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3rd EuroNGI IA.8.2 - New Trends in Network Architectures and
Services: 1st International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
(IWSOS 2006)
September 18 - 20, 2006
University of Passau, Germany
(Proceedings)

The evolution of the Internet reveals surprising turns and obstacles. Centralized approaches of introducing new services and architectures consistently failed to materialize at large scale. Quality of  Service, group communication, or mobility support are only some examples for the difficulty with orchestrated approaches. The success story of the Internet, on the other hand, is strongly linked to decentralization.

Robustness to failures or flexibility in introducing new applications such as the World Wide Web or Peer-to-Peer systems have been key momentum to technological advancements and economics. Future networks are envisioned to be highly complex and difficult to manage due to heterogeneity of networks, spontaneous set-up of networks, and the envisioned number of interconnected devices, appliances, and artifacts. The question that poses itself is whether self-organization can be exploited to a larger scale for solving some of the pending problems for such future networks. Self-organization may even play a key architectural role of the future Internet for enhanced flexibility and evolvability.

It is the goal of this workshop to bring together leading international and  multi-disciplinary researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potentials in self-organization and the means to achieve it.

The key topics of the workshop include but are not restricted to:

• Self-organization, self-management, self-configuration, and self-optimization
• Self-protection, self-diagnosis, and self-healing
• Autonomic networking
• Emergence and related theoretical concepts
• Networks for pervasive and ubiquitous computing
• Sensor and ad-hoc networks, e.g.: smart dust
• Peer-to-peer networks
• Self-organizing satellite networks
• Group forming networks
• Networks and organic computing
• GRID computing and Web Services
• Application domains: the autonomic and self-organizing home network
• Security and self-organization
• Quality of service / service level agreement and self-organization
• The role of self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence
• The evolutionary principles of the Internet
• Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks
• Accountability and self-organization
• Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross layering
• Self-organization in role-based and multilevel systems
• The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
• Inspiring models of self-organizing in nature and society
• Robustness and fault tolerance
• Risks in self-organization
• The (un-)controllability of self-organizing or emergent systems

• Paper submission deadline (extended): April 7th 2006, 11:59pm CET (passed)
• Notification of acceptance: May 18th 2006 (passed)
• Camera-ready papers due: June 7th 2006, 11:59pm CET (passed)
• Author registration deadline: June 7th 2006, 11:59 CET (passed)
• EuroNGI Poster submission deadline: August 15th 2006 (late registration possible)
  
• Technical Discussion submission deadline: July 31st 2006 (passed)
  
• Early registration deadline: August 1st, 2006 (passed)
  
• Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th, 2006 (passed)
  
• Tutorials registration deadline: September 10th, 2006
• Workshop reception and welcome party: September 17th 2006
• Workshop dates: September 18th - 20th 2006

• Initial Submission: IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers that are no longer than 20 double-spaced single-column pages with font sizes of 11 or larger, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 -- 150 words. All papers must be submitted in Adobe PDF format, and no other formats are accepted by the paper submission web site. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness.
• Accepted Full Papers: At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must present the paper at IWSOS 2006. For accepted papers, the authors must adapt the format to the Springer recommendations. The authors' guidelines are given on the Springer's website.
  Camera-ready full papers may not exceed 15 pages.
• Camera-ready papers must be sent to iwsos(at)fmi.uni-passau.de

• Initial Submission: We solicit submissions of short papers. The short papers are limited to four double-spaced, single-column pages. Accepted papers will be presented in a 10-15 minute time period, and will be included in the conference proceedings.
• Camera Ready: Formatting guidlines for short papers are the same as full papers (refer to the Springer Link). Short papers may not exceed  3 pages.

 A poster session has now been decided by the TPC:

• EuroNGI members only are still able to submit a poster and fully take part in the IWSOS workshop.
• The deadline for poster registration is the 15th July 2006.
• For exact poster registration guidelines refer to our "IWSOS - EuroNGI Poster Session"

Furthermore, following the IWSOS workshop, posters from especially the performance modelling research community are invited to the additional GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Technical Discussion on "Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems".

Camera Ready Submission:

• Camera ready papers must be sent by an email to iwsos(at)fmi.uni-passau.de
• For more information refer to the authors guidelines.

Publisher: LNCS Springer (For Camera Ready Version)

Camera-ready full papers may not exceed 15 pages,  short papers may not exceed  3 pages.

• Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany
• David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
• Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA

• Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy
• Onno Boxma, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France
• Augusto Casaca, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal
• Vicente Casares Giner, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
• Claudio Casetti, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
• Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
• Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany
• Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Markus Fiedler, Karlskrona University, Sweden
• Stefan Fischer,  University of Luebeck, Germany
  
• Luigi Fratta, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
• Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Austrialia
• Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research at Cambridge, UK
• Martin Greiner, Corporate Technology Siemens AG at Munich, Germany
• Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
• Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria
• Oliver Heckmann, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• Karin A. Hummel, Vienna University, Austria
• David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK
• Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Munich, Germany
• Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA/IRISA at Rennes, France
• Daniel Kofman, GET/ENST at Paris, France
• Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies, USA
• Paul Kuehn, Stuttgart University, Germany
• Geng-Sheng Kuo, National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan
• Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University, USA
• Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada
• J.P. Martin-Flatin, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
• Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
• Bernhard Plattner, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Christian Prehofer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Munich, Germany
• Martha Steenstrup, Clemson University, USA
• Ralf Steinmetz, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
• James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA
• Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK
• Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany
• Maarten van Steen, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Klaus Wehrle, Tuebingen University, Germany

To reach both Program Chairs, please send a message to this email address: iwsos(at)fmi.uni-passau.de

• Richard Holzer (University of Passau)
• Amine Houyou (University of Passau)
• Patrick Wuechner (University of Passau)
• Jens Oberender (University of Passau)
• Ivan Dedinski (University of Passau)
• Silvia Lehmbeck (University of Passau)