 Download Flyer Symposium on Pervasive Adaptation @ AISB 2009 Presentations
The vision of a technology-rich future in which computing is truly ubiquitous poses significant engineering challenges. Multitudes of heterogeneous devices will be required to operate in an ever-changing networked environment which has no central control point or controller. These dynamically created systems will have to continuously organise and adapt; adaptation of individual components will lead to adaptation of the system as a whole and to the emergence of new system behaviours. For this vision to be realised, new approaches to both hardware and software are required to endow systems with the capability to achieve these goals. Systems in this context may range from small ad-hoc collections of mobile devices in a local environment to massive collections of devices which self-organise into tribes of societal artefacts. Such systems will exhibit emergent behaviours, arising from interactions within the system. Behaviours will emerge over a range of timescales, ranging from short to very long and should be capable of adapting as the underlying network itself adapts. Emergent behaviours should be useful; how can this be controlled and quantified? Secondly, there will also be an emergence of information within the system; this occurs at a number of different levels: Local information is held by individual devices - as networks of devices are formed, a meta-level of information emerges which is held by the network as a whole; this comes from sharing, aggregating, comparing and interpolating information and experiences held by individuals. This ‘meta-information’ is a rich source of information, which can then be exploited by the network. However, it also raises a number of questions. For example, how can we encapsulate and exploit that information e.g. to influence individual local decisions? How do we decide at the local level what information to remember and which to forget taking into account the effect on the global knowledge? How do we aggregate and reconcile possibly conflicting information held by individuals across the network? In this workshop we solicit papers which address emergence in pervasive adaptive systems. Papers which address emergence of behaviours and information in such systems are particularly sought, however we also welcome papers which address any aspect of emergence in a pervasive adaptive system. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) – - New paradigms for capturing and exploiting memory in pervasive adaptive systems
- Algorithms and methodologies facilitating and studying emergence in pervasive systems
- Emergence of behaviour over multiple time-scales
- Quantifying emergent information in pervasive systems
- Exploiting local and global information in a pervasive system
- Aggregating information in a pervasive system
- Security and trust issues associated with the information held in a pervasive system
- Hardware issues
Programme Committee Professor Damal Arvind, University of Edinburgh
Professor Dave Corne, Heriot-Watt University
Mr Kevin Doolin, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Dr Yanguo Jing, London Metropolitan University
Dr Christian Jones, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Dr Mark Neal, Aberystwyth University
Professor Ben Paechter, Napier University
Dr Jon Timmis, University of York
Dr Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University Important Dates Submission Deadline: 19th December 2008
Notification of Acceptance: January 2009
Camera Ready Copy: TBA Paper Formatting and Submission Papers must be no longer than 8 pages. Formatting instructions and sample files can be found at the Convention website here:
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb09/downloads.php
All paper submissions will be managed through the Easy Chair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=perada09
where you create an account which enable you to submit paper(s) and view reviews. Symposium Chairs Prof. Emma Hart, Napier University e.hart AT napier.ac.uk
Prof. Nick Taylor, Heriot-Watt University N.K.Taylor AT hw.ac.uk |
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