===================================================== LAACS 2006 CFP First Latin American Autonomic Computing Symposium (LAACS 2006) Organized by Unicamp, Puc-Campinas and SBC Support Sponsors: LARC, RNP and IEEE (approval pending) Corporate Sponsors: IBM and Padtec http://www.fee.unicamp.br/laacs2006 ===================================================== To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale IT systems today, computer elements must learn to manage themselves, in accordance with high-level guidance and human supervision - a concept that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields. The purpose of the 1st Latin American Autonomic Computing Symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing aspects of self-management and automation in computing systems. In doing so, we hope to develop and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale autonomic systems. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing; particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems, components or applications that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection behavior. * Middleware technologies for autonomic systems, based on interoperable Grid services, Agent-based systems, Web services. * Supporting technologies for autonomic computing, such as correlation techniques, knowledge representation, ontologies, process automation, systems & network management, service-level agreements & policies, negotiation, behavior enforcement, monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization and remediation, workload management and provisioning, optimization, security, communication protocols, etc. * New paradigms supporting systems, components or applications for autonomic computing, such as biological (or genetic, evolutionary), economic, mathematical (or statistical), or social. * Methodologies, frameworks, tools, models, languages, runtime and interfaces for building systems, components or applications for autonomic computing. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, theoretical investigations of coupled feedback loops, predictive methods, robustness, and related topics. * Experiences with autonomic systems, components, tools or application prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Technical papers (maximum of 12 pages in length), Application papers (maximum of 8 pages in length) and Posters (maximum of 4 pages in length) written in ENGLISH are invited on a wide variety of topics related to autonomic computing as indicated above. All submissions will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or a journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during this event's review process. Posters are not subject to any of these restrictions. Authors should submit all papers electronically (in PDF or postscript format) via the event web site at http://www.fee.unicamp.br/laacs2006/, and should follow the SBC format. Templates can also be found in the event web site. OTHER SUBMISSIONS This event may also feature extraordinary sessions consisting of demos/exhibits, tutorials and birds of a feather sessions. Interested parties should contact the event organizers directly for submission - for contact information please consult the event web site. BEST PAPER AWARDS Best paper awards will be presented in three categories: technical, application and poster. In addition, a student best paper award will also be presented. All awards will consist of a special certificate and additional incentive prizes to be determined by event sponsors. A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student. The student will be required to attend the conference and present the paper to be eligible to receive the award. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings published by the Brazilian Computer Society, which will be distributed at the main SBC conference. IMPORTANT DATES All paper submissions: April 9, 2006 (hard deadline, no extension) Author notification: April 30, 2006 Final manuscripts due: May 10, 2006 All other submissions (Tutorial/Demo/Exhibit/etc): May 10, 2006 Event dates: July 18-19, 2006 MORE INFORMATION http://www.fee.unicamp.br/laacs2006 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Eduardo Zagari, PUC-Campinas, Brazil Fabio Verdi, Unicamp, Brazil Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Edmundo Madeira, Unicamp, Brazil Jorge Becerra, USP, Brazil Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Carlos Westphall, UFSC, Brazil FINANCIAL CHAIR Katia Pessanha, IBM, Brazil LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Irineu Sotoma, UFMS, Brazil APPLICATION PROGRAM CHAIR Iara Machado, RNP, Brazil TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ana Melo, USP, Brazil Linnyer Ruiz, UFMG, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil Ana Melo, USP, Brazil Andre Carvalho, USP-SC, Brazil Andre Coelho, Unifor, Brazil Brigitte Safar, Univ. Paris-Sud, France Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil Camillo Oliveira, UFMG, Brazil Carlos Lucena, PUC-Rio, Brazil Carlos Soares, Univ. Do Porto, Portugal Carlos Westphall, UFSC, Brazil Edmundo Madeira, Unicamp, Brazil Eduardo Zagari, PUC-Campinas, Brazil Elias Procopio Jr, UFPR, Brazil Emmett Witchel, Univ. of Texas, USA Fabio Verdi, Unicamp, Brazil Flavio Silva, USP, Brazil Irineu Sotoma, UFMS, Brazil Jaelson Castro, UFPE, Brazil Jeff Kephart, IBM, USA John Strassner, Motorola, USA Jorge Becerra, USP, Brazil Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Lisandro Granville, UFRGS, Brazil Luciano Gaspari, Unisinos, Brazil Luiz Guedes, UFRN, Brazil Linnyer Ruiz, UFMG, Brazil Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA Marco Casanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil Marcus Bruner, NEC, Germany Mauricio Magalhaes, Unicamp, Brazil Michael Hinchey, NASA Goddard, USA Michael Littman, Rutgers Univ., USA Nazim Algoumine, Univ. d'Evry, France Rodrigo Reis, UFPA, Brazil Roy Sterritt, Univ. of Ulster, UK Sven van der Meer, TSSG, Ireland Vincent Freeh, NCSU, USA