Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

September 17-21, 2012. San Jose, CA, USA
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/
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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper and Poster Submission: March 9, 2012, 11:59pm PST
Notification: May 18, 2012
Camera-ready Due: June 8, 2012
Workshop Proposal Submission: February 10, 2012
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OVERVIEW
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Autonomic computing refers to methods and means for automated management of performance, fault, security, and configuration with little involvement of users or administrators. Systems introducing new autonomic features are becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, networking, software engineering, and data management to machine learning, control theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in computing systems and applications from different perspectives. Autonomic computing solutions are sought for clouds, grids, data centers, enterprise software, internet services, data services, smart phones, embedded systems, and sensor networks. In these environments, resources and applications must be managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited to):

* End-to-end techniques for management of resources, workloads,  performance, faults, power/cooling, security, and others.

* Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network  protocols, or specific application elements, and embedded and  mobile end systems such as smart phones.

* Decision and analysis techniques and their use, such as machine  learning, control theory, predictive methods, probability and  stochastic processes, queuing theory methodologies, emergent  behavior, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques.

* Monitoring systems for autonomic computing.

* Hypervisor, operating systems, hardware, or application support  for 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 self-managing systems:  understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to  enforce autonomic properties.

* Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with  prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world 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 systems and applications is expected.

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings format) 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. Relevant top ICAC'12 papers will be invited for "fast-track" submissions to the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).

WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION
ICAC'12 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Workshop Chair, Fred Douglis (f.douglis@computer.org) by February 10, 2012. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that complement the main program. ICAC'12 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.
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ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of SãPaulo Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci. Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of SãPaulo
Michael Kozuch, Intel
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware