Virtualization - Nov 2012 - ICAC2013 CFP (10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing)

??ICAC 2013 Call for Papers

-------------------------

10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing



June 26-28, 2013  San Jose, CA

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association

https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13





* Important Dates



  Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 25, 2013, 11:59 p.m.
PST

  Paper submissions due: March 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST

  Notification to authors: April 8, 2013

  Final paper files due: May 22, 2013





* Overview



  ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations,
and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such as data centers,
compute clouds, sensor networks, embedded or pervasive environments, and the
Internet of Things are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome for people
to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own
behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources
and applications are manag
 ed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and
reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious
threats. Achieving self-management requires and motivates research that spans a
wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including distributed
systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling, control theory,
optimization, planning, decision theory, user interface design, data management,
software engineering,
  emergent behavior, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together
researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains,
and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities
in their approaches to making resources, applications, and systems more
autonomic.





* Topics



  Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not
limited to):



  ** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and networking devices;
embedded and real-time systems; and mobile devices such as smart phones

  ** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control theory,
operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory,
rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic
computing

  ** End-to-end design and implementations for management of resources,
workloads, availability, performance, reliability, power/cooling, security, and
others

  ** Monitoring systems that can scale to large environments

  ** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application support for
autonomic computing

  ** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems

  ** Goal specification and policies, including specification and modeling of
service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and
business-driven IT management

  ** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from software
engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques

  ** Automated management techniques for emerging applications, systems, and
platforms, including social networks, Big Data systems, multi-core processors,
and Internet of Things

  ** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for understanding,
controlling, or exploiting emergent 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,
or society

  ** Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness,
clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged
to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate
quantitative evaluation if at all possible.





* Paper Submissions



  Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are invited on
a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Both full and short
papers should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point
(single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide
by 9" deep. Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submission
form, which will be available here soon. Complete formatting and submission
instructions can be found here. Auth
 ors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that summarizes or augments
their paper (see below).



  Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of
previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud.
USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits
these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See
the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by
nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain
whether your submission meets US
 ENIX's guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs,
icac13chairs@usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.



  At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in
person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to
registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings
distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not
be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers
will be available online to everyone beginning on June 26, 2013. Accepted
submissions will be treated
 as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX ICAC '13 Web site;
rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.





* Special Tracks



  To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in emergent
technological areas, ICAC 13 will host two special tracks, each of which will be
reviewed by its own subcommittee. Dr. Levent G?rgen will lead a special track on
self-aware Internet of Things and Dr. Karsten Schwan will lead a special track
on management of Big Data systems.





* Posters, Demonstrations, and Exhibitions



  ICAC '13 will also feature a poster, demonstration, and exhibition session
consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that demonstrate
autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Please check back here for
formatting and submission instructions, plus the Web submission form specific to
this session, which will be available here soon.





* PhD Thesis Digest Forum



  Current PhD students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing
are invited to submit a short summary (up to 2 pages) of their theses. Top
selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum during the ICAC '13
conference. Please check back here for submission instructions.





* Conference Organizers: 



  ** General Chair: Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research



  ** Program Co-Chairs: Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Xiaoyun Zhu,
VMware



  ** Poster/Demo/Exhibit Chair: Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  

  ** PhD Forum Chair: Rean Griffith, VMware

  

  ** Publicity Chairs: Martina Maggio, Lund University; Ming Zhao, Florida
International University

  

  ** Program Committee:

  

     Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

     Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University

     Sara Bouchenak, INRIA

     Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London

     Yuan Chen, HP Labs

     Charles Consel, INRIA

     Alva Couch, Tufts University

     Peter Dinda, Northwestern University

     Joao E. Ferreira, University of S?o Paulo

     Jose Fortes, University of Florida

     Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO

     Rean Griffith, VMware

     Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University

     Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research

     Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven

     Jiman Hong, Soongsil University

     Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs

     Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University

     Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs

     Jeff Kephart, IBM Research

     Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

     Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs

     Marin Litoiu, York University

     Xue Liu, McGill University

     Arif Merchant, Google

     Tridib Mukherjee, Xerox Research

     Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University

     Priya Narashimhan, Carnegie Mellon University

     Omer Rana, Cardiff University

     Anders Robertsson, Lund University

     Kai Sachs, SAP AG

     Hartmut Schmeck, KIT

     Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology

     Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa

     Yasushi Shinjo, Tsukuba University

     Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary

     Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University

     Ya-Yunn Su, National Taiwan University

     Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

     Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University

     Mustafa Uysal, VMware

     Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University

     Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University

     Kenji Yoshihira, NEC Labs

     Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

     Ming Zhao, Florida International University

     Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado

     

     

* More information:

		

  ** Web: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13

  ** Email: icac2013@cs.fiu.edu

  ** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583

CAC 2013 Call for Papers
-------------------------
10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing

