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The 6th International Conference
on Autonomic Computing
Barcelona, Spain, June
15–19, 2009
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
Tel: 305-348-1835
Fax: 305-348-2336
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