Call for Papers
Special Issue of the "Whitestein Series in Software Agent
Technologies and Autonomic Computing" in
"Advanced Autonomic Networking
and
Communication"
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Scope
The
goal of this special issue of the "Whitestein Series in Software Agent
Technologies and Autonomic Computing" is to present a comprehensive reference of
state-of-the-art efforts and early results in the area of autonomic networking
and communication.
The essence of autonomic networking, and thus
autonomic communications, is to enable the self-governing of services and
resources within the constraints of business rules. In order to support
self-governance, appropriate self-* functionality will be deployed in the
network on an application-specific basis. The continuing increase in complexity
of upcoming networking convergence scenarios mandates a new approach to network
management. This special issue will explore different ways that autonomic
principles can be applied to existing and future networks. Work within this area
has been advanced, specifically in Europe, under the umbrella of the Autonomic
Communications Forum, but also in the Americas and in Asia. We believe it is
time to show how the application of autonomic principles can provide significant
improvements over traditional management techniques for existing networking and
communication systems.
Submissions are invited for original and
previously unpublished research, as well as survey, tutorial, industry
experience, business models and case study papers addressing research challenges
and advances towards enabling autonomic communications and networking.
Submissions must not be under review at any other conference or
journal.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest for
this special issue include, but are not limited to:
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Modelling approaches for autonomic
networks, services and resources.
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Concepts, tools and approaches for designing, analysing and
building autonomic networks.
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Testing, verification and validation principles for autonomic systems and
networks.
* Advances in
algorithms for autonomic communications and networking.
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Use cases and scenarios of/for autonomic
communication systems.
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Benefits of applying autonomic principles to wireless networking.
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Autonomic management and control
for Next Generation Networks.
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Adaptive and autonomic technologies and approaches for next generation
Business and Operational Support Systems, specifically for service provisioning
and architectural approaches.
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Adaptive, autonomic resource and service management.
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Self-* features for advanced network
applications and solutions.
*
Policy-driven management of autonomic networks and managements
systems.
* Autonomic
technology, solutions and concepts for Service Oriented Architectures.
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Advances in control theory that
support self-governance.
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Experience with, contributions to, shortcomings of and needs for standardisation
in autonomic communication and networking.
Information for
Authors
Manuscript Submission
With regard to the
formatting style of submissions, prospective contributors should follow the
WSSAT guidelines and make use of the class files birkmono.zip that can be found
at: http://www.birkhauser.ch/downloads.
Papers
should not exceed 20 pages including figures, tables and references as defined
by the Birkhäuser class files. Submitted manuscripts should be in final form,
proofread, and ready for publication. Authors are required to submit their
contributions as a high-resolution (at least 1,200 dpi) postscript or pdf file
in electronic form, all fonts and graphics embedded to:
Monique
Calisti, mca@whitestein.com
For any question or clarification,
please, contact any of the guest editors - see below.
Important
Dates
Submission deadline: March 30, 2007
Notification of
acceptance: April 30, 2007
Camera-ready paper deadline: May 25,
2007
Scheduled publication date: June-July, 2007
Guest
Editors
Monique Calisti, mca@whitestein.com, Whitestein
Technologies AG, Switzerland
Sven van der Meer, vdmeer@tssg.org,
WIT/TSSG, Ireland
John Strassner, john.strassner@motorola.com, Motorola
Labs, USA
About the Whitestein Series
This series
reports new developments in software agent technologies and autonomic computing,
with particular emphasis on applications in a variety of scientific and
industrial domains. The spectrum of the series includes research monographs,
high quality notes resulting from research and industrial projects, outstanding
Ph.D. theses, and the proceedings of carefully selected conferences.
The
series is targeted at promoting advanced research and facilitating know-how
transfer to industrial use. The series is published by Birkhäuser, a renowned
high quality publishing subsidiary of the Springer Group.
More
information about the series is available at:
http://www.whitestein.com/pages/research/wtseries.html