<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ICAC 2016 2nd Call-for-Papers</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><a href="http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/" class="">http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-22, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">In cooperation with USENIX and SPEC</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">CONFERENCE PATRONS</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">SAP, Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Google, Microsoft</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">WORKSHOPS</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* 4th International Workshop on Self-aware Internet of Things (Self-IoT)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* 2nd Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* 3rd Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* 11th International Workshop on <a href="mailto:Models@run.time" class="">Models@run.time</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* 11th International Workshop on Feedback Computing</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">___________________________________________________________________</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Abstract Submission:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>January 14, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Paper Submission: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>January 21, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Author Notification: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 15, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Final Manuscript: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>May 1, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Conference: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>July 19-22, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Poster/Demo Proposals Due:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>March 30, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Workshop Proposals:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>November 6, 2015</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Doctoral Symposium Submissions:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>January 31, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">___________________________________________________________________</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">SCOPE AND TOPICS</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing, its foundations, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">principles, engineering, technologies, and applications. Nowadays, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">complex systems of all types, like large-scale data centers, cloud computing </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">infrastructures, cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, and similar, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">are increasingly complex, involving many active, interconnected components </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">requiring careful coordination. Being impossible for a human to manage </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">such systems, the autonomic computing paradigm with its support for </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">self-management capabilities becomes increasingly indispensable </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">for the components of our IT world.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">The conference seeks latest research advances on science and engineering </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">concerning all aspects of autonomic computing, including but not limited to </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">the following main research topics:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Foundations </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Fundamental science and theory of autonomic computing systems and feedback </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> control for software, self-awareness and self-expression</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Algorithms, such as AI, machine learning, control theory, operations </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> research, probability and stochastic processes, queueing theory, rule-based </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> systems, biological-inspired techniques, and socially-inspired techniques</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Formal models and analysis of self-management, emergent behavior, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> uncertainty, self-organization, self-awareness, trustworthiness </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Resource Management in Data Centers </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, and platforms for self-managing </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> data centers and cloud infrastructures</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Sensing, energy efficiency, and resource adaptation</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Autonomic components, such as multi-core servers, storage, networking, and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> hardware accelerators</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Applications and case studies of end-to-end design and implementation of </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> systems for resource management</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - System architectures OS, services, middleware, and protocols for CPS and IoT</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Energy, real-time, and mobility management </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Design principles, methodologies, and tools for CPS and IoT</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Self-organization under severe resource constraints</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Applications and case studies of autonomic CPS and IoT </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Self-Organization and Organic Computing </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Self-organization principles and organic computing principles borrowed from </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> systems theory, control theory, game theory, decision theory, social </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> theories, biological theories, etc.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Self-organization, emergent behavior, decentralized control, individual and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> social/organizational learning, scalability, robustness, goal- and norm-</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> governed behavior, online self-integration for trustworthy self-organizing </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> and organic systems</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Infrastructures and architectures for self-organizing systems and organic </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> computing systems</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Applications and case studies for self-organization and organic computing </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Emerging Computing Paradigms: Cognitive Computing, Self-Aware Computing </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Advanced learning for cognitive computing such as meta-cognitive learning, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> self-regulatory learning, consciousness and cognition in learning, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> collaborative / competitive learning, and online / sequential learning</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Architectures, control, algorithmic approaches, instrumentation, and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> infrastructure for cognitive computing and self-aware systems </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Cognitive computing and self-awareness in heterogeneous and decentralized </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> systems</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Applications and case studies for social networks, big data systems, deep </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> learning systems, games, and artificial assistants, cognitive robots, and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> systems with self-awareness and self-expression </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Software Engineering for Autonomic Computing Systems: Architecture, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Specifications, Assurances</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Design methodology, frameworks, principles, infrastructures, and tools for </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> development and assurances for autonomic computing systems</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - System architectures, services, components and platforms broadly applicable </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> for autonomic computing system engineering </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Goal specification and policies, modeling of service-level agreements, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> - Applications and case studies for software engineering approaches for </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> autonomic computing systems</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">In addition to fundamental results ICAC is also interested in applications and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">science, engineering, business, or society. Typical application areas for ICAC </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">are autonomous robotics, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, data centers, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">dependable computing, industrial internet / industry 4.0, internet of things, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">mobile computing, service-oriented systems, smart buildings, smart city, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">smart grid / energy management, smart factory, smart user interfaces, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">space applications, and traffic management.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">This year a doctoral symposium will be organized as part of ICAC. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">For more information see</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><a href="http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/doctoral-symposium/" class="">http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/doctoral-symposium/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">under review. Submissions are required to mark at least one topic area. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Papers will be reviewed by at least three PC members including at least two </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">having specific domain expertise concerning the indicated </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">main research topics and judged on originality, significance, interest, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. At least one author </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Papers can be submitted in one of the following three categories with different </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">acceptance criteria for each category:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Full research papers limited to 10 pages (double column, IEEE format)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Experience papers limited to 8 pages (double column, IEEE format)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">* Short papers limited to 6 pages (double column, IEEE format)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Full and experience research papers are strongly encouraged to report on </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">evaluation if at all possible. Short papers can either be work in progress, </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">or position and challenge papers that motivate the community to address </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">new challenges. See the conference website for format instructions</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">(<a href="http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/instructions-to-authors/" class="">http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/instructions-to-authors/</a>). </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ICAC’2016 submission site (<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icac2016" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icac2016</a>). </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">There will be a BEST PAPER AWARD for the full research paper category and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">it is panned that a selection of the best papers of the full research paper </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">category will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">for an ICAC 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE after the conference.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">___________________________________________________________________</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">ORGANIZATION</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">General Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Program Committee Co-Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Workshop Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Publicity Co-Chairs</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Nikolas Herbst, University of Wuerzburg, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Jianguo Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Finance Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Philippe Lalanda, University of Grenoble, France</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Proceedings Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Daniel Gmach, HP Labs, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Poster and Demo Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Stephanie Chollet, Grenoble INP Esisar/LCIS, France</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Local Arrangements and Web Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Lukas Ifflaender, University of Wuerzburg, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">Doctoral Symposium Chair</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">___________________________________________________________________</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Luciano Baresi, DEIB – Politecnico di Milano, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Ada Diaconesco, Telecom ParisTech, France</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Lukas Esterle, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Rean Griffith, VMWare, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Yuan He, Tsinghua University, China</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Jeff Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Michael Kozuch, Intel, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Philippe Lalanda, University of Grenoble, France</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Peter Lewis, Aston University, UK</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Chenyang Lu, Washington University at St. Louis, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Ying Lu, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Julie McCann, Imperial College London, UK</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Arif Merchant, Google, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Christian Müller-Schloer, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Hausi A. Müller, University of Victoria, Canada</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Miroslav Pajic, Duke University, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Eric Rutten, NRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, Israel</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Mike Smit, Dalhousie University, Canada</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Ladan Tahvildar, Waterloo University, Canada</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Sven Tomforde, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Di Wang, Microsoft Research, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University, Sweden</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Zheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""> Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies, USA</font></div></body></html>