Technical
Committee on Self-Organization
and Cybernetics for Informatics
Who
we are
TC Chair
Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
Our
goals
The IT systems, comprised of communication infrastructures
and computing applications, are becoming increasingly large in scale
and explosively complex. New paradigms are urgently required that can
effectively tackle the enormous complexities of large-scale complex
IT systems. The Technical Committee on Self-Organization and Cybernetics
for Informatics aims to promote the analysis and understanding of self-organizing
and self-managing principles and mechanisms in living systems and socio-economic/technical,
and human organizational/social systems, and to facilitate the development
and engineering of self-organizing and self-managing (distributed) computing
and networking. Indicative areas of interest include multi-agent systems,
swarm intelligence, self-organization, emergence, feedback-control and
adaptation frameworks of self-organizing and self-managing (distributed)
computing and networking, and so forth.
What we are doing
Organizing 2008 Systemics and Informatics World Congress
(SIWN 2008), Glasgow, UK, 22-24 July 2008 http://siwn.org.uk/2008/.
Organizing 2007 International Conference on Complex
Open Distributed
Systems (CODS'07), and 2007 International Conference on
Adaptive Business Systems (ICABS'07), Chengdu, China,
22-24 July 2007.
Organizing 2007 International Conference on Self-Organization
and
Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS'07),
24-27 September 2007, Leipzig, Germany.
Organizing the International Conference on Self-Organization
and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications
(SOAS'2006),
Erfurt, Germany, 18 - 21 September 2006.
Edited book series "Self-Organization and Autonomic
Informatics (I)". Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
and Applications (FAIA), Volume 135, IOS Press, November
2005.
Edited Special Issue on "Autonomous Computing", Integrated
Computer-Aided Engineering, by IOS Press, Volume 13, Number
1, January 2006.
Edited Special Issue on "Autonomic Computing", Advanced
Engineering Informatics, by Elsevier, Volume 19, Issue
3, July 2005.
Edited Special Issue on "Autonomic Computing Systems",
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, by
Elsevier, Volume 17, Issue 7, October 2004.
Why don't
you join us?
The Technical Committee on
Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics is the focal and friendly
forum for the academics and practitioners worldwide who are active in
the extensively inter-disciplinary and highly exciting area of self-organizing
and self-managing (distributed) computing and networking. We warmly welcome
and highly value your support and involvement in the Technical Committee,
which in return will provide you with a global network of excellence and
collaboration in the community and will also provide you with a variety
of opportunities to get involved in the editing of journal special issues
and book series, and the organization of invited sessions, special tracks,
workshops and conferences which the Technical Committee technically sponsors
or initiates, e.g.,
Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, by IOS Press.
The SOAS Conference Series - International Conference on Self-Organization
and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications, with its predecessor
from 2000.
The International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine,
Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics, at AAMAS'2005, AAMAS'2006,
and onwards.
The International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software
Methodology, at SEKE'2005, SEKE'2006 and onwards.
Members
Artur Andrzejak, Zuse
Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
Jose A. Barata-Oliveira, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Michael Berger, Siemens Corporate Technology,
Germany
Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne,
Australia
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
China
Walid Chainbi, Ecole Nationale des Ingenieurs
de Sousse, Tunisia
Hans Czap, Universität Trier, Germany
Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center, USA
Torsten Eymann, Universitaet Bayreuth,
Germany
Jean-Luc Koning, Grenoble Institute of
Technology, France
Simon G. M. Koo, University of San Diego,
USA
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University
of Technology, Australia
Xuelong Li, University of London, UK
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Sascha Ossowski, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University,
USA
Kevin M. Passino, Ohio State University,
USA
Girijesh Prasad, University of Ulster,
UK
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Alexander Smirnov, St. Petersburg Institute
for Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy of Sciences
(SPIIRAS), Russia
Giandomenico Spezzano, CNR Institute
of High Performance Computing and Networking / University
of Calabria, Italy
Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John
Moores University, UK
Giuseppe Trautteur, Università
di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier
University Canada
Proposed
ammendments to the SMCS Constitution
and Bylaws
The IEEE Technical
Activities Board has approved proposed ammendments to the SMCS Constitution
and Bylaws. These changes become effective on February 1, 2009, unless
there are objections as stated in Article XI of the Constitution.
[more]
Welcome
new senior members
The SMC Society welcomes
40 new senior members ... [more]
Congratulations
to the SMC Society members who were elected IEEE Fellows for 2009
Paolo Fiorin
Jong-Hwan Kim
Sebastiano Serpico
Munidar Singh
Satoshi Tadokoro
Shinichi Tamura
Xiaoou Tang
Affiliations and citations of the newly elected IEEE Fellows can be
viewed at [more]
SMC Society Awards for 2009
At the Awards Ceremony
held at the 2008 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
outstanding volunteers were presented with awards to recognize their
outstanding achievements to the SMC Society. [more]
