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|      3rd LATIN AMERICAN AUTONOMIC COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM  - LAACS 2008      |

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|                 15-16 September 2008 - Gramado, Brazil                   |

|                        http://www.laacs.net/2008                         |

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|                             CALL FOR PAPERS                              |

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The  increasing   complexity,  heterogeneity,   and  dynamism  of  networks,

services,  and  applications  have  made  information  technology  (IT)  and

networking  infrastructures quite difficult  to operate and manage. In order

to  address  this  challenge,  the  autonomic  communication  and  computing

approach   brings  innovative   solutions   that   require   scientific  and

technological advances in a wide variety of fields. The purpose of the Latin

American  Autonomic  Computing Symposium is to present  and discuss research

results and practical experiences that address various aspects of autonomics

in computing and networking systems.



In  its previous  editions, LAACS  has established  itself as the  principal

Latin  American forum for  discussing autonomic computing  advances. In this

third edition, LAACS  2008 will be  held in the  city of Gramado, Brazil and

organized by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). LAACS 2008

is organized in technical and demo sessions, posters, panels, and tutorials.





TOPICS

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Authors are  invited to  submit complete,  unpublished papers  that are  not

under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related

topic areas:



1) Architecture

  - Autonomic architectures and principles

  - Paradigms, tools and techniques autonomic systems (IT and networks)

  - Self-management of distributed systems and networks (e.g., based on

    peer-to-peer principles)

  - Self-* technologies

  - Organic computing: Bio-inspired networks and systems

  - Software architectures for self-managing systems

  - Autonomic grid architectures



2) Tools

  - Policy control for autonomic networks & systems

  - Sensing, monitoring and measurements for autonomic systems

  - Advances in and application of control theory

  - Knowledge based systems control

  - Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler

    technologies for building self-managing components, systems

    or applications

  - User experiences, Interfaces to autonomic systems

  - Management of autonomic systems



3) Autonomic Networking

  - Control and management in dynamic/mobile network environments

  - Self-co-operating peer-to-peer networks

  - Self-organizing network elements, and administrative domains

  - Plug and play networking components

  - Cognitive networking

  - Application of autonomic management to mobile and wireless

    Networking including 3GPP evolved UTRAN, SAE networks, etc.



4) Autonomic Computing

  - Autonomic IT Service Management

  - Fault-tolerance and resilience

  - Experiences with self-* solutions

  - Autonomic and Trusted Computing





IMPORTANT DATES

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  - Paper/poster registration and submission deadline: July 8, 2008

  - Notification of acceptance: August 3, 2008

  - Final camera ready paper due: August 17, 2008

  - Tutorial and demo submission due: August 3, 2008

  - Event dates: September 15¡¾16, 2008





PAPER/POSTER FORMAT

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Papers should not exceed the limit of 10 pages.  Sample files and  templates

can be downloaded from the LAACS 2008 Web site. Poster must  be submitted in

the formatted of short papers, not exceeding the limit of 4 pages.





SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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Authors of should submit a PDF papers at  https://jems.sbc.org.br/laacs2008.

Submission  implies  the  willingness  of  at  least  one of  the authors to

register and present the paper/poster, if accepted.





ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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General Chair:

   - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS



Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:

   - Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany

   - Carlos Alberto Kamienski, UFABC, Brazil



Publication Chair:

   - Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil



Publicity Co-Chairs:

   - Linnyer Ruiz, UEL, Brazil

   - Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC, Brazil



Financial Co-Chairs:

   - Marcelo Perazolo, IBM Corporation, USA

   - Joaquim Celestino, UECE, Brazil