The IT systems, comprised of communication infrastructures and computing applications, are becoming increasingly large in scale and explosively complex. New paradigms are urgently required that can effectively tackle the enormous complexities of large-scale complex IT systems. The Technical Committee on Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics aims to promote the analysis and understanding of self-organizing and self-managing principles and mechanisms in living systems and socio-economic/technical, and human organizational/social systems, and to facilitate the development and engineering of self-organizing and self-managing (distributed) computing and networking. Indicative areas of interest include multi-agent systems, swarm intelligence, self-organization, emergence, feedback-control and adaptation frameworks of self-organizing and self-managing (distributed) computing and networking, and so forth.

• Organizing 2008 Systemics and Informatics World Congress (SIWN 2008), Glasgow, UK, 22-24 July 2008 http://siwn.org.uk/2008/.
• Organizing 2007 International Conference on Complex Open Distributed
  Systems (CODS'07), and 2007 International Conference on Adaptive Business Systems (ICABS'07), Chengdu, China, 22-24 July 2007.
• Organizing 2007 International Conference on Self-Organization and
  Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS'07), 24-27 September 2007, Leipzig, Germany.
• Organizing the International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications (SOAS'2006), Erfurt, Germany, 18 - 21 September 2006.
• Edited book series "Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)". Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA), Volume 135, IOS Press, November 2005.
• Edited Special Issue on "Autonomous Computing", Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, by IOS Press, Volume 13, Number 1, January 2006.
• Edited Special Issue on "Autonomic Computing", Advanced Engineering Informatics, by Elsevier, Volume 19, Issue 3, July 2005.
• Edited Special Issue on "Autonomic Computing Systems", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, by Elsevier, Volume 17, Issue 7, October 2004.

• Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal, by IOS Press.
• The SOAS Conference Series - International Conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Systems in Computing and Communications, with its predecessor from 2000.
• The International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics, at AAMAS'2005, AAMAS'2006, and onwards.
• The International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Methodology, at SEKE'2005, SEKE'2006 and onwards.