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SASO
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Tucson
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United States
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The aim of the Self&#8211;Adaptive and Self&#8211;Organizing Systems conference series (SASO) is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of research on the foundations of engineered systems that self&#8211;adapt and self&#8211;organize&#046; The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics in the environment&#046; This has led the software engineering, distributed systems, and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e&#046;g&#046;, complex systems, control theory, artificial intelligence, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems in a principled way&#046; In this endeavor, self&#8211;organization and self&#8211;adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated approaches&#046; They form the basis for many other so&#8211;called self&#8211;* properties, such as self&#8211;configuration, self&#8211;healing, or self&#8211;optimization&#046;<br>SASO aims to be an interdisciplinary meeting, where contributions from participants with different backgrounds leads to the fostering of a cross&#8211;pollination of ideas, and where innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications can emerge&#046;<br>The eleventh edition of the SASO conference embraces this inter&#8211;disciplinary nature, and welcomes novel contributions to both the foundational and application&#8211;focused dimensions of self&#8211;adaptive and self&#8211;organizing systems research&#046;<br>The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>&#8211; Systems theory: nature&#8211;inspired and socially&#8211;inspired paradigms and heuristics; inter&#8211;operation of<br>self&#8211;* mechanisms; theoretical frameworks and models; control theory;<br>&#8211; System properties: robustness; resilience; stability; anti&#8211;fragility; diversity; self&#8211;reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self&#8211;awareness;<br>&#8211; Systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; architectures; methodologies; software and middleware development frameworks and methods; platforms and toolkits; multi&#8211;agent systems;<br>&#8211; Theory and practice of organization: self&#8211;governance, change management, electronic institutions, distributed consensus, commons, knowledge management, and the general use of rules, policies, etc&#046; in self&#8211;* systems<br>&#8211; Theory and practice of adaptation: mechanisms for adaptation, including evolution, logic, learning; adaptability, plasticity, flexibility<br>&#8211; Socio&#8211;technical systems: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness; humans&#8211;in&#8211;the&#8211;loop; ethics and humanities in self&#8211;* systems;<br>&#8211; Data&#8211;driven approaches: data mining; machine learning; data science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage behavior of complex systems;<br>&#8211; Self&#8211;adaptive and self&#8211;organizing hardware: self&#8211;* materials; self&#8211;construction; reconfigurable hardware;<br>&#8211; Education: experience reports; curricula; innovative course concepts; methodological aspects of self&#8211;* systems education;<br>Applications and experiences with self&#8211;* systems in any of the following domains are of particular interest:<br>+ Smart systems: smart grids, smart cities, smart environments, smart homes, etc&#046;<br>+ Industrial automation: embedded self&#8211;* systems, adaptive industrial plants, Industry 4&#046;0, cyber physical systems<br>+ Transportation: autonomous vehicles, traffic optimization<br>+ Autonomous systems: aerial vehicles, undersea vehicles, autonomous robotics<br>+ Internet of Things: self&#8211;* for network management, self&#8211;* applied to cyber security<br>We are looking for contributions that present new fundamental understanding of self&#8211;adaptive and self&#8211;organizing systems and how they can be engineered and used, including: novel theoretical or experimental results, novel design patterns, mechanisms, system architectures, frameworks, tools, and practical experiences in building or deploying systems and applications&#046; Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems, are equally encouraged&#046; Likewise, papers describing substantial innovation or insights in the use and communication of self&#8211;* systems in the classroom are welcome&#046;<br>