Research PapersACSOS 2020
The goal of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is to provide a forum for sharing the latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, self-adaptation, and self-organization. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a merger of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO).
The complexity of current and emerging networks, software, and services can be characterized by issues such as scale, heterogeneity, openness, and dynamics, both internally and in the environment. These issues have led the software engineering, distributed systems, and systems management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, control theory, machine learning, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing such computing systems in a principled way. Yet challenges remain to build autonomic systems that exhibit the desirable self-* properties (i.e., self-organizing, self-adaptive, self-healing, self-aware, etc).
The mission of ACSOS is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and industry practitioners to address these challenges to make resources, applications, and systems more autonomic, self-adaptive, and self-organizing. ACSOS provides a venue to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research. The conference program will include technical research papers, in-practice experience reports, posters, demos, and a doctoral symposium.
Tue 18 Aug Times are displayed in time zone: Greenwich Mean Time : London change
14:45 - 15:00 | Opening / Welcome Message Research Papers |
15:00 - 16:15: Keynote: Susan StepneyResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Hartmut SchmeckKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | |||
15:00 - 16:15 Keynote | Cyber-bio-physical systems engineering, or: can we grow a skyscraper? Research Papers Susan StepneyUniversity of York |
16:15 - 16:45: Coffee BreakCatering | |||
16:45 - 17:45: Self-AdaptationResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Evangelos PournarasUniversity of Leeds | |||
16:45 - 17:05 Full-paper | A Survey of Methodology in Self-Adaptive Systems Research Research Papers Barry PorterLancaster University, Roberto Vito Rodrigues FilhoLancaster University, Paul DeanLancaster University | ||
17:05 - 17:25 Full-paper | A self-configuring and adaptive privacy-aware permission system for Android apps Research Papers | ||
17:25 - 17:45 Short-paper | Assessing Adaptations based on Change Impacts Research Papers |
16:45 - 17:45: Cloud SystemsResearch Papers at Presentation Room B Chair(s): Ahmed Ali-EldinUMass Amherst | |||
16:45 - 17:05 Full-paper | ENSURE: Efficient Scheduling and Autonomous Resource Management in Serverless Environments Research Papers Amoghavarsha SureshStony Brook University, Gagan SomashekarStony Brook University, Anandh VaradarajanStony Brook University, Veerendra Ramesh KakarlaStony Brook University, Hima UpadhyayStony Brook University, Anshul GandhiStony Brook University | ||
17:05 - 17:25 Full-paper | PRESTO: a latency-aware power-capping orchestrator for cloud-native microservices Research Papers | ||
17:25 - 17:45 Short-paper | Self-Patch: Beyond Patch Tuesday for Containerized Applications Research Papers Olufogorehan Tunde-OnadeleNorth Carolina State University, Yuhang LinNorth Carolina State University, Jingzhu HeNorth Carolina State University, Xiaohui GuNorth Carolina State University |
17:45 - 18:45: Lunch/DinnerCatering | |||
Wed 19 Aug Times are displayed in time zone: Greenwich Mean Time : London change
15:00 - 16:15: Keynote: Pete BeckmanResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Christopher StewartThe Ohio State University, USA | |||
15:00 - 16:15 Keynote | Sage Cyberinfrastructure for the Digital Continuum, from AI@Edge to Cloud Research Papers Pete BeckmanNorthwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory |
16:15 - 16:45: Coffee BreakCatering | |||
16:45 - 17:45: Open SystemsResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Jean BotevUniversity of Luxembourg | |||
