The ICT systems, comprised of communication infrastructures and computing applications, are becoming increasingly complex. New paradigms are urgently required that should be effective in tackling the soaring complexities of ICT systems. The Technical Committee on Self-Organized Distributed and Pervasive Systems aims to promote the understanding of self-organized mechanisms in both natural systems and socio-economic/technical systems, and to facilitate the engineering of self-organized distributed computing, networking and communications. Of particular interest are such areas as multi-agent based complex adaptive systems, swarm intelligence, self-organization, emergence, feedback-control and self-adaptation frameworks in distributed computing, networking and communications, ad hoc wireless networks, situated and autonomic communications, pervasive computing, pervasive services and adaptation, Quality of Service management, context-awareness, service-oriented architectures, service discovery/composition protocols, and so forth.

• Organizing Special Session on Self-Organization and Complex Distributed Systems at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2009), San Antonio, Texas, USA, October 11-14, 2009.
• Organizing 2009 Systemics and Informatics World Network (SIWN 2009), Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March 2009.
• Organizing 2008 Systemics and Informatics World Congress (SIWN 2008), Glasgow, UK, 22-24 July 2008.
• Preparing a Tutorial on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS) and Self-Organization: A Multi-Agent Systems Approach in IEEE SMC’2008.
• Preparing a Tutorial on Self-Organization of Multi-Agent Systems in IEEE SMC’2007.
• 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.

The Technical Committee on Self-Organized Distributed and Pervasive Systems is the focal and friendly forum for the academics and practitioners worldwide who are active in the exciting area of self-organized distributed computing, networking and communications, which is extensively inter-disciplinary. 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. In particular, we organize Special Sessions, Workshops and/or Tutorial Sessions at the annual IEEE SMCS conference, Special Issues for the IEEE SMCS Transactions, and other technical initiatives in IEEE SMCS (e.g., thematic reference books on Systems Science and Engineering) and technical activities of IEEE SMCS chapters around the world.