ICAC 2009 - The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-2009)

The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing

Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009



http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/



Call for papers



SCOPE



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 6th

International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09)

is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of

self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope

to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize

the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on

previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin,

Jacksonville and Chicago.



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.

* 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.

* Software engineering principles and 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.

* System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail

interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in

standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g.,

health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or

remediation, workload management, and provisioning).

* Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler

technologies for building self-managing components, systems or

applications.

* 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.

* Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level

agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement,

etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems.

* Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces

for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining,

distributing, and understanding policies.

* Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements,

evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences

with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications.

* Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science,

engineering, business and society.





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-09 review process.

Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript)

via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting

instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters

will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (to be

confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted

papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference.