The 3rd International PERADA-ASSYST Summer School on Adaptive Socio-Technical Pervasive Systems: Budapest, Europa Conference Center, Sept. 20-27 2010

Funded by PERADA, the EU Coordination Action on Pervasive Adaptation, in cooperation with ASSYST, the EU Coordination Action on Complex Systems for Socially Intelligent ICT

BACKGROUND

Pervasive Adaptation (PERADA) is concerned with models, tools, and technologies to be used in pervasive information and communication systems that are capable of autonomously adapting to highly dynamic contexts. The successful development of future pervasive systems will increasingly require handling complex interactions between intelligent objects, computers, sensors and actuators, and intelligent objects of any kind. The real challenge is to make such interactions fruitful, purposeful, and secure, despite the constantly changing characteristics of the environment in which such systems will operate, in the absence of any centralized control.

In particular, since ICT systems are increasingly embedded within our societal and physical environments, the future vision consider the emergence of pervasive and complex socio-technical ICT systems, seamlessly merging humans, societies, and ICT networks. On the one hand, these promise to increase our social and collective intelligence up to very high-levels. One the other hand, dominating such emerging systems requires the capability of understanding and dominaring their underlying complexity and direct them toward socially intelligent behaviors.

In this context, the 2010 Edition of the PERADA Summer School is co-organized with the ASSYST Coordination Action on “Complex Systems for Socially-Intelligent ICT”, to synergically cover the complementary topics of interests to these two research areas. In particular, the summer schools intend to touch both theoretical and practical aspects related to disciplines spanning from social networking, social simulation, evolutionary computing, nature- and socially-inspired inspired computing models, pervasive and mobile computing and networking, with the goal of enabling student to cross the barriers across these disciplines.

The co-location of the Summer School with the IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO – www.saso-conference.org), opening on Sept. 27, will also give students the chance of attending to the Workshops and Tutorial being held on the first day of the conference at no additional charge.

FORMAT OF THE SCHOOL

The format of the school will properly balance the need to expose students to the latest research findings in the above areas, as well as the need for students to enforce their capabilities of performing challenging research in inter-disciplinary teams. To this end, the school will be organized around:

• a number of tutorials on selected topics offered by leader researchers in their respective areas of expertise;
• a number of short talks to report on inspiring success story, there included industrial talks
• the assignment to small groups of students of a challenging research case studies, to be developed during the week and eventually leading to a final presentation of the project

All of which, of course, by proper inter-twining lectures and project development by social events, equally necessary to enforce community building.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES

Students are expected to arrive on day of September 20th, to enjoy the welcome reception and familiarize with each other and with the speakers, and to be ready for the summer school program starting on the morning of the 21th.

Students are expected to be at the school until the evening of September 26th, to complete the program and the workgroup projects. On September 27th, at no additional costs, students can choose to attend any of the many interesting tutorials and workshops that will be held in the context of the IEEE SASO Conference.

ORGANISERS

Franco Zambonelli(Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Borbala Katalin Benko (Technical University of Budapest, Hungary)
Marco Mamei (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Jeff Johnson (The Open University, UK)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Contact: Franco Zambonelli
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REGISTRATION

Registrations are available on a first-come, first-served basis, with the organisers reserving the right to limit places if necessary. Registrations close on 1st September. The registration price includes participation in all summer school lectures and tutorials (in addition to the first day of SASO tutorials and workshops); single or shared twin room accommodation at the Europa conference center hotel for 8 days; breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks for 8 days; invitation to the summer school welcome reception and the social dinner.

Online registration and payment are available via a SSL secure website operated by Edinburgh Napier University in conjunction with Barclaycard. Online payment can be made using VISA, MASTERCARD, DELTA, MAESTRO, SWITCH, SOLO, JCB, VISA ELECTRON. Online registration and payment is charged in British pounds sterling at the rates shown below, with Euro fees shown only as an approximate guide. Payment by bank transfer or cheque is NOT available. Please indicate at registration if you require any particular details included on the payment receipt (eg financial code or reference number).

Single room accommodation: 625 GBP (approx 750 EUROS)
Shared twin-room accommodation: 545 GBP (approx 650 EUROS)