Call for Papers

Topics and Papers of Interests

The terms “symbiosis” and “interaction” are broadly defined, as the goal of the workshop is to invite experts from different disciplines to identify open research challenges. In particular, EnvSys welcomes four types of papers:

• Research papers reporting results from complete work

• Speculative papers describing novel ideas with preliminary exploratory work

• Experience papers that documenting and sharing lessons and unexpected practical insights for deployed computer systems

• Vision and "disrupt” papers identifying thought-provoking research directions with well-reasoned scientific insights that might not have been proven. 

In general, EnvSys welcomes four general directions:

1. Study of the "externalities” of computer systems (both positive and negative)

2. Computer systems designed for extreme and adversarial environment

3. Computer systems for supporting sustainable environment

4. Interaction and coevolving behaviors between computer systems and environment

Example topics addressed in the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Computer systems designed for space exploration

• Computer systems designed for underwater deployment

• CPS systems deployed in extreme environment such as space, wilderness, and underwater

• Real-time traffic monitoring and control

• Infrastructure management for intelligent traffic control

• Connected vehicle-based traffic control

• Security, safety, and reliability issues in connected vehicles

• Security, safety, and reliability issues in autonomous systems

• Computer systems and network based on LEO satellites

• Computer systems for monitoring, predicting, and/or managing natural resources such as water, minerals, rare earth, air quality, wild animals, etc.

• AgriTech that operates under extreme weathers and environment

• Disaster recovery for CPS systems such as Internet-of-Things and smart grid

• System-wide failure analysis for large-scale computer systems and their impact and disruption on environment

• Computer systems for regularizing and mitigating flood

• Computer systems for hazards regularization

• Computer systems for monitoring, analyzing, or managing water-energy-food Nexus

• Faults and attacks of ML algorithms and their consequences

• Adversarial machine learning (both attacks and defenses)

• Analysis of externality of computer systems

• Analysis of interaction between computer systems and environment

• Industrial robots and environmental impacts

• Humanoid robots and social environment

• AI/ML and data analytics, e.g. for tackling climate impact of computer systems

• Design and operation of low-carbon and sustainable computer systems

Important Dates 

• Submission deadline: April 13 2025 (AoE) March 31st 2025 (AoE)

• Notification: May 3 2025 (AoE) April 30th 2025 (AoE)

• Poster deadline: May 3 2025 (AoE)

• Poster notification: May 7 2025 (AoE)

• Camera ready: May 10th 2025 (AoE)

Submissions

EnvSys accepts submissions in the following formats:

• Regular research paper: up to 6 pages + 3 pages for references and supplementary material

• Non-research paper (Speculative, Experience, Disrupt): up to 2 pages + 3 pages for references and supplementary material

• Poster: up to 1 pages + 3 pages for references and supplementary material

All submissions should be in PDF format and must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society 8.5x11 two-column camera-ready format (using a 10-point font on 12-point single-spaced leading). Both LaTeX and MS Word templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html  

We will use a double-blind review process only for the regular research papers, so the authors must anonymize their submissions. The first page must include the title of the paper, which should start with the paper type, i.e.,, Research, Speculative, Experience, or Disrupt.  No information on authors names and affiliations. Poster needs not be anonymized. Poster must start with "Poster" in the title.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dsnw2025 

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Papers will be accepted and included in the workshop program according to the following criteria: relevance of the addressed topic to the scope of the workshop; novelty and value of the proposed contribution; scientific merit; quality of the writing, presentation accuracy and style.

During the first step of the submission process, authors must select the track "Workshop on Environment-System Symbiosis."

Proceedings

Authors of regular research papers can select either of the following options for the publication of their accepted papers:

(1) Paper will appear in the supplementary DSN proceedings (archived in the IEEE Digital library), with the same page limit constraints as specified above,

(2) Only an extended abstract (up to 2 pages + 3 pages for references and supplementary material) of the paper will be included in the supplementary DSN proceedings, but the authors are required to post a full version of the paper on arxiv that will be linked from the workshop website. 

Other accepted papers will be included as an extended abstract.