CAC 2014 Call for Papers
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11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing
June 18-20, 2014 Philadelphia, PA
Co-held with the 2015 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (June 17-20, 2014)
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14
(CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/call-for-papers)
* Important Dates
Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 26, 2014,
11:59 p.m. EST (hard deadline, no extensions)
Paper submissions due: March 5, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EST (hard deadline,
no extensions)
Notification to authors: April 9, 2014
Final paper files due: May 20, 2014
* Overview
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques,
foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such
as data centers, compute clouds, smart cities, cyber-physical systems,
sensor networks, and embedded or pervasive environments, are becoming
increasingly complex and burdensome for people to manage. Autonomic
computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in
accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and
applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost,
while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of
varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving
self-management requires and motivates research that spans a wide
variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including
distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning,
modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory,
user interface design, data management, software engineering, emergent
behavior analysis, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together
researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application
domains and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share
underlying commonalities in their approaches to making resources,
applications and systems more autonomic.
* Topics
Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing,
including (but not limited to):
** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and
networking devices, embedded and real time systems, and mobile devices
such as smartphones.
** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control
theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes,
queueing theory, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and
their use in autonomic computing.
** End-to-end design and implementation of systems for management of
resources, workloads, scalability, availability, performance,
reliability, power/cooling, and security.
** Monitoring components and platforms for autonomic systems in IT
or cyber-physical environments.
** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application
support for autonomic computing.
** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems.
** Goal specification and policies, including specification and
modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT
governance, and business-driven IT management.
** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from
software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to
agent-based techniques.
** Automated management techniques for emerging applications,
systems, and platforms, including social networks, cloud computing,
big data systems, multi-core servers, smart cities, and cyber-physical
systems.
** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for
understanding, controlling or exploiting emergent system behaviors to
enforce autonomic properties.
** Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with
prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science,
engineering, business, or society.
Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped
or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science,
engineering, business, or society.
* Paper Submissions
** Regular papers:
Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages, excluding references) should be
typeset in two-column format in 10-point type on 12-point
(single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5"
wide by 9" deep. They should be submitted electronically, via the Web
submission form, which will be available here soon. Submitted papers
must be original work, and must not be under consideration for another
conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions
can be found here
(https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/requirements-icac-14-authors).
Some submissions will be accepted as short papers or posters.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues,
submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes
dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical
conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take
action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX
Conference Submissions Policy for details
(http://www.usenix.org/conferences/submissions-policy). Papers
accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered.
If you are uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX's
guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs,
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At least one author of each accepted full or short paper or poster
must present the paper/poster in person at the conference. The
accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees
before the conference and will also appear in proceedings distributed
electronically at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be
published prior to the event, please notify [log in to unmask] The
papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 18,
2014. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to
publication on the USENIX ICAC '14 Web site; rejected submissions will
be permanently treated as confidential.
** Special Tracks
To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in
emergent technological areas, ICAC14 will host two special tracks,
each of which will be reviewed by its own subcommittee. Ron Ambrosio
([log in to unmask]) will lead a special track on Smart Cyber-Physical
Systems; Karsten Schwan ([log in to unmask]) and Vanish
Talwar ([log in to unmask]) will lead a special track on Management
of Big Data Systems. Submission instructions for special tracks will
be posted soon.
* Conference Organizers:
** General Chair: Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware
** Program Co-Chairs:
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London
Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, North Carolina State University
** Program Vice-Chairs for Management of Big Data Systems:
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs
** Program Vice-Chairs for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems:
Ron Ambrosio, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
** Poster Chair:
Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University
** Publicity Chairs:
Martina Maggio, Lund University
Ming Zhao, Florida International University
** Program Committee:
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano
Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble
Rick Buskens, Google
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich
Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs
Ira Cohen, HP Labs
Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm Research
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano
Renato Figuerado, University of Florida
Salima Hassas, University of Lyon
Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research
Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Longbo Huang, Tsinghua University
Alex Iosup, Delft University of Technology
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business
Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London
Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paolo
Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary
Cristian Lumezanu, NEC Labs
Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Research Foundation
Julie McCann, Imperial College London
Daniel Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Arif Merchant, Google
Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma Riska, EMC
Kai Sachs, SAP AG
Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa
Kai Shen, University of Rochester
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary
Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University
Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and UPC Barcelona Tech
Mustafa Uysal, VMware
Timothy Wood, George Washington University
Ding Yuan, Toronto University
Ming Zhao, Florida International University
Xiaobo Zhou, University of ColoradoColorado Springs
* More information:
** Web: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14
** CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/call-for-papers
** Email: [log in to unmask]
** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583
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