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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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                 1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems - ACES 2010 
                 23 July, 2010 - Athens, Greece
		  http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm   
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 In conjunction with the 5th International Conference 
    on Software and Data Technologies - ICSOFT 2010

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Workshop Background and Goals
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Distributed computer systems are becoming more and more complex, both
to manage and to develop. Autonomic Computing can provide
self-management of computer systems and forms a possible solution to
building large scale, robust systems. Individual autonomous systems
manage their own behavior and their interactions with the environment
and other autonomous systems, in accordance with their individual
goals based on their local perception of state. Such systems may
negotiate with one another, and monitor and manage the resulting
agreements. Virtual organizations are formed dynamically to coordinate
interaction between systems, often to coordinate interaction in a
multi-level organization. Designing and building such systems forms a
challenge that requires scientific and technological advances in a
number of different research areas.

The relatively young field of Autonomic Computing seeks to build
computing systems that exhibit properties such as autonomy,
goal-directed adaptive behavior, proactivity, reactivity,
situatedness, and an ability to learn and plan. Building truly
dynamic, dependable and robust systems is one of today's challenges.

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1 - Software engineering methods for building autonomic systems
2 - QoS management in autonomic and dynamic environments
3 - Emergent behavior, emergent configurations
4 - Service agreements and negotiation
5 - Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems

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Important Dates
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Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010

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Workshop Program Committee
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Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, U.K.
Dominic Battré, TU Berlin, Germany
Magnus Boman, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands  (Co-chair)
Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Simon Dobson, St Andrews, U.K.
Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina, U.S.A.
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Julian Padget, University of Bath, U.K.
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Thomas B. Quillinan, D-CIS Lab Delft, The Netherlands
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, U.K.
Thanos Vasikakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (Co-chair)
Ramin Yahyapour, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany
Franco Zambonelli, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

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Paper Submission
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above.  Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and
Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web
page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission
system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

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Publications
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All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support.

Furthermore, the best papers will be invited to resubmit an extended
version of their paper for a special issue in the International
Journal of Adaptive and Autonomous Communications Systems(IJAACS,
http://www.inderscience.com/ijaacs ).