International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)
***SIXTH and SEVENTH ISSUES***

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 31 2009 (sixth issue), June 30, 2010 (seventh
 issue)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp/PATS & 
IBBT, Ph.D.

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board

Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium
Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy
Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain
Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples
Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium
Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway

 MISSION OF IJARAS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and the surrounding environments.

IJARAS has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction:

The awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as adaptive systems constantly re-optimizing in view of changes both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). It introduces a problem, which implies a research direction --- a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering are regarded as special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming apowerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in this area.

 RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
 

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;
* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments;
* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;
* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;
* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security;
* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability;
* Resilience engineering;
* Autonomic business process execution;
* Adaptive service-oriented computing;
* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems;
* Recovery-oriented computing;
* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces;
* Adaptive fault-tolerance;
* Adaptive fault-masking;
* Adaptive data integrity;
* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;
* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;
* Personalization;
* Adaptive data mining;
* Adaptive fault models;
* Adaptive system models;
* Adaptive routing;
* Autonomic applications;
* Agents;
* Architecture-based adaptation;
* Self-* systems.

SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:

Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at  

http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo.deflorio@ua.ac.be
 

PUBLISHER:

The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:

Vincenzo De Florio
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems
E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS