================= 2nd Call for Papers ==================

2nd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems SAACS 2004 http://www.saacs04.org/

August 30 - September 3, 2004 Zaragoza, Spain

a TWO day workshop, in conjunction with DEXA 2004 http://www.dexa.org

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Important Dates: Abstract submission (voluntary): Friday, March 12, 2004 Full paper submission deadline: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Notification of paper acceptance: Friday, April 30, 2004 Deadline for submission of finished, camera ready papers: Wednesday, May 12, 2004

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Themes & Topics: SAACS 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. These systems cannot 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 started, in earnest, initiatives (e.g. IBM's Autonomic Computing, Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), Sun's N1 and HP's Adaptive Infrastructure) to focus on this kind of control. It's claimed that such systems are the most promising way forward to manage ever increasingly complex systems with less resources.

1. System Analysis: Theoretical and simulation frameworks for analyzing performance of autonomic systems, evaluation criteria for dynamic adaptation; Tools (simulators, analytical models, middleware, compilers, debuggers, system management facilities, etc.); Software and hardware concepts for dynamic problem detection

2. System Design: Software engineering support, design metaphors and frameworks for self-organization, self-healing, self-configuration, self-protection; dynamic fault diagnosis and correction; workload characterization; self-recognition; machine learning and defense strategies; dynamic stability; dynamic adaptation; reflective programming; Balancing optimization versus robustness; Architecture designs for underlying hardware.

3. System Control: Approaches for managing SAACS (economic/market-based, nature-, biology-, immunology- inspired, cognition science, chemistry, physics); Performance management; Software agents, multi-agent systems; service and resource management; network monitoring and characterization; data migration and management; service discovery and management; performance modelling and analysis; load balancing and dynamic stability.

4. Applications: Integrating SAACS with Peer-to-Peer infrastructure, Multiagent systems, Communication Networks, Databases, Grid Computing, Pervasive Computing; Application-level adaptation and exploitation of underlying system's autonomic capabilities; Commercial and mission critical applications; Managing self-adaptive autonomic computing systems.

--------------------------- Call for Papers & Submission details The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports of previously unpublished work. The submission must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere in a workshop or a conference or magazine, in any form, electronic or otherwise. Papers should be in English and be no more than 5 double-column pages long in conformance to the IEEE CS Press guidelines. (http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). The accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society in a Dexa 2004 Workshops Proceedings of all workshops. Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper as per instructed by the IEEE (in word or pdf or ps format). Submission will be by uploading the abstract and the full paper to a web page.

--------------------------- Programme Committee Mohamed T Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, London, UK (m.t.ibrahim@gre.ac.uk) Torsten Eymann, University of Freiburg, Germany (eymann@iig.uni-freiburg.de)

Julie McCann, Imperial College, London, UK (jamm@doc.ic.ac.uk) Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc.&/ Concordia University, USA Joseph L Hellerstein, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Kazuo Iwano, EBO & Research, IBM AP and Japan Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Rainer Unland, University of Essen, Germany Anthony, Richard, the University of Greenwich, UK Bacon, Liz, the University of Greenwich, London, UK Butler, Alun, the University of Greenwich, UK Chen, Tan Kay, National University of Singapore Cowell, Don, the University of Greenwich, UK Dini, Petre, Cisco Systems, USA Graupner, Sven, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Gruenwald, Le, the University of Oklahoma, USA Karnik, Neeran, IBM Research Labs - India Kouba, Zdenek, University of Technology, Czech republic Ma, Chaoying, the University of Greenwich, UK Martin, Pat, Queens University, Canada Mohania, Mukesh, IBM India Research Lab, Delhi, India Njovo, Chiyaba, 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 Stepankova ,Olga, University of Technology, Prague, Czech republic Sugden, Bob; Newcastle University, UK Tsui, KC; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR Vadera, S.; Salford University, UK Windall, Gill, the University of Greenwich, UK Zelezny, Filip; University of Technology, Prague, Czech republic

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