First International Workshop on Job and Service Delegation in Complex Networks (JOSED'2009)

Theme

Job and service delegation are well-known areas of interest in organizational fields such as task scheduling and workflow management. However, delegation models in these areas suffer from incomplete understanding, because research in such fields has generally dealt with relatively simple network settings. As we revisit Conway's Law, we find evidence of important interplays between communication, organization and product design structures. The possible combination of several networks into a single complex network brings new cross-cutting concerns. Therefore, research issues and solutions may be gathered and tried from diverse fields such as ad hoc networks, workflow management, artificial intelligence, collaborative software development, CSCW, etc. This workshop provides a forum for exchanging problems, methods, models, and insights about delegation in complex networks. It aims at bringing together researchers in the areas of social networks, communication networks and product design in search for common understanding of the subject of delegation in complex networks.

Original papers addressing applications, scenarios, models, methods, and architecture are solicited. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications and scenarios

Scenarios and applications for labor markets, people migration, collaborative software development, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, grid computing (machine-performed), etc.
Management of delegation in complex network systems
Workflow management systems for complex networks
Dependency structure matrix (DSM)
Network organisations, organization of systems, Conway Law
Delegation models based on incentives/financing (pay-for-performance and cooperation)
Characteristics of complex networks that affect job and service delegation
Problems such as race-conditions, decision under uncertainty, resource allocation.

Models and methods

Network clustering, peer-to-peer-approaches (p2p), self-organization
Network metrics for delegation
Delegation optimization
Graph construction models (geometric random graph, unit disk, continuum percolation, etc.)
Information exchange approaches
Computation for decision making (Peer-selection, Breakdown of Jobs and Services)
Decomposition and composition of services
Network state fusion, data-fusion and data-aggregation
Models and algorithms for fault-tolerant networks
Ubiquitous communication support for delegate networking
Services and algorithms that support delegating
Searching and navigating in complex delegation networks
Localized, distributed and centralized algorithm
Topology control

Architectures

Distributed architectures for delegation (publish-subscribe, pipeline, blackboard, representational state transfer, etc)
Network clustering, peer-to-peer-approaches (p2p), self-organization
Patterns of delegation
Methods of artificial intelligent related to delegation networks
Overlay networks
Agent-based approaches for delegation

We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit their original contributions to JOSED’09.

Download the PDF version of this Call for Papers (here).