CALL FOR PAPERS SelfMan 2006 Second IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems & Services Dublin, Ireland, 16 June 2006 http://research.ihost.com/selfman2006/ co-located with ICAC 2006 http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/icac2006/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (TF-AAS) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). In cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGART and IEEE SMC. As the networks, systems and services that sustain our day-to-day IT and communication infrastructures become increasingly complex, traditional solutions to manage and control them seem to have reached their limits. Researchers are thus testing alternate paradigms to organize these infrastructures. In recent years, self-* principles have raised much interest in integrated management, networking, distributed systems and software engineering. This interest builds on the success already encountered by self-organized and self-adaptive systems in distributed artificial intelligence, material science, thermodynamics, etc. During this workshop, we wish to gather people with different backgrounds to analyze and discuss the potential of self-* technologies for managing and controlling networks, systems and services. Areas of interest include self-management, self-organization, self-adaptability, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair and self-configuration. For instance, workshop contributions could describe success stories in a specific field, while others could make analogies between several fields, and yet others could propose new ideas or thought-provoking solutions to old/new problems. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - self-managed networks, systems and services - self-organization in P2P applications - self-organized ad hoc and sensor networks - self-adaptive applications - self-repairing distributed systems - self-configured networks - self-organized service deployment - application of IT process models and service flows to self-management - biologically inspired networks and systems - context awareness and self-adaptation - self-adaptive e-business services - autonomic networking - goals and policies for self-managed networks and systems - decision making in self-* systems - case studies with self-* systems The structure of this one-day workshop will encourage discussions and foster collaborations. Attendance will be limited to 60 participants. Authors are requested to submit 12-page original contributions in PDF via the workshop website. Self-plagiarized papers and multiple submissions will be rejected. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Enhanced versions of the best papers will be published in a special issue of IEEE e-Transactions on Network and Service Management (http://www.etnsm.org/). SelfMan 2006 will follow up on the successful SelfMan 2005 workshop that took place in Nice, France (http://madyne.loria.fr/selfman2005/). Co-Chairs: Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Steering Committee: Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK Program Committee: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Jim Dowling, MySQL, Sweden David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Joe Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Michael Hinchey, NASA, USA Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Italy Randy Katz, University of California, Berkeley, USA Robert Laddaga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Ian Marshall, University of Kent, UK Radhika Nagpal, Harvard University, USA George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Paul Robertson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Jerry Rolia, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK Juergen Schoenwaelder, International University Bremen, Germany Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Important Dates: Submission deadline: 8 February 2006 (firm deadline) Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2006 Final paper due: 30 March 2006 Business Sponsors (Corporate Patrons): Cisco Systems, BT