<div dir="ltr"><p>ICAC 2013 Call for Papers<br>-------------------------<br>10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing</p><p>June 26-28, 2013 San Jose, CA<br>Co-held with the 2013 USENIX Federated Conferences Week<br>
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association<br><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13">https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13</a></p><p><br>* Important Dates</p><p> Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 25, 2013,<br>
11:59 p.m. PST<br> Paper submissions due: March 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST<br> Notification to authors: April 8, 2013<br> Final paper files due: May 22, 2013</p><p><br>* Overview</p><p> ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques,<br>
foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such<br>as data centers, compute clouds, sensor networks, embedded or<br>pervasive environments, and the Internet of Things are becoming<br>increasingly complex and burdensome for people to manage. Autonomic<br>
computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in<br>accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and<br>applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost,<br>while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of<br>
varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving<br>self-management requires and motivates research that spans a wide<br>variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including<br>distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning,<br>
modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory,<br>user interface design, data management, software engineering, emergent<br>behavior, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers<br>and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains, and<br>
perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying<br>commonalities in their approaches to making resources, applications,<br>and systems more autonomic.</p><p><br>* Topics</p><p> Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing,<br>
including (but not limited to):</p><p> ** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and<br>networking devices; embedded and real-time systems; and mobile devices<br>such as smart phones<br> ** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control<br>
theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes,<br>queuing theory, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and<br>their use in autonomic computing<br> ** End-to-end design and implementations for management of<br>
resources, workloads, availability, performance, reliability,<br>power/cooling, security, and others<br> ** Monitoring systems that can scale to large environments<br> ** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application<br>
support for autonomic computing<br> ** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems<br> ** Goal specification and policies, including specification and<br>modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT<br>
governance, and business-driven IT management<br> ** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from<br>software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to<br>agent-based techniques<br> ** Automated management techniques for emerging applications,<br>
systems, and platforms, including social networks, Big Data systems,<br>multi-core processors, and Internet of Things<br> ** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for<br>understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent system behaviors to<br>
enforce autonomic properties<br> ** Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with<br>prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science,<br>engineering, business, or society<br> <br> Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest,<br>
correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers<br>are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measurements, user<br>studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all<br>possible.</p>
<p><br>* Paper Submissions</p><p> Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are<br>invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing.<br>Both full and short papers should be typeset in two-column format in<br>
10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block<br>being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Both kinds of papers should<br>be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here<br>
soon. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found<br>here. Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that<br>summarizes or augments their paper (see below).</p><p> Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,<br>
submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes<br>dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical<br>conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take<br>action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX<br>
Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by<br>nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are<br>uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX's guidelines, please<br>contact the program co-chairs, <a href="mailto:icac13chairs@usenix.org">icac13chairs@usenix.org</a>, or the USENIX<br>
office, <a href="mailto:submissionspolicy@usenix.org">submissionspolicy@usenix.org</a>.</p><p> At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the<br>paper in person at the conference. The accepted papers will be<br>
available online to registered attendees before the conference and<br>will also appear in proceedings distributed via USB drives at the<br>conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to<br>the event, please notify <a href="mailto:production@usenix.org">production@usenix.org</a>. The papers will be<br>
available online to everyone beginning on June 26, 2013. Accepted<br>submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on<br>the USENIX ICAC'13 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently<br>treated as confidential.</p>
<p><br>* Special Tracks</p><p> To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in emergent technological areas, ICAC'13 will host two special <br>tracks, each of which will be reviewed by its own subcommittee. More information regarding the special track on Self-Aware Internet of Things and the special track on Management of Big Data <br>
Systems is available on the ICAC'13 Call for Papers Web site.</p><p><br>* Posters and Demonstrations</p><p> ICAC'13 will also feature a poster and demonstration session consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that <br>
demonstrate autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Formatting and submission instructions, plus the Web <br>submission form specific to this session, is available on the Call for Papers Web site.</p><p><br>
* Ph.D. Forum</p><p> Current Ph.D. students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing are invited to submit a short summary <br>(up to 2 pages) of their work. Top selected submissions will be presented at a Ph.D. forum during the ICAC'13 conference, <br>
to receive constructive feedback from experts in the field and peers. Top selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum <br>during the ICAC'13 conference. Please check the Call for Papers Web site for submission instructions.</p>
<p><br>* Workshops</p><p> Workshops will take place in conjunction with ICAC'13 during USENIX Federated Conferences Week. Find out more at www.<br><a href="http://usenix.org/conference/icac13/workshops">usenix.org/conference/icac13/workshops</a>.</p>
<p><br>* Conference Organizers:</p><p> ** General Chair: Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research</p><p> ** Program Co-Chairs: <br> Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology;<br> Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware</p><p> ** Program Vice-Chairs for Management of Big Data Systems:<br>
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology<br> Vanish Talwar, HP Labs</p><p> ** Program Vice-Chairs for Self-Aware Internet of Things:<br> Levent Gürgen, CEA-Leti, France<br> Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK<br>
Abdur Rahim Biswas, Create-Net, Italy</p><p> ** Ph.D. Forum Chair:<br> Rean Griffith, VMware</p><p> ** Publicity Chairs: <br> Ming Zhao, Florida International University<br> Martina Maggio, Lund University<br>
Daniel Batista, IME/USP (Region Chair: South America)<br> Vartan Padaryan, Russian Academy of Sciences (Region Chair: Russia)<br> Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Region Chair: China)</p><p> ** Program Committee:<br>
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br> Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University<br> Sara Bouchenak, INRIA<br> Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London<br> Yuan Chen, HP Labs<br>
Charles Consel, INRIA<br> Alva Couch, Tufts University<br> Peter Dinda, Northwestern University<br> Joao E. Ferreira, University of S?o Paulo<br> Jose Fortes, University of Florida<br> Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO<br>
Rean Griffith, VMware<br> Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University<br> Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research<br> Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven<br> Jiman Hong, Soongsil University<br> Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs<br>
Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University<br> Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs<br> Jeff Kephart, IBM Research<br> Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br> Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs<br> Marin Litoiu, York University<br>
Xue Liu, McGill University<br> Arif Merchant, Google<br> Tridib Mukherjee, Xerox Research<br> Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University<br> Priya Narashimhan, Carnegie Mellon University<br> Omer Rana, Cardiff University<br>
Anders Robertsson, Lund University<br> Kai Sachs, SAP AG<br> Hartmut Schmeck, KIT<br> Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology<br> Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa<br> Yasushi Shinjo, Tsukuba University<br>
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary<br> Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University<br> Ya-Yunn Su, National Taiwan University<br> Vanish Talwar, HP Labs<br> Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University<br>
Mustafa Uysal, VMware<br> Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University<br> Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University<br> Kenji Yoshihira, NEC Labs<br> Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br> Ming Zhao, Florida International University<br>
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado</p><p> ** Poster/Demo Program Chair:<br> Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology</p><p> ** Poster/Demo Program Committee:<br> Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University<br>
Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble<br> Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London<br> Simon Caton, KIT<br> Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre<br> Marin Litoiu, York University<br> Sam Malek, George Mason University<br>
Arif Merchant, Google<br> Kai Sachs, SAP AG<br> Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary<br> Mustafa Uysal, VMware</p><p> ** Steering Committee:<br> Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign<br>
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research (Chair)<br> Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs<br> Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br> Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology<br> Dongyan Xu, Purdue University<br>
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs</p><p><br>* More information:</p><p> ** Web: <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13">https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13</a><br> ** Email: <a href="mailto:icac2013@cs.fiu.edu">icac2013@cs.fiu.edu</a><br>
** LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583">http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583</a></p></div>