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Call For Papers
International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04)
http://www.autonomic-conference.org
In conjunction with the 13th International World Wide Web Conference
Sheraton Hotel, New York, NY, May 17-18, 2004
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OVERVIEW & GOALS
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The increasing complexity of integrating, deploying and managing computing
systems is beginning to overwhelm the capabilities of software developers
and system administrators. The only viable long-term solution is to create
computer systems that manage themselves in accordance with high-level
guidance from humans - a vision that is sometimes referred to as autonomic
computing. Meeting the grand challenge of autonomic computing requires
scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, and new
architectures that support effective integration of the constituent
technologies.
The purpose of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing is to
bring together researchers in diverse fields who are addressing important
aspects of self-management in computing systems. In so doing, we hope to
establish a unified community that can work together to realize the
ultimate 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. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
* Specific self-managing system components, such as storage, server,
client, database, or network elements. Emphasis should be placed on
interactions with other components, or techniques or lessons that may
generalize to other components.
* AI and other generic technologies for self-managing components
including statistical, machine learning, and optimization techniques,
planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, fault diagnosis, policies,
sensing, and monitoring.
* General architectures for individual components or for autonomic
computing systems as a whole, based on Open Grid Services, Web Services,
or more novel paradigms based on biological, economic, social, or other
analogies.
* Toolkits, development environments, and languages for autonomic
computing. Support for building individual components of autonomic
computing systems or applications.
* Technologies that support inter-element interactions, such as
service-level agreements, negotiation protocols and algorithms, and
conversation support.
* System-level technologies or services that entail interactions among
two or more components of self-managing systems, such as dependency
analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management,
provisioning, and health monitoring.
* Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit
self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or
self-protection.
* Human interaction with autonomic systems, including user studies,
interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, and techniques for
defining, distributing, and understanding policies.
* Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding,
controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, theoretical investigations
of coupled feedback loops, robustness, and other related topics.
PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
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Full papers (up to 8 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited
on a wide variety of topics relating to self-managing systems, as
indicated above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical
quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be
pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may
they be under review or submitted to another forum during the ICAC-04
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-04 conference web site at
http://www.autonomic-conference.org, and should use IEEE CS format.
Appropriate style files can be found at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/.
PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE
Computer Society Press, to be distributed at the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submissions: January 12, 2004
* Poster submissions: February 9, 2004
* Author notification: February 16, 2004
* Final manuscripts due: March 8, 2004
* Conference: May 17-18, 2004
SPONSORS
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* IEEE Computer Society (pending)
* National Science Foundation
* IBM Corporation
* SUN Microsystems
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
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Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA
STEERING COMMITTEE
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Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA (Co-Chair)
David Ogle, IBM, USA (Co-Chair)
Kenneth Birman, Cornell Univ., USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA
Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ., USA
Karsten Schwann, Georgia Tech., USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Rajarshi Das, IBM Research, USA (Co-Chair)
Vaidy Sunderam, Emory Univ., USA (Co-Chair)
Ozalp Babaoglu, Univ. di Bologna, Italy
Jeffrey Chase, Duke Univ., USA
Thomas Dietterich, Oregon St. Univ., USA
David Garlan, CMU, USA
Moises Goldszmidt, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Nicholas Jennings, Southampton Univ., UK
Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Jiroh Ohuchi, IBM, Japan
David Parkes, Harvard Univ., USA
David Patterson, Univ. of Cal. (Berkeley), USA
C. S. Raghavendra, Univ. of S. California, USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK
Alexander Reinefeld, Humboldt Univ, Germany
Krishna Sankar, Cisco, USA
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn St. Univ., USA
Peter Stone, Univ. of Texas (Austin), USA
Walter Tichy, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft, USA
Jon Weissman, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Albert Zomaya, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
plus Conference Chairs and members of
Steering Committee
INFORMATION
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ICAC-04: www.autonomic-conference.org
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Autonomic Computing: www.research.ibm.com/autonomic
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