SASO 2014 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems London, UK; 8-12 September 2014
http://www.saso-conference.org ================================ ********************* 1. Call for workshops ********************* The SASO 2014 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conference. SASO 2014 workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Its aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO conference. Important Dates =============== Proposal Submission Deadline: April 11, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 18, 2014 CFP Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 11 Paper Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Early Registration Deadline: TBD Camera-Ready Papers due: August 13, 2014 Workshop notes submission to WS chairs: August 18, 2014 Workshops dates: September 8 & 12, 2014 SASO 2014 Workshops - Requirements for Submission ================================================= Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information: - Title of the workshop. - A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. - Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. - The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A brief description of the workshop format. - List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations. - List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable). The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including: - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. - Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees. - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the SASO 2014 Workshops Chairs. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final SASO 2014 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including: - the scientific/technical interest of the topics, - the quality of the proposal, - complementarity with the conference topics, - balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and - the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. Responsibilities of SASO 2014 and Workshop Organizers ===================================================== For all accepted proposals, SASO 2014 will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshop. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. - Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for SASO. - Arranging for publication of proceedings. Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: - Setting up a web site for the workshop. - Advertising the workshop (and the main SASO conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation. - Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee. - Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. - Writing a 1-page organizers introduction for your proceedings. - Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings). SASO reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. Submissions and Inquiries ========================= Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to the SASO 2014 workshop chairs: Jan-Philipp Steghöfer (University of Augsburg, Germany) steghoe...@informatik.uni-augsburg.de Didac Busquets (Imperial College London, UK) didac.busqu...@imperial.ac.uk ************************** 2. Call for tutorials ************************** Important Dates The exact deadlines are at 11:59 PM CET (Central European Time). Proposal Submission Deadline: April 18, 2014 Presenter Notification: April 25, 2014 Extended Abstract and Presentation Handouts due: August 1, 2014 Tutorial presentation: September 8 & 12, 2014 Call for Tutorials SASO 2014 will host a tutorial program, to be held in Imperial College London, UK, in the week of September 8-12, 2014. For detailed information about SASO 2014 please visit the conference website. Goal and Scope The goal of the tutorial program of SASO 2014 is to provide an instructional offer to scholars, practitioners and students attending the conference, on a range of topics related to self-adaptive and self- organizing systems. We plan to accommodate either half-day tutorials (approx. 3.0 hours, plus one 30-minutes break) and full-day tutorials (approx 6.0 hours, plus two 30-minutes breaks, and a lunch break). The topic of a tutorial may range from practical techniques and technologies, to methodologies, guidelines over standards, to theoretical aspects related to self-adaptive and self-organizing systems (software, networks or services). The topic areas that fall into the general scope of SASO, as well as the focus of this year's conference, are listed in the Call for Papers that is available on the conference web site. Please note that no marketing or product specific tutorials will be accepted. Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. Topics that can capture the interest of a broad audience of scholars, practitioners or students are preferred. Review Process Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated by the SASO organizing committee according to relevance and to SASO and its community, attractiveness and novelty of the topic, consistency with the focus of the conference, general fit within the overall tutorial program, and previous teaching experience of the proposers. Submission Guidelines Tutorial proposals must not be longer than three pages, in the same format of the SASO research papers, that is, compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style. Please make sure the submission includes the following elements: - title of the tutorial; - preferred duration (half-day or full-day); - intended level (introductory, intermediate, or advanced) and prerequisites - contact information for all presenters, including full name, affiliation, email address, full postal address, phone and fax number, URL of personal homepage; - short bio of all presenters including prior teaching and tutorial experiences; - description of the material covered by the tutorial, not exceeding two pages (approx. 1500 words): must include a proposed structure of the content to be presented; - identification of the target audience (e.g., researchers, teachers, practitioners, students); - references of publications (books, papers etc.) the tutorial builds on; - indication of whether the submission of a tutorial paper (see below) is planned. All proposals should be submitted as a PDF document via email to the tutorial chair at the following address: a.arti...@gmail.com Accepted Proposals Once notified that the tutorial has been accepted, tutorial proposers should prepare a two-page extended abstract - compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style - describing the content of the tutorial, in addition to the handout material that is going to be distributed to the participants to their tutorial. Both the extended abstract and the handout material must be ready and submitted to the Tutorial Chair by the deadline noted above. Submissions and Inquiries ========================= Please send proposals and inquiries to the SASO 2014 tutorial chair: Alexander Artikis <a.arti...@gmail.com>
