Call for Papers

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The increasing complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamism of networks, services, and applications have made information technology (IT) and networking infrastructures quite difficult to operate and manage. In order to address this challenge, the autonomic communication and computing approach brings innovative solutions that require scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields. The purpose of the Latin American Autonomic Computing Symposium is to present and discuss research results and practical experiences that address various aspects of autonomics in computing and networking systems.

In its previous editions, LAACS has established itself as the principal Latin American forum for discussing autonomic computing advances. In this third edition, LAACS 2008 will be held in the city of Gramado, Brazil and organized by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). LAACS 2008 is organized in technical and demo sessions, posters, panels, and tutorials.
 
 

Topics

 
Authors are invited to submit complete, unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic areas:
 
1) Architecture

  • Autonomic architectures and principles
  • Paradigms, tools and techniques autonomic systems (IT and networks)
  • Self-management of distributed systems and networks (e.g., based on peer-to-peer principles)
  • Self-* technologies
  • Organic computing: Bio-inspired networks and systems
  • Software architectures for self-managing systems
  • Autonomic grid architectures
 2) Tools

  • Policy control for autonomic networks & systems
  • Sensing, monitoring and measurements for autonomic systems
  • Advances in and application of control theory
  • Knowledge based systems control
  • Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications
  • User experiences, Interfaces to autonomic systems
  • Management of autonomic systems
   
3) Autonomic Networking

  • Control and management in dynamic/mobile network environments
  • Self-co-operating peer-to-peer networks
  • Self-organizing network elements, and administrative domains
  • Plug and play networking components
  • Cognitive networking
  • Application of autonomic management to mobile and wireless networking including 3GPP evolved UTRAN, SAE networks, etc.
 4) Autonomic Computing

  • Autonomic IT Service Management
  • Fault-tolerance and resilience
  • Experiences with self-* solutions
  • Autonomic and Trusted Computing
 

Important Dates


  • Paper/poster registration and submission deadline: July 8, 2008 July 18, 2008 (extended)
  • Notification of acceptance: August 3, 2008 August 10, 2008 (extended)
  • Final camera ready paper due: August 17, 2008 August 24, 2008 (extended)
  • Tutorial and demo submission due: August 3, 2008
  • Event dates: September 8‐9, 2008
 
 

Paper/Poster Format

 
Papers should not exceed the limit of 10 pages. Posters must be submitted in the format of short papers, not exceeding the limit of 4 pages. All submitted full or short papers must be formatted following the IEEE two-columns proceedings style. Templates for the IEEE style are available for LaTeX and MS Word.
 
 

Submission Instructions

 
Authors of papers should submit a PDF file at https://jems.sbc.org.br/laacs2008. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper/poster, if accepted.