ICAC 2009

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.

Topics
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.

Submissions
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.

Other events
ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics  of  general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are  expected  to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly  addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and   technology  artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic   computing  principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair.
 * Workshops, Demonstrations And Exhibition

A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and  practitioners  from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of  various  technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the  areas to be  addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized,   such as  frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The  industry  session also will address current areas of difficulty that present   direct  opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be  relevant  to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers   and end  users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are  especially  encouraged and can be submitted as described above.
 * Industry Session

A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a  commemorative  plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an   honorarium  that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is  defined as  one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The   student will be  required to present the paper to receive the award.
 * Student Awards

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Committees

 * General Co-chairs
 * has general chair::Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE
 * has general chair::John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE


 * Steering Committee
 * has OC member::Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE
 * has OC member::Jose Fortes, Univ. of Florida, US
 * has OC member::Kumar Goswami, HP Labs, US
 * has OC member::Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US
 * has OC member::Jeffrey Kephart, IBM, US
 * has OC member::Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US
 * has OC member::Brent Miller, IBM, US
 * has OC member::Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US
 * has OC member::John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE
 * has OC member::John Wilkes, HP Labs, US
 * has OC member::Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US


 * Programme co-chairs
 * has program chair::Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US
 * has program chair::Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL


 * Programme Committe
 * has PC member::Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois U-C, US
 * has PC member::Richard Anthony, Univ. of Greenwich, UK
 * has PC member::Ozalp Babaoglu, Univ. of Bologna, IT
 * has PC member::Liz Bacon, Univ. of Greenwich, UK
 * has PC member::Rosa Badia, UPC, ES
 * has PC member::Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, US
 * has PC member::Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, IN
 * has PC member::Ricardo Biancini, Rutgers Univ., US
 * has PC member::Frances Brazier, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
 * has PC member::David Breitgand, Univ. of Haifa, IL
 * has PC member::Marcus Brunner, NEC, DE
 * has PC member::Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, NO
 * has PC member::Fabi?n Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US
 * has PC member::Hakima Chaouchi, IT Sud Paris, FR
 * has PC member::Luca Console, Universita' di Torino, IT
 * has PC member::Alva Couch, Tufts Univ., US
 * has PC member::Michael Covington, Intel, US
 * has PC member::Rogerio de Lemos, Univ. of Kent, UK
 * has PC member::Yixin Diao, IBM Corp., US
 * has PC member::Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Univ. of London, UK
 * has PC member::Peter Dinda, Northwestern Univ., US
 * has PC member::Renato Figueiredo, Univ. of Florida, US
 * has PC member::Alex Galis, UCL, UK
 * has PC member::Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
 * has PC member::Holger Giese, HPI/Univ. of Potsdam, DE
 * has PC member::Nathan Gnanasambandam, Xerox, US
 * has PC member::Richard Golding, IBM Corp., US
 * has PC member::Mike Hinchey, Lero, IE
 * has PC member::Brendan Jennings, TSSG/WIT, IE
 * has PC member::Guofei Jiang, NEC, US
 * has PC member::Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ., US
 * has PC member::Carlos A. Kamienski, UFABC, BR
 * has PC member::Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel Univ., US
 * has PC member::Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research, US
 * has PC member::Zhiling Lan, Illinois Inst. of Tech., US
 * has PC member::Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, IE
 * has PC member::Leonardo Mariani, Univ. of Milano Bicocca, IT
 * has PC member::Ignacio Martin Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES
 * has PC member::Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK
 * has PC member::Phillip K. McKinley, Michigan State Univ., US
 * has PC member::Nenad Medvidoviã, Univ. of Southern California, US
 * has PC member::Hausi A. Müller, Univ. of Victoria, CA
 * has PC member::Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, DE
 * has PC member::Julian Padget, Univ. of Bath, UK
 * has PC member::Van Parunak, NewVectors, US
 * has PC member::Marcelo Perazolo, IBM Corporation, US
 * has PC member::Mauro Pezze, Univ. of Milano Bicocca, IT
 * has PC member::Mohammed A. Razzaque, UCD Dublin, IE
 * has PC member::Jacques Sauve, U. F. Campina Grande, BR
 * has PC member::Daniel Scheibli, SAP Corp., US
 * has PC member::Richard Schlichting, AT&T, US
 * has PC member::Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE
 * has PC member::Jordi Torres, UPC, ES
 * has PC member::Davide Tosi, University of Milan, IT
 * has PC member::Giuseppe (Peppo) Valetto, Drexel Univ., US
 * has PC member::Sven van den Meer, Waterford IT, IE
 * has PC member::Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle Univ., UK
 * has PC member::George Vouros, Univ. of the Aegean, GR
 * has PC member::Dongyan Xu, Purdue Univ., US
 * has PC member::Franco Zambonelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, IT
 * has PC member::Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Labs, US


 * Demo/Exhibit Chair
 * has demo chair::Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE
 * has demo chair::John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE


 * Workshop Chair
 * has workshop chair::Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK


 * Publicity Co-Chairs
 * has OC member::Masoud Sadjadi, FL Intl. Univ., US
 * has OC member::James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea
 * has OC member::Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE


 * Local Arrangements Chair
 * has local chair::Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES


 * Finance/Industry Co-Chairs
 * has OC member::Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US
 * has OC member::Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US
 * has OC member::Jose Lazono, Telefonica, ES (Pending)


 * Doctoral Symposium Chair
 * has OC member::Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US
 * has OC member::Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US


 * Cyber Chair
 * has OC member::Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US