ATC 2012 - The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2012)

The 9th International Conference on
Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2012)
- Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality -
http://www.conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/atc2012/
Technically Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC)
Fukuoka, Japan, September 04-07, 2012
Co-located with UIC 2012 and ICA3PP-12
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, persistent, security/privacy protectable, etc.