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I am writing to you today to let you know about recent news with ISCE and its affiliates:

1. 3rd International Conference on Complexity and Philosophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 22-23 February 2007;
2. International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007;
3. New complexity title "Explorations in Complexity Thinking."

1. 3rd International Conference on Complexity and Philosophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 22-23 February 2007 - There are several places still available for this upcoming event.  A draft agenda is available below, and if you would like further details please visit:

http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE_Events/Stellenbosch_2007.html

Poster Session Papers

If you are unable to attend, but are interested in the event papers then an ISBN-referenced print proceedings is available at:

http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=51

A free copy of the proceedings will be provided to all participants.  If you would like to register then please visit:

http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE_Events/Payment_Pages/Stellenbosch_2007_registration_fees.php

2. International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing (SASO) Systems, Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending) in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS (approval pending) and ISCE Research

The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services.  In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift.

Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts.

This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given
family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged.

Topics

o Self-* properties:
  - self-organization
  - self-adaptiveness
  - self-management
  - self-monitoring
  - self-tuning
  - self-repair
  - self-configuration
  - etc.
o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems
o Management and control of self-* systems
o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems
o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-*
  systems
o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems

Systems & Technologies

o P2P applications
o Mobile robots
o Sensor networks
o Mobile ad hoc networks
o Grids
o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing
o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications
o Computer networks, telecommunication networks
o Multi-agent systems
o E-business systems and services
o Complex adaptive systems

Research Communities

o Distributed artificial intelligence
o Networking
o Software engineering
o Distributed systems
o Integrated management
o Robotics
o Knowledge-based systems
o Machine learning
o Control theory
o Mathematical optimization

Organization

General Co-Chairs:
Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy
Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA

Program Committee Chairs:
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland
Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary

Finance Chair:
Paul Robertson, MIT, USA

Applications Track Chair:
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia,
Italy

Industry Chair:
Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK

Tutorial Chair:
David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy

Panel Chair:
Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA

Publicity Chair:
Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Sponsor Chair:
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland

Local Arrangements Chair:
Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA

Submission Instructions

See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and
formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style
guide.

Important Dates

Submission: January 31, 2007
Notification: March 19, 2007
Final paper: April 6, 2007

3. New complexity title "Explorations in Complexity Thinking: Pre-Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy."

This pre-proceedings contains the all the papers submitted for the two-day Complexity and Philosophy workshop to be 22nd-23rd February 2007, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The event is co-hosted by Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), ISCE Events, and the Cathedra for the Study of Complexity (Instituto de Filosofia de La Habana). As with previous meetings, the aim of this workshop is to explore the philosophical implications of the science and thinking of complex systems.

ISBN: 0979168813
Pages: 278
Editors: Kurt Richardson & Paul Cilliers
Publisher: ISCE Publishing
Binding: Hardback

For further details please visit:

http://isce.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=51

If you have any questions about ISCE Publishing's publications then please feel free to contact me at your convenience.  I hope you find at least some of our offerings of interest and value.

Kind regards

Kurt Richardson
Director, ISCE Publishing

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