***** AUTONOMICS 2009 ***** 3nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics.eu/ September 9-11, 2009, Republic of Cyprus In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The Autonomics conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics 2009 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due : May 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2009 Final version due: July 25, 2009 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 16 pages in LNICST conference proceedings format through the ICST's Article Submission SYStem . The proceedings will be a Springer Verlang publication and the papers will be reviewed by several indexing servicing including DBLP, ZBlMath/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC, ISI Proceedings, the Zentralblatt Math and Google Scholar. Selected best papers from Autonomics 2009 will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communication Systems (IJAACS). _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: T. Vasilakos University of Western Macedonia, Greece Vice Chair: R. Beraldi University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Steering Committee: R. Baldoni, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy I. Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy D. Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy TPC Co-Chairs: R. Friedman, Technion, Israel M. Mamei, University of Modena, Italy Publication and Publicity Chair: G. Lodi University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Web Chair: M. Platania University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Conference Coordinator: G. Nagy ICST, Belgium TECHNICAL COMMITTEE A. Manzalini Telecom Italia, Italy A. C. Viana Inria Saclay, France B. K. Benko Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary C. Borcea New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA C. Fetzer Dresden University of Technology, Germany G. Chockler IBM Haifa, Israel D. Weyns Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium G. Di Marzo Serugendo Birkbeck University of London, UK D. Blough Georgia Institute of Technology, USA E. Yoneki Univeristy of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, UK G. Simon Telecom Bretagne, France M. Hiltunen AT&T Labs Research, USA H. Alnuweiri Texas A&M University of Qatar, Qatar L. Rodrigues INESC-ID/IST, Portugal R. Mirandola Politecnico di Milano, Italy O. Riva ETH Zurich, Switzerland M. Parashar Rutgers, USA L. Querzoni University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy R. Prakash University of Texas at Dallas, USA R. Vitenberg University of Oslo, Norway T. Spyropoulos ETH Zurich, Switzerland M. van Steen VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands N. Suri Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany V. Cahill Trinity College Dublin, Ireland T. Herman University of Iowa, USA M. Baumgarten University of Ulster, UK