GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Technical Discussion (Fachgespraech) on
"Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems"
July 13, 2007, University of Passau, Germany
http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/pmsos07.html

OVERVIEW
Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet
as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless
sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and
evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems.
Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect
of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact,
whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional
mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model
such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain
scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation
and to be generally applicable.
Following PMSOS 2006, we again aim to investigate the methodology for
modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex
self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting
once more brings together leading national and international experts and
creates a forum for knowledge exchange.

IMPORTANT DATES
* Ext. abstracts / paper submission deadline: May 21st 2007
* Notification of acceptance: June 11th 2007
* Camera ready papers due: June 25th 2007
* Registration due: June 29th 2007
* Meeting date: July 13th 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
The submitted extended abstracts, short papers, and full papers will be
reviewed and published in form of a Technical Report.
Selected contributions to the Technical Discussion can be included in a
special issue on "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" in the "Praxis der
Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation" (PIK) journal on applications
of communication systems (Volume 31, Number 1, March 2008).

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Hermann de Meer, Universitaet Passau, Germany
Patrick Wuechner, Universitaet Passau, Germany
Jens B. Schmitt, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Matthias Hollick, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

SUBMISSIONS & CONTACT
patrick.wuechner@uni-passau.de