Call for Papers
Special Issue of Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing on

Autonomic and Trusted Computing Systems and Applications

Deadline: June 15, 2006 (extended)

As computer systems become increasingly large, complex and pervasive, their self-manageability and trustworthiness play critical roles in supporting next-generation science, engineering, and business applications. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers, such as, accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters. Identifying and rectifying problems in such complex systems which consist of several heterogeneous software/hardware/network components is non-trivial. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly. Therefore, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the performance of trustworthy systems. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, and privacy protect-able. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement trusted and self-managing systems, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, the natural sciences, biological sciences, to social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies.

This special issue seeks original contributions of theoretical or practical emphasis in the area of autonomic and trusted computing systems and applications, including but are not limited to:

• Autonomic Computing Theory and Models
• Autonomic Computing Systems and Applications
• Autonomic System Tools and Interfaces
• Autonomic Grid Systems, Middleware, and Services
• Bio-Inspired System Design
• Context-aware Access Control
• Economic Models for Autonomic Trusted Computing Systems and Applications
• Embedded Trusted and Autonomic Architectures
• Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems
• Reliability and Availability Issues in Embedded and Sensor Network Systems
• Reliability Measurement, Modeling and Evaluation
• Security Models and Quantification
• Sensing, Monitoring and Measurements for Self-Managing Systems
• Self-* Design for Ubiquitous Computing
• Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems
• Software and Hardware Reliability, Verification and Testing
• Trusted Autonomic Computing and Communications
• Trust Models and Specifications
• Trust-related Security and Privacy
• Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems

Important Dates:

Submission Information:

• Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Transaction manuscript format described in the Guide for Authors at
                      http://www.joatc.org/
• Please limit your paper appropriately so that the final version is approximately 15 pages in length following IEEE Transaction paper styles (single-space double-column).
• Your email of intent to submit a paper should include author(s) information, a title and an abstract.
• Please email your submission in PDF or MS Word format to the guest editors.
• If you are not sure about the suitability of a given topic or if you want to know more details about the special issue's intent, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors.
• All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the rules of JoATC.

Guest Editors:

URL: http://cs.okstate.edu/~xiaolin/joatc/CFP06.htm