日本データベース学会の皆様 （重複してお受け取りの際はご容赦ください） 富士通研の金政です。 私がプログラム委員を務めておりますICAC'14国際会議の概要締切が 2週間後、論文締切が3週間後に迫っています。 この会議はオートノミック・コンピューティングをリードする会議で、 プログラム委員にIBMのJeff Kephartが名を連ねるなど、本分野の研 究を発表するには申し分のない場だと思われます。また、USENIXの Federated Conferences Weekの中でAnnual Technical Conferenceや HotStorageなどとの共催ですので、発表ついでに研究動向調査をする にも打って付けです。 昨年のICACの査読では、ほとんど全ての論文が4人以上の査読者に よって査読され、5～6人の査読者が付く論文も多くありました。産 学両面の研究者がバランスよく混ざっているのと相まって、幅広い研 究者からのフィードバックが期待できると思います。 会議のトピックは、広い意味での「自動化・自律化」全般となります ので、皆様の研究にも該当するものが多々あることかと思われます。 御投稿を検討いただけましたら幸いです。 -- ------------------------------------------- 株式会社 富士通研究所 システムソフトウェア研究所 システムマネジメント研究部 金政 泰彦 (kanemasa@jp.fujitsu.com) ------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC '14) June 18-20, 2014 Philadelphia, PA, USA Part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 17-20, 2014 http://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14 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. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. 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. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying com- monalities in their approaches to making resources, applications and systems more autonomic. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registrations (titles and abstracts) due: February 26, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EST (hard deadline, no extensions) * Paper submissions due: March 5, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EST (hard deadline, no extensions) * Notification to authors: April 9, 2014 * Final paper files due: May 20, 2014 TOPICS Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited to): * Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and networking devices, embedded and real time systems, and mobile devices such as smartphones. * AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queueing theory, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic computing. * 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, or application support for autonomic computing. * Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. * Goal specification and policies, including specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management. * Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies 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 for understanding, controlling or exploiting emergent system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties. * Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society. 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. CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS * General Chair Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware * Program Co-Chairs Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, North Carolina State University * Program Vice-Chairs for Management of Big Data Systems Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Vanish Talwar, HP Labs * Program Vice-Chair for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems Ron Ambrosio, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center * Poster Chair Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University * Publicity Chairs Martina Maggio, Lund University Ming Zhao, Florida Intentional University * Program Committee Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble Rick Buskens, Google Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs Ira Cohen, HP Labs Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research Cambridge Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm Research Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano Renato Figuerado, University of Florida Salima Hassas, University of Lyon Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Longbo Huang, Tsinghua University Alex Iosup, Delft University of Technology Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs Jeff Kephart, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary Cristian Lumezanu, NEC Labs Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Research Foundation Julie McCann, Imperial College London Daniel Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Arif Merchant, Google Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alma Riska, EMC Kai Sachs, SAP AG Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa Kai Shen, University of Rochester Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and UPC Barcelona Tech Mustafa Uysal, VMware Timothy Wood, George Washington University Ding Yuan, Toronto University Ming Zhao, Florida International University Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado?Colorado Springs Tutorial Chair Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------