Self Organisation in Pervasive Adaptive Systems

The prospect of building self-organising and adapting pervasive sys-tems brings many new challenges, ranging from maintaining trust and security to enabling the formation of tribes of societal artefacts. Ad-dressing these challenges will require a unified approaches, integrat-ing competencies across a range of disciplines; the goal of this work-shop is to bring together researchers working in perhaps historically distinct fields to work together in defining goals and methods that will move towards tackling the particular problems associated with deal-ing with self-organising and adaptive pervasive computing environ-ments. The workshop particularly addresses adaptation strategies (bio-inspired, stochastic or otherwise) which will operate at different time scales and speeds, from short term adaptation to long-term evo-lution, and will imply changes in software, hardware, protocols and/or architecture at different levels of granularity and abstraction.

The workshop solicits papers of the following types:

• Conceptual/Visionary papers:
  Paper which present visionary or conceptual ideas which address the topic of achieving self-* properties in future pervasive systems. Note that this strand is not intended for the submission of incomplete tech-nical work but instead as a forum to present well-argued, novel ideas<./li>
• Technical papers:
  papers describing technical solutions which ad-dress at least one aspect of achieving self-* properties in pervasive systems. All papers will be expected to address a topic which is relevant to com-puting in a pervasive environment. We strongly encourage papers which adopt a cross-disciplinary approach to problem-solving.

Call for Papers: Paper submission: 22nd February 2010

6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments Co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence and the Association for the Advancement of AI (workshops: July 18-19)

Website: http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie10

Important dates:

• Paper submission: 22nd February 2010
• Notification of acceptance: 12th April 2010
• Paper final submission (with revisions): 26th April 2010

Call for Papers: Paper Submission: January 31, 2010

Organisers

Patricia A. Vargas (Heriot-Watt University - Edinburgh)
Steffen Wischmann (EPFL - Lausanne)
Dario Floreano (EPFL - Lausanne)
Phil Husbands (University of Sussex - Brighton)

Website: http://lis.epfl.ch/specialsessions/CEC10/

Evolutionary Robotics (ER) aims to apply evolutionary computation techniques, inspired by darwinian selection, to automatically design the control and/or hardware of both real and simulated autonomous robots.

Having an intrinsic interdisciplinary character, ER is being employed towards the development of many fields of research, among which we can highlight neuroscience, cognitive science, evolutionary biology and robotics. Hence the objective of this special session is to assemble a set of high-quality original contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the-art in the area of Evolutionary Robotics, with an emphasis on the cross-fertilization between ER and the aforementioned research areas, ranging from theoretical analysis to real-life applications.

Call for Papers: Paper submission: 24th March 2010

PerAda Workshop on Novel Applications of Bio-Inspired Computing to Pervasive Adaptation
at the 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2010) - 26-29 July 2010, Edinburgh , UK

ICARIS 2010 Website: http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2010/

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Pervasive Adaptation (PerAda) refers to massivescale pervasive information and communication systems which are capable of autonomously adaption. PerAda systems are thus a special case of collective adaptive systems which have particular constraints e.g. they are networked and highly distributed; they involve interaction with humans; they are large scale; the boundaries of systems are fluid; their context is dynamic; and they operate using uncertain information. In spite of these constraints, PerAda systems must be capable of adapting seamlessly to their users and to their environment and to their own fluctuating composition. In order to address such problems, engineers are looking more and more towards biological systems, where nature has found many solutions to creating robust and adaptable systems. The workshop seeks two page position statements on the following topics:

Call for Papers: Paper submission: March 22, 2010

Special Issue on "Ambient Ecologies"

In order for a new technology to become widespread, novel tools and objects that realize and support it must be developed. On the road to the realization of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) vision, new technological artifacts have started to appear and change the nature of almost every human activity. As the computer disappears, new Smart Objects appear, augmented with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) components (i.e. sensors, actuators, processor, memory, wireless communication modules) and able to receive, store, process and transmit information. Recently, Smart Objects have become mobile by combining research results from Robotics. In addition to objects, spaces also undergo a change towards becoming Smart Environments, which offer a set of digital services by embedding sensing, actuating, processing and networking infrastructure in a physical space.

Call for Papers: Full manuscript submission: February 15, 2010

Special Issue on Trust and Trust Management of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Guest Editors

Audun Jøsang (University of Oslo)
Glenn Bewsell (University of Wollongong)

Trust is a fundamental consideration for the growth and stability of markets and communities because trust guides decisions about interactions between humans and organizations. New forms of markets and communities are created online, but the very nature of this online environment makes trust management challenging. It is for example common to request services from a website we have never heard of before, and from which we might never request a service again in the future. Combined with perceptions of minimal or non-existent law enforcement, participants in online markets and communities are often vulnerable to many forms of fraud and deception. Reliable perceptions of trust lead to successful interactions and quality online markets, whereas misplaced trust and misplaced distrust are damaging to online interactions and e-commerce.

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Overview

This CFP arises from the Symposium Killer robots or friendly fridges: the social understanding of Artificial Intelligence held at Heriot-Watt University as part of the AISB Symposia in April 2009.

For the non-specialist, the whole notion of Artificial Intelligence challenges fundamental understandings of what it is to be human, with enormous implications for how we conceive ourselves, our artefacts and our societies. AI’s foundational goal was the construction of autonomous sentience. Yet, 55 years after Turing’s seminal paper, publicly visible achievements, beyond science fiction speculations or media exaggerations, still lie in faltering steps in voice and image recognition, surveillance, computer games and virtual environments, not in truly intelligent everyday machines.