CfP: SORT 2014

SORT 2014

5^th IEEE Workshop on Self-Organizing Real-Time Systems

Reno, Nevada, USA, June 9^th, 2014

(http://www.es.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/?id=sort2014)

Self-Organization is a key technique to handle the growing complexity of upcoming computing systems. This refers to both hard- and software. Distributed systems running hundreds of tasks on dozens of processors, each equipped with a multiple cores, require self-organization principles to ensure efficient and reliable operation. Therefore, substantial research has been done in the last years to address the so-called Self-X features like self-configuration, self-optimization, self-adaptation, self-healing, self-protection, etc.

Additionally, real-time properties are another key issue in many complex systems (e.g., in the embedded systems area). Combining the flexible and - to some extent - uncertain behavior of self-organizing systems with time-predictability necessary for real-time systems is a grand challenge.

Continuing the series of its predecessors, the fifth IEEE workshop on Self-Organizing Real-Time Systems (SORT 2014) will be a forum for leading researchers to continue in exchanging ideas, presenting advances in state-of-the-art and brain-storming on promising directions for future research. This year's edition of SORT will put a special focus on Concurrency and Computation: Experience and Practice.

SORT 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 17^th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (ISORC) taking place at Reno, Nevada, USA. Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Furthermore, a special journal edition on Concurrency and Computation: Experience and Practice publishing selected papers from SORT is planned.

Topics of Interest

Papers pertaining to all aspects of self-organizing real-time systems are sought, including but not limited to the following:

* Self-organizing embedded systems
* Concurrency and Computation: experience and practice
* Self-organizing sensor and actor networks
* Self-organization in automotive, avionics and space
* Real-time aspects in Organic and Autonomic Computing
* Modelling and behavior prediction of self-organizing systems
* Self-X versus trust, dependability, reliability, safety, and security
* Bio-Inspired real-time Computing
* Applications of self-organizing real-time systems
* Overviews and comparisons
* Paper Submission

Papers can be up to 10 pages and should be formatted using the IEEE (http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html) Computer Society format. Please submit your paper in portable postscript or pdf format (all uncommon fonts embedded). Papers can be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sort2014

Important Dates

* Paper Submissions: 26. January 2014
* Acceptance Notification: 28. February 2014
* Camera-Ready Papers: 17. March 2014
* Conference Dates: 9. June 2014

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Teresa Higuera, University of Madrid, Spain
Achim Rettberg, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Program Committee:

Kirstie Bellman (Aerospace Coorp, USA)
Andrea Bondavalli (University of Florence, Italy)
Uwe Brinkschulte (University ofFrankfurt am Main, Germany)
Andrea Ceccarelli (University of Florence, Italy)
Rainer Domer (Univ. California at Irvine, USA)
Dietmar Fey (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Marcelo Gotz (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Kim Gruttner (OFFIS, Germany)
Teresa Higuera (University of Madrid, Spain)
Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland)
Yoshiaki Kakuda (Hiroshima City University, Japan)
Chris Landauer (Aerospace Coorp, USA)
Phyllis Nelson (California State Polytech, USA)
Mathias Pacher (University of Hannover, Germany)
Franz Rammig (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Achim Rettberg (Universityof Oldenburg, Germany)
Christian Muller-Schloer (University of Hannover, Germany)