-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:13:01 -0500 (EST) From: Dongyan Xu dxu@cs.purdue.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-05)

Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA June 13-16, 2005

http://www.autonomic-conference.org

To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computer and software systems, they must manage themselves, in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies.

The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05) is to bring together researchers from different fields of research who are addressing aspects of self- management in computing systems. In doing so, we hope to develop and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing; particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self- optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection.

- Software architectures for self-managing systems, based on Open Grid Services, Web Services, or novel paradigms based on biological, economic, social, or other analogies.

- Specific self-managing components, such as server, client, database, storage, or network elements. Emphasis should be placed on interactions with other components, or techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components.

- Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications.

- New technologies supporting system management, such as service-level agreements, negotiation or conversation support, and behavior enforcement.

- System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self- managing systems, such as health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning.

- Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies.

- Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, theoretical investigations of coupled feedback loops, predictive methods, robustness, and related topics.

- Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications.

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS Full papers (up to 8 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the ICAC-05 review process. Posters are not subject to any of these restrictions. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via the ICAC-05 conference web site at http://www.autonomic-conference.org and should use IEEE CS format. Appropriate style files can be found at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/.

IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE) Paper submissions: January 17, 2005 Author notification: February 28, 2005 Poster submissions: March 7, 2005 Final manuscripts due: April 11, 2005 Conference: June 17-18, 2005

INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac@caip.rutgers.edu

DEMO AND EXHIBIT SESSION ICAC 2005 will feature a demo and exhibit session consisting of posters and technology artifacts (e.g., machines running autonomic software or demonstrations of autonomic computing principles). Entries will be solicited via a separate call for demonstrations and exhibits and entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee, headed by the exhibit chair. Please see the conference web site for more information.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA (Co-Chair) David Ogle, IBM, USA (Co-Chair) Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Jeffrey Kephart, IBM, USA Vaidy Sunderam, Emory Univ., USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft Research, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE The ICAC program committee includes leading researchers from academia and industry. The list is available at the conference web site.

DEMO/EXHIBITS/TUTORIAL CHAIR Brad Topol, IBM, USA

PUBLICIY CO-CHAIRS Dongyan Xu, Purdue Univ. USA Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom, UK

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Greg Eisenhauer, Georgia Tech, USA Dan Fay, Microsoft, USA

FINANCE CHAIR Patricia Rago, IBM, USA

PUBLICATION Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press, which will be distributed at the conference.

STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented. The award will consist of a plaque, complementary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel and hotel costs. A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student. The student will be required attend the conference to present the paper and receive the award.

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