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Autonomic Communication

(Edited Volume: To be published by Springer Science-Business Media, estimated publication summer 2008)

Editors:

Athanasios V. Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

Stamatis Karnouskos, SAP Research, Germany

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

Introduction:

The emerging world is pervasive and strives towards integrating people, technology, environment and knowledge. This emerging vision is moving towards approaches that set the user at the centre of attention, while technology becomes invisible, hidden in the natural surrounding, but still functional, autonomous, self-adaptive, present when needed and interactive. Achieving this vision requires innovative network architectures and services. Communication/networking approaches should become task- and knowledge-driven, enabling a service oriented, requirement and trust driven development of communication networks. The growing complexity of control requires increasingly distributed and self-organizing structures, relying on simple and dependable elements that are able to collaborate to produce sophisticated behaviors and that can adapt to an evolving situation, in which new resources can become available, administrative domains can change and economic models can vary accordingly. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies, devices in a dynamically changing environment sets many challenges to the research community, including interoperability, programmability, management, openness, reliability, performance, context awareness, intelligence, autonomy, security, privacy, safety, semantics, etc. This edited volume explores the challenges in technologies that will help realize the vision where devices and applications seamlessly interconnect, intelligently cooperate and autonomously manage themselves, and as a result, the borders of virtual and real world will vanish or become significantly blurred.

Topics of Interest:

Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

. Autonomic Communication vision

. Architectures and models of Autonomic Communication systems

. Semantics, languages and programming systems for Autonomic Communication

. Network technologies and services for Autonomic Communication

. Autonomic Communication for embedded and real-time systems

. Interdisciplinary approaches to Autonomic Communication

. Security, trust and survivability for Autonomic Communication

. Deployments, testbeds and demonstrations of Autonomic Communication

. Autonomic Communication approaches in Enterprise Environments

Important Dates:

Submission deadline:

Oct. 31, 2007

Author notification:

December 01, 2007

Final manuscript due:

March, 01, 2008

Target publication date:

Summer, 2008

Submission Guidelines:

Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic version of their manuscript (maximum 30 pages, 12pt font, double spaced) by September 01, 2007. The manuscript should be submitted by email (PDF format preferred) to acbook@caip.rutgers.edu.