THE 13th INTERNATIONAL "ORGANIC COMPUTING DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM" (OC-DDC 2025)
In conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, April 22-24, Kiel, Germany
In conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, April 22-24, Kiel, Germany
OC-DDC 2025
The 13th International “Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium” (OC-DDC) will take place in conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) in Kiel, Germany from Tuesday, April 22nd to Thursday, April 24th. The OC-DDC is organised by the Special Interest Group on Organic Computing within the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies on Organic Computing, Autonomic Computing, intelligent systems, self-adaptation and self-organisation, self-aware computing systems, autonomous learning, self-* mechanisms, trustworthy systems, and related research topics.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: January 26, 2025 March 2, 2025 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: March 23, 2025
Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2025
Conference Dates: April 22-24, 2025 (Colloquium Date tbd)
Colloquium Theme
The intent of the DDC is to bring together PhD students who have their research focus within the broader Organic Computing community and will not have defended their thesis before April 2025. The main goal of this colloquium is to foster excellence in OC‑related research by providing students with feedback and advice that are particularly relevant to their doctoral studies and career development. The OC‑DDC 2025 will take place in conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) in Kiel, Germany. The colloquium will give participants the opportunity to present their ongoing research in a friendly forum. They will obtain valuable feedback from colloquium attendees in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere.
The schedule includes:
Prepare a paper of 10 pages (max.)
Participate in the review process
Present your work to an audience consisting mainly of other PhD students from your community
Identify points of contact between your work and others
Build your social research network
Meet experts in your research domain and listen to their invited talks and expertise
Enjoy the opportunity to improve your PhD work, overcome stipulations and learn from the experts
Submission
PhD students are invited to participate by submitting a paper of up to 10 pages (including references and figures) via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2025 (select the PhD Forum track). Papers must be written in English. Papers should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) and submitted in PDF format. The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of ARCS 2025 (Scopus listed).
A PDF version of the call for papers is available here.