MANS 2009

International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Autonomous Networks and Systems (MANS 2009) http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mans2009/

To be held in conjunction with The Joint International Conference on ATC and UIC 2009 (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~atc09/) Brisbane, Australia, 7-10 July, 2009

Nowadays, computing and network systems, such as peer-to-peer, wireless ad hoc, sensor networks, and general overlay networks, are heterogeneous, dynamic and distributed environments managed by multiple administrative authorities, shared by users with different and competing interests, or even autonomously provided by independent and rational users. The distinguished feature in autonomous networks and systems is that each player determines its behaviors autonomously. "Design for choice" is the fundamental principle of autonomous networks and systems.

As computing and network systems gradually become the fundamental infrastructure of our information society, many multidisciplinary research topics emerge to reflect the features of our economics and society. As we know, in the research and application of autonomous networks and systems, only technical viewpoint is far away from sufficient, which has been proved by the dilemma of Internet QoS research and applications. More important, multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches will shed new light on various related issues in autonomous networks and systems, and foster new applications. For example, a social network over wireless ad hoc network can provide proximity based social computing, and may be one of killer applications in wireless ad hoc networks. In this direction, biology, psychology, economics (e.g., game theory), social network, and many other research fields can provide many helpful hints for autonomous networks and systems research. Topics of Interest

Papers that illustrate new ideas, innovative research results, or survey works are solicited. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
 * Innovative models for autonomous networks and systems
 * Evolutionary principles of autonomous networks and systems
 * Bio-inspired information and communication systems
 * Economic concepts and mechanisms, and game theory
 * Emotional, and psychological computing
 * Complex adaptive systems, and self-organized systems
 * Web service, grid, cloud and transparent computing
 * Trust and reputation models and management
 * Privacy, security, ethics, culture, and anonymity issues
 * Mobile, Peer-to-Peer social networks and wireless ad hoc networks
 * Sensor networks and social sensing
 * Social search, and collaborative computing
 * Agents, and massive agents systems
 * Service science, management and engineering
 * u-Things, u-Science and u-Enginneering
 * Intelligent transportation systems, and safety-critical systems
 * Empirical studies of multidisciplinary approaches

Symposium Organization

General Chairs Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Hongbo Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Program Chairs Yufeng Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Steering Chair Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Publicity Chairs Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Roman Y. Shtykh, Waseda University, Japan Advisory Committee Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham, UK Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA PC Members (to be comfirmed) Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Vipin Chaudhary, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Ping Du, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Michael W. David, GISSET, Japan Thomas Grill, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Runhe Huang, Hosei Unbiversity, Japan Satoshi Ichimura, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Zhengkun Mi, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Jung-Taek Seo, NSRI, The Attached Institute of ETRI, Korea Kenichi Takahashi, Institute of SITN, Japan Alfredo Vaccaro, University of Sannio, Itali Wendong Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission: 19th, Jan. 2009 Acceptance notification: 16th March 2009 Camera-ready copy: 13th April 2009 Website:

http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mans2009/

Contact Info:

Dr. Yufeng Wang Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China mans09.org@gmail.com (wfwang@njupt.edu.cn or wfwang@nict.go.jp) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP