2008-11-29

[Mycolleagues] The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications

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The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications

Barcelona, Spain, June 15–19, 2009

 

Sponsored by IEEE CS (Pending) and in cooperation with ACM (Pending

 

http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/

 

Call for papers

 

SCOPE

 

To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems,

computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance

with high-level guidance from humans – a vision that has been referred to

as autonomic computing.  Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing

requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields,

as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective

integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09)

is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of

self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope

to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize

the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on

previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin,

Jacksonville and Chicago.

 

Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic

computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships

among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or

experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

     * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit

       self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing,

       and/or self-protection.

     * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding,

       controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine

       learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate

       manual operations and enforce behavior.

     * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing

       systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems,

       Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological,

       economic or social.

     * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail

       interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in

       standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g.,

       health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or

       remediation, workload management, and provisioning).

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

       technologies for building self-managing components, systems or

       applications.

     * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network,

       data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed

       on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components.

     * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level

       agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement,

       etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems.

     * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces

       for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining,

       distributing, and understanding policies.

     * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements,

       evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences

       with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications.

     * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science,

       engineering, business and society.

 

 

PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION

 

Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited

on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above.

All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness,

originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the

conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be

under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be

under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-09 review process.

Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript)

via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting

instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters

will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (to be

confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted

papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference.

 

 

WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION

 

ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of

general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected

to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly

addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a

demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology

artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing

principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the

demo/exhibit chair.

 

 

INDUSTRY SESSION

 

A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners

from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various

technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be

addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as

frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry

session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct

opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant

to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end

users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially

encouraged and can be submitted as described above.

 

 

STUDENT AWARDS

 

A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative

plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium

that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as

one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be

required to present the paper to receive the award.

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008

Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009           

Author notification: March 9, 2009          

Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009

Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009

Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009      

 

 

ORGANISATION

 

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

   Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE

   John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE

 

STEERING COMMITTEE

   Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE

   José Fortes Univ. of Florida, US

   Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US

   Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, US

   Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US

   Brent Miller, IBM, US

   Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US

   John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE

   John Wilkes, Google, US

   Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US

 

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS

   Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US

   Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

   The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group

   of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the

   conference themes.

 

DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR

   Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE

   John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE

 

WORKSHOP CHAIR

   Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK

 

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS

   Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, US

   James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea

   Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE

 

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR

   Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES

 

FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS

   Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US

   Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US

   Jose A. Lozano, Telefónica, ES

 

HOT TOPICS CHAIR

   Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US

 

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR

   Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US

   Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US

 

CYBER CHAIR

   Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US

 

SPONSORS (PENDING)

   IEEE Computer Society and ACM

 

INFORMATION

   WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org     

   E-mail: icac@autonomic-conference.org

 

 

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Masoud Sadjadi, PhD                 

Assistant Professor                 

School of Computing and Information Sciences         

Florida International University    

University Park, ECS 212C           

11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199

 

Email:  sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu

Web:  www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi

Tel:  305-348-1835

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