CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications
AUTONOMIC
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of
networked devices and applications such as sensor networks, mobile systems,
Grids, and Peer-to-Peer communications create a unique challenge for network
and system administrators. Future applications will involve mobile users,
possibly with on-body sensors interacting with a pervasive computing
environment that detects their activity, current context and adapts
accordingly. Innovative solutions are required for managing the plethora of
network devices and systems, multiple inter-connected networking technologies
-- wired and wireless, and the
complexity of distributed applications. The promise of pervasive computing
environments will not be realized unless these systems can effectively
"disappear"; and for this they need to become autonomous by managing
their own evolution and configuration changes without explicit user or
administrator action. The term Autonomic communications and computing is used
for this form of self-managing systems able to support self-configuration,
self-healing and self-optimization. The importance of this research area has
been recently stressed by the increasing demand for securely programmable and
autonomous network elements. The ultimate aim is to assist in the design of
next generation self-organizing, context-aware pervasive systems and
service-oriented computing environments so as to better support highly dynamic
and mobile users and vitual organizations. In this
context, original contributions are solicited in all relevant areas, including
but not limited to:
- Theoretical
foundations of autonomic communication systems
- Tools and techniques
for designing, analyzing and building autonomic systems and networks
- Adaptive security for
self protection of systems and networks
- Economic, biological
and social models used for autonomic communications
- Advanced information
processing techniques for autonomic communications including policies,
context-awareness, machine learning, statistical and optimization
techniques, control theory, knowledge bases, planning, and goal driven
role based management
- Enabling
technologies for self-managing systems and networks including
Service-oriented Architectures, Web Services, XML, Peer-to-Peer and Open
Grid Services
- Sensing, monitoring
and measurements for self-managing systems and networks
- Languages,
development and securely programmable environments for autonomic
communications systems
- Human interaction
with autonomic communication systems
Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with
the IEEE J-SAC format described in the Information
for Authors. Authors should submit an electronic version (PDF format) to jsac-sp-issue@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
according to the following schedule:
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Manuscript submission:
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OCTOBER 1, 2004
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Acceptance notification:
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March 1, 2005
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Final manuscript due:
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June 1, 2005
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Publication:
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4th Quarter 2005
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Raouf Boutaba
University of Waterloo
School of Computer
Science
rboutaba@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
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Germán Goldszmidt
IBM Research - Hawthorne
tpccim2003@hotmail.com
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Heinz-Gerd Hegering
Leibniz Supercomputing Center
Munich University
Heinz-Gerd.Hegering@lrz-muenchen.de
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Jürgen Schönwälder
International University Bremen
j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de
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Morris Sloman
Imperial College
London
m.sloman@imperial.ac.uk
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