Doctoral SymposiumACSOS 2024

Call for Participation

The fifth IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) provides a forum to share the latest research results, ideas, and experiences in autonomic, self-adaptive, and self-organizing systems. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a merging of the two long-running IEEE ICAC and SASO conferences, bringing together the two leading communities in this research space. The Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research and ideas, and network with the ACSOS community, consisting of a diverse audience of both leading experts and early career researchers in the field. The Doctoral Symposium not only offers early career researchers a chance to gain experience in presenting to an international audience but also to receive invaluable feedback about their work from members of the ACSOS community. PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract, with another page for references, using the format in the submission section below. The abstract should describe the key motivation of their research, the major contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the research stage), the research methodology, and the current status of the work. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work both at the Doctoral Symposium and in brief at the main conference itself, offering a vast audience for their research. PhD students are also invited to produce a poster to summarise their current work, for presentation at the Doctoral Symposium. Students at any stage of their PhD are welcome to submit. Reviews, feedback, and expectations will be adapted appropriately to the relative stage of each submission.

Mentoring Program

As in prior years, the Doctoral Symposium will employ a mentoring program in which every author of an accepted paper will be paired with an experienced mentor from the community. Mentors will help introduce the student to the community, offer extended discussion of their research objectives and career opportunities, and will host their student throughout the event to help them gain the best experience from an international conference. Additionally, the Doctoral Symposium will incorporate activities to give participants the chance to interact with different members of the community at different stages of their careers in academia and industry.

Symposium Organisers

Sona Ghahremani, Hasso Plattner Institute at Potsdam University - sona.ghahremani@hpi.de

Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano - monica.vitali@polimi.it

Review Committee

To be announced.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline:	June 2nd, 2024 
Notification to Authors:	July 1st, 2024 
Camera Ready Deadline:		August 5th, 2024
ACSOS conference:		September 16th - 20th, 2024

All times in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone.

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Submission Instructions

Submissions should use the IEEE Computer Society Press format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and should be a maximum of 2 pages long, with an extra page permitted for references.

Authors should submit their abstracts to EasyChair.

Because the Doctoral Symposium focuses on the work of a specific PhD student, please note that only single-author submissions are permitted, with the name of the PhD supervisor(s) included below that of the author.

All submissions should have the following specific structure:

Motivation and challenges: explain why this research is important, and identify the key research question(s) and challenges that have yet to be addressed by the community - including limitations of current approaches.

Contribution and objectives: present the main contribution of the research in a way that a non-expert could clearly understand, then present the detailed objectives of your research, highlighting why your work is novel in comparison to existing research.

Methodology and preliminary results: present the methodology of your approach, discussing why it is suitable to your contribution, and also present any preliminary results if you have them, including a statement about the current status of your work.

Future work and research plan: summarise your intended future work and provide a schedule of milestones with a discussion of their feasibility.

Authors of accepted submissions will prepare a final (camera-ready) version of their abstract, taking into account reviewers’ feedback. Doctoral Symposium papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the ACSOS proceedings and will be made available in the IEEE Digital Library.