CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st Workshop on Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems (APICSS’16)

Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016

WWW: https://fedcsis.org/apicss
E-mail: apicss2016@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to APICSS - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016).

FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

TOPICS
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The topics and areas include, but are not limited to:

Self-adaptive and self-organizing Information Systems:

- auto-configuration,
- viable systems,
- adaptability, learning and self-production of information systems,
- QoS (Quality of Service) for self-producting systems,
- self-organizing geographic connectivity maps,
- self-organizing artificial intelligence.
- self-tuning databases.

Self-adaptive and self-organizing Communication Systems:

- evolutionary networks,
- interacting autonomous systems,
- self-maintained networks,
- self-organizing data visualization,
- policy-based self-management.

Self-adaptive and self-organizing Social Systems:

- virtual organizations,
- socio-economic cybernetics,
- self-organizing social networks.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016
- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016
- Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016
- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Pańkowska, Małgorzata, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
- Żytniewski, Mariusz, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Awatef, Hicheur Cairns, ALTRAN Research
- Bezzazi, El Hassan, Lille University, France
- Burlea Schiopoiu, Adriana, University of Craiova, Romania
- Cartelli, Antonio, Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia Universita degli Studi
- Cuesta, Carlos, Rey Juan Carlos University
- Denzinger, Jörg, University of Calgary, Canada
- Gulsecen, Sevinc, Istanbul University
- Hernes, Marcin, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland
- Johnsson, Magnus, Lund University
- Kirikova, Marite, Riga Technical University
- Lu, Joan, University of Huddersfield
- Meister, Vera G., University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Oussena, Samia, University of West London, School of Computing and Technology
- Rizun, NIna, Alfred Nobel University, Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine
- Romay, M. Pilar, University Carlos III of Madrid, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Spain
- Salem, Abdel-Badeeh M., Ain Shams University, Egypt
- Stanek, Stanislaw, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land Forces in Wroclaw, Poland
- Vasilakaki, Evgenia, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Dept. Library Science & Information Systems, Greece
- Viroli, Mirko, Alma Mater Studiorum – Universit`a di Bologna
- Wei Song, William, Dalarna University, Högskolan Dalarna
- Wołoszyn, Paweł, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie, Poland


CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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