ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects related to all those complex ICT systems that have to serve - in autonomy and with capabilities of autonomous adaptation - in highly dynamic socio-technico-physical environments.

Context

Many current Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems and infrastructure, such as the Web, Clouds, Grids and Enterprise Datacenters, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Social and Urban Computing Systems, Cooperative Robotic Systems, Distributed Service Systems, and Wireless and Mobile Computing Systems, have the characteristic of being decentralized, pervasive, and composed of a large number of autonomous entities. Often systems deployed on such infrastructure need to run in highly dynamic environments, where physical context, social context, network topologies and workloads are continuously changing. As a consequence, autonomic and adaptive behaviors become necessary aspects of such systems.

Expected Contributions

TAAS addresses research on autonomous and adaptive systems being undertaken by an increasingly interdisciplinary research community - and provide a common platform under which this work can be published and disseminated. TAAS encourages contributions aimed at supporting the understanding, development, and control of such systems and of their behaviors. Contributions are expected to be based on sound and innovative theoretical models, algorithms, engineering and programming techniques, infrastructures and systems, or technological and application experiences.

Non-Exhaustive List of Relevant Areas of Research

    Autonomic Computing and Communication
    Multi-Agent Systems
    Engineered Self-Organization and Self-Organizing Computing Systems
    Swarms and Swarm Intelligence
    Pervasive and Mobile Computing
    Sensor Networks
    Cooperative Robotics
    P2P Computing
    Cloud Computing
    Distributed Services and Systems
    Social and Urban Computing Systems
    Web and Participatory Systems
    Applications for Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

    Foundational models of autonomous and adaptive behaviors
    Complex systems and networks
    Networking models and techniques for autonomous and adaptive systems
    Nature-inspired techniques
    Self-* properties
    Adaptive algorithms
    Data and Information Management
    Operating systems and middleware for autonomous and adaptive systems

    Software Engineering Approaches and Methodologies
    Programming approaches and techniques
    Context-awareness and Semantics
    Social sensing and social analysis

    Learning & Prediction

    Analytic Models of Emergent Behavior