The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is the leading forum for sharing the latest research results, ideas, and experiences in autonomic computing, self-adaptation, and self-organization. Now in its 5th 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).

The world is increasingly relying on 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. The conference program will include research papers, in-practice experience reports, posters, demos, and a doctoral symposium. ACSOS 2024 solicits contributions from among (but not limited to) the following autonomic, self-adaptive and self-organizing theories, methods, and applications:

Theories

    Heuristics
    Optimization and configuration algorithms
    Models for complex and adaptive systems

Methods

    Support for adaptive systems
        monitoring
        analyzing
        planing
        execution
    Specification of adaptation in
        processes for development,
        deployment
        runtime
    System support for adaptive systems
        Operating systems
        Middleware
        Communication
    Distributed learning (e.g., federated learning)

Applications

    Software support for adaptive systems
        Patterns in monitoring, analyzing, planning, execution
        Software architectures
        Languages for adaptive
    Experiences and domains
        Applications of self-organization in specific use cases
        Insights of applying and evaluating real-world self-organizing systems
            generic platforms, i.e., middleware, operating systems
            specific applications
    LLMs for self-adaptive and self-organizing systems (e.g., multi-robot planning)

Please note that this list is non-exhaustive. ACSOS strives to be a home for research in adaptive and self-organizing systems.