-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] IEEE/ACM ICAC 2007 Datum: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:59:45 +0000 Von: Omer F. Rana o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Antwort an: o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-07) Call for Papers 11 - 15 June, 2007, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

WWW: http://www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac@caip.rutgers.edu

Sponsored by: IEEE IEEE Computer Society ACM

Cooperation with: AAAI (approval pending)

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Title/Abstract submissions: 10:00 PM PST, Jan 5, 2007

Full paper submissions: 10:00 PM PST, Jan 10, 200

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To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to 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 4th International Conference on Autonomic Computing is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing aspects of self-management in computing systems, thereby developing and nurturing 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:

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

o Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components.

o Management topics, such as specification and modeling of business level policies and their mapping to runtime management, including service-level agreements, negotiation or conversation support, and behavior enforcement, design processes, tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems.

o Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior.

o Software architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social.

o System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems (e.g., health monitoring and performance understanding, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning).

o Operating system support for autonomic systems, including virtualization, migration, and distributed systems technologies.

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

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

o 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/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION ========================================

Full papers (a maximum of 10 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 merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-07 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-07 conference web site at http://www.autonomic-conference.org, and should follow IEEE CS format - style files can be found at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/.

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

DEMO/EXHIBIT SESSION ====================

ICAC 2007 will feature a demo and exhibit session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. A separate call for demonstrations and exhibits will be issued. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. Please see the conference web site for more information.

WORKHOPS & TUTORIALS ====================

ICAC 2007 will feature workshops and tutorials on topics related to autonomic computing. The objectives of the workshops are to complement the main program and to extend the scope of the conference. Proposals for half-day and full day workshops and tutorials are solicited. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee, headed by the workshop and tutorial chairs respectively.

STUDENT AWARDS ==============

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

VENUE =====

ICAC 2007 will be held in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel, 225 East Coastline Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32202.

IMPORTANT DATES ===============

Title/Abstract submissions: 10:00 PM PST, Jan 5, 2007

Workshop proposals submissions: December 11, 2006

Demo/Exhibit/Tutorial Proposal submissions: March 3, 2007

Full paper submissions: 10:00 PM PST, Jan 10, 2007

Author notification: February 27, 2007

Final manuscripts due: April 03, 2007

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS =================

Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE ==================

Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA (Chair) Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Corporation, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK David Kaminsky, IBM, USA John Strassner, Motorola, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS =================

José Fortes, Univ. of Florida, USA Kumar Goswami, HP Labs, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE =================

Tarek Abdelzaher, U. of Illinois U-C, USA Karl Aberer, ETH, Switzerland Cristiana Amza, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Ozalp Baboglu, Univ. of Bologna, Italy Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India Ken Birman, Cornell Univ., USA Ying Chen, IBM Research Beijing, China Tom Christian, HP Labs, USA Jose Cunha, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Yixin Diao, IBM, USA Petre Dini, CISCO, USA Vincent Freeh, N. Carolina St. Univ., USA Richard Golding, IBM, USA Moises Goldszmidt, HP Labs, USA Alexander Keller, IBM, USA Ravi Iyer, U. of Illinois U-C, USA Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec, UK Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ., USA Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research, USA Tao Li, Florida International Univ., USA Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK Daniel Menasce, George Mason Univ., USA Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA Akhil Sahai, HP Labs, USA Jacques Sauve, U. F. Campina Grande, Brasil Daniel Scheibli, SAP, USA Richard Schlichting, AT&T, USA Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, Israel Sharad Singhal, HP Labs, USA Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Inst. Tech., Sweden Francis Sung, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore Peter Toft, HP Labs, UK Jordi Torres, Tech. Univ. Catalonia, Spain Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle Univ., UK Johan van de Groenendaal, Intel, USA Dongyan Xu, Purdue Univ., USA Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Labs, USA

TUTORIAL CHAIR ==============

Naveen Sharma, Xerox Corporation, USA

WORKSHOP CHAIR ==============

Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ===================

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Beniamino di Martino, Sec. Univ. Napoli, Italy

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR =================

Casey Jeffery, Univ. of Florida

DEMO/EXHIBITS CO-CHAIRS =======================

Sven Graupner, HP Labs, USA Renato Figueiredo, Univ. of Florida

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR ========================

Renato Figueiredo, Univ. of Florida

REGISTRATION CHAIR ==================

Kelly Sutton, Univ. of Arizona

FINANCE CHAIR & INDUSTRY LIAISON ================================

Patricia Rago, IBM Corporation, USA