CFP: International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04) in New York, May 17-18, 2004

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                         Call For Papers
        International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04)
                http://www.autonomic-conference.org

   In conjunction with the 13th International World Wide Web Conference
          Sheraton Hotel, New York, NY, May 17-18, 2004

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OVERVIEW & GOALS
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The increasing complexity of integrating, deploying and managing computing
systems is beginning to overwhelm the capabilities of software developers 
and system administrators. The only viable long-term solution is to create
computer systems that manage themselves in accordance with high-level 
guidance from humans - a vision that is sometimes referred to as autonomic
computing.  Meeting the grand challenge of autonomic computing requires 
scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, and new
architectures that support effective integration of the constituent 
technologies.

The purpose of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing is to
bring together researchers in diverse fields who are addressing important
aspects of self-management in computing systems. In so doing, we hope to 
establish a unified community that can work together to realize the 
ultimate 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. Topics of interest include, but are not 
limited to:

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

 * AI and other generic technologies for self-managing components 
 including statistical, machine learning, and optimization techniques, 
 planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, fault diagnosis, policies,
 sensing, and monitoring.

 * General architectures for individual components or for autonomic 
 computing systems as a whole, based on Open Grid Services, Web Services,
 or more novel paradigms based on biological, economic, social, or other
 analogies. 

 * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for autonomic 
 computing. Support for building individual components of autonomic 
 computing systems or applications.
 
 * Technologies that support inter-element interactions, such as
 service-level agreements, negotiation protocols and algorithms, and
 conversation support.

 * System-level technologies or services that entail interactions among
 two or more components of self-managing systems, such as dependency 
 analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, 
 provisioning, and health monitoring.

 * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit 
 self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or 
 self-protection.

 * Human interaction with autonomic systems, including user studies,
 interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, and 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, robustness, and other related topics. 
  
PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS 
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Full papers (up to 8 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited
on a wide variety of topics relating to self-managing systems, as 
indicated above. Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical 
quality, and exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be 
pending) in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may 
they be under review or submitted to another forum during the ICAC-04 
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-04 conference web site at
http://www.autonomic-conference.org, and should use IEEE CS format.
Appropriate style files can be found at 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/.

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

IMPORTANT DATES
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 * Paper submissions: January 12, 2004
 * Poster submissions: February 9, 2004
 * Author notification: February 16, 2004
 * Final manuscripts due: March 8, 2004
 * Conference: May 17-18, 2004

SPONSORS
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 * IEEE Computer Society (pending)
 * National Science Foundation
 * IBM Corporation
 * SUN Microsystems

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

STEERING COMMITTEE
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Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA (Co-Chair)
David Ogle, IBM, USA (Co-Chair)
Kenneth Birman, Cornell Univ., USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA
Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ., USA
Karsten Schwann, Georgia Tech., USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
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Rajarshi Das, IBM Research, USA (Co-Chair)
Vaidy Sunderam, Emory Univ., USA (Co-Chair)
Ozalp Babaoglu, Univ. di Bologna, Italy
Jeffrey Chase, Duke Univ., USA
Thomas Dietterich, Oregon St. Univ., USA
David Garlan, CMU, USA
Moises Goldszmidt, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Nicholas Jennings, Southampton Univ., UK
Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Jiroh Ohuchi, IBM, Japan
David Parkes, Harvard Univ., USA
David Patterson, Univ. of Cal. (Berkeley), USA
C. S. Raghavendra, Univ. of S. California, USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK
Alexander Reinefeld, Humboldt Univ, Germany
Krishna Sankar, Cisco, USA
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn St. Univ., USA
Peter Stone, Univ. of Texas (Austin), USA
William H Tetzlaff, IBM Research, USA
Walter Tichy, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
Yi-Min Wang, Microsoft, USA
Jon Weissman, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Albert Zomaya, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

plus Conference Chairs and members of 
       Steering Committee

INFORMATION
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ICAC-04: www.autonomic-conference.org
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Autonomic Computing: www.research.ibm.com/autonomic

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