SASO 2014 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials 8th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems London, UK; 8-12 September 2014 http://www.saso-conference.org ================================ ********************* 1. Call for workshops ********************* The SASO 2014 Steering Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program to be held along with the technical conference. SASO 2014 workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Its aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. Members from all areas of the SASO community are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshops on global challenges, applications or on new and emerging topics are particularly encouraged. Workshops can vary in length, but most will be one full day in duration. Optionally, if desired by the organizers, workshop proceedings can be published through IEEE. Attendance of workshops will be included in the registration fee for the main SASO conference. Important Dates =============== Proposal Submission Deadline: April 11, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 18, 2014 CFP Submission Deadline: April 25, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 11 Paper Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Early Registration Deadline: TBD Camera-Ready Papers due: August 13, 2014 Workshop notes submission to WS chairs: August 18, 2014 Workshops dates: September 8 & 12, 2014 SASO 2014 Workshops - Requirements for Submission ================================================= Proposals for workshops should be separated in two parts. The first part should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information: - Title of the workshop. - A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference. - Description of paper review process (if any) and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Note that papers must be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. - The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop organizing committee. This committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions. - The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee. - Expected duration of the workshop (half or full day). - A brief description of the workshop format. - List of potential program committee members (if applicable), including their title and affiliations. - List of potential invited speakers, panelists, or disputants (if applicable). The second part with a maximum of three pages should contain additional information not suitable for a Call for Papers, including: - A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. - A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. - Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees. - A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a SASO workshop, including a list of workshops previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any. - A list of places (distribution lists, web sites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised. All proposals should be submitted in plain ASCII text or PDF format by electronic mail to the SASO 2014 Workshops Chairs. The selection of the workshops to be included in the final SASO 2014 Workshop program will be based upon multiple factors, including: - the scientific/technical interest of the topics, - the quality of the proposal, - complementarity with the conference topics, - balance and distinctness of workshop topics, and - the capacity of the conference workshop program. Note that authors of proposals addressing similar and/or overlapping content areas and/or audiences may be requested to merge their proposals. Responsibilities of SASO 2014 and Workshop Organizers ===================================================== For all accepted proposals, SASO 2014 will be responsible for: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole. - Providing logistical support and a meeting place for the workshop. - Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. - Liaising and coordinating between the workshop chairs and the finance chair, publicity chair, registration chair, and web chair for SASO. - Arranging for publication of proceedings. Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: - Setting up a web site for the workshop. - Advertising the workshop (and the main SASO conference), and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation. - Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process. All workshop organizers commit themselves to adopt the deadlines set by the committee. - Making the pdf of the whole workshop notes available to the workshop chair, as well as a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements. - Writing a 1-page organizers introduction for your proceedings. - Ensuring that the workshop organizers and the participants register for the workshop and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings). SASO reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. Submissions and Inquiries ========================= Please send proposals (as a PDF document) and inquiries to the SASO 2014 workshop chairs: Jan-Philipp Steghöfer (University of Augsburg, Germany) steghoe...@informatik.uni-augsburg.de Didac Busquets (Imperial College London, UK) didac.busqu...@imperial.ac.uk ************************** 2. Call for tutorials ************************** Important Dates The exact deadlines are at 11:59 PM CET (Central European Time). Proposal Submission Deadline: April 18, 2014 Presenter Notification: April 25, 2014 Extended Abstract and Presentation Handouts due: August 1, 2014 Tutorial presentation: September 8 & 12, 2014 Call for Tutorials SASO 2014 will host a tutorial program, to be held in Imperial College London, UK, in the week of September 8-12, 2014. For detailed information about SASO 2014 please visit the conference website. Goal and Scope The goal of the tutorial program of SASO 2014 is to provide an instructional offer to scholars, practitioners and students attending the conference, on a range of topics related to self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. We plan to accommodate either half-day tutorials (approx. 3.0 hours, plus one 30-minutes break) and full-day tutorials (approx 6.0 hours, plus two 30-minutes breaks, and a lunch break). The topic of a tutorial may range from practical techniques and technologies, to methodologies, guidelines over standards, to theoretical aspects related to self-adaptive and self-organizing systems (software, networks or services). The topic areas that fall into the general scope of SASO, as well as the focus of this year's conference, are listed in the Call for Papers that is available on the conference web site. Please note that no marketing or product specific tutorials will be accepted. Tutorial levels may be introductory, intermediate, or advanced. Topics that can capture the interest of a broad audience of scholars, practitioners or students are preferred. Review Process Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated by the SASO organizing committee according to relevance and to SASO and its community, attractiveness and novelty of the topic, consistency with the focus of the conference, general fit within the overall tutorial program, and previous teaching experience of the proposers. Submission Guidelines Tutorial proposals must not be longer than three pages, in the same format of the SASO research papers, that is, compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style. Please make sure the submission includes the following elements: - title of the tutorial; - preferred duration (half-day or full-day); - intended level (introductory, intermediate, or advanced) and prerequisites - contact information for all presenters, including full name, affiliation, email address, full postal address, phone and fax number, URL of personal homepage; - short bio of all presenters including prior teaching and tutorial experiences; - description of the material covered by the tutorial, not exceeding two pages (approx. 1500 words): must include a proposed structure of the content to be presented; - identification of the target audience (e.g., researchers, teachers, practitioners, students); - references of publications (books, papers etc.) the tutorial builds on; - indication of whether the submission of a tutorial paper (see below) is planned. All proposals should be submitted as a PDF document via email to the tutorial chair at the following address: a.arti...@gmail.com Accepted Proposals Once notified that the tutorial has been accepted, tutorial proposers should prepare a two-page extended abstract - compliant with the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style - describing the content of the tutorial, in addition to the handout material that is going to be distributed to the participants to their tutorial. Both the extended abstract and the handout material must be ready and submitted to the Tutorial Chair by the deadline noted above. Submissions and Inquiries ========================= Please send proposals and inquiries to the SASO 2014 tutorial chair: Alexander Artikis <a.arti...@gmail.com>
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