Dear Sirs, please let me draw your attention to the call for papers for the new issue of IJARAS --- theInternational Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems: ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ Vol.2 No.4 *** SUBMISSION DUE DATE: October 15, 2010 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, BelgiumPublished: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, BelgiumGabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, ItalyLlorenc Cerda-Alabern - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - SpainMarcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of NaplesDomenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, ItalyCristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, FinlandMarkus Endler, PUC Rio, BrazilLuca Foschini, University of Bologna, ItalyEija Kaasinen, VTT, FinlandKonrad Klckner, Fraunhofer FIT, GermanyGianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, ItalyEric Pardede, La Trobe University, AustraliaFrancesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, GermanyLuca Simoncini, University of Pisa, ItalyAndrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UKJosef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, BelgiumYan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway

MISSION OF IJARAS: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in theInternational Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS isto 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 arebuilt to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentiallysignificant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and surrounding environments. IJARAShas multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARASbuilds upon a core mission statement and research direction: The awareness of today's urgent need tostructure our computer systems as adaptive systems able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changesboth exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). IJARAS introduces aproblem, which implies a research direction a thesis. The truth about this statement is drasticallyreverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains suchas cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering can be regarded asspecial cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; andthrough that, IJARAS aims at becoming a powerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new researchdirections in this area.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS: IJARAS topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems; * Adaptability issues in DBMS; * Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments; * Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance; * 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 beconsidered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS athttp://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pd...

PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the EditorialReview Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regardingacceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot 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 GroupReference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding thepublisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Vincenzo De FlorioEditor-in-ChiefInternational Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic SystemsE-mail: vincenzo dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot bewww.igi-global.com/IJARAS