Announcement and Call for Papers 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC ’13) Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association www.usenix.org/conference/icac13 June 26–28, 2013 San Jose, CA ICAC ’13 will take place during USENIX Federated Conferences • Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling Week, June 24–28, 2013. autonomic systems • Goal specification and policies, including specification and Important Dates modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforce- Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 25, 2013, ment, IT governance, and business-driven IT management 11:59 p.m. PST Paper submissions due: March 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST • Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from Poster/demo and Ph.D. forum proposals due: March 11, 2013 software engineering practices and experimental method- Notification to authors: April 8, 2013 ologies to agent-based techniques Final paper files due: May 22, 2013 • Automated management techniques for emerging applica- tions, systems, and platforms, including social networks, Big Overview Data systems, multi-core processors, and Internet of Things ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing tech- • Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems niques, foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of for understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent all types, such as data centers, compute clouds, sensor net- system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties works, embedded or pervasive environments, and the Internet • Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with of Things are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world prob- for people to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce lems in science, engineering, business, or society this burden by managing their own behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and applica- Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, cor- tions are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, rectness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measure- of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving ments, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative self-management requires and motivates research that spans a evaluation if at all possible. wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including Paper Submissions distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mod- Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) eling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory, are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic com- user interface design, data management, software engineering, puting. Both full and short papers should be typeset in two-col- emergent behavior, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings umn format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, with the text block being no more than 6.5” wide by 9” deep. application domains, and perspectives, enabling them to discover Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submis- and share underlying commonalities in their approaches to mak- sion form on the ICAC ’13 Call for Papers Web site, www.usenix. ing resources, applications, and systems more autonomic. org/conference/icac13/call-for-papers. Complete formatting and Topics submission instructions can be found on the Call for Papers Web Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, site. Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that including (but not limited to): summarizes or augments their paper (see below). • Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple networking devices; embedded and real-time systems; and venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism mobile devices such as smart phones constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and • AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learn- may take action against authors who have committed them. See ing, control theory, operations research, probability and the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy at www.usenix.org/ stochastic processes, queuing theory, rule-based systems, conferences/submissions-policy for details. Papers accompanied and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you computing are uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX’s guide- • End-to-end design and implementations for management lines, please contact the program co-chairs, icac13chairs@usenix. of resources, workloads, availability, performance, reliabil- org, or the USENIX office, [email protected]. ity, power/cooling, security, and others At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to pres- • Monitoring systems that can scale to large environments ent the paper in person at the conference. The accepted papers • Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application will be available online to registered attendees before the confer- support for autonomic computing ence and will also appear in proceedings distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix. Charles Consel, INRIA org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on Alva Couch, Tufts University June 26, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated as confi- Peter Dinda, Northwestern University dential prior to publication on the USENIX ICAC ’13 Web site; Joao E. Ferreira, University of São Paulo rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. Jose Fortes, University of Florida Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO Special Tracks Rean Griffith, VMware To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University emergent technological areas, ICAC ’13 will host two special Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research tracks, each of which will be reviewed by its own subcommittee. Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven More information regarding the special track on Self-Aware Inter- Jiman Hong, Soongsil University net of Things and the special track on Management of Big Data Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs Systems is available on the ICAC ’13 Call for Papers Web site. Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University Posters and Demonstrations Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs Jeff Kephart, IBM Research ICAC ‘13 will also feature a poster and demonstration session Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs demonstrate autonomic software or autonomic computing Marin Litoiu, York University principles. Formatting and submission instructions, plus the Web Xue Liu, McGill University submission form specific to this session, is available on the Call Arif Merchant, Google for Papers Web site. Tridib Mukherjee, Xerox Research Ph.D. Forum Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University Current Ph.D. students who are working on topics relevant to Priya Narashimhan, Carnegie Mellon University autonomic computing are invited to submit a short summary Omer Rana, Cardiff University (up to 2 pages) of their work. Top selected submissions will be Anders Robertsson, Lund University presented at a Ph.D. forum during the ICAC ’13 conference, Kai Sachs, SAP AG to receive constructive feedback from experts in the field and Hartmut Schmeck, KIT peers. Top selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology during the ICAC ’13 conference. Please check the Call for Papers Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa Web site for submission instructions. Yasushi Shinjo, Tsukuba University Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Workshops Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University Workshops will take place in conjunction with ICAC ’13 during Ya-Yunn Su, National Taiwan University USENIX Federated Conferences Week. Find out more at www. Vanish Talwar, HP Labs usenix.org/conference/icac13/workshops. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University Mustafa Uysal, VMware Conference Organizers Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University General Chair Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Kenji Yoshihira, NEC Labs Program Co-Chairs Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology Ming Zhao, Florida International University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado Program Vice-Chairs for Management of Big Data Systems Poster/Demo Program Chair Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Vanish Talwar, HP Labs Poster/Demo Program Committee Program Vice-Chairs for Self-Aware Internet of Things Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University Levent Gürgen, CEA-Leti, France Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London Abdur Rahim Biswas, Create-Net, Italy Simon Caton, KIT Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre Ph.D. Forum Chair Marin Litoiu, York University Rean Griffith, VMware Sam Malek, George Mason University Publicity Chairs Arif Merchant, Google Daniel Batista, University