Call for papers
The 1st Budapest Tutorial and Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Component-ware
(TACC 2008)
http://cascadas.mik.bme.hu/tacc
Budapest, Hungary, July 7-9, 2008
THEME
We live in a world were the ability to communicate is fundamental for everyday life. A panoply of heterogenous devices allow us to interact, through a variety of services, with other people regardless of geographical boundaries. However, this comes at a cost of significant complexity and the difficulty of configuring the resources that provide such services. In order to become full usabile, these resources, and their panoply of services, need to be able to carry out their functions without significant intrusion into our lives. A new generation of composite, highly distributed, pervasive services capable of addressing these configuration and complexity problems is required. These, in turn, need to rely on networks and systems capable of managing themselves, in accordance to overall broad directions – rather than detailed control – provided by humans, in a manner that is typically referred to as Autonomic Communications (AC).
The workshop has the clear vision of bringing together researchers who wish to address all aspects of the design, development and integration of new generation services and autonomic systems, and aims to contribute to the growth of this research community to realise the vision of scalable self-managing network services and systems.
We welcome original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of AC, including, but not limited to the following:
- Basic principles of autonomic behavior
- Socially-, economically- and bio-inspired communication paradigms
- Service self-organization and self-composition
- Design and architecture for autonomic systems
- Performance evaluation of autonomic systems
- Trust and security issues in autonomic environments
- Fault tolerance and dependability in autonomic systems
- Autonomic Provision of Contextual Information
- Pervasive supervision
- Intelligent transport systems
- Autonomic Behaviour in Peer-to-Peer networks
- Autonomic communication in heterogeneous devices
- Provision of quality of service in autonomic communications
- Self-maintained and self-configurable communications
- Self-protecting communication networks and computer networks
- Monitoring and self-managing in ACN
- QoS in autonomic mobile ad-hoc networks
- Evaluation and demonstration tools: analytical models, simulators, network test-beds, libraries, middleware, etc.
- Software engineering techniques and best practices for developing autonomic systems
- Balancing of desired properties, e.g. self-adaptation Vs. self-protection and experimental evaluation measurements
- Interaction of autonomic systems with legacy Networking protocols
- Applications of autonomic networks to the creation of new services (grid computing, pervasive computing, etc.)
SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully refereed and evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
- Format: papers must be formatted according to the ACM template
- Length: regular paper up to 8 pages, short paper up to 4 pages
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Each accepted paper must have a full registration in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings.
Papers must be submitted via the Easychair system.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: April 28 May 12, 2008
- Notification of acceptance: May 28, 2008
- Camera ready papers: June 23, 2008
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published by: Scientific Association for Infocommunications Hungary, under ISBN number 978-963-8111-69-2.
High uality submissions will be considered and evaluated for journal publication. Details will follow.
For any further questions or inquiries please contact: Borbala Benko
