Welcome to IWSOS 2011
IWSOS 2011, the Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, 23.-25. February 2011. Building on the success of previous workshops in this series held in Passau (September 2006), Lancaster (September 2007), Vienna (December 2008), and Zürich (December 2009), IWSOS 2011 aims to provide a visionary forum for self-organization in networks and networked systems.
The Workshop will take place in the beautiful Karlsruhe Palace located in the heart of Karlsruhe. IWSOS 2011 will be organized by the Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Prof. Martina Zitterbart.
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Keynote Speaker Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Hermann Haken, founder of Synergetics, is giving a keynote talk at IWSOS 2011. |
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Keynote Speaker Hod Lipson, associate professor at the Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab, is giving a keynote talk at IWSOS 2011. |
News
27. Aug 2010: Hod Lipson, associate professor at Cornell University, agreed to give a keynote talk at the workshop.
23. Aug 2010: Hotel recommendations with special rates are now available.
17. Aug 2010: Information on Shadow TPC is now online.
23. Jun 2010: Paper submission is open here, information for authors available here.
22. Jun 2010: Preliminary TPC members online
09. Jun 2010: Hermann Haken, professor emeritus, University of Stuttgart and founder of Synergetics will give a keynote talk
09. Jun 2010: Wiley is a sponsor of IWSOS 2011
08. Jun 2010: Call for Papers online [txt] [pdf]
Committee
| General Chairs | Martina Zitterbart | KIT, Germany |
| Hermann de Meer | Univ. Passau, Germany | |
| TPC Co Chairs | Christian Bettstetter | Univ. Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria |
| Carlos Gershenson | Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico | |
| Steering Committee | Hermann de Meer | Univ. Passau, Germany |
| David Hutchison | Lancaster University, UK | |
| Bernhard Plattner | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | |
| James Sterbenz | University of Kansas, USA | |
| Randy Katz | UC Berkeley, USA | |
| Georg Carle | TU Munich, Germany (IFIP TC6 Representative) | |
| Karin Anna Hummel | Univ. Vienna, Austria | |
| TPC Members | Preliminary | |
| Karl Aberer | EPFL, Switzerland | |
| Christos Ampatzis | European Research Council, Belgium | |
| Ozalp Babaoglu | Univ. Bologna, Italy | |
| Michael Batty | Univ. College London, UK | |
| Sandford Bessler | Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria | |
| Christian Bettstetter | Univ. Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs, Austria | |
| Yuriy Brun | Univ. Washington, USA | |
| Sonja Buchegger | KTH Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Iacopo Carreras | Create-Net, Italy | |
| Alexander Clemm | Cisco Systems, USA | |
| Giovanna Di Marzo | Univ. London, UK | |
| Falko Dressler | Univ. Erlangen, Germany | |
| Wilfried Elmenreich | Univ. Klagenfurt, Austria | |
| Alois Ferscha | Univ. Linz, Austria | |
| Carlos Gershenson | Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico | |
| Salima Hassas | Univ. Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, France | |
| Francis Heylighen | Free Univ. Brussels, Belgium | |
| Tom Holvoet | Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium | |
| Karin Anna Hummel | Univ. Vienna, Austria | |
| Geoffrey James | CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia | |
| Mark Jelasity | University of Szeged, Hungary | |
| Holger Karl | Univ. Paderborn, Germany | |
| Alexander Keller | IBM Research, USA | |
| Wolfgang Kellerer | DOCOMO Eurolabs, Germany | |
| James Kempf | Ericsson Research, USA | |
| Hermann Kopetz | Univ. Vienna, Austria | |
| Rajesh Krishnan | Science and Technology Associates, USA | |
| Albert Lam | Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |
| Nick Maxemchuk | Columbia University, USA | |
| Andreas Mitschele-Thiel | Univ. Ilmenau, Germany | |
| Adilson Motter | Northwestern University, USA | |
| Van Parunak | NewVectors, USA | |
| Juval Portugali | Univ. Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| Christian Prehofer | Fraunhofer, Germany | |
| Mikhail Prokopenko | CSIRO, Australia | |
| Susana Sargento | Univ. Aveiro, Portugal | |
| Hiroki Sayama | Univ. Binghamton, USA | |
| Hartmut Schmeck | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | |
| Marcus Schoeller | NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany | |
| Sidi-Mohammed Senouci | Orange Labs, France | |
| Paul Smith | Univ. Lancaster, UK | |
| Martha Steenstrup | Stow Research, USA | |
| Martin Stetter | Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany | |
| John Strassner | Univ. Pohang, Korea | |
| Marc Timme | MPI Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany | |
| Vito Trianni | National Research Council, Italy | |
| Alexander Tyrrell | DOCOMO Euro-Labs | |
| Patrick Wüchner | Univ. Passau, Germany | |
| Local Organization | Christoph P. Mayer | KIT, Germany |
| Denis Martin | KIT, Germany |





