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* Call for Posters and Student Research Competition<br>
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* IWSOS 2012<br>
* 6th International Workshop on Self-organizing Systems<br>
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* Technical co-sponsors: IFIP, Euro-NF<br>
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* <a href="http://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/" target="_blank">http://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/</a><br>
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* Delft, The Netherlands<br>
* March 15-16, 2012<br>
*<br>
* Poster Submission Deadline: January 23, 2012<br>
* Submission via email: <a href="mailto:iwsos2012@gmail.com">iwsos2012@gmail.com</a><br>
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<p>** The IWSOS'12 program will contain two keynote speakers</p>
<p>Prof. Shlomo Havlin, Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel<br>
Prof. Karl Aberer, Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland</p>
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<p>** Scope and Key Topics</p>
<p>The main theme of the workshop is to discover the network science<br>
behind self-organizing systems, to facilitate and advance the<br>
understanding, learning, modeling, and analysis of self-organizational<br>
processes in nature (e.g., metabolic, DNA, brain networks) and to apply<br>
the knowledge of self-organization to man-made networks and systems.<br>
The topics of the workshop include:</p>
<p>- Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems<br>
- Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society<br>
- Structure, characteristics and dynamics of self-organizing networks<br>
- Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet<br>
- Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems<br>
- Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems<br>
- Self-organization in complex networks like peer-to-peer, sensor,<br>
ad-hoc, vehicular and social networks<br>
- User and operator-related aspects of man-made self-organizing systems<br>
- Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services<br>
- Control of self-organizing systems<br>
- Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks<br>
- Decentralized power management in the smart grid<br>
- Self-protection, self-configuration, diagnosis, and healing<br>
- Self-organizing group and pattern formation<br>
- Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and<br>
resource allocation<br>
- Self-organizing information dissemination and content search<br>
- Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems<br>
- Risks and limits of self-organization<br>
- The human in the loop of self-organizing networks</p>
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<p>** Poster Submissions and Student Research Competition</p>
<p>To complement the main technical programme of IWSOS 2012, the workshop<br>
is soliciting submissions of posters that will be presented in a poster session at
</p>
<p>the workshop. This session will provide a platform to present<br>
and discuss early research work, preliminary results, out-of-the-box ideas,<br>
project or thesis descriptions, and recent research highlights.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The poster session will as well provide a special opportunity for PhD<br>
students to obtain feedback on their work. Posters with a student as main author<br>
will participate in the student research competition. A winner will be elected<br>
by the conference chairs and be officially awarded at the conference banquet.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Posters should be submitted as a single PDF file to <a href="mailto:iwsos2012@gmail.com">
iwsos2012@gmail.com</a>. <br>
The submission should be formatted as a one page large poster. <br>
Please indicate in the submission email whether the poster<br>
should participate in the student research competition including the<br>
name of the student presenter and whether you would<br>
like to share your poster, if accepted, on the workshop website.<br>
One author is expected to register and to prepare and<br>
present the poster at the workshop.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>** Important Dates</p>
<p>Poster submission deadline: January 23, 2012<br>
Notification of acceptance: February 6, 2012</p>
<p> </p>
More information can be found at: <a href="http://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/" target="_blank">
http://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/</a> </div>
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