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<p class=MsoPlainText>[Apology for possible cross-postings!]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Call for Applications ICAC’10 Doctoral Symposium --
DEADLINE EXTENDED Washington D.C., USA June 7-11, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Submission deadline (Extended): April 2, 2010 Acceptance
Notification: May 7, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Consortium: June, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>OBJECTIVE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for students to
discuss and explore their research interests with a panel of established
researchers in Autonomic Computing. Selected students will present their work
in front of an audience that consists of both their peers and a committee of
established researchers from industry and academia.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The goals of the symposium are: (1) to provide feedback
on participants’ dissertation topic and focus, and advice on initiating a
research career; (2) develop a support community of scholars and a spirit of
collaborative research across academia and industry; (3) contribute to the
conference goals through interactions with other researchers and participation
in conference events.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>SCOPE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The symposium is open to all Ph.D students carrying out
research on topics related to ICAC’s areas of interest. Example topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Autonomic management of resources, workloads, faults,
power/thermal, and other challenges<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Self-managing components<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Decision and analysis techniques and their use<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Monitoring systems for autonomic computing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Virtual machine, operating systems, or application
frameworks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling
autonomic systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Applications of autonomics to real problems in science,
engineering, business and society<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Other topics of interest from the ICAC 2010 CFP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Each submission must have a Ph.D student as the sole
author or as the primary author with his/her thesis advisor(s) and should
include the following materials (see left for submission instructions):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Research Proposal: A four-page proposal that outlines the
following:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Problem(s) being addressed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- The significance of the proposal and its relevance to
Autonomic Computing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Related work along with a discussion of their pros and
cons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- The proposed plan for research including research
approach and methodology adopted.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- Expected contributions of the research and the novelty
and benefits of the suggested solutions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- A description of the progress to date.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Curriculum Vita: Include a CV (at most one page) that
describes the student’s background and relevant experience (research,
education, employment). The CV should mention how long the student has worked
on his/her doctoral research and the expected date of completion. It is
expected that students submitting to the symposium would have one to two years
left in their candidature so that they have enough time to incorporate the
suggestions during their participation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Please combine all submission materials into one PDF
document and submit it to the submission system provided on the symposium
website.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The submission should be limited to 5 pages (including
CV), and the proposal should be formatted following the IEEE Computer Society
guidelines.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>REVIEW PROCESS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Doctoral Symposium organizing committee will select
participants on the basis of clarity and completeness of the submission packet,
stage of research, evidence of research promise such as published papers or
technical reports, as well as their anticipated contribution to the workshop
goals. We solicit applications from any topic area within the scope of the ICAC
conference. Students who have identified their thesis direction, but still have
significant research to complete are eligible and will be considered; however,
the ideal candidate for the symposium is one who has recently had his/her
research proposal accepted by the thesis committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>AT THE CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The Doctoral Symposium will be held during the
conference. Each student will have a total of 40 minutes, including 20 minutes
for a research presentation focusing on the main theme of the proposal, and a
20 minute period for discussion and feedback from the committee and other
participants. After the students’ presentations, a one hour period will
be reserved for group discussions and further orientation from the committee
members about the proposals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The organizers invite all students to attend and
participate in the Doctoral Symposium, whether or not they present their
research.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Authors of accepted proposals are expected to present
their work at the symposium and are encouraged to participate in other
conference activities.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Simon Dobson, Univ. of Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>John Wilkes, Google, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Andres Quiroz, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Email: <a href="mailto:aquirozh@cac.rutgers.edu">aquirozh@cac.rutgers.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Masoud
Sadjadi, PhD <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Director
of the NSF CI-PIRE Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>School
of Computing and Information Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Florida
International University <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>University
Park, ECS 212C <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>11200 SW
8th St., Miami, FL 33199 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Email: <a
href="mailto:sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu">sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Web: <a
href="http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi">www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Tel:
305-348-1835<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Fax:
305-348-2336<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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