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The 5th
International Conference on Self-organization and
Adaptation of Computing
and Communications (SACC
2009)
Leipzig, Germany, 23-25
March 2009
http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/SACC09.htm
Call for Papers (
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Over recent years, Autonomic Computing has emerged as a
cross-disciplinary computing paradigm, which provides mechanisms for the
autonomous management of systems’ complexity in highly dynamic operating
environments. Initially, the majority of such mechanisms were of a
centralised nature, and often follow a model-based design of self-*
properties. The widespread adoption of autonomic principles in
large-scale decentralised SOA, P2P networks and/or grids, however, has
rendered current autonomic designs ineffective in dealing with the
scale, complexity and unpredictable dynamics of such systems. To this
end, much research is underway leveraging the science of complex systems
and self-organisation to support large-scale autonomicity. Little is
known, however, regarding the foundation of decentralized autonomicity,
and how to develop principled methods for the design, deployment and
management of large-scale complex autonomic systems of systems, such as
those required in supporting new computational models of the Internet of
Services and Clouding Computing, to name but two.
Building on the success of previous SACC gatherings, this year’s
conference aims to bring together active researchers and practitioners
to report on advancements in (and/or limits of) the state-of-the-art
self-adaptive and self-organising design and engineering methods
including their applications in large-scale systems.
Important Dates
05 December 2008
Submission
of manuscripts
05
January
2009
Notification
of acceptance
01 February 2009
Camera-Ready Version (CRV)
& Presentation files due
23-25
March 2009
Conferences
Submission & Publication
online submission
SACC 2009
Instructions for Manuscripts &
Publication
Themes and Topics
We welcome original research papers
reporting on the latest results of foundational and empirical studies
into decentralised autonomic models, and associated design
and management methods for
self-organising networks of autonomic systems. It is hoped that this
will contribute towards the science of self-adaptive and self-organising
systems. Hence, the themes & topics of interest for this year’s
conference include, but are not limited to the followings.
Themes
(1) Basic
Principles and Methodologies for Self-Organization and Adaptation
(2) Self-Organization and Emergence
(3)
Self-Organization/Adaptation of Multi-Agent Systems
(4)
Autonomic Computing in General
(5)
Self-Organization and
Self-Management in Distributed and Grid Computing
(6) Self-Organization and Self-Management in Communications
Indicative
Topics
- Software engineering methods
and support for self-adaptive and/or self-organising systems including
modelling techniques, frameworks, languages and architectures.
- Model-driven approaches to the
design or management of adaptive systems versus emergence-driven
approaches
- Comparative studies of
centralised versus decentralised models of autonomy and self-*
- Engineering self-organisation
and the principles of emergent behaviour in large networks or assemblies
of services, components, applications, etc.
- Robustness, stability and
dependability theory and/or empirical studies of self-organisation in
autonomic systems of systems or autonomic networks
- Theoretical or empirical
studies of scalability and/or complexity of self-organising networks of
autonomic systems.
- Characterisation and detection
of emergent properties in self-organising networks including tools and
techniques for management and control of emergence.
- Evaluation and measurement
approaches for autonomic systems or applications.
- AI and cognitive models for
design-time or runtime autonomy design and adjustment for large-scale
autonomic or self-organising systems including machine learning studies
and support.
- Security, trust and privacy
concerns, and design and management supports for autonomy and self-organising
emergence.
- Service level management and
quality of service concerns, and design and management supports for
autonomy and self-organising emergence.
- Social and interaction
concerns, and design and management supports for autonomy and self-organising
emergence.
- Novel approaches to
decentralised policy-based control and management for autonomic and/or
self-organising systems.
- Novel self-* paradigms,
architectures and/or mechanisms inspired from biological, social, and
economic models.
- Autonomy for Cloud computing
including new tools and techniques for designing, deploying and managing
autonomic applications and services
- Autonomy and self-organising
design models for Service Oriented Architecture, applications,
infrastructure and services.
- Autonomy for the Internet of
Services, including new tools and techniques for designing, deploying
and managing autonomic applications and services
- Application domains such as:
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks; Multi-layered networks; Mobile robots;
Sensor networks, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs); Computational Grids;
Embedded systems, Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing; Computer networks,
Multi-agent systems; E-business systems and services.
Technical Program Chair
Professor A.
Taleb-Bendiab
School of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores
University, UK
E-mail:
a.talebbendiab@livjm.ac.uk
Assistant to the Chair
Dr. Martin Randles
School of Computing and Mathematical
Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Email: m.j.randles@ljmu.ac.uk
Publicity Chair
Professor Sebastian Rodriguez
Advanced Technologies Research Center of
Tucumán
Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Facultad Regional Tucumán
Argentina
E-mail:
rodriguez.sebastianalberto@gmail.com
International Technical Committee
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