Ubicomp 2016, Workshop on
“Collective Adaptation in Very Large Scale Ubicomp: Towards a Superorganism of Wearables”
This workshop (following up on the UBICOMP 2014 WS in Seattle and the 2015 WS in Osaka) asks questions on the potential and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe-spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, it stands to reason that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. A common objective or central controller may thereby not be assumed, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure-prone operation. We refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a “superorganism”, since they exhibit properties of a living organism (like e.g. ‘collective intelligence’) on their own. Collected Ideas of the previous workshops can be found at https://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp14/ and https://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp15/.
Get the full CfP in PDF-Format.
Important dates
| Extended Submission deadline | June 17th, 2016 |
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| Notification of acceptance | June 24th, 2016 |
| Camera ready version due | July 01st, 2016 |
| Workshop at the conference | September 13th, 2016 |
For registration issues, participation fees, etc. we refer to the Ubicomp 2016 website.
Organizers
Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria
Paul Lukowicz, DFKI, Germany
Franco Zambonelli, University di Modena, Italy
Contact
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