Virtualization - Mar 2014 - ICAC14 Special Tracks CFP (Smart Cyber-Physical Systems & Management of Big Data Systems)

ICAC 2014 Special Tracks Call for Papers
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11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing

June 18-20, 2014  Philadelphia, PA
Co-held with the 2015 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (June 17-20, 2014)
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14
(CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/call-for-papers)

* Special Tracks Key Information

  ** Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
     Co-Chairs: Ron Ambrosio (IBM Research), Sokwoo Rhee, NIST
     Paper submissions due: March 24, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT
	 More info: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/self-cps

  ** MBDS: Management of Big Data System
     Co-Chairs: Karsten Schwan (GIT), Vanish Talwar (HP Labs)
     Paper submissions due: March 31, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT
     More info:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/mbds-management-big-data-systems


* Special Track I: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

  The increased connectedness of real-time embedded systems and sensors has led
to the emergence of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), systems of collaborative
computational elements controlling a physical process. Areas such as avionics,
smart grids, medical devices, traffic control, automotive are examples of
domains where CPS is growing at an exponential pace. Autonomic computing
promises to help manage the complexity of these systems in order to meet
high-level objectives and policies specified by humans. However, there is still
a lack of research on new techniques adapted to the CPS context or on how to
adapt and tailor existing research on autonomic computing to the specific
characteristics of CPS, such as high dynamicity and distribution, real-time
requirements, resource constraints, systems-of-systems, and integration of
heterogenous technologies.

  Following the recent success of the special track on the Internet-of-Things at
ICAC '13, ICAC '14 will host this special track on Self-aware
Cyber-Physical Systems that aims at drawing the attention of both CPS and
autonomic computing communities to the emerging needs and challenges for
self-aware CPS. The main goal is to gather different scientific communities from
academy and industry under one common objective: realizing plug-n-play,
context-aware and autonomous CPS that will be self-configured, self-organized,
self-optimized and self-healed without (or with minimum) human intervention. The
Self-CPS track welcomes original research papers related to self-management in
CPS. Besides theoretical aspects, Self-CPS is also interested in practical
results of self-management in CPS applications.


  ** Topics

     The non-exclusive list of topics of interest is as follows:

     ** Software engineering methods for self-adaptive heterogenous CPS,
including tools, model-driven    methodologies, methodologies for lifecycle
management
     ** Modeling environmental context and user behavior, context-awareness
     ** Convergence of CPS and cloud computing, autonomic provisioning of CPS
services in the cloud
     ** Control theory methods for CPS, distributed control loops, cooperation
and negotiation, multi-agent approaches for autonomic CPS,
Event-Condition-Action rules, utility functions
     ** Tools for performance monitoring, diagnostics and self-healing in CPS
     ** Autonomic security and privacy, dependability, trust in CPS
     ** Self-organizing network protocols, ad-hoc routing mechanisms, cognitive
networks adapted to resource constrained devices and lossy environments
     ** Experience in applying autonomic methodologies for CPS in avionics,
smart grids, medical devices, traffic control, automotive and all CPS domains


  ** Paper Submissions

     Submissions to the Self-CPS track follow the same guidelines as described
in the main ICAC '14 Call for Papers; in addition, submissions should be a
maximum of 6 pages in length. In order to submit your work to the Self-CPS
track, please do so via the Web submission form for this special track, as
opposed to the submission form for the general ICAC '14 track.


  ** Important Dates

     Paper submissions due: March 24, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT
     Notification to authors: April 9, 2014
     Final paper files due: May 20, 2014


* Special Track II: Management of Big Data Systems (MBDS)

  Data is growing at an exponential rate and several systems have emerged to
store and analyze such large amounts of data. These systems, termed "Big
Data systems" are fast-evolving. Examples include the NoSQL storage
systems, Hadoop Map-Reduce, data analytics platforms, search and indexing
platforms, and data streaming infrastructures. These systems address needs for
structured and unstructured data across a wide spectrum of domains such as Web,
social networks, enterprise, cloud, mobile, sensor networks,
multimedia/streaming, cyberphysical systems, and high performance applications
including for experiment data generated by high end devices; and for multiple
application verticals such as biosciences, healthcare, transportation, public
sector, energy utilities, oil and gas, and scientific computing.

  With increasing scale and complexity, managing these Big Data systems to cope
with failures and performance problems is becoming non-trivial. New resource
management and scheduling mechanisms are also needed for such systems, as are
mechanisms for tuning and support from platform layers. Several open source and
proprietary solutions have been proposed to address these requirements, with
extensive contributions from industry and academia. However, there remain
substantial challenges, including those that pertain to such systems'
autonomic and self-management capabilities.

  The objective of the MBDS track at ICAC '14 is to bring together
researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and
others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective
management of Big Data systems. The focus of the track is on novel and practical
systems-oriented work. MBDS offers an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners from industry, academia, and the National Labs to showcase the
latest advances in this area and also to discuss and identify future directions
and challenges in all aspects on autonomic management of Big Data systems.


  ** Topics

     Two types of contributions are solicited on all aspects of Big Data
management: (1) short papers and (2) panel presentations. Short papers should be
no more than 6 pages, including the abstract, and will appear in the ICAC
'14 conference proceedings. Proposed panel presentations require only an
abstract. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

     ** Autonomic and self-managing techniques to deal with failures, load
imbalance, etc.
     ** Application-level resource management and scheduling mechanisms
     ** System tuning/auto-tuning and configuration management
     ** APIs and interactions between application- and system-level management
or more generally, holistic management across software and hardware
     ** Performance management, fault management, and power management
     ** Scalability challenges
     ** Complexity challenges, as for composite, cross-tier systems with
multiple control loops
     ** Unified/joint management of "data in motion" and "data at
rest"
     ** Dealing with structured or with unstructured data, or both
     ** Monitoring, diagnosis, and automated behavior detection
     ** System-level principles and support for resource management
     ** Implications of emerging hardware technologies such as non-volatile
memory
     ** Domain specific challenges in Web, cloud, social networks, mobile,
sensor networks, streaming analytics, and cyber-physical systems
     ** System building and experience papers for specific industry verticals


  ** Paper Submissions

     Submissions to the MBDS track follow the same guidelines as described in
the main ICAC '14 Call for Papers; in addition, submissions should be a
maximum of 6 pages in length. In order to submit your work to the MBDS track,
please do so via the Web submission form for this special track, as opposed to
the submission form for the general ICAC '14 track. Questions? Contact the
Program Vice-Chairs of the track.


  ** Important Dates

     Paper submissions due: March 31, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT
     Notification to authors: April 9, 2014
     Final paper files due: May 20, 2014