16:45 - 17:05 Full-paper | Case Study of an Automated Approach to Managing Collections of Autonomic Systems Research Papers Thomas GlazierCarnegie Mellon University, David GarlanCarnegie Mellon University, Bradley SchmerlCarnegie Mellon University, USA | ||
17:05 - 17:25 Full-paper | Adaptive Trust-Aware Decentralized Information Flow Control Research Papers Charilaos SkandylasLinnaeus University, Narges KhakpourLinnaeus University, Jesper AnderssonLinnaeus University | ||
17:25 - 17:45 Short-paper | A Distributed Population Management Approach for Mobile Agent Systems Research Papers |
16:45 - 17:45: Model-based SystemsResearch Papers at Presentation Room B Chair(s): Rose GambleUniversity of Tulsa | |||
16:45 - 17:05 Full-paper | Hybrid Planning Using Learning and Model Checking for Autonomous Systems Research Papers Ashutosh PandeyCarnegie Mellon University, USA, and Facebook, Inc., Ivan Ruchkin, Bradley SchmerlCarnegie Mellon University, USA, David GarlanCarnegie Mellon University | ||
17:05 - 17:25 Full-paper | REACT: A Model-Based Runtime Environment for Adapting Communication Systems Research Papers Martin PfannemüllerUniversity of Mannheim, Martin BreitbachUniversity of Mannheim, Christian KrupitzerUniversity of Würzburg, Germany, Markus WeckesserTU Darmstadt, Christian BeckerUniversity of Mannheim, Bradley SchmerlCarnegie Mellon University, USA, Andy SchürrTU Darmstadt | ||
17:25 - 17:45 Short-paper | Design-Time Validation of Runtime Reconfiguration Strategies: An Environmental-Driven Approach Research Papers Max ScheererFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany, Martina RappFZI Research Center for Information Technology, Ralf ReussnerKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FZI - Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) |
17:45 - 18:45: Lunch/DinnerCatering | |||
18:45 - 20:00: LearningResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Christian KrupitzerUniversity of Würzburg, Germany | |||
18:45 - 19:10 Full-paper | DeCrypto Pro: Deep Learning Based Cryptomining Malware Detection Using Performance Counters Research Papers Ganapathy ManiPurdue University, Vikram PasumartiPurdue University, Bharat BhargavaPurdue University, Faisal Tariq VoraPurdue University, James MacDonaldNorthrop Grumman Corporation, Justin KingNorthrop Grumman Corporation, Jason KobesNorthrop Grumman Corporation | ||
19:10 - 19:35 Full-paper | Learning Distributed Controllers for V-Formation Research Papers Shouvik RoyStony Brook University, Usama MehmoodStony Brook University, Radu GrosuVienna University of Technology, Scott SmolkaStony Brook University, Scott StollerStony Brook University, Ashish TiwariMicrosoft | ||
19:35 - 20:00 Full-paper | Coevolutionary Learning of Neuromodulated Controllers for Multi-Stage and Gamified Tasks Research Papers Chloe BarnesAston University, Anikó EkártAston University, Birmingham, UK, Kai Olav EllefsenUniversity of Oslo, Kyrre GletteUniversity of Oslo, Peter Lewis, Jim TørresenUniversity of Oslo |
18:45 - 20:00: Short PapersResearch Papers at Presentation Room B Chair(s): Christopher LandauerTopcy House Consulting / Aeospace | |||
18:45 - 19:03 Short-paper | MERIT: Model-driven Rehoming for VNF Chains Research Papers Muhammad WajahatStony Brook University, Bharath BalasubramanianAT&T Labs Research, Anshul GandhiStony Brook University, Gueyoung JungAT&T Labs Research, Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath NarayananAT&T Labs Research | ||
19:03 - 19:22 Short-paper | How far should I watch? Quantifying the effect of various observational capabilities on long-range situational awareness in multi-robot teams Research Papers | ||
19:22 - 19:41 Short-paper | FCPP: an efficient and extensible field calculus framework Research Papers Giorgio AudritoUniversità di Torino | ||
19:41 - 20:00 Short-paper | Automating GUI Testing with Image-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Research Papers |
20:00 - 20:15: Coffee BreakCatering | |||
20:15 - 21:00: Panel DiscussionResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Kirstie BellmanAerospace Corporation | |||
