ICAC 2010 Workshops!

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to encourage you and your research group to consider submitting one or more papers to one of the workshops of ICAC 2010. Note that all conference attendees will be welcome to attend any of the workshops for no additional fee. This year, ICAC will be hosting the following workshops. * 2nd Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2010) http://bads.icar.cnr.it/ Important Dates Papers due: February 7th Author notification: March 10th, 2009 Camera-ready final papers due: April 2009 * 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotAC V) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jamm/HotACV/index.html Important Dates Submission deadline: March 16 2010 11:59 EST (GMT-5) Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2010 * 2nd Workshop Grids Meets Autonomic Computing (GMAC 2010) http://gmac2010.lri.fr/index.php/GMAC_2010 Important dates Paper submission February 15, 2010 Author Notification March 15, 2010 Final version due April 2010 * 2nd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Architectures (SOAR 2010) http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/soar/2010/ Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2010 Paper notifications: March 8, 2010 Camera ready paper: April 2010 Event: planned on June 7th, 2010 For more information about ICAC 2010, the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications, please visit this Web site: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2010/ ICAC 2010 will be held in Washington, DC, USA, June 7-11, 2010. The deadline for paper abstracts submissions is 6pm PST, Jan. 11, 2010. The deadline for full paper submissions is 6pm PST, Jan. 18, 2010. The deadline for Demo/Exhibit proposals is Mar. 29, 2010 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. Below this email, please find a copy of the Call for Papers. We look forward to receiving one or more papers from you and your colleagues and having you join us in Washington DC next year! Best regards, Masoud Sadjadi ICAC-2010 Publicity Chair CALL FOR PAPER: The 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Call For Papers June 7-11, 2010. Washington, DC, USA http://www.autonomic-conference.org PROGRAM CHAIRS Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Yuriy Brun, University of Washington Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University Betty Cheng, Michigan State University Jeff Chase, Duke University Alva Couch, Tufts University Steve Hand, University of Cambridge Joe Hellerstein, Google Ravi Iyer, UIUC Guofei Jiang, NEC Labs Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh Milan Milenkovic, Intel Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University Omer Rana, Cardiff University Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab John Strunk, NetApp Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Vanish Talwar, HP Labs Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMWare STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews José Fortes, University of Florida Salim Hariri, University of Arizona Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Brent Miller, IBM Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech John Strassner, POSTECH John Wilkes, Google Mazin Yousif, Avirtec Important Dates Abstracts: Jan 11 2010, 6pm PST Full papers: Jan 18 2010, 6pm PST (HARD DEADLINE) Notification: March 8, 2010 Camera-ready: April 2010 Workshop proposals: Oct. 5, 2009 Demo/exhibit proposals: Mar. 29, 2010 OVERVIEW Large-scale computer systems, from IT infrastructures and Grids to enterprise datacenters and Internet services, present common challenges in managing resources and applications to maximize performance and power efficiency while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads and failures. A system that addresses these challenges by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation is an Autonomic Computing System. Research in autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, databases and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of ICAC is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including: * End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults, power/thermal, and other challenges. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. * Decision and analysis techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, predictive methods, emergent behavior, selforganizing networks and rule-based systems. * Monitoring systems for autonomic computing. * Virtual machine, operating systems, hardware techniques or application frameworks in autonomic computing. * Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with IT governance. * Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques and virtualization. * Fundamental science and theory of selfmanaging systems: understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties * Experience with existing systems * Applications of autonomics to real problems in science, engineering, business and society. Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype or large-scale deployment of autonomic systems and applications is expected. PAPER AND POSTER 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. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers and posters are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-10 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC-10 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 committee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The industry session also addresses current challenges, and opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives as part of the regular submission process. STUDENT AWARDS 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 and hotel costs. A student paper is defined as one in which the principal author and presenter is a student. Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336