Call for papers

Large scale embedded monitoring and control systems are found in many applications such as buildings, manufacturing, energy systems, transportation, security and safety. These systems continuously grow and are constantly integrated into larger systems from cyber physical systems, internet of things to systems of systems. At the same time the requirements for these systems become more dynamic and have to adapt constantly to new situations. This renders the design, commissioning and maintenance of reliable systems challenging due the persisting problems of heterogeneity, interoperability, adaptability, and robustness. This request for self-organising approaches that do not rely on compatible protocols and architectures to work, but consider the reality of heterogeneous, multi-vendor systems. New approaches have to reach beyond the protocol level to the control applications and the integration into large scale systems to make the system adaptive and robust in real environments. ● Engineering self-organising robust systems ● Cross-layer protocols for self-organisation