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:
Study of the "externalities” of computer systems (both positive and negative)
Computer systems designed for extreme and adversarial environment
Computer systems for supporting sustainable environment
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
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)
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."
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.