Dear Colleagues, you are cordially invited to contribute to the following call for paper.Should you require further information please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind regards,Juha, Waltenegus, and Vincenzo.

Advances in Software Engineering - Special Issue onSelf-* Parallel and Distributed Systems Call for papers (PDF: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ase/si/479307.pdf,HTML: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/si/479307/cfp/) Autonomic computing has been identified as a promising solution to cope with the overwhelming complexity in modern and next-generation computer systems. In particular, the self-* properties (self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing and self-protection) outline the fundamental features of an autonomic computing system. Parallel and distributed systems, a computing domain with great applicability in a variety of industrial and domestic contexts, rely on self-* software to manage a large number of heterogeneous computation, communication, and storage resources. The challenges of energy efficiency, dependability and security are of particular interest. This special issue addresses the software aspects of the whole design and operational process and system architecture of self-* parallel and distributed systems. We welcome studies on all forms of software, including application software and system software. The relevant scope of parallel and distributed systems widely covers, but is not limited to, embedded systems, large-scale networks, cyber-physical systems (CPS), cloud-computing etc. The systems under focus should integrate software with clear and novel self-* features to be qualified for acceptance. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Model-driven engineering of self-* distributed systems - Robust design of self-* parallel and distributed systems - Software design and implementation for energy-awareness - Energy-awareness in self-organizing systems such as in cluster-based systems and cloud computing - Real-time aspects, especially in conjunction with other conflicting design goals - Evolvability aspects - Resilience of autonomic distributed and parallel systems - Self-healing and protection for dependable and secure systems - Software for interoperable heterogeneous networked systems - Specification and modeling languages for self-* properties - Formal validation and verification - Software testing - Parallel and distributed debugging - Application and industrial case studies - Retrospective, Review and Future Perspectives

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: June 8, 2012First round of reviews: August 31, 2012Publication date: October 26, 2012 Lead Guest Editor Juha Plosila, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland; juha.plosila@utu.fi Guest Editors Waltenegus Dargie, Chair of Computer Networks, Institute for System Architecture, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; waltenegus.dargie@tu-dresden.de Vincenzo De Florio, Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems group, University of Antwerp, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; vincenzo.deflorio@ua.ac.be