CALL FOR PAPERS ________________ International Workshop on Staminal Self-Organizing Self-Configuring Self-Evolving Networks-(S4Nets)
To be held in conjunction with IEEE International conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking - MOWNET - 19-21 August, 2013, Montreal CANADA ========================================================================= August 19, 2013 Montreal, CANADA https://sites.google.com/site/s4nets2013/ ========================================================================== *****Important Dates***** Paper submission: May 1, 2013, Decision Notification: May 30, 2013 Camera Ready: June 20, 2013, MoWNet: August 10-21, 2013 *****Scope and Topics of Interests***** The goal of this Workshop is to go beyond the concept of self-organizing networks and systems by proposing the concept of "STEM-networks". This concept includes the well-known ideas of self-configuration, self-management, self-healing, but it pushes these features even farther until including the concept of node mutation and evolution. The "stemness" term recalls the peculiarity of a biological stem cell, able to evolve and specialize towards a specialized cell. The main difference with the biological counterpart and the our concept of stemness lies on the reversibility of the process. Each node is able to opportunistically configure its-self based on the specific task that needs to be accomplished. Strictly related to the stemness concept is not only selfness property of the system that come out in a straightforward way but also swarm concept. In fact, devices evolve and organize to each other by accomplishing simple sub-task, each of one is part of a bigger task. In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following: - New technology enabling and involving the concept of self-organization - New advancements in Software Defined Networking - Cooperation and coordination algorithms and protocols for services differentiation and quality of service (QoS) provision - Controlled mobility strategies to support self-organizing networks - Bio Inspired Models for Self Organization - Topology control schemes in S4 communications networks - Self-organizing group and pattern formation - Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and resource allocation - Self-organizing information dissemination and content search - Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems - Risks and limits of self-organization - Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet - Multi-disciplinary approaches and solutions for novel S4 methodologies *****Submissions Guidelines***** Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the deadline of 30 May 2013. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS. All papers describing original work must be written in English and should be no more than 6 printed pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures, and references. For full details, please visit the following website: https://sites.google.com/site/s4nets2013/ ***Workshop Co-Chairs*** Gianluca Aloi, University of Calabria, Italy Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy Valeria Loscri', University of Calabria, Italy Pasquale Pace, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe Ruggeri, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria ***TPC Members*** Kaushik Roy Chowdhury - Northeastern University, USA Claudia Campolo - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Ali Ghandour - American University of Beirut, Lebanon Yi Hong - Monash University, Australia Antonio Iera - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Gustavo Marfia - University of Bologna, Italy Nathalie Mitton - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France Antonella Molinaro - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Enrico Natalizio - Compiegne Technology University, France Paul Patras - National University of Ireland, Ireland Tahiry Razafindralambo - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France Violet Syrotiuk - Arizona State University, USA Zhili Sun - University of Surrey, UK _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
