Accepted Tutorials

Monday: Complex systems, self-organisation, and simulation

Overview and organisation

Benefits and impacts

• Gain an overview of the science of self-organisation, its properties, and how we can harness them in engineered systems
• Gain a deeper familiarity with network science, the most popular current analytic technique
• Get practical experience with a modern network simulation framework and use it to answer a question about the self-organising behaviour of a sample complex system
• Understand the current research and what approaches are emerging that can be used to engineer future self-organising systems

Contents level: Intermediate

Duration: 4 hours (3 lecture + 1 hands-on)

Target audience: Academia (but might have industrial interest)

Tutorial format: Presentations with hands-on exercise

Prerequisites: Python programming for the exercise

Syllabus

Background. How the study of complex systems arose. State spaces and describing their dynamics. Non-linear phenomena. Phase transitions. What might you want to guarantee (or avoid) in an engineered system?

Modelling with networks. Why do networks make good models? Properties of networks. Processes on networks. Percolation. What to do when you can’t solve (or even find) the equations.

Practical: How does a communications network fail? The modelling approach. How does failure manifest itself? What do we expect to happen? The experiment. What actually happens? How can we explain it?

Currents in research. Network fine structure. Higher-order networks. Sensing and feedback. Networks, processes, and data analytics. Adaptive networks.

Friday: From Bio-Inspired Computing Back to Computing-Inspired Biology

Duration: Long tutorial (~3 hours)

Target audience: Mostly academia with an interdisciplinary interest, especially those wishing to think beyond the borders of “traditional” self-organization in computer science and engineering.

Format: Lecture followed by hands-on group activities and work with software tools

Prerequisites: None except an interest and some background in communication and distributed systems

Syllabus

Part 1: From Biology to Self-Adaptive Computing Systems (90 minutes)

Lecture:

• Introduction to the foundational terms and principles of self-adaptation
• MAPE-K framework
• Architectures of self-organizing systems
• Self-* properties
• Bio-inspired algorithms and design patterns
• Application domains

Group activity:

• Design a bio-inspired adaptation architecture for an IIoT use case based on MAPE-K
• Discussion of group work solutions

Part 2: From Computing Back to Biology – The IoBNT (90 minutes)

Lecture:

• Introduction to the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT)
• DNA-based nanonetworks: Self-assembly, computation, and communication with DNA tiles
• Gateway technologies: The bridges between the nanoscale biological world and the macro-scale communication systems
• Applications in precision medicine
• Challenges and future prospects

Hands-on experimentation with a DNA tileset simulator:

• Modelling a self-assembling DNA system to demonstrate computation or signal processing

Expected learning outcomes:

• Understanding the fundamental principles of self-organization and self-adaptation in biological and computing systems.
• Being able to apply the MAPE-K framework to an arbitrary silicon- or cell-based system.
• Knowing bio-inspired algorithms and being able to implement them in a MAPE-K architecture.
• Understanding the concept of DNA self-assembly and how computational models are applied to synthetic biology.
• Using a DNA tile set simulator to explore self-assembling DNA systems.

Call for Tutorials

With more and more researchers and practitioners looking into studying and developing systems with self-* capabilities, the requirement for a deep understanding of fundamentals, theory, tools, processes, and approaches rises. The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is the prime conference for autonomic, self-adaptive, and self-organizing systems. Thus, it is the leading forum to introduce, showcase, and disseminate the related practical tools, processes, and approaches to a wide audience, and to improve the understanding of the foundational theoretical frameworks.

ACSOS 2025 hereby solicits contributions for tutorials on tools, applications, processes, and techniques in autonomic computing, self-organization, and related topics on autonomous and self-* behavior, both practical and theoretical. Tutorials are expected to adhere to the same topics as the main track. They can either be long “hands-on” tutorials (3 to 4 hours), or, short “overview” or “quickstart” tutorials (1 to 2 hours).

All the tutorials will be presented in the “satellite” events program (i.e. along with workshops) of ACSOS 2025. Tutorials proposals (see below) should be accompanied by a tutorial paper, to be included in the ACSOS Companion (ACSOS-C) proceedings.

Proposals for ACSOS tutorials should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2025 (select tutorial track).

Submission

Submissions to the tutorial track in ACSOS 2025 entail submissions of both Tutorial Proposal and Tutorial Paper as follows.

For tutorials invited with reference to an accepted ACSOS 2025 full paper, the tutorial paper submission is optional. However, the tutorial proposal document is still required.

