Dear Sirs,

please let me draw your attention to the call for papers for the new 

issue of IJARAS -- the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and 

Autonomic Systems:

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

*** Vol.3 No.2 ***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: May 20, 2011

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, Ph.D. - University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium

vincenzo.deflorio@gmail.com

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

- Llorenc Cerda-Alabern - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Spain

- Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples

- Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy

- Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland

- Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil

- Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy

- Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland

- Konrad Klockner, 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 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 able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changes 

both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal 

assets). IJARAS 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 can be 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:

IJARAS topics 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 dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot 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 dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot be

www.igi-global.com/IJARAS