&nbsp;Dear Sirs,<div><br></div><div>please let me draw your attention to the call for papers for the new issue of IJARAS --- the</div><div>International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems:</div><div><br></div><div>********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************</div><div>*** Vol.2 No.4 ***</div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSION DUE DATE: October 15, 2010</div><div><br></div><div>International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems</div><div>(IJARAS)</div><div><br></div><div>Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association</div><div><br></div><div>www.igi-global.com/IJARAS</div><div><br></div><div>Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, Ph.D. University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium</div><div>Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>International Editorial Review Board</div><div><br></div><div>Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS &amp; IBBT, Belgium</div><div>Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy</div><div>Llorenc Cerda-Alabern - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Spain</div><div>Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples</div><div>Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy</div><div>Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland</div><div>Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil</div><div>Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy</div><div>Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland</div><div>Konrad Klckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany</div><div>Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy</div><div>Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia</div><div>Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany</div><div>Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy</div><div>Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK</div><div>Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium</div><div>Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>MISSION OF IJARAS:&nbsp;</div><div>Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the</div><div>International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is</div><div>to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop,</div><div>maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are</div><div>built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially</div><div>significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and surrounding environments. IJARAS</div><div>has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. &nbsp;IJARAS</div><div>builds upon a core mission statement and research direction: The awareness of today's urgent need to</div><div>structure our computer systems as adaptive systems able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changes</div><div>both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). IJARAS introduces a</div><div>problem, which implies a research direction a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically</div><div>reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such</div><div>as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering can be regarded as</div><div>special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and</div><div>through that, IJARAS aims at becoming a powerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research</div><div>directions in this area.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>RECOMMENDED TOPICS:</div><div><br></div><div>IJARAS topics include (but are not limited to) the following:</div><div><br></div><div>* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design,</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptability issues in DBMS;</div><div><br></div><div>* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;</div><div><br></div><div>* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;</div><div><br></div><div>* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;</div><div><br></div><div>* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security;</div><div><br></div><div>* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability;</div><div><br></div><div>* Resilience engineering;</div><div><br></div><div>* Autonomic business process execution;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive service-oriented computing;</div><div><br></div><div>* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing,</div><div>&nbsp;&nbsp;resilience, and adaptive systems;</div><div><br></div><div>* Recovery-oriented computing;</div><div><br></div><div>* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive fault-tolerance;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive fault-masking;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive data integrity;</div><div><br></div><div>* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;</div><div><br></div><div>* Personalization;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive data mining;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive fault models;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive system models;</div><div><br></div><div>* Adaptive routing;</div><div><br></div><div>* Autonomic applications;</div><div><br></div><div>* Architecture-based adaptation;</div><div><br></div><div>* Self-* systems.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:</div><div><br></div><div>Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be</div><div>considered. &nbsp;INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at</div><div>http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.&nbsp;</div><div>All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial</div><div>Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding</div><div>acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers.&nbsp;</div><div>All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot be.</div><div><br></div><div>PUBLISHER:</div><div><br></div><div>The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global</div><div>(formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group</div><div>Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the</div><div>publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.</div><div><br></div><div>All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Vincenzo De Florio</div><div>Editor-in-Chief</div><div>International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems</div><div>E-mail: vincenzo dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot be</div><div>www.igi-global.com/IJARAS</div><div><br></div>