Call for Papers

Pervasive Adaptation is concerned with models, tools, and technologies to be used in pervasive information and communication systems that are capable of autonomously adapting to highly dynamic contexts. The successful development of future pervasive systems will increasingly require handling complex interactions between intelligent objects, computers, sensors and actuators, and intelligent objects of any kind. The real challenge is to make such interactions fruitful, purposeful, and secure, despite the constantly changing characteristics of the environment (whether social, physical, or technical) in which such systems will operate, in the absence of any centralized control, and possibly even in the absence of a complete understanding of the structure and micro-level functioning of these systems. Clearly, the only way to approach this is to make systems able to adapt themselves (at the level of individual components or at the collective level) over situations and time, taking into account the overall emergent behavior of the system, and possibly offensively exploit the context dynamics to improve and evolve.

This special issues welcomes submissions on any topic related to pervasive adaptation. Survey/tutorial papers focusing on a specific topic of pervasive adaptation and aimed at framing the key concepts, challenges, and related work on that topic, are particularly welcome. Technical papers describing some original technical contribution are equally welcomed, provided they contain enough introductory/survey material to make the paper of general interest behind its specific technical contribution.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptation and emergence in pervasive computing systems
• Evolvability and adaptability in pervasive systems
• Nature-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms for adaptable pervasive systems
• Enforcing self-* properties in pervasive systems
• Models, tools, middleware, and technologies, for pervasive society of artefacts
• Innovative interfaces and interaction-models for pervasive adaptation
• Adaptive models of trust and security for pervasive systems
• Security models for networked societies of artifacts
• Social/economical/energetic concerns for pervasive adaptation

Submission Guidelines

Papers should be up to 10000 words, and formatted according to the guidelines provided at the ACM TAAS Web site.
Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines provided in the TAAS Author page at http://taas.acm.org/ and submitted via the TAAS manuscriptcentral systems at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taas
Please make explicit in the cover page that your paper is intended as a submission to the special issue on Pervasive Adaptation.

Guest Editors

Ben Paechter, Edinburgh Napier University (UK)
Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Important Dates

Preliminary Title and Abstract Submission: December 15th, 2009
Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2010
Notifications: Spring 2010
Special Issue Published: end of 2010.