20:15 - 21:00 | Panel Discussion Research Papers Betty H.C. ChengMichigan State University, Lukas EsterleAarhus University, Anthony HillAdapdix Corporation |
Thu 20 Aug Times are displayed in time zone: Greenwich Mean Time : London change
15:00 - 16:15: Keynote: Hiroki SayamaResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Ada DiaconescuLTCI Lab, Telecom Paris, Institute Politechnqie de Paris | |||
15:00 - 16:15 Keynote | Self-Organization of Society: Fragmentation, Disagreement, and How to Overcome Those Research Papers |
16:15 - 16:45: Coffee BreakCatering | |||
16:45 - 17:45: User-centric systemsResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Barry PorterLancaster University | |||
16:45 - 17:05 Full-paper | Reasoning about When to Provide Explanation for Human-in-the-loop Self-Adaptive Systems Research Papers NIANYU LIPeking University, China, Javier CamaraUniversity of York, David GarlanCarnegie Mellon University, Bradley SchmerlCarnegie Mellon University, USA | ||
17:05 - 17:25 Full-paper | Collective Learning: A 10-Year Odyssey to Human-centered Distributed Intelligence Research Papers Evangelos PournarasUniversity of Leeds | ||
17:25 - 17:45 Short-paper | Evaluating the Effect of User-Given Guiding Attention on the Learning Process Research Papers Richard NordsiekXITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions, Michael HeiderUniversität Augsburg, Andreas AngererXITASO GmbH IT & Software Solutions, Jörg HähnerUniversität Augsburg |
16:45 - 17:45: ScalabilityResearch Papers at Presentation Room B Chair(s): Xiaohui GuNC State University | |||
16:45 - 17:05 Full-paper | Hierarchical Scaling of Microservices in Kubernetes Research Papers Fabiana RossiUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, Valeria CardelliniUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, Francesco Lo PrestiUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy | ||
17:05 - 17:25 Full-paper | Deadlock Avoidance for Multiple Tasks in a Self-Organizing Production Cell Research Papers Joseph HirschUniversität Augsburg, Martin NeumayerUniversität Augsburg, Hella PonsarUniversität Augsburg, Oliver KosakUniversität Augsburg, Wolfgang ReifUniversity of Augsburg, Institute for Software & Systems Engineering | ||
17:25 - 17:45 Short-paper | Taming Resource Heterogeneity In Distributed ML Training With Dynamic Batching Research Papers |
17:45 - 18:45: Lunch/DinnerCatering | |||
18:45 - 20:00: Best Paper CandidatesResearch Papers at Presentation Room A Chair(s): Timothy WoodGeorge Washington University, Sven TomfordeChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | |||
18:45 - 19:10 Full-paper | Building Reusable Repertoires for Stochastic Self-* Planners Research Papers Cody KinneerCarnegie Mellon University, Rijnard van TonderSourcegraph, David GarlanCarnegie Mellon University, Claire Le GouesCarnegie Mellon University | ||
19:10 - 19:35 Full-paper | Reconfigurable Embedded Devices Using Reinforcement Learning to Develop Action-Policies Research Papers Alwyn BurgerUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, David KingAir Force Institute of Technology, Gregor SchieleUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | ||
19:35 - 20:00 Full-paper | Understanding Uncertainty in Self-adaptive Systems Research Papers Radu CalinescuUniversity of York, UK, Raffaela MirandolaPolitecnico di Milano
, Diego PérezLinnaeus University, Danny WeynsKU Leuven |
20:00 - 20:15: Coffee BreakCatering | |||
20:15 - 20:30 | Awards Research Papers | ||
20:30 - 20:45 | ACSOS 2021 Research Papers | ||
20:45 - 21:00 | Closing Statement Research Papers |
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Not scheduled yet Keynote | Towards Self-driving Cloud Infrastructure Management Research Papers |
Call for Papers
Our hearts go out to all those who may be battling COVID-19. For more information about how COVID-19 might influence the ACSOS conference, please read the official statement of the Steering Committee and the Organizing Committee. Please notice our deadline extension as a result to COVID-19.
