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CFP: 1st International Workshop on Autonomic Computing Systems
by Torsten Eymann 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

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Vielen Dank für Ihre Mühen, Ihr Torsten Eymann ---------------- [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers.] Call for Papers ======================================================= First International Workshop ACS-2003 on Autonomic Computing Systems A two day workshop in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2003) September 1-5, 2003 Prague, Czech Republic ======================================================= ACS-2003 homepage: http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/DexaWS_Autonomic/ACS.htm IMPORTANT DATES =============== Abstract Submission Deadline: March 08, 2003 Full paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2003 Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2003 ACS Workshop: September 1-5, 2003 exact days (3 & 4 or 4 & 5) to be notified Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press AIMS & SCOPE ============ The main focus of this workshop is on an entirely new area - that of Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS). Or is it just, as some might say, old wine in new bottles? ACS are systems which are self-managed, self-healing, self-organised, that are ultra-reliable, robust, yet dynamically flexible. So far, the computing community may have focussed on one aspect or another of these requirements, but we believe that never before the ambitious target of developing an ICT system that exhibits all these features have been contemplated before. There are many grand challenges to be met and many open questions here that need to be explored. Put simply, it is about enterprises trying to handle and manage an ever increasing complex environment consisting of software, hardware and communication infrastructure. The system elements are sophisticated, expensive and scarce technology resources, and specialist, responsible humans. These systems can not be controlled centrally, but form complex self-organising computational environments, for which decentralized forms of control have to be invented. The research departments of the big IT companies have recently started initiatives (e.g. IBM's Autonomic Computing, Microsoft's .NET, Sun's N1 and HP's Adaptive Infrastructure) to focus on this kind of control. The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. To this end we aim to kick off with survey-cum-tutorial papers in the first session, and in-depth research, transfer of concepts from other fields and novel applications in the later sessions. We hope that the workshop will be able to bring researchers from academia and industry together, in this important area dubbed as the future of computing. So, what is Autonomic Computing you may ask? Put simply, it is about enabling enterprises to handle and manage an ever increasing complex environment consisting of software, hardware and communication infrastructure with fewer and fewer and ever more scarce and costly resources and especially specialist people. Or in other words - how to do more work with less resources. This means that there is a need to have systems that, according to IBM & others, are self-managed, self-healing, self-organised, that are ultra-reliable, robust, and so on. You may be interested to visit the IBM web page to read about the Autonomic Computing Manifesto. But we hasten to add that there are many players in this novel area, e.g. SUN and Microsoft, and HP. http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/manifesto/ THEMES & TOPICS =============== The WORKSHOP THEMES/ TOPICS include, but are not limited to the following: A. System Analysis * Theoretical and simulation frameworks for analyzing autonomic systems * Evaluation criteria e.g. for dynamic adaptation (performance, availability, power, etc) * Tools (simulators, analytical models, middleware, compilers, debuggers, system management facilities, etc.) * Performance analysis/modelling of autonomic computing systems * Software and hardware concepts for dynamic detection of performance and fault problems * Software engineering techniques and practices for autonomic systems: tools; frameworks; reflective programming B. System Design * Design of self-organising, self-healing systems (databases, networks, etc), etc * Self-healing systems: dynamic fault diagnosis and correction; workload characterization; self-recognition; machine learning and defence strategies; dynamic stability in large-scale networks; dynamic adaptation; architectures for self-healing systems. * Software engineering support for autonomic control and self-organisation * Balancing desirable properties, e.g. optimization versus robustness * Architecture designs for self-healing capabilities in the underlying hardware and system software C. System Control * Approaches for managing ACS (economic/market based, nature-inspired, etc) * Control models inspired by biology, e.g. Immunology models * Control models inspired by cognition science, e.g. Self & non-self recognition * Performance enhancement methodologies for autonomic computing systems * Agent based resource in ACS environments, Agent-based technologies: multi-agent communities; peer-to-peer infrastructures; recommender agents; service and resource management; network monitoring and characterization; data migration and management; service discovery and management; performance modelling and analysis; mobile agents * Concepts for load balancing and dynamic stability in large-scale networks D. Applications * Integrating Peer-to-Peer infrastructure with ACS * ACS and Multiagent systems * ACS in Communication Networks * ACS in Databases * ACS and Grid Computing, Grid systems management; ontologies for grid systems * ACS in Pervasive Computing * Application-level adaptation and exploitation of underlying system's autonomic capabilities * Commercial and mission critical applications that can benefit significantly from these technologies * Support for managing and establishing autonomic computing systems SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports of previously unpublished work. Papers should be in English, no more than about 5000 words long and conform to the IEEE Computer Society Press guidelines http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm would be highly appreciated. Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper in word or pdf or ps format. For paper registration and details on submission of abstract and full papers please watch the website. Submitted papers will be carefully refereed and evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. For further inquiries, please contact: Moh Ibrahim m.t.ibrahim(a)gre.ac.uk or Torsten Eymann eymann(a)iig.uni-freiburg.de All accepted workshop papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee. WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE ================== At least one of the authors of accepted papers is expected to present their work at the workshop. All attendees must register for the DEXA'2003 conference. Details about the DEXA'2003 conference can be found at the conference web site http://www.dexa.org/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================== Chair Mohamed T Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, London, UK Co-Chairs Torsten Eymann, University of Freiburg, Germany. Chris Bailey, the University of Greenwich, London, UK Kazuo Iwano, EBO & Research, IBM AP and Japan PC Members Al-Zobaidie, Ala, the University of Greenwich, London, UK Bailey, Chris, University of Greenwich, London, UK Buyya, Rajkumar, Monash University, Australia Chen, Tan Kay, National University of Singapore Eymann, Torsten, Freiberg University, Germany Fedorec, Alex M, the University of Greenwich, UK Graupner, Sven , HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Gruenwald, Le, the University of Oklahoma, USA Ibrahim, Mohamed T, the University of Greenwich, UK Iwano, Kazuo, IBM T.J.Watson Research Labs, New York, USA Karnik, Neeran, IBM Research Labs - India Kouba, Zdenek, University of Technology, Czech republic Ma, J., the University of Greenwich, UK Martin, Pat, Queens University, Canada Mohania, Mukesh, IBM Research Labs - India Patel, M.K., the University of Greenwich, UK Pechoucek, Michal, University of Technology, Czech republic Petridis, M., the University of Greenwich, UK Ray, Indrakshi , Colorado State University, USA Saad, Ahmed, Sun MicroSystems, Geneva, Switzerland Saltiel, Adam, the University of Greenwich, UK Stepankova ,Olga; University of Technology, Czech republic Sugden, Bob; Newcastle University, UK Tsui, KC; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR Vadera, S.; Salford University, UK Zelezny, Filip; University of Technology, Czech republic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Torsten Eymann Visiting Researcher, 702U, Hitachi System Development Labs, Yokohama 292, Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 244-0817 Japan Tel. +81-45-860-3074, Fax +81-45-860-1662 Website: http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/~eymann

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