Special Track on Organic Computing
at the 35th GI / ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2022)
Heilbronn, Germany September 13 – 15, 2022
As a special track at the GI/ITG ARCS 2022 conference: https://arcs-conference.org/
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+++ Submission deadline has been extended to July 27, 2022 +++
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 30 years of tradition reporting leading edge research in computer architecture and operating systems. The focus of the 2022 conference will be on quantum computing and its impact on the whole system stack spanning from hardware layer to the software layer. Within the scope of the ARCS main conference, the special track on `Organic Computing’ focusses on developments and open challenges in the field of self-adaptive and self-organising systems embedded in real-world environments.
Contributions will be part of the conference proceedings. The proceedings of ARCS 2022 are planned to be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. This year the conference will be again a physical meeting with a social program. To ensure a safest possible meeting for all participants, the organisation committee of ARCS will monitor the Corona situation closely and will take all necessary protection steps following government guidelines as well as extra measures as needed.
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
Guaranteeing
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: July 10, 2022
Paper submission deadline: July 27, 2022 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: August 21, 2022
Camera-ready papers: September 4, 2022
Conference: September 13 – 15, 2022
Submission Information
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers via EasyChair using the submission Track `Organic Computing’: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2022
ARCS 2022 uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliation. When citing own work, it must be done in a neutral form (i.e. avoiding ‘our’, ‘we’, ‘previous work’ etc.). Papers must be submitted in PDF format, formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference- proceedings-guidelines) and must not exceed 15 pages, including references, appendices and figures.
Special Track Co-Chairs
Anthony Stein
University of Hohenheim (DE)Sven Tomforde
Kiel University (DE)Stefan Wildermann
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)Program Committee
Thomas Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kirstie Bellman, Topcy House Consulting
Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt
Frank Dürr, University of Stuttgart
Christian Gruhl, University of Kassel
Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck
Martin Hoffmann, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
Christian Krupitzer, University of Hohenheim
Chris Landauer, Topcy House Consulting
Erik Maehle, University of Lübeck
Gero Mühl, University of Rostock
Mathias Pacher, University of Frankfurt
Hella Ponsar, University of Augsburg
Marc Reichenbach, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg
Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gregor Schiele, University Duisburg-Essen
Anthony Stein, University of Hohenheim
Jürgen Teich, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Sven Tomforde, Kiel University
Sebastian von Mammen, University of Würzburg
Torben Weis, University of Duisburg-Essen
Stefan Wildermann, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Organized by:
German Informatics Society (GI)
SIG Organic Computing