[hpc-announce] ICAC 2015 International Conference on Autonomic Computing CfP

[Eric RUTTEN]

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ICAC 2015 Call for Papers
http://icac2015.imag.fr

12th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2015)
Grenoble, France, July 7-10, 2015

In cooperation with USENIX and SPEC
Corporate supporters: Google, HP Labs, Orange Labs
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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission:     January 15, 2015
Paper Submission:        January 22, 2015
Author Notification:     April 10, 2015
Final Manuscript:        May 1, 2015
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SCOPE AND TOPICS

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. 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.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Self-managing 
components, such as compute, storage, networking devices, embedded and 
real time systems, and mobile devices.
* AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control 
theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, 
queueing theory, rule-based systems, bio-inspired techniques.
* 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, and application support 
for autonomic computing.
* Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems.
* Goal specification and policies, IT governance, and business-driven IT 
management.
* Frameworks, architectures, toolkits (from software engineering 
practices and 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 * 
Self-organization and emergent behavior in technical systems trustworthy 
self-organizing systems.
* Infrastructures and architectures for organic computing systems.
* Online self-integration of complex systems.
* Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped or 
deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, 
business, or society.

Paper Submission

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not 
currently under review. Papers will be judged on originality, 
significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the 
broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report on 
experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate 
quantitative evaluation if at all possible. At least one author of each 
accepted paper is expected to attend the conference.

Papers can be submitted in one of the following three categories with 
different acceptance criteria for each category:

* Full research papers limited to 10 pages (double column)
* Experience papers limited to 8 pages (double column)
* Short papers limited to 6 pages (double column)

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the ICAC 
2015 submission site: EasyChair 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icac2015    See conference 
website for format instructions.

ORGANIZATION
General Chairs
* Philippe Lalanda, University of Grenoble, France
* Ada Diaconescu, Telecom ParisTech, France

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA
* Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Workshop Chair
* Eric Rutten, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France

Publicity Co-Chairs
* Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA
* David Carrera, UPC-BarcelonaTech & Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
* Shaolei Ren, Florida International University, USA
* Jorge Villalobos, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Finance Chair
* Vincent Lestideau, University of Grenoble, France

Proceedings Chair
* Sonia Ben Mokhtar, INSA de Lyon, France

Poster Chair
* Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada

Local Arrangements Chair
* Stephanie Chollet, Grenoble INP, France

Web Chair
* Vincent Lestideau, University of Grenoble, France

Program Committee
* Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany
* Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Novella Bartolini, University of Rome "Sapienza?, Italy
* Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
* Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA               * Sonia 
Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS-CNRS, France
* Andre Bottaro, Orange Labs, France
* Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
* David Carrera, UPC - BarcelonaTech and BSC, Spain
* Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
* Claris Castillo, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA
* Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
* Yuxin Diao, IBM Research, USA
* Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Jose Fortes, University of Florida, USA
* Daniel Gmach, HP Labs, USA
* Rean Griffith, VMware, USA
* Ashvin Goel, University of Toronto, Canada
* Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
* Indranil Gupta, UIUC, USA
* Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research, USA
* Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
* Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London, UK
* Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
* Michael Kozuch, Intel, USA
* Jayaram K.R., IBM Research, USA
* Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada
* Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada
* Julie McCann, Imperial College London, UK
* Arif Merchant, Google, USA
* Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA
* Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA
* Christian Mueller-Schloer, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany
* Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Christian Plessl, University of Paderborn, Germany
* Shaolei Ren, Florida International University, USA
* Eric Rutten, INRIA, France
* Kai Sachs, SAP, Germany
* Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
* Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
* Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA                     * 
Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA
* Vanish Talwar, HP Labs, USA
* Sven Tomforde, University of Augsburg, Germany
* Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
* Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA
* Rolf Wuertz, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
* Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA
* Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
* Ming Zhao, Florida International University, USA
* Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, USA
* Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA