IWSOS 2008
IWSOS 2008, the third International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, will be held in Vienna, Austria, December 10-12, 2008.
Building on the success of previous workshops in this series held in Lancaster (September 2007) and in Passau (September 2006), IWSOS 2008 aims to provide a visionary forum for self-organization in networks and networked systems.
IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is
caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user
requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited.
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