Autonomous Systems - Self-Organization, Management, and Control : Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, October 6-7, 2008

The 2008 TUB-SJTU joint workshop on “Autonomous Systems – Self-Organization, Management, and Control” was held on October 6, 2008 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Contents ; Committee ; Preface; Head Pose Perception Based on Invariance Representation, by Wenlu Yang and Liqing Zhang; Geometrical Approaches to Active Learning, by Kamil Adiloglu, Robert Annies, Falk-Florian Henrich, André Paus, Klaus Obermayer; Detecting Drowsiness in Driving Simulation Based on EEG, by Jia-Wei Fu, Mu Li, Bao-Liang Lu; Multi-Task BCI for Online Game Control, by Qibin Zhao, Liqing Zhang, Jie Li; Efficient Biped Pattern Generation Based onPassive Inverted Pendulum Model, by Jian Li and Weidong Chen; A Slung Load Transportation System Based on Small Size Helicopters, by Markus Bernard, Konstantin Kondak, Günter Hommel; Multi-source Data Fusion and Management for Virtual Wind Tunnels and Physical Wind Tunnels, by Huijie Hu, Xinhua Lin, Min-You Wu; Flying Sensors - Swarms in Space, by Stefan Jähnichen, Klaus Brieß, Rodger Burmeister; Em-LogicsPropositional Logics with Self-Reference and Modalities, by Sebastian Bab; Compositionality of Aspect Weaving, by Florian Kammüller and Henry Sudhof; Towards the Application of Process Calculi in the Domain of Peer-to-Peer Algorithms, by Sven Schneider, Johannes Borgström, Uwe Nestmann; Specification Techniques (Not Only) for Autonomous Systems, by Peter Pepper; Quality Assurance for Concurrent Software - An Actor-Based Approach, by Rodger Burmeister; Enabling Autonomous Self-Optimisation in Service-Oriented Systems, by Hermann Krallmann, Christian Schröpfer, Vladimir Stantchev, Philipp Offermann; Algorithms for Reconfiguring Self-Stabilizing Publish/Subscribe Systems, by Michael A. Jaeger, Gero Mühl, Matthias Werner, Helge Parzyjegla, Hans-Ulrich Heiss; Combining Browsing Behaviors and Page Contents for Finding User Interests, by Fang Li,Yihong Li, Yanchen Wu, Kai Zhou, Feng Li, Xingguang Wang, Benjamin Liu; Patent Classification Using Parallel Min-Max Modular Support Vector Machine, by Zhi-Fei Ye, Bao-Liang Lu, Cong Hui; A Study of Network Informal Language Using MinimalSupervision Approach, by Xiaokai Zhang and Tianfang Yao; Topic Identification Based on Chinese Domain-Specific Subjective Sentence, by Hang Yin and Tianfang Yao.