ACSOS Community Newsletter #3

July 16, 2026

EarlyBirdSocialEventsRomagnaKeynotesSwarmIntelligenceQuantumComputingSpaceTechnologiesEaSTTenureTrack

The third edition of the ACSOS Community Newsletter covers ACSOS 2026 Early Bird registration and new social events, keynote speakers Marco Dorigo and Ivona Brandic, Cal Poly Pomona's new Center for Exploration and Space Technologies, and Christian Krupitzer's tenure-track milestone.

ACSOS Community Newsletter #2

June 22, 2026

Program Out!SteeringCommitteeElectionsEdgeCloudPredictableSystemsMultiAgentSystemsCollectiveIntelligenceJointCollaborationTokyoInterview

The second edition of the ACSOS Community Newsletter covers several major updates: the upcoming ACSOS 2026 conference in Cesena (with registration opening July 1), the Steering Committee election results (welcoming Peter Lewis and Sven Tomforde as Co-Chairs), Alessandro Papadopoulos's recent ISA lecture at the University of Bologna's Cesena Campus, the Toulouse-Bologna joint PhD collaboration (SMAC and PSLab groups), and an interview with Kenji Tei, the General Chair of ACSOS 2025 in Tokyo.

ACSOS Community Newsletter #1

March 2, 2026

FoMaSEMacroProgrammingFieldVMCMorphogenesisFederatedLearningProximityAwareClusteringSeminarSocialIntelligence

The first edition of the ACSOS Community Newsletter covers four key topics: the ACSOS 2026 Call for Papers (with a submission deadline of April 17, 2026); an upcoming hybrid seminar by Dr. Peter Lewis on Reflective Social Intelligence for Autonomous Agents (April 2, 2026); the FoMaSE project, a 5-year, 1.1M€ Italian Science Fund grant awarded to Roberto Casadei (University of Bologna) focused on macro-programming-based software engineering and Artificial Collective Intelligence; and two new journal publications — FieldVMC, extending a self-organising morphogenesis model into a field-based aggregate computation (published in Complex and Intelligent Systems), and Proximity-Aware Self-Federated Learning (PSFL), a fully decentralised IoT clustering approach based on aggregate computing (published in Elsevier's Internet of Things). Both papers are follow-ups to work originally presented at ACSOS 2024.