[DMANET] Last Mile, January 27 || ADAPTIVE 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ADAPTIVE 2014.

The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ADAPTIVE 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ADAPTIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications

May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ADAPTIVE14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPADAPTIVE14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitADAPTIVE14.html


Submission deadline: January 27, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ADAPTIVE 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Fundamentals and design of adaptive systems

Fundamentals on adaptive and self-adapting systems; Frameworks and architectures for adaptive supporting platforms; Architectures for adaptive applications; Specification of adaptive behavior; Specification of adaptive structures and topologies; Design and implementation of adaptive components; Composition of adaptive behaviors and structures; Adaptive individual and collective behavior and structures; Adaptive deterministic and non-deterministic behavior; Semantic modeling

Adaptive entities

Adaptive environments; Adaptive hardware configurations; Adaptive software applications; Adaptive protocols; Adaptive algorithms; Adaptive and interactive interfaces; Adaptive filters; Adaptive clock speeds; Adaptive schedulers; Adaptive load balancers

Adaptive mechanisms

Adaptive real-time strategies; Learning-based adaptive strategies; Adaptive mechanisms (trees, ant algorithms, fuzzy-logic, etc. ); Agent based-adaptive mechanisms; Policy- based adaptation; Feedback-based adaptive systems; Context-aware adaptation; User-aware adaptation

Adaptive applications

Adaptive artificial intelligence in computer wargames; Intelligent complex adaptive systems; Adaptive virtualization; Adaptive social networks; Adaptive entertainment applications; Adaptive disaster recovery systems; Anticipative adaptive systems; Fault-tolerant adaptive systems; Adaptive ad hoc networks; Application domains, e,g., building (AEC projects, simulation models, facility management), tourism, etc.; Adaptive economic applications (finance, stock exchange, regulatory decisions, etc.); Adaptive vehicular traffic

Adaptivity in robot systems

Adaptive robot behavior; self-organization and emergence; flexible and reconfigurable robot structures; adaptation in collective and swarm robotics

Self-adaptation

Theory of self-adaptation and control; Self-adaptive networks, systems, and applications; Self-adaptive services; Self-adaptive behavior and topology/structure; Specification of self-adaptive behavioral control

Self-adaptation applications

Self-monitoring and self-management; Self-configuration, self-healing, self-management; Self-defense, self-protection, self-diagnosis; Self-adaptation of overlay networks; Self-adaptation in ad hoc sensor networks; Context-aware self-adaptation of networks and services

Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems

Trust models for adaptive systems; Trust models for self-organizing and autonomics systems; Agent-based trust models for cooperation; Privacy and Security in self-organizing and adaptive systems; Human and social factors involved in trust and adaptation; Applications of trust and security on adaptive systems, with a focus on web-based applications, social networks, social search; Trust models for self-organizing systems of information (wikis, forums, blogs.); Trust and personalisation for enabling adaptation; Models for learning trust and the evolution of trust; Decentralised trust models; Case studies; Theoretical trust models for self-adaptation

Metrics for adaptive and self-adaptive systems

Stability and convergence; Optimal (self-) adaptation; Accuracy validation of (self-) adaptation; Real-time (self-) adaptive performance

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComADAPTIVE14.html

ADAPTIVE Advisory Chairs
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Thomas H. Morris, Mississippi State University, USA
Serge Kernbach, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Antonio Bucchiarone, FBK-IRST of Trento, Italy
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
Marc Kurz, Johannes Kepler University Linz - Institute for Pervasive Computing, Austria

ADAPTIVE Industry/Research Chairs
Dalim�r Orf�nus, ABB Corporate Research Center, Norway
Weirong Jiang, Xilinx Research Labs, San Jose, USA

ADAPTIVE Publicity Chairs
Kier Dugan, University of Southampton, UK
Kai Nehring, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
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