P. Dasgupta, M. Hoeing (Univ. of Nebraska, USA) * "Self-Adapting Resource Bounded Distributed Computations" N. Jamali, X. Zhao (Univ. of Saskatechwan, Canada) * "Continuous Space-Time Semantics Allow Adaptive Program Execution" J. Bachrach, J. Beal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Work-in-Progress Track, Session 2: Self-Adaptation -------------------------------------------------- * "Adaptive Self-Optimization in Distributed Dynamic Environments" W. Trumier, A. Pietzowski, B. Satzgerg (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany) * "Root Cause Isolation for Self Healing in J2EE Environments" U. Bellur, A, Agrawal (IIT Bombay, India) * "A Weighted Voting Mechanism for Action Selection Problem in Self-Adaptive Software" M. Salehie, L. Tahvildari (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) * "Self-Adaptive Systems for Information Survivability: PMOP and AWDRAT" H. Shrobe, R. Laddaga (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), R. Balzer, N. Goldman, D. Wilie, M. Tallis (Teknowledge, USA) * "Self-Adapting Context Definition" N. O'Connor, R. Cunningham, V. Cahill (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) * "Self-Optimizing Peer-to-Peer Networks with Selfish Processes" S. Ghosh (Univ. of Iowa, USA) * "A Self-Adaptive Extensible Embedded Processor" L. Bauer, M. Shafique, J. Henkel (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany) Work-in-Progress Track, Session 3: Self-Organization ---------------------------------------------------- * "Scalable and Efficient Sensor Network Self-Configuration in BioANS" M. Breza, J. Mc Cann (Imperial College London, UK), R. Anthony (Greenwich Univ., UK) * "Towards Self-Organizing Virtual Macro Sensors" N. Bicocchi, M. Mamei, F. Zambonelli (Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) * "Biologically Inspired Self-Organized Blob Structures on Amorphous Computers" M. Valvassori (Univ. Paris 8, France) * "Robot Search in 3D Swarm Construction" J. Werfel (Harvard Univ., USA) * "Towards Cooperative, Self-Organised Replica Management" D. Hales, A. Marcozzi (Univ. of Bologna, Italy), G. Cortese (Univ. of Rome, Italy) * "In Search of Simplicity: A Self-Organizing Group Communication Overlay" M. Ripeanu (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada), A. Iamnitchi (Univ. of South Florida, USA), I. Foster (Argonne National Lab., USA), A. Rogers (Univ. of Chicago, USA) * "Meta-Regression: A Framework for Robust Reactive Optimization" D. McClary, V. Syrotiuk, M. Kulhaci (Arizona State University, USA) Applications Track, Single Session ---------------------------------- * "Emergence of Smooth Pursuit Using Chaos" B. Duran, G. Sandini, G. Metta (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) * "Distributing Genome Sequence Databases with a Publish/Subscribe Middleware" C. Wang, B. B. Zhou, F. Brites, B. Liu, A. Zomaya (Univ. of Sidney, Australia) * "Self-Organizing Information Matching in InformANTS" R. Hilscher, S. Brueckner, T. Belding, V. Parunak (NewVectors LLC, USA) * "DynCNET: A Protocol for Dynamic Task Assignment in Multiagent Systems" D. Weyns, N. Boucke, T. Holvoet, B. Demarsin (Univ. of Leuven, Belgium) * "Improving ICE Service Selection in a P2P System Using the Gradient Topology" J. Dowling, S. Haridi (SICS, Sweden), J. Sacha (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) * "Adaptive SSL: Design, Implementation and Overhead Analysis" C. Lamprecht, A. Van Moorsel (Univ. of Newcastle, UK)