Connectionists: ACM CAC 2013 - Call for Participation

[Ivan Rodero]

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ACM CAC 2013 - Call for Participation
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The ACM Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing
August 5 to August 8, 2013
InterContinental Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA
http://www.autonomic-conference.org

Overview
Recent advances in computing, networking, software and mobile technologies have led to the development of cyberspace services that are pervasive and ubiquitous and that touch all aspects of life and economy. Through such advances, cloud and autonomic services will revolutionize the way we do business, maintain our health, conduct education, and how we secure, protect, inform and entertain ourselves. 	

Along with these advances, however, we are experiencing strong challenges to our ability to ensure that our cyberspace resources and services are properly regulated, under appropriate review and control, manageable and secure. The insertion of increasingly automated processes and procedures into normal workflows for personal, scientific and business transactions requires extreme care in design of these systems to ensure that such challenges are properly met.

The main focus of the CAC is to be the premier international forum to present the latest research, applications, and technologies to make cloud and autonomic computing systems and services easy to design, to deploy and to implement, while achieving the simultaneous goals to be self-manageable, self-regulating and scalable with little involvement of human or system administrators. 

Conference Tracks and Workshops

The CAC conference main topics are grouped into four special tracks: Autonomic Cloud Computing; Autonomics for Extreme Scales; Autonomic Cybersecurity; and Autonomic Tools and Applications. Program vice-chairs in each of these research areas will coordinate the efforts regarding papers focused in these tracks. 

Autonomic Cloud Computing: Vice Chair Rosa M. Badia
	• Self-management cloud services
	• Autonomic cloud applications and services
	• Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services
	• Cloud workload characterization and prediction
	• Monitoring and analysis of behavior of cloud resources and services
	• Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analysis autonomic computing systems and services

Autonomics for Extreme Scales: Vice Chair Gregor von Laszewski
	• Very large and extreme scale autonomic systems
	• Self-optimizing and self-healing at very large and extreme scale
	• Self-managing middleware and tools for very large and extreme scales
	• Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at very large and extreme scales 

Autonomic Cybersecurity: Vice Chair Sherif Abdelwahed
	• Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks, and applications
	• Metrics to evaluate and performance of self-protection algorithms
	• Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services
	• Data mining, stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications
	• Metrics to characterize and quantify the cybersecurity algorithms (confidentiality, integrity, and availability of autonomic systems)
	• Datasets and benchmarks to compare and evaluate different self-protection techniques

Autonomic Tools and Applications: Vice Chair Jim Dowling
	• Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems
	• High performance autonomic applications
	• Self* applications in science and engineering
	• Self* Human Machine Interface
	• Full visibility into the behavior of autonomic systems and services
	• Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services

The conference program and keynote speakers can be found at http://www.autonomic-conference.org.

The online registration website can be found at http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1221234


Conference Organizers

STEERING COMMITTEE:
Manish Parashar (Chair), Rutgers University, USA
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA
John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, USA
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA

GENERAL CHAIR:
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA 

PC CHAIR:
Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA

PC VICE CHAIRS:
Autonomic Cloud Computing Vice Chair:
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Autonomic Cybersecurity Vice Chair:
Sherif Abdelwahed, Mississippi State University, USA
Autonomics for Extreme Scales Vice Chair:
Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA
Autonomic Tools and Applications Vice Chair:
Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA

POSTER/DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR:
Andres Quiroz, XEROX, USA

PHD FORUM CHAIR:
Yeliang Zhang, University of Arizona, USA

INDUSTRY CHAIR:
John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIRS:
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA
Erick Passos, Technological University, Brazil
Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, USA
David Villegas, IBM, USA

PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA

LOCAL CHAIR:
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA

LOCAL ORGANIZER:
Martha Gutierrez, Florida International University, USA

SPONSORS
 ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) 
 NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing
 University of Arizona
 Florida International University

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)                                                         
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering            
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey   
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625                                                       
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Phone: (732) 993-8837
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Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu
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