[hpc-announce] ACSOS 2023: Call for Doctoral Symposium Contributions

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*** ACSOS 2023 - Call for Doctoral Symposium Contributions **

4th IEEE International Conference on
Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems

25-29 September 2023 - Toronto, Canada

https://2023.acsos.org/
https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf

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The world is increasingly embracing autonomous systems: in
robotics, manufacturing, software engineering, vehicles, data
center systems, and precision agriculture to name just a few
areas. These systems are bringing autonomy to a whole new level of
dynamic decision-making under uncertainty, requiring autonomic
behavior (e.g., control theory, cybernetics) and self-reference,
leading to a range of self-* properties (e.g., self-awareness,
self-adaptation, self-organization), and an approach in which
system implementation and its environment are holistically
considered.

Despite this rise in autonomic and self-* systems, there remains a
wide range of fundamental challenges in understanding how to
design, control, reason about, and trust such systems. The IEEE
ACSOS conference solicits novel research on these topics, in
fundamentals and methods as well as applications for autonomic and
self-* systems.

ACSOS is particularly proud of its long-standing academic breadth
and innovative industry contributions, and regularly features work
from computational biologists through to operating systems
researchers – united by the common theme of autonomous systems.
Now in its 4th edition, 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).

This is the first edition of ACSOS to be held in person, rather than 
virtually. As such, the Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for 
PhD students to present their research and ideas, and network with the 
ACSOS community, consisting of a diverse audience of both leading 
experts and early career researchers in the field. The Doctoral 
Symposium not only offers early career researchers a chance to gain 
experience in presenting to an international audience, but to receive 
invaluable feedback about their work from members of the ACSOS community.

PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract, with another 
page for references, using the format in the submission section below. 
The abstract should describe the key motivation of their research, the 
major contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the research 
stage), the research methodology, and the current status of the work. 
Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their 
work both at the Doctoral Symposium and in brief at the main conference 
itself, offering a very wide audience for their research. PhD students 
are also invited to produce a poster to summarise their current work, 
for presentation at the Doctoral Symposium.

As in prior years, the Doctoral Symposium will employ a mentoring 
program in which every author of an accepted paper will be paired with 
an experienced mentor from the community. Mentors will help introduce 
the student to the community, offer extended discussion of their 
research objectives and career opportunities, and will host their 
student throughout the event to help gain the best experience from an 
international conference. Additionally, the Doctoral Symposium will 
incorporate activities to give participants the chance to interact with 
different members of the community at different stages of their career 
in academia but also industry.

*** Important Dates ***

All times below are in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone.

Paper Submission Deadline: June 2nd, 2023
Notification to Authors:   July 12th, 2023
Registration Deadline:     August 5th, 2023
Camera Ready Deadline:     August 5th, 2023

*** Submission Format ***

All submissions are required to be formatted according to the
standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Papers are submitted electronically in PDF format through the
ACSOS 2023 conference management system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2023

Because the Doctoral Symposium focuses on the work of a specific PhD 
student, please note that only single-author submissions are permitted, 
with the name of the PhD supervisor(s) included below that of the author.

Submissions must follow a specific structure. For details, please 
consult the ACSOS 2023 Doctoral Symposium webpage:
https://2023.acsos.org/track/acsos-2023-doctoral-symposium