Doctoral SymposiumACSOS 2025

Call for Papers

The sixth IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) provides a forum to share the latest research results, ideas, and experiences in autonomic, self-adaptive, and self-organizing systems. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a merging of the two long-running IEEE ICAC and SASO conferences, bringing together the two leading communities in this research space. The Doctoral Symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research and ideas, and network with the ACSOS community, consisting of a diverse audience of both leading experts and early career researchers in the field. The Doctoral Symposium not only offers early career researchers a chance to gain experience in presenting to an international audience but also to receive invaluable feedback about their work from members of the ACSOS community.  PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract, with another page for references, using the format in the submission section below. The abstract should describe the key motivation of their research, the major contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the research stage), the research methodology, and the current status of the work. Authors of accepted papers will present their work and obtain valuable and constructive feedback from members of the ACSOS community. We will consider pairing each author with a mentor-senior researcher and offering the opportunity of presenting a poster along a doctoral symposium talk.  Authors of all accepted submissions will be required to register for the ACSOS 2025 conference.

Submissions

Submissions should use the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and should be a maximum of 2 pages long, with an extra page permitted for references. Authors should submit their abstracts to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2025 selecting the “ACSOS2025 - doctoral” track. Because the Doctoral Symposium focuses on the work of a specific PhD student, please note that only single-author submissions are permitted, with the name of the PhD supervisor(s) included below that of the author. All submissions should have the following specific structure: Overall problem and motivation: Explain why this research is important, and identify the key research question(s) and challenges that have yet to be addressed by the community. Explain the relevance of the problem to autonomic computing, self-adaptation and/or self-organization.

Objectives and contribution: Present the detailed goals of your research, highlighting why your work is novel in comparison to existing research, and then present the main contributions of the research.

Methods and results: Present the scientific methods used to tackle the research problem, discussing their suitability to the problem and contribution. Present any preliminary or expected results, including a statement about the current status of your work and the open questions and challenges that you are facing.

Future work and research plan: Summarise your intended future work and provide a schedule of milestones for the next steps, including a plan for evaluation of the PhD results. The submitted paper will be evaluated by the Doctoral Symposium Program Committee according to the following criteria:

• The originality and novelty of the proposed research;
• its relevance to ACSOS;
• the quality of the submission, including clarity, precision, and adequacy of the problem statement and critical reflection of the work.   

Authors of accepted submissions will prepare a final (camera-ready) version of their abstract, taking into account reviewers’ feedback. Doctoral Symposium papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as part of the ACSOS proceedings and will be made available in the IEEE Digital Library.

Track Chairs

Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, i.g.gerostathopoulos@vu.nl  Gabriel Moreno, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, gmoreno@sei.cmu.edu 

Important Dates

Submission deadline:     July 4th 2025 Notification to authors:  July 25th 2025 Camera Ready deadline:  August 1st 2025 ACSOS conference:    September 29 - October 3rd, 2025

Camera Ready Submission for Companion Proceedings

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