<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1B1B1B" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[ Apologies for cross-postings! ]</font></p><div><br></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 2.1em; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); ">Call for Workshop Proposals - ICAC'2011</h2><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">The 8th <a href="http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/icac2011/">International Conference on Autonomic Computing</a> invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, June 14-18, 2011.</p><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9em; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); ">Proposals</h3><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Workshops offer an excellent platform for meeting people, and for exploring and discussing emerging topics in the field of autonomic computing. Although workshop organizers are free to determine the format of their workshop, we ask that a workshop aims to foster discussion and encourage collaborations among participants, rather than having only formal presentation and short Q&A sessions.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Workshop proposals should include the following information (with a <u>maximum</u> length of 5 pages):</p><ol style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><li>The <b>title</b> and a <b>description</b> of the workshop, including a clear description of the <b>topic</b>, a <b>motivation</b> why the topic is of interest for the domain of autonomic computing, and the <b>goal</b> of the workshop. This should serve as a basis for the call for papers/participation.</li><li>A <b>draft schedule</b> of the workshop, with a duration of either a half day or a full day. The schedule should highlight the interactive nature of the proposed workshop.</li><li>A <b>tentative</b> workshop programme <b>committee</b>, <b>presenters</b> or <b>keynote</b> speakers.</li><li>The complete <b>contact information</b> of the workshop organizers, incl. a brief biography and an overview of previous experiences with organizing workshops.</li><li>An indication of the <b>expected number</b> of papers/attendees attracted for the workshop.</li><li>A description of <b>past versions</b> of the event, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance, sites, registration fees and summary budget information, if available/applicable.</li><li>A description of the plans for <b>publicity</b>.</li><li>The <b>URL</b> of the workshop web site, if available.</li></ol><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9em; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); ">Organization</h3><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1B1B1B" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">The workshop organizers are responsible for:</span></font></p><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1B1B1B" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Setting up a website for the workshop</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1B1B1B" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Advertising the workshop and solicit submissions</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1B1B1B" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Handling the paper submission and reviewing process and collect the camera-ready copies</font></li><li><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1B1B1B" face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Coordinating the workshop sessions and stimulate discussion</font></li></ul></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; ">Publication</span></p><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">The proceedings will be included in the ICAC proceedings (memory stick only), published by ACM.</span></h3><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "></span></div><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9em; ">Submission</h3><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; ">Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (in a single pdf file) directly to the workshop chair, <a href="http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/Tom.Holvoet"><b>Tom Holvoet</b></a>.</p></span><div>The workshop chairs will select workshops based on the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span></div></span><div>Important Dates</div></h3><ul><li>Deadline for workshop proposals: <b>October 15, 2010</b></li><li>Notification of acceptance: <b> October 30 010</b></li><li>Workshops: <b>June 14 or 18, 2011</b></li></ul><h3 style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.9em; ">Info</h3><p style="margin-bottom: 1em; line-height: 1.3; ">Workshop Chair: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><b><a href="http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/Tom.Holvoet">Tom Holvoet</a></b></span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br></span></div><br>
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