dongyan xu sidcspurdueedu dear colleague sincere apologies receive multiple copies cfp call papers 2nd ieee international conference autonomic computing icac05 renaissance seattle hotel seattle wa june 1316 2005 httpwwwautonomicconferenceorg deal increasing complexity largescale computer software systems must manage accordance highlevel guidance humans vision referred autonomic computing meeting grand challenges autonomic computing requires scientific technological advances wide variety fields well new software system architectures support effective integration constituent technologies purpose 2nd international conference autonomic computing icac05 bring together researchers different fields research addressing aspects self management computing systems hope develop nurture community work together realize vision largescale selfmanaging systems papers solicited broad array topics relevance autonomic computing particularly bear connections relationships among different areas research report prototype systems experiences topics interest include limited autonomic computing systems prototype systems exhibit selfmonitoring selfconfiguration self optimization selfhealing andor selfprotection software architectures selfmanaging systems based open grid services web services novel paradigms based biological economic social analogies specific selfmanaging components server client database storage network elements emphasis placed interactions components techniques lessons may generalize components toolkits environments models languages runtime compiler technologies building selfmanaging components systems applications new technologies supporting system management servicelevel agreements negotiation conversation support behavior enforcement systemlevel technologies middleware services entail interactions among two components self managing systems health monitoring dependency analysis problem localization remediation workload management provisioning interfaces autonomic systems including user interfaces interfaces monitoring controlling behavior techniques defining distributing understanding policies fundamental science selfmanaging systems understanding controlling exploiting emergent behavior theoretical investigations coupled feedback loops predictive methods robustness related topics experiences autonomic system component prototypes measurements evaluations analyses system behavior user studies experiences largescale deployments selfmanaging systems applications paper poster submissions full papers 8 pages length posters 2 pages invited wide variety topics relating autonomic computing indicated manuscripts reviewed judged correctness originality technical strength significance quality presentation interest relevance conference submitted papers may appeared consideration another conference journal may review submitted another forum icac05 review process posters subject restrictions authors submit full papers posters electronically pdf postscript via icac05 conference web site httpwwwautonomicconferenceorg use ieee cs format appropriate style files found ftppubftpcomputerorgpressoutgoingproceedings important dates tentative paper submissions january 17 2005 author notification february 28 2005 poster submissions march 3 2005 final manuscripts due april 1 2005 conference june 1718 2005 information inquiries www wwwautonomicconferenceorg email hwgocaiprutgersedu demo exhibit session icac 2005 feature demo exhibit session consisting posters technology artifacts eg machines running autonomic software demonstrations autonomic computing principles entries solicited via separate call demonstrations exhibits entries judged separate subcommittee headed exhibit chair please see conference web site information general cochairs manish parashar rutgers univ usa jeffrey kephart ibm research usa steering committee salim hariri univ arizona usa cochair david ogle ibm usa cochair manish parashar rutgers univ usa karsten schwan georgia tech usa jeffrey kephart ibm usa vaidy sunderam emory univ usa program cochairs karsten schwan georgia tech usa yimin wang microsoft research usa program committee icac program committee includes leading researchers academia industry list available conference web site demoexhibitstutorial chair brad topol ibm usa publiciy cochairs dongyan xu purdue univ usa fabrice saffre british telecom uk local arrangements cochairs greg eisenhauer georgia tech usa dan fay microsoft usa finance chair patricia rago ibm usa publication accepted papers posters appear proceedings published ieee computer society press distributed conference student awards student best paper award presented award consist plaque complementary student registration conference honorarium partially cover travel hotel costs student paper defined one principal sole author student student required attend conference present paper receive award tue 05 aug 2008 174812 0800 uai cfp 2nd ieee international conf autonomic computing icac05