Call For Papers

                18th International Conference on
            Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS)
                                -
        System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing

             Innsbruck, Austria, March 14-17, 2005
                   http://www.teco.edu/arcs05

           Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2003

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Future computer systems will be much more integrated into the fabric of
everyday life than today's computers are. They will become smaller, more
appropriate for their use, integrated into everyday objects and often
virtually or physically invisible to the users. They will be also
deployed in a much higher quantity and penetrate many application areas
To provide such features and functionality, computer devices become
tinier yet still increase in complexity; they must consume less power,
while still supporting advanced computation and communications, such
that they are highly connected yet still operate as autonomous units.
This brings several research topics to the fore, including ultra-low
power consumption, self-awareness, adaptive networking, smart behavior
of systems, scalability and complexity of devices and systems.
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing research addresses such issues by
developing concepts and technology for interweaving computers into our
everyday life. The principle approach is to enhance system functionality
and adaptability by recognizing context and situations in the
environment. Organic computing then addresses high system complexity by
drawing analogies from complex biological systems, with the
human-centered goal of self-organization. Organic computing
investigates the design and implementation of self-managing systems that
are selfconfiguring, self-optimizing, self-healing, self-protecting,
context aware, and anticipatory. ARCS 2004 will emphasize the design,
realization and analysis of the emerging computing systems for organic
and pervasive computing and their scientific, engineering, and commercial
applications. The conference focuses on system aspects of organic and
pervasive computing in software and hardware. In particular, system
integration and self-management of hardware, software and networks are
in the centre of interest.

ARCS 2005 continues and replaces the biennial series of German
Conferences on Architecture of Computing Systems. This 18th conference
in the series serves as a forum to present current work on all aspects
of computer and systems architecture. Besides its main focus, the
conference is open for more general and interdisciplinary themes in
operating systems, networking, and computer architecture. Papers
pertaining to aspects of computer and systems architecture, in particular
in the field of organic and pervasive computing are sought, including:

Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure

- operating systems
- middleware for organic, pervasive and peer-to-peer computing
- multi-agent and mobile agent systems
- bio-analogue and artificial-life systems
- context and locality
- low power systems design
- machine-learning, prediction, pro-activity
- system design and simulation
- reconfigurable hardware and software systems
- safety, security, reliability
- self-managing service configuration


Architectures and Systems

- computer and system architecture
- modular distributed devices
- self-managing, self-healing and fault-tolerant systems
- real-time systems
- mobile and wearable devices
- embedded systems (consumer electronics, automotive)


Applications

- scenarios for ubiquitous and pervasive computing
- autonomic environments
- network server architectures and network based applications
- semantic networks
- ubiquitous, home and wireless networking

The conference is organized by the special interest group on Computer
and Systems Architecture of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik -
German Informatics Society) and ITG (Informationstechnische
Gesellschaft - Information Technology Society), supported by OCG
(Austrian Computer Society), OVE/GIT (Austrian Electrotechnical
Associastion) and electrosuisse (ITG), and held in cooperation with
IFIP, ACM and IEEE (approval requested). In addition to technical
sessions of contributed paper presentations, the conference will offer
invited presentations, workshops, and tutorials. The conference
proceedings will be published in the 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science'
series by Springer-Verlag. Papers should not exceed 15 pages
(approximately 5000 words) in Springer LNCS style. We accept only
electronic submissions in postscript or pdf format. The URL of the
submission site is http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/ . Selected papers will
be published in the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.
Workshops are intended to discuss themes related to the conference and
should be open to all ARCS attendees. Workshop and Tutorial proposals
should be submitted in GI Lecture notes style and should not exceed 2 pages.


Important Dates
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September 20, 2004 Conference paper submission due
October 1, 2004 Workshop and tutorial proposal due
December 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection
January 10, 2005 Camera-ready paper due

Official Address
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General Chair                   Paul Lukowicz, University for Health Science,
                                Medical Informatics and Technology, Innsbruck,
                                Austria, [log in to unmask]
Program Chair                   Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe,
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Workshop and Tutorial Chair     Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe,
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