Call for Papers and Participation: Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC 2025)

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.

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 Guidelines

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 (listed in Scopus and DBLP).

Since the OC‐DDC papers are about personal PhD projects, please note that only single‐author submissions are permitted (supervisors can be mentioned in the acknowledgements). The papers should clearly motivate the PhD projects and explicitly describe the relation to OC (e.g., based on https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68477-2 or https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1701.08125). Additionally, the papers should outline the key research questions driving the doctoral project and describe the general approach or methodology used to address them. Therefore, providing sufficient foundational information is essential to help readers understand the context. Finally, the papers should also discuss the current state of the doctoral research, such as progress made, any preliminary findings, or ongoing challenges.

Important Dates

Colloquium Details

• Participation cost (includes lunch, drinks, book publication, etc.): tba
• Participants have to organise travel and accommodation themselves
• Details on the event (and its predecessors) are available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ocddc-2025

Organisation

• Christian Krupitzer (Universität Hohenheim, Germany)
• Sven Tomforde (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)

Local Organisation

• Elia Henrichs (Universität Hohenheim, Germany)
• Ghassan Al‐Falouji (Christian‐Albrechts‐Universität zu Kiel, Germany)

Advisory Committee

• Jörg Hähner (Universität Augsburg, Germany)
• Christian Müller-Schloer (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
• Bernhard Sick (Universität Kassel, Germany)