The 13th International

      "Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium"

(OC-DDC 2025)

The Organic Computing Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium (OC-DDC) is organised by the

Special Interest Group on Organic Computing within the Gesellschaft für Informatik.

The 2025 edition will take place in conjunction with the 38th GI/ITG International

Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) in Kiel, Germany, from April 22-24, 2025.

Details on the event (and its predecessors) are available at:

https://sites.google.com/view/ocddc-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

==* Important Dates *==

- Paper submission deadline: January 26, 2025

- Notification of Acceptance: March 16, 2025

- Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2025

- Conference Dates: April 22-24, 2025

==* 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).

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.

==* Colloquium Details *==

- Participation cost: tba

- Participants have to organise travel and accommodation themselves

==* 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)