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Call For Tutorials
International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04)
http://www.autonomic-conference.org
<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
The International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04) is a forum
for researchers, engineers, application & service developers and users
to present their latest advances in the field of autonomic
computing. An integral part of this conference will be tutorials
conducted by industry & academia professionals.
We are actively seeking proposals for half or full day tutorials on any
area of interest to the autonomic computing community to be held in
conjunction with ICAC-04. As this is the first conference in a series,
we
would like to focus on more introductory tutorials catering to a more
general audience. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Self-managing system components, such as storage, network, server,
client, and database. 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 to support inter-element interactions, such as SLAs,
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.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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A tutorial proposal should contain the following information:
* A brief description of the tutorial
* The target audience and a description of why the tutorial topic would
be of
interest to a substantial part of the Autonomic Computing audience
* The objectives of the tutorial
* Prerequisite knowledge required in order to attend the tutorial
* A detailed outline of the topics to be presented
A tutorial proposal should also include names, affiliation and
biographical
sketches of the speaker(s). Please also state the intended length (half
or full)
of the tutorial, and the Audio/Video and infrastructure requirements.
IMPORTANT DATES
Please submit your tutorial proposal to the tutorial chair
(mazin dot s dot yousif at intel dot com) no later than 11:59PM on
January 30th 2004 for consideration.
