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October 2024

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OC-DDC 2025 - Call for Papers and Participation
by Elia Henrichs 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

The 13th International "Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium" (OC-DDC 2025) The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC) is organised by the Special Interest Group on Organic Computing within the Gesellschaft für Informatik. The 2025 edition will take place in conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) in Kiel, Germany, from April 22-24, 2025. Details on the event (and its predecessors) are available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ocddc-2025 We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies on Organic Computing, Autonomic Computing, intelligent systems, self-adaptation and self-organisation, self-aware computing systems, autonomous learning, self-* mechanisms, trustworthy systems, and related research topics. ==* Colloquium Theme *== The intent of the DDC is to bring together PhD students who have their research focus within the broader Organic Computing community and will not have defended their thesis before April 2025. The main goal of this colloquium is to foster excellence in OC-related research by providing students with feedback and advice that are particularly relevant to their doctoral studies and career development. The OC-DDC 2025 will take place in conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) in Kiel, Germany. The colloquium will give participants the opportunity to present their ongoing research in a friendly forum. They will obtain valuable feedback from colloquium attendees in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere. The schedule includes: - Prepare a paper of 10 pages (max.) - Participate in the review process - Present your work to an audience consisting mainly of other PhD students from your community - Identify points of contact between your work and others - Build your social research network - Meet experts in your research domain and listen to their invited talks and expertise - Enjoy the opportunity to improve your PhD work, overcome stipulations and learn from the experts ==* Important Dates *== - Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2025 - Notification of Acceptance: March 16, 2025 - Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2025 - Conference Dates: April 22-24, 2025 ==* Submission *== PhD students are invited to participate by submitting a paper of up to 10 pages (including references and figures) via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2025 (select the PhD Forum track). Papers must be written in English. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui delines) and submitted in PDF format. The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ARCS 2025 (Scopus listed). Since the OC-DDC papers are about personal PhD projects, please note that only single-author submissions are permitted (supervisors can be mentioned in the acknowledgements). The papers should clearly motivate the PhD projects and explicitly describe the relation to OC (e.g., based on https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68477-2 or https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1701.08125). Additionally, the papers should outline the key research questions driving the doctoral project and describe the general approach or methodology used to address them. Therefore, providing sufficient foundational information is essential to help readers understand the context. Finally, the papers should also discuss the current state of the doctoral research, such as progress made, any preliminary findings, or ongoing challenges. ==* Colloquium Details *== - Participation cost: tba - Participants have to organise travel and accommodation themselves ==* Organisation *== - Christian Krupitzer (Universität Hohenheim, Germany) - Sven Tomforde (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany) ==* Local Organisation *== - Elia Henrichs (Universität Hohenheim, Germany) - Ghassan Al-Falouji (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany) ==* Advisory Committee *== - Jörg Hähner (Universität Augsburg, Germany) - Christian Müller-Schloer (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany) - Bernhard Sick (Universität Kassel, Germany)

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Call for Papers: Special Track on Organic Computing @ ARCS 2025
by Elia Henrichs 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

==================== Special Track on Organic Computing at the 38th GI / ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2025) Kiel, Germany, April 22 - 24, 2025 ==================== Aims and Scope Organic Computing postulates to equip technical systems with `lifelike’ properties. Technically, this means to move traditional design‑time decisions to runtime and into the responsibility of systems themselves. As a result, systems have a dramatically increased decision freedom that leads to highly autonomous behaviour. The goal of this process is to allow for self‑adaptation and self‑improvement of system behaviour at runtime. Especially since conditions that occur at runtime can only be anticipated to a certain degree, efficient mechanisms are needed that guide the system’s behaviour even in cases of missing knowledge or uncertain environmental states. Consequently, the research field of Organic Computing investigates fundamental principles, discusses essential aspects, and researches novel methods that are needed to finally build self‑adaptive and self‑organising systems that are capable of reliable operation in complex real‑world environments. The ARCS conferences series has over 36 years of tradition reporting leading edge research in computer architecture and operating systems. The focus of the 2025 conference will be on mastering novel HPC chip architectures. Within the scope of the ARCS main conference, the special track on `Organic Computing’ focusses on developments and open challenges in the field of designing self-adaptive and self-organising systems embedded in real-world environments. Contributions will be part of the conference proceedings. The proceedings of ARCS 2025 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. The conference will be a physical meeting with a social program in Kiel, Germany. Topics of interest ... are on a wide range of aspects of `Organic Computing', including (but not limited to): A: Principles of OC Systems * System and Agent Architectures * Systems Engineering * Design Techniques and Processes * Nature-Inspiration to Deal with System Complexity * Self-x Properties and Lifelike Qualities * Self-Organisation Schemes for Highly Decentralised Systems B: Autonomous Learning Behaviour in Technical Systems * Reinforcement Learning from Interaction * Active Learning * Transfer Learning * Online Concept Drift/Shift and Novelty/Obsoleteness Detection * Transductive Inference for Efficient Model Building * Self-Awareness and Self-Reflection C: Self-Adaptation@Runtime * Adaptive Monitoring and Control * Mechanisms to deal with Continual Change * Robustness and Flexibility * Automated Algorithm (Re-)Configuration & Selection * Context-awareness and Transient Interfaces D: Metrics and Quantification * System Validation * Verification * Understanding and Explanation * Computational Trust * Testbeds and Performance Analysis E: Hardware Solutions * Adaptive Hardware * Reconfigurable Hardware * Embedded AI * Self-Adaptive, Self-Optimising, Self-Healing Hardware * Evolvable Hardware * Prototypes and Demonstrators F: Applications of OC Technology * Novel Use Cases * Case Study Reports * Experience Reports Important Dates Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2025 Notification of acceptance: March 16, 2025 Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2025 Conference: April 22 – 24, 2025 ** Submission Guidelines ** Submissions should be done through EasyChair by selecting the Organic Computing track. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Contributions must be formatted according to Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 15 pages, including references and figures. Organisation of the special track * Anthony Stein (University of Hohenheim) * Stefan Wildermann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

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