Important Dates (tentative)
Abstract submission (optional) May 8, 2020
Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2020
Notification to authors: June 20, 2020
Camera Ready Deadline: July 8, 2020
ACSOS Conference: August 17-21, 2020
Scope
We invite novel contributions related to the fundamental understanding of autonomic computing, self-adaptation, and self-organization along with principles and practices of their engineering and application. Selected papers from ACSOS 2020 will be invited for extensions in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Autonomic and Self-* system properties: robustness; resilience; resource efficiency; stability; anti-fragility; diversity; self-reference and reflection; emergent behavior; computational awareness and self-awareness;
- Autonomic and Self-* systems theory: bio-inspired and socially-inspired paradigms and heuristics; theoretical frameworks and models; formal languages; queuing and control theory; requirement and goal expression techniques; uncertainty as a 1st class entity
- Autonomic and Self-* systems engineering: reusable mechanisms and algorithms; design patterns; programming languages; architectures; operating systems and middleware; testing and validation methodologies; runtime models; techniques for assurance; platforms and toolkits; multi-agent systems;
- Data-driven management: data mining; machine learning; data science and other statistical techniques to analyze, understand, and manage the behavior of complex systems or establishing self-awareness;
- Mechanisms and principles for self-organisation and self-adaptation: inter-operation of self-* mechanisms; evolution, logic, and learning; addressing large-scale and decentralized systems;
- Socio-technical self-* systems: human and social factors; visualization; crowdsourcing and collective awareness;
- Hardware concepts for autonomic computing systems: self-* materials; self-construction; reconfigurable hardware;
- Cross disciplinary research: approaches that draw inspiration from complex systems, organic computing, artificial intelligence, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and biology.
We invite research papers applying autonomic and self-* approaches to a wide range of application areas, including:
- smart grids, smart cities, homes, and manufacturing; cyber-physical systems; autonomous vehicles and robotics; traffic management; self-adaptive cybersecurity; Internet of Things; cloud computing and data centers; fog/edge computing; hypervisors, operating systems, and middleware.
Submission Instructions
Research papers will be accepted as either long papers up to 10 pages or short papers up to 7 pages (including references) and formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide.
Please submit your papers electronically in PDF format using the ACSOS 2020 conference management system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acsos20
Note that separate calls for Poster, Demo, and In-Practice Report Submissions will also be issued, as well as a call for participation in the Doctoral Symposium.
The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and made available as a part of the IEEE Digital Library. As per the standard IEEE policies, all submissions should be original, i.e., they should not have been previously published in any conference proceedings, book, or journal and should not currently be under review for another archival conference. We would like to also highlight IEEE’s policies regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism: (https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/id-plagiarism.html). Where relevant and appropriate, accepted papers will also be encouraged to participate in the Demo or Poster Sessions.
Review Criteria
Papers should present novel ideas in the cross-disciplinary research context described in this call, motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. Both theoretical and empirical contributions should be highlighted, substantiated by formal analysis, simulation, experimental evaluations, or comparative studies. Appropriate references must be made to related work. Due to the cross-disciplinary nature of the ACSOS conference, we encourage papers to be intelligible and relevant to researchers who are not members of the same specialized sub-field. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers describing applications. Application papers should provide an indication of the real-world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the domain, and an evaluation of performance, usability, or comparison to alternative approaches. Experience papers are also welcome, especially if they highlight insights into any aspect of design, implementation or management of self-* systems that would be of benefit to practitioners and the ACSOS community. All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated based on the quality of their technical contribution, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality.
The conference organizers will select one paper to be awarded the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award. Selected papers from ACSOS 2020 will be invited for extensions in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
Camera Ready Submission
STEP 1: Important Dates
- At least one author per paper must early pay the registration fee by July 08, 2020.
- Failure to register will result in your paper not being included in the proceedings.
- Final camera-ready manuscripts must be submitted by July 08, 2020.
STEP 2: Page Limits
Your final paper must follow the page limits listed in the following table:
Paper Type |
Page Limit (including References) |
Extra Pages Allowed |
Regular |
10 |
2 |
Short |
7 |
2 |
Regular, and short papers are allowed to include up to 2 extra pages at an additional charge of $100 (100 US Dollars) per page. Extra pages should be purchased at registration time.
