Dear Sirs, dear Madams,

this is to warmly invite you to respond to the next two calls for papers for IJARAS,

the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems.

IJARAS is now in its third year of publication, during which it hosted 

many an important contribution from top-notch scholars from all over the

world. Its entire first volume has been recently reprinted and is available

from March 2012 as book "Technological Innovations in Adaptive and Dependable

Systems: Advancing Models and Concepts", which may be ordered here:

http://www.igi-global.com/book/technological-innovations-adaptive-dependable-systems/59728

It is likely the the same reprinting policy will be applied to all volumes

of IJARAS.

Please find herein IJARAS' most recent calls for papers.

Kind regards,

Vincenzo De Florio

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

*** Vol.4 No.4, Vol.5 No.1 ***

SUBMISSION DUE DATES: March 16, 2012 (Vol.4 No.4), May 11, 2012 (Vol.5 No.1).

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 at ua.ac.be

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

No publication costs are charged to authors, which receive two

complimentary copies of the journal.

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 ones:

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to

  model, design, express, analyze, 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;

* Robustness, or the emergence of desired properties throught

  system evolution. In particular, emergence of safety;

* Conceptual models and paradigms to express and assess

  evolvability;

* 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.

SUBMISSION:

Authors may submit manuscripts at

http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx

Please do send also a copy to vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be

All inquiries 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