-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Final CfP: Deadline Oct 3. ARCS - System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:00:40 +0200 From: announce@teco.edu To: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Call For Papers

18th International Conference on

Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS)

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System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing

Innsbruck, Austria, March 14-17, 2005

http://www.teco.edu/arcs05

Extended Paper Submission Deadline: October 3, 2004

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Future computer systems will be much more integrated into the fabric of

everyday life than today's computers are. They will become smaller, more

appropriate for their use, integrated into everyday objects and often

virtually or physically invisible to the users. They will be also

deployed in a much higher quantity and penetrate many application areas

To provide such features and functionality, computer devices become

tinier yet still increase in complexity; they must consume less power,

while still supporting advanced computation and communications, such

that they are highly connected yet still operate as autonomous units.

This brings several research topics to the fore, including ultra-low

power consumption, self-awareness, adaptive networking, smart behavior

of systems, scalability and complexity of devices and systems.

Pervasive and ubiquitous computing research addresses such issues by

developing concepts and technology for interweaving computers into our

everyday life. The principle approach is to enhance system functionality

and adaptability by recognizing context and situations in the

environment. Organic computing then addresses high system complexity by

drawing analogies from complex biological systems, with the

human-centered goal of self-organization. Organic computing

investigates the design and implementation of self-managing systems that

are selfconfiguring, self-optimizing, self-healing, self-protecting,

context aware, and anticipatory. ARCS 2004 will emphasize the design,

realization and analysis of the emerging computing systems for organic

and pervasive computing and their scientific, engineering, and commercial

applications. The conference focuses on system aspects of organic and

pervasive computing in software and hardware. In particular, system

integration and self-management of hardware, software and networks are

in the centre of interest.

ARCS 2005 continues and replaces the biennial series of German

Conferences on Architecture of Computing Systems. This 18th conference

in the series serves as a forum to present current work on all aspects

of computer and systems architecture. Besides its main focus, the

conference is open for more general and interdisciplinary themes in

operating systems, networking, and computer architecture. Papers

pertaining to aspects of computer and systems architecture, in particular

in the field of organic and pervasive computing are sought, including:

Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure

- operating systems

- middleware for organic, pervasive and peer-to-peer computing

- multi-agent and mobile agent systems

- bio-analogue and artificial-life systems

- context and locality

- low power systems design

- machine-learning, prediction, pro-activity

- system design and simulation

- reconfigurable hardware and software systems

- safety, security, reliability

- self-managing service configuration

Architectures and Systems

- computer and system architecture

- modular distributed devices

- self-managing, self-healing and fault-tolerant systems

- real-time systems

- mobile and wearable devices

- embedded systems (consumer electronics, automotive)

Applications

- scenarios for ubiquitous and pervasive computing

- autonomic environments

- network server architectures and network based applications

- semantic networks

- ubiquitous, home and wireless networking

The conference is organized by the special interest group on Computer

and Systems Architecture of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik -

German Informatics Society) and ITG (Informationstechnische

Gesellschaft - Information Technology Society), supported by OCG

(Austrian Computer Society), OVE/GIT (Austrian Electrotechnical

Associastion) and electrosuisse (ITG), and held in cooperation with

IFIP, ACM and IEEE (approval requested). In addition to technical

sessions of contributed paper presentations, the conference will offer

invited presentations, workshops, and tutorials. The conference

proceedings will be published in the 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science'

series by Springer-Verlag. Papers should not exceed 15 pages

(approximately 5000 words) in Springer LNCS style. We accept only

electronic submissions in postscript or pdf format. The URL of the

submission site is http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/ . Selected papers will

be published in the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.

Workshops are intended to discuss themes related to the conference and

should be open to all ARCS attendees. Workshop and Tutorial proposals

should be submitted in GI Lecture notes style and should not exceed 2 pages.

Important Dates

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October 3, 2004 Conference paper submission due

October 1, 2004 Workshop and tutorial proposal due

December 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection

January 10, 2005 Camera-ready paper due

Official Address

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Web http://www.teco.edu/arcs05

General inquiries arcs05@teco.edu

General Chair Paul Lukowicz, University for Health Science,

Medical Informatics and Technology, Innsbruck,

Austria, paul.lukowicz@umit.at

Program Chair Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe,

michael@teco.edu

Workshop and Tutorial Chair Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe,

brinks@ira.uka.de

Program Committee

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Shigeru Ando University of Tokyo, Japan

Nader Bagherzadeh University of California Irvine, USA

Frank Bellosa University of Erlangen, Germany

Uwe Brinkschulte University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Alois Ferscha University of Linz, Austria

Paul Havinga University of Twente, Netherlands

Wolfgang Karl University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Jürgen Kleinöder Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Rudolf Kober Siemens AG, München, Germany

Spyros Lalis University of Thessaly, Greece

Erik Maehle Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

Christian Müller-Schloer University of Hannover, Germany

Joe Paradiso MIT Media Lab, USA

Burghardt Schallenberger Siemens AG, München, Germany

Hartmut Schmeck University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Albrecht Schmidt LMU Munich, Germany

Karsten Schwan Georgia Tech, USA

R. G. Spallek TU Dresden, Germany

Peter Steenkiste Carnegie-Mellon University, USA

Yoshito Tobe Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Hide Tokuda Keio University, Japan

Theo Ungerer University of Augsburg, Germany

Klaus Waldschmidt University of Frankfurt, Germany

Lars Wolf University of Braunschweig, Germany

Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe, Germany