Inspired by biological examples, self-awareness has become a hot research topic in a variety of disciplines and its applicability has been explored in various application domains. The topic owes its attractiveness to its promise to facilitate highly resilient, adaptive and outstandingly efficient behaviors. Thus, self-awareness holds the promise to promote dependability in all types of smart gadgets and artificial agents in the interconnected world of future.

The main purpose of this workshop is to build a community and to try to develop a shared and communal understanding of the main concepts underlying self-awareness with respect to CPS. Currently, self-awareness is studied in a range of different communities, where the underlying assumptions, definitions and goals differ significantly. This workshop will provide a forum for reflections and in-depth discussions of the pivotal concepts of this field which will serve as a basis for building an integrated scientific community and for developing future research projects.

One of the main focus areas that we would like to explore in this edition is “Self-Awareness in resource constrained distributed systems”, which poses several new challenges in exploiting self-awareness principles while meeting multiple, often conflicting design constraints. The workshop will engage in a visioning exercise to highlight challenges and possible solutions, with a plan to generate a position paper. Selected contributions will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of a reputable journal and/or an edited book.