[Mycolleagues] ICAC 2009 Registration and Hotel Reservation Deadline

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Dear All,

ICAC 2009 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009.

The early registration is open (http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/registration.shtm).
Fees include all food functions, proceedings and attendance at
all sessions. Fees become non-refundable after June 1, 2009
but substitions may be made at any time.

ICAC 2009 has blocked a set of rooms at reduced rates in a
few Hotels of Barcelona (http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/accomodation.shtm).
These rates will be maintained until April 15, 2009. After
this date booking availability and rates can't be guaranteed.

Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers for
more information.

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona in June!

Best regards,
Masoud Sadjadi
ICAC'09 Publicity Co-Chair

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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
Fax: 305-348-2336
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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 ACM (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

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper registration: (Closed) 11:59 EST, Jan 19, 2009
Full paper submission: (Closed) 11:59 EST, Jan 25, 2009
Workshop proposals: Sep 25, 2008
Demo/Exhibit proposals: (Extended) Mar 20, 2009 Apr 1, 2009
Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009
Doctoral consortium: (Extended) Mar 30, 2009 Apr 10, 2009
Author notification: Mar 9, 2009
Final manuscripts: Apr 06, 2009
Conference: Jun 15-19, 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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[Tccc] CfP: International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************

***THIRD ISSUE***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: September 15, 2009

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association

www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp/PATS & IBBT

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board

Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium

Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy

Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain

Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples

Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy

Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium

Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil

Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy

Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland

Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy

Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy

Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK

Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and
Technology, Belgium

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway

MISSION OF IJARAS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible
publication in the *International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and
Autonomic Systems.** *The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide
worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to
design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark
adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are
built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite
the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures
in their infrastructure and the surrounding environments. IJARAS has
multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to
technological aspects.
IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction: The
awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as
adaptive systems constantly re-optimizing in view of changes both
exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal
assets). It introduces a problem, which implies a research direction – a
thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating
through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated
research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and
business process re-engineering are regarded as special cases of a
larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to
cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming a
powerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in
this area.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to)
the following:

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design,
express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;
* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to
withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;
* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;
* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express
strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;
* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce
optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance,
safety, and security;
* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all
system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability;
* Resilience engineering;
* Autonomic business process execution;
* Adaptive service-oriented computing;
* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing,
resilience, and adaptive systems;
* Recovery-oriented computing;
* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive
user interfaces;
* Adaptive fault-tolerance;
* Adaptive fault-masking;
* Adaptive data integrity;
* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;
* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;
* Personalization;
* Adaptive data mining;
* Adaptive fault models;
* Adaptive system models;
* Adaptive routing;
* Autonomic applications;
* Architecture-based adaptation;
* Self-* systems.

SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously
unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT
THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at
least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for
double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding
acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from
the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to
vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be.

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic
Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.),
publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group
Reference) and "Medical Information Science Reference" imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the
attention of:

Vincenzo De Florio

Editor-in-Chief

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems

E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be

www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Qshine 2009

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers.  --------------------------------------  Call For Papers ***   QSHINE 2009   ***  The Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness  Sponsored by ICST  23-26 November 2009, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information is available at the URL http://www.qshine.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  The Sixth International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2009) will focus on the research challenges associated to the design and implementation of large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed systems. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to present and share the latest results in the areas of performance,configuration, cross-layer approaches, scalability, resilience and survivability of large scale heterogeneous networks and distributed systems. Following the tradition of the previous QShine meetings, QShine 2009 will feature prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field.  Original papers addressing performance optimization and Quality of Service support, ranging from the link layer to the application layer, over large-scale wired and wireless networks and distributed system, are solicited. Authors are encouraged to submit theoretical and/or experimental results of significance. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to:      * Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks and distributed systems     * Design, implementation or architectures related to QoS-enabled networks and distributed systems     * QoS routing in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems     * QoS-aware service composition in distributed systems     * QoS in WLAN, WPAN, WMAN and WiMAX (IEEE 802.11/15/16/20)     * QoS in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks     * QoS support across heterogeneous wired and wireless sub-networks * MAC protocols with QoS support in wireless networks     * Topology control for QoS support in wireless networks     * QoS and survivability in mobile environments     * Scheduling, resource management, queue management, and admission control     * QoS adaptation, modeling and measurements     * Game-theoretic aspects in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems     * Incentive engineering in wired, peer-to-peer, overlay, and wireless networks and distributed systems     * Pricing, billing, and resource allocation in wired, overlay and wireless networks     * Traffic analysis, traffic engineering, and traffic shaping in heterogeneous environments     * Security protocols and algorithms in wired, overlay and wireless networks     * Scalability of large-scale overlay and wireless networks     * Resilience of overlay and wireless protocols     * Cross-layer protocol design in wireless networks     * Cross-layer performance optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * General co-chairs:  Novella Bartolini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy                       Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece  * Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Imrich Chlamtac,  Create-Net, Italy                                 Xuemin (Sherman) Shen,  University of Waterloo, Canada                                 Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA  * Program chair:        Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, USA  * Poster chair: 	Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA  * Workshop chair:     Annalisa Massini, Sapienza University, Italy   * Local Committee Co-Chairs:   	 Alvaro Suarez Sarmiento, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain                                  Elsa Macias, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain  * Publicity chair:               Simone Silvestri, Sapienza University, Italy  * Conference coordinator:        Maria Morozova, ICST    IMPORTANT DATES:  Full Papers due: 			May 22, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 		July 1, 2009 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: 	        September 5, 2009 Conference Dates: 			23-26 November, 2009  SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS  QShine 2009 invites submission of manuscripts that present original material and that have not been previously published or under review by another conference or journal. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in ACM conference proceedings format, which are limited to 8 single-spaced two-column pages (including all figures and references) in a 10 point font. All paper submissions will be handled electronically.  PUBLICATION  All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Qshine 2009 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Research papers of particular merit will be selected for consideration of fast track publication in a special issue of ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (pending).