Dear Sirs,

I would like to bring your attention to the following call for papers. Should you need any clarification or further information I will be glad to oblige.

IJARAS also hosts special issues addressing specific topics. Tentative guest editors are also welcome to forward their proposals. Thank you very much.

With kind regards,

Vincenzo De Florio

http://www.pats.ua.ac.be/vincenzo.deflorio

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

***SIXTH and SEVENTH ISSUES***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31 2009 (sixth issue), June 30, 2010 (seventh issue)

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, University of Antwerp/PATS & IBBT, Ph.D.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board

Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium

Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy

Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain

Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples

Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy

Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium

Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland

Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil

Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy

Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland

Konrad Klöckner, 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 the 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 constantly re-optimizing in view of changes both

exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal

assets). It 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 are 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:

Topics to be discussed in this journal 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;

* 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 be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST

CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at

http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pd...

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@ua.ac.be mailto:vincenzo.deflorio@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 http://www.igi-pub.com.

All inquiries and submissions 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

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Vincenzo De Florio

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PATS Research Group

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