STEP 3: Formatting Your Paper
- Submitted abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
- Final submissions to ACSOS 2020 must be formatted in US-LETTER page size, must use the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format, and must be prepared in PDF format. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates are available at the IEEE “Author Submission Site” HERE. The templates are available on the left-hand-side tab “Formatting Your Paper”.
- Please, DO NOT include headers/footers or page numbers in the final submission.
STEP 4: Submitting Your Final Version
- Once the format of your paper has been verified and validated, you may submit your final version.
- All papers should be submitted using the submission system provided by IEEE “Author Submission Site” HERE.
- After you login to the IEEE “Author Submission Site”, please, follow the instructions as you click the “Next” button on the top right corner of the site. Please, enter the following information exactly as appeared on your paper: paper ID, names of authors, affiliations, countries, E-mail addresses, titles, and abstracts.
- To submit your final manuscript click HERE.
STEP 5: Submitting a Signed Copyright Release Form
- ACSOS 2020 requires users to submit a fully digital version of the electronic IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF). eCF is provided at the IEEE “Author Submission Site”.
- Follow the instructions in the IEEE “Author Submission Site” to properly fill-out, and submit the IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF), including:
1) Paper's full title
2) All authors names
3) Conference title: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020)
4) Signature (on appropriate line)
- The signed IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF) should be submitted together with your camera-ready manuscripts on July 08, 2020.
If you have any questions about the above procedures, please contact the Publications Chair Esam El-Araby: esam@ku.edu.
Note: Please complete each of the above steps - the conference organizers will not be responsible if your paper is omitted from the proceedings, is not available online on IEEE Xplore, or is subject to additional processing costs, if these steps are not performed.
Flyer
PDF version of the CfP.
Accepted Papers
Video Submission
Authors are expected to prepare:
1) a pre-recorded full length video presentation (not longer than 25 minutes) and a set of PDF slides which will be posted in advance of the conference.
2) a highlight talk which will be presented at the conference itself - up to 12 minutes for full papers and 8 minutes for short papers. During the conference you will have the option to give the talk live or use a pre-recorded version. This will be followed by Q&A run the session chair.
All authors are required to upload both videos and their slides by August 11th (instructions below).
Formatting and Naming
Short and Long Videos:
- File format: MP4
- Resolution: 720p
- Maximum file size: 500 MB
Slides:
- File format: PDF
- landscape format, A4 or letter size
Naming convention:
- Slides:
PAPERID-LAST_NAME-slides.pdf
- Long Video:
PAPERID-LAST_NAME-long.mp4
- Short Video:
PAPERID-LAST_NAME-short.mp4
All files should be named using the Paper ID from Easy Chair and the last name of the first author, e.g., Paper #43 by Alice Bees and Charlie Demo would have slides submitted as 43-Bees-slides.pdf
Presentation and Recording Guidelines
Presenters can use any software to record their presentations as long as they comply with the following requirements:
- The speaker’s face shall be clearly visible and directed toward the camera. This makes your presentation more accessible for hearing impaired viewers.
- The first slide should introduce the paper title and presenter.
- Sound quality matters: Use a good microphone. Avoid background noise. To avoid echo noise, turn the speakers of your computer off when recording.
- Speak clearly and with moderate speed. Do not attempt to pack more information into your talk by speaking very fast.
IEEE provides a tutorial on recording a slideshow with your own face using Zoom here: https://ieeetv.ieee.org/mobile/video/recording-your-presentation-with-zoom
If you are unsure how to record your video, we also will provide a way for you to meet with an ACSOS volunteer in advance of the conference to do a trial run and recording. Note that volunteers will not be editing the videos, so you will need to be sure you are prepared to give your presentation in one take! If you are interested in this option, please contact acsos20@easychair.org as soon as possible to schedule a meeting with a volunteer (videos still need to be submitted by the same deadline).
File Submission
Please upload your files following the above naming conventions using this link by August 11th so we can link to the videos prior to the start of the conference.