ATC 2010 - The 7th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2010)

The 7th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2010)

- Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality -
http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/atc2010/

Technically Sponsored by IEEE CS TCFC

Xi¡¯an, China, 26-29 October, 2010

Co-located with UIC 2010 (http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/uic2010/)

Computing systems including hardware, software, communication, and networks are growing
towards an ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, becoming overly complex. Such complexity
is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other
pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, Autonomic Computing
(AC) focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that exhibit self-
awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other
self-x operations to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance.
Organic Computing (OC) additionally addresses adaptivity, robustness, and controlled
emergence as well as nature-inspired concepts for self-organization.

Any autonomic or organic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and
retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the
Internet and in pervasive infrastructures are key factors to enable dynamic interaction and
cooperation of various users, systems, and services. Trusted/Trustworthy Computing (TC) aims
at making computing and communication systems as well as services available, predictable,
traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persistable, security/privacy
protectable, etc.

A series of grand challenges exists to achieve practical autonomic or organic systems with
truly trustworthy services. Started in 2005, the series of ATC conferences has been held at
Nagasaki, Vienna, Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong, Oslo and Brisbane. ATC 2010 will include
a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions
and keynote speeches. Established as a premier venue in the area of autonomic and trusted
computing, ATC 2010 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in
the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all
technical aspects related to autonomic/organic computing (AC/OC) and trusted computing (TC).

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

- AC/OC Theory and Models

Models, negotiation, cooperation, competition,

self-organization, emergence, verification etc.

- AC/OC Architectures and Systems

Autonomic elements & their relationship, frameworks,

middleware, observer/controller architectures, etc.

- AC/OC Components and Modules

Multi-core CPU, memory, storage, database, device,

server, proxy, software, OS, I/O, etc.

- AC/OC Communication and Services

Networks, self-organized net, web service, P2P, grid,

EaaS, could, semantics, agent, transaction, etc.

- AC/OC Tools and Interfaces

Tools/interfaces for AC/OC system development,

test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc.

- Trust Models and Specifications

Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust,

over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc.

- Trust-related Security and Privacy

Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy,

intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc.

- Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems

Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy,

robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc.

- Trustworthy Services and Applications

Trustworthy Internet/web/P2P/grid/cloud services,

secured mobile services, novel applications, etc.

- Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues

Trust standards and issues related to personality,

ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline : April 30, 2010

Authors Notification: June 30, 2010

Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2010

WORKSHOPS
The ATC 2010 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with
the conference and addressing research areas that are related to the conference. The
workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to ATC
2010 workshops chairs via email (zpd136-AT-gmail.com and Chunming.Rong-AT-ii.uib.no) by 15 January
2010.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The information on how to submit papers will be soon given on the conference webpage:
http://www.nwpu.edu.cn/~atc2010/sub/

PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted main conference papers are planned to be published by Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS, EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register and present their work at the conference, otherwise the paper will not be included
in the proceedings.The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (EI indexed). Selected
papers, after extension and further revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals.

Honorary Chairs
Huaimin Wang, National Univ. of Defense Tech., China
Christian Muller-Schloer, Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany
Zhen Liu, Nokia Research Center, China