June 26-28, 2013  San Jose, CA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13


* Important Dates

  Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 25, 2013, 11:59 p.m.
PST
  Paper submissions due: March 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST
  Notification to authors: April 8, 2013
  Final paper files due: May 22, 2013


* Overview

  ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations,
and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such as data centers,
compute clouds, sensor networks, embedded or pervasive environments, and the
Internet of Things are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome for people
to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own
behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources
and applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while
maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads,
failures, and malicious threats. Achieving self-management requires and
motivates research that spans a wide variety of scientific and engineering
disciplines, including distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory,
user interface design, data management, software engineering,
 emergent behavior, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers
and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains, and
perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities in
their approaches to making resources, applications, and systems more autonomic.


* Topics

  Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not
limited to):

  ** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and networking devices;
embedded and real-time systems; and mobile devices such as smart phones
  ** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control theory,
operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory,
rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic
computing
  ** End-to-end design and implementations for management of resources,
workloads, availability, performance, reliability, power/cooling, security, and
others
  ** Monitoring systems that can scale to large environments
  ** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application support for
autonomic computing
  ** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems
  ** Goal specification and policies, including specification and modeling of
service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and
business-driven IT management
  ** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from software
engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques
  ** Automated management techniques for emerging applications, systems, and
platforms, including social networks, Big Data systems, multi-core processors,
and Internet of Things
  ** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for understanding,
controlling, or exploiting emergent 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,
or society
  ** Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness,
clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged
to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate
quantitative evaluation if at all possible.


* Paper Submissions

  Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are invited on
a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Both full and short
papers should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point
(single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide
by 9" deep. Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submission
form, which will be available here soon. Complete formatting and submission
instructions can be found here. Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster
or demo that summarizes or augments their paper (see below).

  Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of
previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud.
USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits
these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See
the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by
nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain
whether your submission meets USENIX's guidelines, please contact the
program co-chairs, icac13chairs at usenix.org, or the USENIX office,
submissionspolicy at usenix.org.

  At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in
person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to
registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings
distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not
be published prior to the event, please notify production at usenix.org. The
papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 26, 2013. Accepted
submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX
ICAC '13 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as
confidential.


* Special Tracks

  To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in emergent
technological areas, ICAC????13 will host two special tracks, each of which will
be reviewed by its own subcommittee. Dr. Levent G????rgen will lead a special
track on self-aware Internet of Things and Dr. Karsten Schwan will lead a
special track on management of Big Data systems.


* Posters, Demonstrations, and Exhibitions

  ICAC '13 will also feature a poster, demonstration, and exhibition session
consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that demonstrate
autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Please check back here for
formatting and submission instructions, plus the Web submission form specific to
this session, which will be available here soon.


* PhD Thesis Digest Forum

  Current PhD students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing
are invited to submit a short summary (up to 2 pages) of their theses. Top
selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum during the ICAC '13
conference. Please check back here for submission instructions.


* Conference Organizers: 

  ** General Chair: Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research

  ** Program Co-Chairs: Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Xiaoyun Zhu,
VMware

  ** Poster/Demo/Exhibit Chair: Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  
  ** PhD Forum Chair: Rean Griffith, VMware
  
  ** Publicity Chairs: Martina Maggio, Lund University; Ming Zhao, Florida
International University
  
  ** Program Committee:
  
     Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University
     Sara Bouchenak, INRIA
     Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London
     Yuan Chen, HP Labs
     Charles Consel, INRIA
     Alva Couch, Tufts University
     Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
     Joao E. Ferreira, University of S?o Paulo
     Jose Fortes, University of Florida
     Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO
     Rean Griffith, VMware
     Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University
     Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research
     Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven
     Jiman Hong, Soongsil University
     Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
     Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University
     Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs
     Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
     Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
     Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs
     Marin Litoiu, York University
     Xue Liu, McGill University
     Arif Merchant, Google
     Tridib Mukherjee, Xerox Research
     Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University
     Priya Narashimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
     Omer Rana, Cardiff University
     Anders Robertsson, Lund University
     Kai Sachs, SAP AG
     Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
     Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
     Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa
     Yasushi Shinjo, Tsukuba University
     Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary
     Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University
     Ya-Yunn Su, National Taiwan University
     Vanish Talwar, HP Labs
     Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University
     Mustafa Uysal, VMware
     Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University
     Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University
     Kenji Yoshihira, NEC Labs
     Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
     Ming Zhao, Florida International University
     Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado
     
     
* More information:
		
  ** Web: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13
  ** Email: icac2013 at cs.fiu.edu
  ** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583





--
Ming Zhao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Director, VISA Research Lab
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549
Email: ming at cs.fiu.edu
Web: http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/ming