<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>CAC 2014 Call for Participation<br>========================<br><br>The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC-2014)<br><br>Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences<br><br>Collocated with<br><br>The 8th IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System Conference<br>The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference<br><br>Imperial College, London, September 8-12, 2014<br><br><a href="http://www.autonomic-conference.org/">http://www.autonomic-conference.org</a><div><br></div><div>Join our LinkedIn group at: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=7446715&trk=anet_ug_hm">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=7446715&trk=anet_ug_hm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Overview<br><br>Enterprise-scale cloud platforms and services systems, present common and cross-cutting challenges in maximizing power efficiency and performance while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior, and at the same time responding appropriately to environmental and system changes such as hardware failures and varying workloads. Autonomic computing systems address the challenges in managing these environments by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation capabilities to autonomously manage resources and applications from high-level policies. Research in cloud and autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, middleware services, databases and data-stores, and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to cloud and autonomic computing and their intersections, and particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different research areas or report on prototype systems or experiences. The goal is establish a premier international forum focused on the latest research, applications, and technologies aimed at making 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.<br> <br>The 2014 CAC conference will be organized around 3 crosscutting themes: (1) Clouds and Autonomic Computing: NaaS/IaaS - Network and Infrastructure; (2) Clouds and Autonomic Computing: PaaS, Middleware, Tools, Security and Privacy; and (3) Clouds and Autonomic Computing: SaaS- Applications and Performance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br><br></div><div>Autonomic Cloud Computing:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Self-management cloud services<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Autonomic cloud applications and services<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Cloud workload characterization and prediction<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Monitoring and analysis of behavior of cloud resources and services<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analysis autonomic computing systems and services<br>Autonomics for Extreme Scales<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Large scale autonomic systems<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Self-optimizing and self-healing at petacomputing scale<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Self-managing middleware and tools for extreme scales<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at extreme scales (peta/exa-computing)<br>Autonomic Cloud Cybersecurity<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Metrics to evaluate and performance of self-protection algorithms<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Data mining, stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Metrics to characterize and quantify the cybersecurity algorithms (confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of autonomic systems<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Datasets and benchmarks to compare and evaluate different self-protection techniques<br>Autonomic Cloud Tools and Applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* High performance autonomic applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Self* applications in science and engineering<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Self* Human Machine Interface<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Full visibility into the behavior of autonomic systems and services<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>* Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services</div></div><div><br></div><div>The conference program and keynote speakers can be found at <a href="http://www.autonomic-conference.org/">http://www.autonomic-conference.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>The online registration website can be found at <a href="https://www.regonline.com/CAC14">https://www.regonline.com/CAC14</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Conference Organizers<br><br>GENERAL CHAIR<br>Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana Univ., USA<br> <br>PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<br>Franck Cappello, ANL, UIUC, USA<br>Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, USA </div><div><br></div><div>PUBLICATION CHAIR<br>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>POSTERS CHAIR<br>Javier Diaz-Montes, Rutgers University, USA<br> <br>WORKSHOP CHAIR<br>Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida<br> <br>INDUSTRY CHAIR<br>John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, UK<br> <br>PUBLICITY CHAIR<br>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA<br> <br>STEERING COMMITTEE<br>Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA<br>Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA<br>Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA<br>John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, UK<br>Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, USA<br>Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA<br>Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Tehcnology, Sweeden<br>Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University, USA<br> <br></div><div>SPONSOR<br>NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing, UA</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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