<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">[We apologize in advance if you receive this announcement multiple times]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div> <b class=""> CALL FOR PAPERS</b><br class="">========================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""> <b class=""> DSS 2015<br class=""> The International Workshop on Data-driven Self-Regulating Systems</b><br class=""> August 24-26, 2015<br class=""> Rome, Italy<br class=""> <a href="http://dss2015.inn.ac/" class="">http://dss2015.inn.ac/</a><br class="">========================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The emergence of pervasive and ubiquitous technologies together with social media has resulted in unprecedented opportunities to reason about the complexity of our society based on magnitudes of data. Embedded ICT technologies mandate the functionality and operations of several techno-socio-economic systems such as traffic systems, transportation systems, Smart Grids, power/gas/water networks, etc. It is estimated that over 50 billion connected smart devices will be online by the year 2020. Moreover, social media provide invaluable insights about the complexity of our social interactions and how these interactions influence the sustainability of several ICT-enabled techno-socio-economic systems. These observations show that regulating online the complex systems of our nowadays digital society is a grant challenge. Regulating concerns trade-offs such as the alignment of technical requirements, e.g. robustness, fault-tolerance, safety and security, with social or environmental requirements, for instance, fairness in the utilization of energy resources. The scale of nowadays data cannot tackle the challenge by itself as data may convey ungrounded correlations and biased predictions. Smart self-regulating mechanisms are required that can filter data streams and transform data to valuable information based on which intelligent real-time decisions can be made in a decentralized fashion under a plethora of operational scenarios.</div><div class=""><p class="">The aim of the International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems is to foster interactions between researchers of different disciplines working on challenges about the self-regulation of techno-socio-economic systems. It also aims to promote communication and exchange of ideas between academia and industry.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><b class="">Important dates</b> (Anywhere on Earth)<br class="">=======================================================================<br class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><b class="">Submission Deadline: April 30, 2015</b></li><li class="">Authors Notification: May 20, 2015</li><li class="">Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2015</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><b class="">Topics of interest</b><br class="">=======================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics and application domains may include (but not limited to) the following:</div><div class=""><div id="container text-center" class=""><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">self-regulation</li><li class="">distributed systems</li><li class="">multi-agent systems</li><li class="">peer-to-peer systems</li><li class="">complex networks</li><li class="">self-organization</li><li class="">adaptive mechanisms</li><li class="">mechanism design</li><li class="">game theory</li><li class="">mobile computing</li><li class="">Internet of Things</li><li class="">pervasive/ubiquitous computing</li><li class="">Big Data</li><li class="">machine learning</li><li class="">data mining</li><li class="">(real-time) data analytics</li><li class="">privacy</li><li class="">security</li><li class="">policy-making</li></ul></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Smart Grids</li><li class="">power/gas/water networks</li><li class="">Traffic systems</li><li class="">Manufacturing systems</li><li class="">Transportation systems</li><li class="">Ambient-assisted living</li><li class="">Social media/networks</li><li class="">Mobile applications</li><li class="">Disease spreading</li></ul><div class=""><b class="">Submission instructions</b></div><div class=""><h3 class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">===============================================================================</span></h3><p class="">Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to self-regulating systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Papers must be formatted according to CPS format; see <a href="http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/" class="">formatting instructions and stylesheets</a> and have a maximum length of 6 pages. Papers are submitted as PDF files via the <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dss2015" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dss2015</a>. Submitted research papers may not overlap with papers that have already been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.</p><p class="">Workshop proceedings will be published in IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services. Authors of a selection of papers will be invited to extend their papers for inclusion in a journal special issue.</p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Organisation</b><br class="">===========================================================================<br class="">Workshop Chairs</div><div class="">Evangelos Pournaras - ETH Zurich, Switzerland</div><div class="">Izabela Moise - ETH Zurich, Switzerland</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h3 class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;">Program Committee</span><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"> (to be extended)</span></h3><h3 class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">===========================================================================</span></h3><p class="">Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</p><p class="">Johannes Klinglmayr, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria</p><p class="">Chuanyou Li, INRIA, France</p><p class="">Konstantina Mentesidi, CENER, Spain</p><p class=""><span class=""><span class="" dir="auto">Viet-Trung TRAN, </span></span>Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam</p><div class="">Stijn Vandael, University of Delaware, USA</div><p class="">Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden</p><div class=""><p class="">Catalin Leordeanu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania</p><p class="">Mark Yao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA</p><p class="">Christian Hinrichs, University of Oldenburg, Germany</p><p class="">Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania</p><p class="">Koen van Dam, Imperial College London, UK</p><p class="">Norbert Blenn, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Contact</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">============================================================================</div><div class=""><h3 class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;">For any inquiries, please contact the workshop chairs:</span></h3></div></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:epournaras@ethz.ch" class="">epournaras@ethz.ch</a>, <a href="mailto:imoise@ethz.ch" class="">imoise@ethz.ch</a>. </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>