CFP: 4th Intl. Wrkshp on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAACS 06), at DEXA, Sept 4-8, 2006, Krakow/Poland

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4th International Workshop
Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAACS 06)
September 4-8, 2006
Krakow, Poland
http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/saacs06/

A one-day workshop, in conjunction with the
17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Applications (DEXA 2006)
http://www.dexa.org/

IMPORTANT DATES=20
Abstract submission deadline:           March 1, 2006 =09
(if you missed the deadline, you can still submit a full paper!)
Full paper submission deadline:         March 15, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance:       April 15, 2006
Camera-ready papers:                    May 15, 2006

AIMS & SCOPE

Like Eskimos having 50 words or more for snow, the computing and
technologies communities have a similar number of terms for
self-managing computing systems. You say Pro-active! I say Dynamic! And
so on... Let's call the whole thing SAACS (Self-Adaptive Autonomic
Computing Systems)!

But seriously, with its many names, the diverse and interdisciplinary
activity we know as SAACS is becoming of central interest to not only
the IT industries, but also to the wider computing research community.
This is because it is not only hoping to solve the many problems that
industries are experiencing with unreliable or increasingly more complex
environments, but in addition brings a unique challenge to computer
scientists and engineers to add the concept of the system's 'self'.
Furthermore, it attracts a diverse community from biological systems
science to operating systems engineering, and has produced solutions
that have evolved from earlier work, reworking of older computing
science, and genuinely revolutionary ideas.=20

This workshop aims to bring together these ideas to cross-fertilise them
and inspire better solutions. To this end the workshop mixes
industrialists and academics and provides an arena for the presentation
of innovative workas well as panel sessions and opportunities to debate
and brainstorm in a uniquely meaningful yet informal setting.

The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Formatting instructions
can be found on the website.

TOPICS (more detailed descriptions of each topic to be found on the
website http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/saacs06/)
    =20
1. Autonomic Systems and Architectures
2. Autonomic Software Engineering
3. Quality criteria, Metrics, Benchmarks & Measurements
4. Web Services, Semantic web and Ontology
5. Major autonomic requirements  & features
6. AI, Nature-inspired Autonomicity and Emergent Technology
7. Practical Experience using vendors' specific products (e.g. WS-Man,
DSI, ETTK, ...)
8. Education and training =20

STEERING AND ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Chair
Mohamed T Ibrahim, U of Greenwich, London, UK=20

Co-Chairs
Raouf Boutaba, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, CA
Torsten Eymann, U of Bayreuth, D
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. & Concordia U, USA
Kazuo Iwano, IBM Japan Ltd., J
Julie McCann, Imperial College, London, UK
Wolfgang  Gentzsch, D-Grid Coordinator, Regensburg, D
Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, D
Azzelarabe  Taleb-Bendiab, John Livermore U, Liverpool, UK
Mazin S. Yousif, Intel, Oregon, USA

Publications Chair
Torsten Eymann, U of Bayreuth, D

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair
Mohamed T Ibrahim, U of Greenwich, London, UK=20

Committee
Richard Anthony, U of Greenwich, UK
Liz Bacon, U of Greenwich, London, UK
Raouf Boutaba, U of Waterloo , Waterloo, CA
Alun Butler, U of Greenwich, UK
Alexander Clemm, Cisco, USA
Tan Kay Chen, National U of Singapore
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc. & Concordia U, USA
Jim Dowling, Trinity College, Dublin, IRL
Said Elnaffar, Queens U, CA
Torsten Eymann, Bayreuth U, D
Wolfgang  Gentzsch, MCNC, USA
Silvia Giordano, U of Applied Science, SUI
Sven Graupner, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
Le Gruenwald, U of Oklahoma, USA
Mohamed T Ibrahim, the U of Greenwich, UK
Kazuo Iwano, IBM Japan Ltd., J
Neeran Karnik, IBM Research Labs, IND
Julie McCann, Imperial College, London, UK
Zdenek Kouba, U of Technology, CZ
Jixin Ma,  U of Greenwich, UK
Pat Martin, Queens U, CA
Miltos Petridis, U of Greenwich, UK
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State U, USA
Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, D
Roy Sterrit, U of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, UK
Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle U, UK
Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, John Livermore U, Liverpool, UK
Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian U, UK
KC Tsui, Hong Kong Baptist U, Hong Kong, SAR
Rainer Unland, U of Essen, D
Sunil Vadera, Salford U, UK
Gill Windall, U of Greenwich, UK
Mazin S Yousif, Intel, USA

CONTACT

Mohamed Ibrahim
University of Greenwich, London, UK
m.t.ibrahim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Julie A. McCann
Imperial College, London, UK
jamm@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Torsten Eymann
University of Bayreuth, Germany
torsten.eymann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx