SAC ’07 – 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Special Track on Autonomic Computing

March 11 – 15, 2007

Seoul, South Korea

Track Chairs

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SAC '07

Over the past twenty-one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. For additional information, please check the SAC web page:

Autonomic Computing Track

With the widespread use of distributed computing in the enterprise, there have been significant advances in development paradigms for these applications. Server side component models have considerably simplified development and the complexity has instead shifted to the operational side of these applications. The increase in operational complexity has reached a point where it is no longer feasible for humans to manage the applications required to run an enterprise. This coupled with the lack of skills and skyrocketing costs associated with application management make it imperative to develop techniques to allow applications to manage themselves. The initial steps to provide selfmanaging applications are now being taken a paradigm known as "autonomic computing" is in its infancy of evolution. It has also been identified as one of the “grand challenges” of computer applications for the next decade. In addition, the exponential growth of handheld devices (e.g. PDAs, laptops, smart phones etc.) pose additional challenges since these devices themselves suffer from a number of limitations such as inadequate processing capability, restricted battery life, limited memory space, frequent line disconnection, and confined host bandwidth. Lack of fixed infrastructure support and the aforementioned limitations augment the complexity of the problems in autonomic computing. This track will focus on emerging the emerging paradigm of self-managing environments and applications. We invite both experience reports as well as research papers in the area of autonomic computing since the industry has taken a leadership position in this domain. The aims here are to foster interesting discussions between the industry and academia as well as between system designers. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

1. Self-managing systems that exhibit autonomic properties of self-configuration, selfoptimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection.
2. Architectures, Frameworks and design patterns for building self-managing systems.
3. Specific self-managing components, such as server, client, database, storage, or network elements.
4. New technologies supporting system management, such as service level agreements, negotiation or conversation support, and behavior enforcement.
5. Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies.
6. Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, theoretical investigations of coupled feedback loops, predictive mehods,robustness, and related topics.
7. Experiences with autonomic systems or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analysis of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of selfmanaging systems or applications.
8. Security, trust and privacy issues in autonomic systems: challenges, models for privacy management, tradeoff between security and other criteria, autonomous adaptation to changes in threats, intrusion detection, security and trust models.

SUBMISSIONS

1. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be accepted. Please submit papers at:
   Submission Site
   In case of any issues, please contact the track chairs at:
   Umesh Bellur: umesh@it.iitb.ac.in
   Sheikh Iqbal Ahmed: iq@mscs.mu.edu

2. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
3. The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced).
4. A separate cover sheet attached to each copy should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to whichcorrespondence should be sent. A few key words should be provided.
5. A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track NOR should it be under review in any other forum.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India

• Yuanshun Dai, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA

• Giovanna Di Marzo, University of London, U.K.

• Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan

• Neeran Karnik, Symantec Research Labs, India

• Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece

• Jin-Soo Kim, KAIST, Korea

• Mujtaba Khambatti, Microsoft Corporation, USA

• Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, U.A.E.

• Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

• Narendra Nanjangud, IBM Research, India

• Miroslav Velev, Consultant, USA

• Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University, U.S.A

• Mohammed Zulkernine, Queen’s University, Canada

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers and posters will appear in the symposium proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review or one of the other participating SIGs' publications.

IMPORTANT DATES

September 8, 2006: Paper Submissions Due

October 16, 2006: Author Notification Due

October 30, 2006: Camera-Ready Paper Due