[ieeetcsc-discuss] Workshop on Autonomics for Grids and Datacenters (CCGrid 2008) - Submission Deadline: Jan. 4, 2008

[Manish Parashar]

Workshop on Autonomics for Grids and Datacenters

(8th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid
2008))
Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008

http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/agd2008/ 

(Submission Deadline: Jan. 4, 2008)

Call for Papers

The explosive growth of Grids, IT infrastructures and data centers have
resulted in complex systems and applications whose control and timely
management is rapidly exceeding human ability. Significant management
challenges are resulting from, among other factors, their size, architecture
complexity and distributed nature, their heterogeneity and the heterogeneity
of their workloads, the large numbers of users and complexity and diversity
of services provided, the need to provide strict RAS guarantees and adapt to
unanticipated demands, the need to effectively manage power, etc.  These
challenges, have resulted into systems are becoming increasing unreliable
and brittle. Furthermore, current IT management solutions are costly,
ineffective and labor intensive. 

Autonomic computing has the potential to fundamentally address these
challenges. Autonomic computing views IT infrastructures and their
applications as closed loop control systems that need to be continuously
monitored and analyzed, and plans corrective actions whenever any of the
desired behavior properties or functionalities (e.g., performance, fault,
security) are violated. From an intellectual perspective autonomics requires
the integration and further development of techniques for monitoring,
modeling, configuring, controlling and optimizing the behavior of resources
and applications. Some techniques are inspired by strategies used by
biological systems to deal with complexity, dynamism, heterogeneity and
uncertainty. 

Autonomic computing brings together a number of different areas such as
artificial intelligence, self-organization/emergent behavior, distributed
computing, virtualization, control, statistic, security, dependability and
software engineering, with an overarching vision of integrated and adaptive
automation, i.e., to effectively combine and simultaneously address
requirements for performance, reliability, security, availability and
cost-effectiveness in a holistic manner.
The goal of this workshop is to being together research focused on different
aspects of autonomic computing as applied to Grid and data centers and their
applications.  


PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (up to 8 pages in length) are invited on a wide variety of
topics relating to autonomics for Grids and datacenters, as indicated above.
Submissions will be evaluated on relevance, technical quality, and
exposition. Papers must not have appeared before (or be pending) in a
journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be under
review or submitted to another forum during the AGD08 review process.
Authors should submit full papers electronically (PDF) via email to
agd2008 at caip.rutgers.edu, and should use the IEEE formatting guidelines
posted at the CCGrid website.


SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit
revised versions of their papers for a special issue of the Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience journal published by Wiley. 


IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submissions: Jan 4, 2008
- Author notification: Jan 15, 2008
- Final manuscripts due: Jan 30, 2008
- Workshop: May 19-22, 2008


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana Univ., USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sandip Agarwala, IBM, USA
Christopher Dabrowski, NIST, USA
Jose Fortes, Univ. of Florida, USA
Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Shantenu Jha, CCT/LSU, USA
Brent Miller, IBM, USA
Shrideep Pallickara, Indiana Univ., USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK
Karsten Schwan, GA Tech, USA
Naveen Sharma, Xerox, USA
Jordi Torres, UPC, Spain
Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA


MORE INFORATION
EMAIL: agd2008 at caip.rutgers.edu	
WWW: www.caip.rutgers.edu/agd2008/


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