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The 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06)
Organized by Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. (HUST) Co-Sponsored by HUST, NSFC, 863, ChinaGrid, IFIP In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Applying)
Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006 ******************************************************
Computing systems including hardware, software, communication and networks are growing with ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, and becoming overly complex. Such the complexity is getting more critical along with ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, autonomic computing focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that perform self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-ware operations to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance.
Any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the Internet and pervasive infrastructure based global computing exist universally in the course of dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems and services. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are available, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persist-able, security/privacy protect-able, etc.
A series of grand challenges exist to achieve practical self-manageable autonomic systems with truly trustworthy services. ATC-06 addresses the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all technical aspects related to autonomic and trusted computing and communication. ATC-06 as a conference comes out of the First Int'l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES-05, Japan, Dec.), and the Int'l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS-06, Austria, April).
Topics include but are not limited to the following:
Autonomic Computing Theory and Models * Nervous/organic model, reaction, pro-action, control, persistence, negotiation, cooperation, etc. Autonomic Computing Architectures and Systems * Autonomic elements, relationship, architecture, framework, middleware, prototype, system, etc. Autonomic Computing Components and Modules * Autonomic component/module such as memory, storage, database, device, server, proxy, OS, etc. Autonomic Communication and Services * Autonomic network, ad hoc/sensor net, grid, P2P, web service, semantics, agent, transaction, etc. Autonomic System Tools and Interfaces * Tool/interface for autonomic system development, test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc. Trust Models and Specifications * Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc. Trust-related Security and Privacy * Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy, intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc. Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems * Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc. Trustworthy Services and Applications * Trustworthy Internet/web/grid/P2P e-services, mobile/ pervasive services, novel applications, etc. Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues * Trust standards and issues related to personality, ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc.
==IMPORTANT DATES== Submission Deadline: March 10, 2006 Authors Notification: May 10, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: June 10, 2006
==ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION== Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the ATC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/atc06
==PAPER PUBLICATION==
Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.
Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN). A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions, also will be published in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA.
==Organizing Committees==
Honorary Chairs Yunhe Pan, Zhejiang University, China Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA
General Chairs Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China David Ogle, IBM, USA Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Program Committee Chairs Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
International Advisory Committee Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Minyi Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Franz J. Rammig, University of Paderborn, Germany A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Xinmei Wang, Xidian University, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Steering Committee Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Program Vice Chairs Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Inst. FOKUS, Germany Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Publicity Chairs Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
International Liaison Chairs Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Publication Chairs Yuanshun Dai, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA M. S. P.-Hernandez, University Politecnicade Madrid, Spain Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Award Chairs Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Antonino Mazzeo, Second University of Naples, Italy Mazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA
Panel Chair Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK
Financial Chair Xin Li, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Web Administration Chair Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Local Arrangement Chair Xia Xie, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Program Committee See ATC-06 web site: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/atc06
Further questions, please contact with ATC06 Secretariat: atc06@hust.edu.cn Or Chairs Prof. Hai Jin hjin@hust.edu.cn Prof. Laurence T. Yang lyang@stfx.ca Prof. Manish Parashar parashar@caip.rutgers.edu Prof. Kouichi Sakurai sakurai@csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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