2008-07-06

[Mycolleagues] LAACS 2008 - Deadline extended

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|      3rd LATIN AMERICAN AUTONOMIC COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM  - LAACS 2008      |
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|                 8-9 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Authors are invited to submit complete, unpublished papers that are not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 18, 2008 (Extended)
 - Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2008
 - Final camera ready paper due: August 24, 2008
 - Tutorial and demo submission due: August 3, 2008
 - Event dates: September 8-9, 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

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