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The 6th International Conference on Autonomic
Computing and Communications
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
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
ORGANISATION
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Simon Dobson, UCD
John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE
STEERING COMMITTEE
Simon Dobson, UCD
José Fortes
Salim Hariri,
Jeffrey Kephart, IBM
Manish Parashar,
Brent Miller,
John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE
John Wilkes,
Mazin Yousif,
PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
Manish Parashar,
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
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
John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE
WORKSHOP CHAIR
Omer Rana,
PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Masoud Sadjadi,
James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH,
Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Joan Serrat, UPC,
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
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
Jian Zhang,
Andres Quiroz Hernandes,
CYBER CHAIR
Ming
SPONSORS (PENDING)
IEEE Computer Society and ACM
INFORMATION
WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org
E-mail: icac@autonomic-conference.org