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CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop 
"Autonomic Computing Systems" 

A two day workshop in conjunction with the 
14th International Conference on Database 
and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2003)

http://www.dexa.org/ 
Prague, Czech Republic
September 1-5, 2003

Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press 

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 08, 2003
Full paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2003 
Notification of acceptance:  April 19, 2003 
Camera-ready copies:  May 15, 2003

ACS Workshop: September 1-5, 2003 exact days (3 & 4 or 4 & 5) 
              to be notified - under Workshop Programme below

AIMS & SCOPE

The main focus of this workshop is on an entirely new area - that of Autonomic 
Computing Systems (ACS). Or is it just, as some might say, old wine in new 
bottles? 
ACS are systems which are self-managed, self-healing, self-organised, that are 
ultra-reliable, robust, yet dynamically flexible. So far, the computing 
community may have focussed on one aspect or another of these requirements, but 
we believe that never before the ambitious target of developing an ICT system 
that exhibits all these features have been contemplated before. There are many 
grand challenges to be met and many open questions here that need to be 
explored. Put simply, it is about enterprises trying to handle and manage an 
ever increasing complex environment consisting of software, hardware and 
communication infrastructure. 
The system elements are sophisticated, expensive and scarce technology 
resources, and specialist, responsible humans. These systems can not be 
controlled centrally, but form complex self-organising computational 
environments, for which decentralized forms of control have to be invented. The 
research departments of the big IT companies have recently started initiatives 
(e.g. IBM's Autonomic Computing, Microsoft's .NET, Sun's N1 and HP's Adaptive 
Infrastructure) to focus on this kind of control.
The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and 
exchange of ideas among the participants. 
To this end we aim to kick off with survey-cum-tutorial papers in the first 
session, and in-depth research, transfer of concepts from other fields and 
novel applications in the later sessions. We hope that the workshop will be 
able to bring researchers from academia and industry together, in this 
important area dubbed as the future of computing. 
So, what is Autonomic Computing you may ask? 
Put simply, it is about enabling enterprises to handle and manage an ever 
increasing complex environment consisting of software, hardware and 
communication infrastructure with fewer and fewer and ever more scarce and 
costly resources and especially specialist people. Or in other words - how to 
do more work with less resources.
This means that there is a need to have systems that, according to IBM & 
others, are self-managed, self-healing, self-organised, that are 
ultra-reliable, robust, and so on. You may be interested to visit the IBM web 
page to read about the Autonomic Computing Manifesto. But we hasten to add that 
there are many players in this novel area, e.g. SUN and Microsoft, and HP:
http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/manifesto/ 
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solutions/n1/index.html 

TOPICS
The WORKSHOP THEMES/ TOPICS include, but are not limited to the following:

A. System Analysis

* Theoretical and simulation frameworks for analyzing autonomic systems 
* Evaluation criteria e.g. for dynamic adaptation (performance, availability, 
power, etc) 
* Tools (simulators, analytical models, middleware, compilers, debuggers, 
system management facilities, etc.)
* Performance analysis/modelling of autonomic computing systems
* Software and hardware concepts for dynamic detection of performance and fault 
problems 
* Software engineering techniques and practices for autonomic systems: tools; 
frameworks; reflective programming

B. System Design

* Design of self-organising, self-healing systems (databases, networks, etc), 
etc
* Self-healing systems: dynamic fault diagnosis and correction; workload 
characterization; self-recognition; machine learning and defence strategies; 
dynamic stability in large-scale networks; dynamic adaptation; architectures 
for self-healing systems.
* Software engineering support for autonomic control and self-organisation
* Balancing desirable properties, e.g. optimization versus robustness 
* Architecture designs for self-healing capabilities in the underlying hardware 
and system software 

C. System Control

* Approaches for managing ACS (economic/market based, nature-inspired, etc) 
* Control models inspired by biology, e.g. Immunology models 
* Control models inspired by cognition science, e.g. Self & non-self recognition
* Performance enhancement methodologies for autonomic computing systems 
* Agent based resource in ACS environments,  Agent-based technologies: 
multi-agent communities; peer-to-peer infrastructures; recommender agents; 
service and resource management; network monitoring and characterization; data 
migration and management; service discovery and management; performance 
modelling and analysis; mobile agents
* Concepts for load balancing and dynamic stability in large-scale networks

D. Applications

* Integrating Peer-to-Peer infrastructure with ACS
* ACS and Multiagent systems
* ACS in Communication Networks
* ACS in Databases
* ACS and Grid Computing, Grid systems management; ontologies for grid systems
* ACS in Pervasive Computing
* Application-level adaptation and exploitation of underlying system's 
autonomic capabilities 
* Commercial and mission critical applications that can benefit significantly 
from these technologies 
* Support for managing and establishing autonomic computing systems

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience 
reports of previously unpublished work. 
Papers should be in English, no more than about 5000 words long and conform to 
the IEEE Computer Society Press guidelines 
(http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) would be highly appreciated. 
Authors should submit an electronic copy of their paper in word or pdf or ps 
format.

For paper registration and details on submission of abstract and full papers 
a link will be added from the conference website.
Submitted papers will be carefully refereed and evaluated based on originality, 
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation.

For further inquiries, please contact: 
Moh Ibrahim: m.t.ibrahim-rmA3886ZAb5aa/9Udqfwiw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
or Dr. Torsten Eymann: eymann-I5QstYnBM3a59Gkar/guuBvVK+yQ3ZXh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
All accepted workshop papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. 
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, 
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will 
be refereed by at least three members of the program committee.

WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE

At least one of the authors of accepted papers is expected to present their 
work at the workshop. All attendees must register for the DEXA'2003 conference. 
Details about the DEXA'2003 conference can be found at Dexa 2003 conference web 
site

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Chair 
Mohamed T Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Co-Chairs
Torsten Eymann, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Chris Bailey, the University of Greenwich, London, UK
Kauzo Iwano, EBO & Research, IBM AP and Japan
PC Members
Al-Zobaidie, Ala, the University of Greenwich, London, UK
Bailey, Chris, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Buyya, Rajkumar, Monash University, Australia
Chen, Tan Kay, National University of Singapore
Eymann, Torsten, Freiberg University, Germany 
Fedorec, Alex M, the University of Greenwich, UK
Gruenwald, Le. the University of Oklahoma, USA
Ibrahim, Mohamed T, the University of Greenwich, UK
Iwano, Kazuo, IBM T.J.Watson Research Labs, New York, USA
Karnik, Neeran, IBM Research Labs - India 
Kouba, Zdenek, University of Technology, Czech republic 
Ma, J., the University of Greenwich, UK
Martin, Pat, Queens University, Canada
Mohania, Mukesh, IBM Research Labs - India 
Patel, M.K., the University of Greenwich, UK
Pechoucek, Michal, University of Technology, Czech republic 
Petridis, M., the University of Greenwich, UK
Ray, Indrakshi, Colorado State University, USA
Saad, Ahmed, Sun MicroSystems, Geneva, Switzerland
Saltiel, Adam, the University of Greenwich, UK
Stepankova ,Olga; University of Technology, Czech republic 
Sugden, Bob; Newcastle University, UK
Tsui, KC; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR
Vadera, S.; Salford University, UK 
Zelezny, Filip; University of Technology, Czech republic
Graupner, Sven , HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA

INVITED TALKS
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Labs on (tentatively) "Autonomic Data 
Management"
Others to be added
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