CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/ Special Issue on Self-Managing Systems and Networks Submission Deadline: June 30, 2004

Recent activities in distributed processing and network management aim at building self-managing and self-organizing computing systems and networks. Their goal is to automate some or all of the tasks typically carried out by an administrator or management system. This concept takes the distributed management paradigm one step further by providing managed resources with a very high degree of autonomy. Self-managing systems will be able to detect failures or performance degradations, initiate diagnostic procedures, and carry out corrective actions on their own. Their ability to discover changes in the environment will enable Self-managing Systems to adapt and optimize their behavior. Self-management is particularly important for mobile systems, since mobile environments are highly dynamic and consist of a very large number of managed systems.

This special issue will cover infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design, implement and deploy such self-managing systems. Topics of particular interest include: · Technologies, Frameworks, and Platforms for Self-managing Systems · Case Studies and Experiences with Self-managing Systems · Benchmarking and Evaluation of Self-managing Systems · Human interaction with Self-managing Systems · Self-healing Systems and Networks · Implementation and Integration of Self-managing Systems with standardized frameworks, management architectures and APIs (OSI/TMN, SNMP, CORBA, WBEM/CIM, JMX) · Application of Service-oriented Architectures (Web Services, Open Grid Services) to Self-managing Systems · Peer-to-peer Technologies for Self-Management

Selection of contributions will be based on reviews of the papers submitted.

Instructions to Contributors: We invite prospective authors to submit high quality papers in PDF or Postscript format via email to one of the guest editors, depending on their geographic location. Only electronic submissions are acceptable. Please prepare the manuscripts in single-column, double-spaced format according to the Instructions to Contributors, which can be found in any copy of the Journal, or by visiting the JNSM Web site. Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted.

Guest Editors: Marcus Brunner Alexander Keller (Contact for non-US submissions) (Contact for US submissions) NEC Europe Ltd. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Kurfuersten-Anlage 36 P.O. Box 704 D-69115 Heidelberg Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Germany USA Email: brunner@ccrle.nec.de Email: alexk@us.ibm.com

Schedule: Manuscript due: June 30, 2004 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2004 Final manuscript due: December 15, 2004 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2005

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