Workshop on
Autonomic Computing Principles and Architectures (AUCOPA' 2003)

Organized and co-chaired by

Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Call For Papers

• Deadline for Submission of Full Papers: June 2, 2003
• Notification of Acceptance: June 16, 2003
• Deadline for Submission of Final Manuscripts: July 7, 2003

Objectives: Recently IBM research introduced autonomic computing as their vision of the soft- and hardware environment of the future. Inspired by the functioning of the human nervous system their vision is to design and build computing systems that function like it, namely autonomic. An autonomic system is a self-reliable, autonomous and ubiquitous computing environment that completely hides its complexity, thus, providing the user with an interface that exactly meets his needs. The system will always decide on its own what needs to be done to keep it stable, it will constantly check and optimize its status, and automatically adapt itself-to changing conditions.

Topics interesting to the workshop:
(1) The self-X principles and mechanisms of autonomic computing
• Self-governing
• Self-management
• Self-diagnosis of faults
• Self-adaptation
• Self-optimization
• Self-protection
• Self-organization
• Self-configuration
• Self-heeling/recovery
(2) Knowledge engineering and management in autonomic computing
• Knowledge heterogeneity and intensity
• Multiple granularity of knowledge
• Knowledge acquisition, representation, and utilization
• Artificial intelligence techniques
(3) Engineering principles of autonomic computing
• Intelligent / autonomous robotics
• Feedback control
• Cybernetics
(4) Architectures for autonomic computing
• Hierarchy
• Heterarchy
• Decentralization
• Holon
• Intelligent agents
• Multi-agent systems
• Autonomic GRID
• Autonomic internet
• Multi-agent problem solving process and architectures
• Autonomic systems architecture
• Autonomic database management system
(5) Autonomic computing in social, economic and technical applications
• Autonomic information systems for e-government, e-medicine, e-commerce
• Autonomic urban traffic systems
• Autonomic manufacturing systems
• Autonomic office / residential building systems
• Autonomic industrial process systems

The workshop will put strong emphasis on the active exchange of concepts and technologies between academia and industry. Therefore, besides research papers, we strongly encourage submissions from industry. Research papers should not exceed 6000 characters (10 pages), papers from industry should at least be 3000 characters long (up to 5 pages), however, should also not exceed 6000 characters.


Submission of Papers:
All papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. After the workshop, the best papers will be invited to be fully expanded for consideration for publication in a special issue on a prestigious international journal.

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