COMPUTING, SOFTWARE, INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS

Open complex systems, especially Open Complex Giant Systems (OCGS) are very challenging because of particular system complexities such as large amounts of system constituents, openness, human involvement, and interaction with environment. A few advanced computing paradigms, such as agent-based computing, service-oriented computing, have been proposed and are under development to tackle the system complexities. In recent years, organizational computing and social computing have attracted increasing attention from communities of complex systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, system sciences etc.

To engineer open complex systems, a very promising research and development direction is to encourage and develop the integration of the above paradigms. As a result of the integration of computing paradigms, a new paradigm, metasynthetic computing namely emerges which advocates the collaboration, cooperation, coalition, integration and synthesis of human intelligence and machine intelligence, and targets a human-machine-cooperated and human-centered computing paradigm. The aim of metasynthetic computing is to build computing methodologies, techniques and metasynthetic intelligent information systems.

• Analysis, Design and Modeling of Artificial Organizational Systems
• Analysis, Design and Modeling of Artificial Social Systems
• Analysis and Modeling of Social Systems
• Agent-Service Integration
• Concepts and System Complexities of Open Complex Systems
• Concepts and System Complexities of Open Complex Giant Systems
• Human-Centered Computing
• Metasynthetic Computing
• Metasynthesis from Qualitative to Quantitative
• Methodologies of Computing Paradigm Integration
• Organizational Computing / Modeling / Programming
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Social Agent Computing
• Social Computing / Interaction
• Trends
• Case Study Systems and Applications

Manuscript for submission should be written in English and have no more than 6 pages (including tables and figures). See COMPSAC 2008 website for instructions of the format of the papers.
All accepted papers will be published in the electronic conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index, and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library.
The authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers for possible publication in two special issues which are to be determined.