CALL FOR PAPERS (Text version)

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

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are requested to submit 12-page original contributions in PDF via the "Paper Submission" link of this web site. Self-plagiarized papers and multiple submissions will be rejected.

The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. If accepted, the camera-ready copy of each paper will have to comply with the typesetting instructions available from the Springer LNCS Author web site. Note that a paper does not have to follow this style for submission; however, being aware of the LNCS requirements may help save extra work later.

Enhanced versions of the best papers will be published in a special issue of IEEE e-Transactions on Network and Service Management.