Dear colleagues, I want to announce an important event for scientists working on artificial intelligence solutions for large-scale distributed systems: The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017), co-located with the The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2017)! You are cordially invited to submit a paper and/or to share this announcement with your colleagues. The CFP is appended to this eMail. It is a great opportunity to discuss your work on an international platform. Best regards, Stefan Bosse -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Stefan Bosse University of Bremen Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Robert Hooke Str. 5 28359 Bremen Germany RESEARCHGATE <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan_Bosse> Tel. +(49)421/178-45-4103 ============================================================ Call for papers -- DSS 2017 The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017) In conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Proceedings appear in IEEE Digital Library September 18-22, 2017 in University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ CFP link: http://dss2017.inn.ac/ ============================================================ The emergence of pervasive and ubiquitous technologies together with social media has resulted in unprecedented opportunities to reason about the complexity of our society based on magnitudes of data. Embedded ICT technologies mandate the functionality and operations of several techno-socio-economic systems such as traffic systems, transportation systems, Smart Grids, power/gas/water networks, etc. It is estimated that over 50 billion connected smart devices will be online by the year 2020. Moreover, social media provide invaluable insights about the complexity of social interactions and how these interactions influence the sustainability of several ICT-enabled techno-socio-economic systems. These observations show that regulating online the complex systems of our nowadays digital society is a grand challenge. Regulation concerns trade-offs such as the alignment of technical requirements, e.g. robustness, fault-tolerance, safety and security, with social or environmental requirements, for instance, fairness in the utilization of energy resources. The scale of nowadays data cannot tackle the challenge by itself as data may convey ungrounded correlations and biased predictions. Smart, autonomic and selfregulating mechanisms are required for filtering data streams in real-time and transform them to valuable information based on which intelligent adaptive decisions can be made in a decentralized fashion under a plethora of operational scenarios. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + self-regulation + autonomic computing + pervasive/ubiquitous computing + Internet of Things + big data analytics + cloud computing + online policy-making + distributed systems + privacy & security + multi-agent systems + peer-to-peer systems + self-organization + adaptive mechanisms + complex systems & (social) networks + mechanism design & game theory + quality of experience Application domains: + Smart Grids + power/gas/water networks + traffic systems + manufacturing systems + transportation systems + ambient-assisted living + social media/networks + mobile applications + disease spreading Workshop Organizers ==================================================================== Evangelos Pournaras, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Akshay Uttama Nambi S.N., Microsoft Research Lab, India Stefan Bosse, University of Bremen, Germany Submission Instructions ==================================================================== You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to self-regulating systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding authors and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Submissions have to be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide not exceeding 6 two-column pages. Papers are submitted as PDF files via the Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dss2017) Key Dates ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2017 Paper notification: July 30, 2017