Tutorial proposals and tutorial papers are subject to peer review and will be accepted based on relevance to the conference, expected impact on the audience, clarity, structure, scientific content, and expertise of the proponents (in the tutorials’ topics).

Tutorial proposals

Proposals for tutorials should be organised as an advertisement for participation, with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information:

• Title of the tutorial
• Authors of the tutorial (name, contact information, and affiliation). If multiple presenters/instructors are planned for the tutorial, please indicate the reference (contact) instructor
• Abstract for the website (200 words)
• Format e.g., hands-on (software tool, library, application), overview (research thread), theoretical
• Duration (1 to 2 hours) for short and (3 to 4 hours) for long tutorials
• Syllabus of the tutorial including expected learning outcomes
• Target Audience industry/ academia / mixed
• Prerequisites for the participants
• Short bio of the speakers in the tutorial
• Information about previously given tutorials on the topic or related topics, both everywhere by the same organizers, or at ACSOS even by other organizers
• Information on whether this tutorial proposal is invited to complement an accepted ACSOS full paper

Tutorial papers

The tutorial paper has to be submitted for inclusion in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C).

• 4 to 6 pages including references for short (1 to 2 hours) and long (3 to 4 hours) tutorials, respectively.
• Tutorial paper submissions are required to be formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline:	    July 15, 2025 (extended)
Notification to Authors:    July 29, 2025 (extended)
Camera Ready Deadline:      August 08, 2025
Tutorial Days:	            September 29 and October 3, 2025
ACSOS Conference:	    September 29 - October 3, 2025

Important Tutorial Submission Requirements

• By submitting a tutorial proposal to the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems, you are making a commitment to register and attend the conference upon acceptance of your tutorial proposal.
• Please note, that IEEE ACSOS 2025 cannot guarantee to honor specific requests for holding the tutorial on specific dates

Upon Tutorial Acceptance

• Tutorial material (i.e., slides and handouts) must be made available for download to tutorial registrants. The suggested format for all presentation slides is 16:9 (i.e., 1920 x 1080).
• One presenter per tutorial receives a complimentary one-day tutorial pass registration for the day of the tutorial. Other presenters, if any, must register for the conference and/or any tutorials they wish to attend (thus, including their own).

Camera Ready Submission for Companion Proceedings

STEP 1: Important Dates

• At least one author per paper must early pay the registration fee by August 7, 2025.
• Failure to register will result in your paper not being included in the proceedings.
• Final camera-ready manuscripts must be submitted by August 8, 2025.

STEP 2: Page Limits

Your final paper must follow the page limit of 6 pages (including references).

Please note: Extra pages are not accepted.

STEP 3: Formatting Your Paper

• Submitted abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
• Final submissions to ACSOS 2025 must be formatted in US-LETTER page size, must use the two-column IEEE conference proceedings format, and must be prepared in PDF format. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates are available at the IEEE “Author Submission Site”.
• Please, DO NOT include headers/footers or page numbers in the final submission.

STEP 4: Submitting Your Final Version

• Once the format of your paper has been verified and validated, you may submit your final version.
• All papers should be submitted using the submission system provided by IEEE “Author Submission Site” (see email with camera-ready instructions).
• After you login to the IEEE “Author Submission Site”, please, follow the instructions as you click the “Next” button on the top right corner of the site. Please, enter the following information exactly as appeared on your paper:
  1. Tuto-paper ID from EasyChair. For example, your paper ID is 4279. Please use Tuto-4279
  2. Names of authors, affiliations, countries, E-mail addresses,
  3. Titles, and abstracts.
• Follow the instructions to submit your final manuscript.

STEP 5: Submitting a Signed Copyright Release Form

• ACSOS 2025 requires users to submit a fully digital version of the electronic IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF). eCF is provided at the IEEE “Author Submission Site”.
• Follow the instructions in the IEEE “Author Submission Site” to properly fill-out, and submit the IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF), including:
  1. Paper’s full title
  2. All authors names
  3. Conference title:
     2025 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C)
  4. Signature (on appropriate line)
• The signed IEEE Copyright-release Form (eCF) should be submitted together with your camera-ready manuscripts on August 8, 2025.

If you have any questions about the above procedures, please contact the Proceedings Chair Raffaela Groner (raffaela@chalmers.se).

Note: Extra pages are not allowed. Please complete each of the above steps - the conference organizers will not be responsible if your paper is omitted from the proceedings, is not available online on IEEE Xplore, or is subject to additional processing costs, if these steps are not performed.