The primary research challenges faced are the communication,
design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits
of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top
of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors
are invited to submit papers to Autonomics’08 reporting
on original research related to the design, implementation,
analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The
conference intends to attract attendees with diverse
backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and
context-aware systems. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems


• Models and metrics


• Energy-efficient algorithms


• Programming paradigms


• Middleware for pervasive systems


• Software architectures and toolkits


• Positioning and tracking technologies


• Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems


• Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues


• Location- and context-awareness


• Tools, languages and platforms


• Applications and systems


• Resource, network and service (self)-management


• Enabling technologies for pervasive environments

Autonomics 2008 will offer a unique forum for
researchers from academia, government and industry to share
ideas and disseminate new results in these important
areas.

Paper Submission Deadline is June 8th, 2008.

Conference location: Turin, Italy.