3rd Workshop on Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems (eCAS2018)

The workshop is expected to involve participants from many disciplines, including Autonomic Computing, Biology, Game Theory, Evolutionary Computing, Network Science, Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing, and to be of interest to anyone working with the domain of large-scale self -adaptive systems. In addition, the European Commission has funded seven scientific projects and a Coordination Action in this area, with projects starting at the beginning of 2013. Thus, the workshop provides a natural base for the projects to meet and share ideas, even If it is in no way limited to this audience, and is likely to have broad appeal to a wide range of researchers. potential audience members might work in application areas relating to large-scale distributed systems,Or may come from any of the many disciplines that can provide insights into the operation and design of such systems.

Modern systems systems are becoming more and more collective, composed of many distributed and many ass.. systems operating under continuous perturbations making manual adjustments infeasible. For a collective system to be resilient, its adaptation must also be collective, in the sense that multiple entities Must adapt in a way that routes that runtime conditions conditions while preserving the benefits of the collaborative interdependencies. Decision-making in such systems is distributed and if highly dispersed, and interaction between the entities may lead to the generating of the unexpected phenomena. In such systems, a new approach for adaptation is needed to allow (i) multiple entities to collectively adapt with (ii) negotiations to decide which collective changes are best.The collective actions also raises a second important challenge: which parts of the system (things, services, people) should be engaged in an adaptation? This is not trivial, since multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels. The challenge here Is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem. This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can be used in order to develop a better understanding of the fundamental factors underpinning the Operation of such systems, so that we can better design, build, and analyze them, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in action. Interdisciplinary work is specifically welcomed.The people who should be engaged in an adaptation? This is not trivial, since multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels. The challenge here is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given This problem we can better design, build, and analyze them, as Inter as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in action. Interdisciplinary work is specifically welcomed.The people who should be engaged in an adaptation? This is not trivial, since multiple solutions to the same problem may be generated at different levels. The challenge here is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given This problem we can better design, build, and analyze them, as Inter as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in action. Interdisciplinary work is specifically welcomed.The challenge here is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem. This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can be used in order to develop a better understanding of the fundamental Interception work is such as factors underpinning the operation of such systems, so that we can better design, build, and analyze them, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in approaches.The challenge here is to understand these levels and create mechanisms to decide the right scope for an adaptation for a given problem. This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can be used in order to develop a better understanding of the fundamental Interception work is such as factors underpinning the operation of such systems, so that we can better design, build, and analyze them, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in approaches.Intert the work is so welcomed we can better design, build, and analyze them, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in approach.Intert the work is so welcomed we can better design, build, and analyze them, as well as case studies and applications showing such approaches in approach.