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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement and Call for Abstracts

Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC III)

June 2, 2008

http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/HotACIII/

HotAC III will be held during the first day of the 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June 2-6, 2008.

Important dates

Abstract submission due: April 11, 2008 11:59 CST (GMT-6). Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2008.

Overview

The third Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing will bring together a broad range of researchers from the fields of computer systems, networks, and autonomic computing to discuss new ideas and developments in conquering the challenges of managing ever-more complex large-scale systems. The goal of the workshop is to promote community wide discussion of potentially high-impact ideas that will influence and foster continued research in improving the manageability and reliability of computing systems.

The focus of this year's workshop is grand challenges in autonomic computing. Through a highly interactive workshop, our goal is to define the critical research problems facing the management of large-scale systems, and to outline promising research directions to attacking these problems.

Attendance at the workshop is limited and will be by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please submit an abstract describing a grand challenge for self-adaptive systems, accompanied by a sketch on how to address it. A grand challenge is a problem whose solution requires 5-10 years of effort and will have significant technical and societal impact.

Abstracts are limited to two pages in length and are due at midnight (Central Standard Time) on April 11, 2008. Submissions should be sent to hotacIII-submit@cs.northwestern.edu. Submitters will be notified of decisions on April 25, 2008.

Rather than publishing workshop proceedings, we expect the attendees to contribute to a written report on the key research challenges in this field, to be published in one of the main computer science magazines (such as the Communication of the ACM, IEEE Computer or USENIX ;login), and to a discussion summary that will be presented by the organizers to the general ICAC audience.

Organizers

The workshop organizing committee consists of:

Ozalp Babaoglu, Università di Bologna Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern University Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Maarten van Steen, Vrije University John Wilkes, Hewelett-Packard Labs