CALL FOR PAPERS 

SPECIAL SESSION ON

“Distributed Adaptive Systems” (Code: 174w7)

for SMC’19

October 6-9, 2019 – Bari, Italy

Session Organizers:

Haibin Zhu

Nipissing University North Bay, ON Canada

Email : haibinz@inpissingu.ca  

Co-organizer:

Weiming Shen

Huazhong Universsity of Technology Wuhan, Hubei, ChinaEmail : wshen@ieee.org

Giancarlo Fortino 

University of Calabria Rende, Italy

email: g.fortino@unical.it

Session area (Please indicate one the following area: Systems Science & Engineering /  

Human-Machine Systems / Cybernetics)

Systems Science & Engineering

Session description (100-200 words)

This special session deals with the problems of Distributed Adaptive Systems. Adaptability is a common and typical property for natural systems in the real world. It is also an important and desirable property for computer supported artificial distributed intelligent systems. A distributed adaptive system can be viewed as a set of interacting intelligent agents, real or abstract, forming an integrated system that is able to respond to internal and environmental external changes. Feedback is a key feature of adaptive systems, enabling the responses to changes. Artificial systems can be made adaptive using feedback to sense new conditions in the environment and adapt accordingly. Distributed adaptive systems can find applications in almost all industrial sectors, particularly in aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing.

The goal is to offer a forum of researchers and practitioners in related topics to interact and share their recent research results. 

Keywords 

· Fundamental issues of Adaptive Systems

· Specifications of Adaptability

· Principles of Adaptation

· Adaptation Models

· Natural Adaptation

· Feedback Loop Design in Adaptive Systems

· Design and Analysis of Adaptive Systems

· Design of Adaptive Systems

·  Agent Adaptation

·  Robot Adaptation

·  Adaptive Human-Machine Systems

·  Adaptive Group Structures for Agents

? Adaptive Operator Agent Interactions

? Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Systems

? Assessment/Evaluation of Adaptability

? Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems

? Optimization of Adaptive Systems

? Adaptive Services

? Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks

? Adaptive Collaboration

? Role-Based Collaboration

? Role Mechanisms in Adaptive Systems

? E-CARGO and its Applications in Adaptive Systems

? Distributed AI-IoT Systems 

SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically for peer review through PaperCept by March 31, 2019: http://controls.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl. In PaperCept, click on the SMC 2019 link “Submit a Contribution to SMC'19” and follow the steps. 

All papers must be written in English and should describe original work. For guidelines, please follow the the SMC website link http://smc2019.org/information_for_authors.html

DEADLINES

February 20, 2019: deadline for special session proposal

March 15, 2019: notification of special session acceptance/rejection 

March 31, 2019: deadline for paper submission

June 7, 2019: notification of paper acceptance/rejection

July 7, 2019: deadline for final camera-ready papers.