The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic
Computing (ICAC-06)
Call for Papers
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
13 - 16 June, 2006
http://www.autonomic-conference.org

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO
JANUARY 29, 2006
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To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computer
systems,
computers 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 3rd International Conference on Autonomic
Computing
is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing aspects
of self-management in computing systems. In doing so, we hope to
develop and nurture a community that can work together to realize the
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 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.

- Software architectures for self-managing systems, based on
interoperable Grid Services, agent- based systems, Web Services, or
novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social.

- Specific self-managing components, such as server, client,
database,
storage, or network elements. Emphasis should be placed on
interactions
with other components, or techniques or lessons that may generalize
to
other components.

- Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler
technologies for building self-managing components, systems or
applications.

- New technologies supporting system management, such as those based
on
service-level agreements, negotiation or conversation support, and
behavior enforcement.

- System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail
interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems
(e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization
or
remediation, workload management, and provisioning).

- Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces,
interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, 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, predictive methods,
robustness, and related topics.

- Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes:
measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user
studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of self-
managing
systems or applications.


PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
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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 a journal. They should also not be under review
or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-06 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-06 conference web site at http://www.autonomic-
conference.org,
and should follow IEEE CS format - style files can be found at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/.

DEMO/EXHIBIT SESSION

ICAC 2006 will feature a demo and exhibit session consisting of
prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic
software or autonomic computing principles. A separate call for
demonstrations and exhibits will be issued. Entries will be judged
by a
separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. Please see the
conference web site for more information.

STUDENT AWARDS

A student best paper award will be presented. It will consist of a
plaque, complementary 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 attend the conference to
present
the paper and receive the award.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by
IEEE Computer Society Press, which will be distributed at the
conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submissions: 10:00 PM PST, Jan 29, 2006
***** EXTENDED from Jan 22 ******
Author notification: February 27, 2006
Demo/Exhibit submission: March 03, 2006
Tutorial/Workshop submissions: March 03, 2006
Final manuscripts due: April 03, 2006
Conference: June 13-16, 2006

INFORMATION
WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA (Chair)
Jeffrey Kephart, IBM, USA
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA
Rajarshi Das, IBM, USA
Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft Research, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Albert Zomaya, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Alexander Wolf, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Alva Couch, Tufts Univ., USA
Boualem Benatallah, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
Bruce Childers, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil
Craig Lee, Aerospace Corporation, USA
D. K. Arvind, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Menasce, George Mason Univ., USA
Dave Chess, IBM Research, USA
David Kaminsky, IBM Corporation, USA
Dongyan Xu, Purdue Univ., USA
Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec, UK
Emmett Witchel, Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research, USA
Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., USA
Frances Brazier, Vrije Univ., the Netherlands
Franco Zambonelli, Univ. Modena & Regio Emilia, Italy
Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ., USA
Guofei Jiang, NEC Laboratories, USA
Giovanna Di Marzo, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
Ian Marshall, University of Kent, UK
Jeff Bradshaw, Institute Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Jeff Chase, Duke Univ., USA
Joerg Mueller, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany
John Vicente, Intel Corporation, USA
Jose Fortes, Univ. of Florida, USA
Julian Padget, Bath University, UK
Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK
Ken Birman, Cornell Univ., USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Martin Purvis, Univ. of Otago, New Zealand
Naveen Sharma, Xerox Lab, USA
Ozalp Baboglu, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Paul Maglio, IBM Research, USA
Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Rami Melhem, Univ. Of Pittsburgh, USA
Roy Sterritt, Univ. of Ulster, UK
Santosh Shrivastava, Univ. of Newcastle, UK
Sven Graupner, HP Labs, USA
Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Torsten Eymann, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany

DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR
Dean Yao, Intel Corporation, USA

TUTORIAL/WORKSHOP CHAIR
Milan Milenkovic, Intel Corporation, USA

PUBLICIY CO-CHAIRS
Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Peinan Zhang, Intel Corporation, China
Tisson Mathew, Intel Corporation, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS
Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom, UK
Simon Dobson, University College, Dublin, Ireland

FINANCE CHAIR & Industry Liaison
Patricia Rago, IBM Corporation, USA