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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><b>Feedback Computing 2012</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The 7th International Workshop on Feedback Computing</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://www.feedbackcomputing.org">http://www.feedbackcomputing.org</a></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">In conjunction with ICAC</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">San Jose, California, USA</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">September 17, 2012</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">(</font><font size="2" color="#FF0000" face="sans-serif">Paper Submission Date: June 15, 2012</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Following the success of the FeBID workshops over the past six years, we debut the Feedback Computing workshop: a unique forum built around the concepts and technologies of applying, analyzing, designing, and exploiting feedback in computing systems. The creation of this new workshop represents the growing use of feedback in a broader agenda and is a timely response to the following two trends: (1) Computing systems are growing larger, smarter, and more complex, and encompass new fields such as cyber-physical systems, social networks, and mobile applications. While much existing work focuses on individual components and systems, it is time to take a more systematic approach and address the dynamical complexity of interactions that arise system-wide with much large scale. (2) Many research disciplines such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, automatic control, cyber-physical systems, and autonomic computing rely on feedback to achieve goals such as autonomy, learning, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or performance optimization. However, much of existing work focuses on isolated disciplines. It is time to take a more holistic approach and address the foundations and use of feedback, broadly defined, in computing.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Feedback Computing calls for a holistic and systematic technology to study both feedback-based design patterns as well as theoretical foundations of feedback in computing. Aiming to raise community awareness and to promote the fusion of multiple disciplines and practices, this workshop might lay out the ground work for building a new generation of collaborative computing systems that are adaptive, resilient, and agile, while remaining stable and robust. Application topics include but are not limited to: </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Internet services </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Virtualized environments </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Cloud computing </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Data center resource, power, and cooling management</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Mobile applications</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Sensor networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Cyber-physical systems</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Social networks</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Software performance engineering </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- Data management systems</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- High performance computing environments</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The workshop seeks original contributions on foundations or applications of feedback in computing systems. We encourage both research paper submissions expressing new research directions with the promise of producing a pipeline of papers, and application paper submissions elaborating the challenges and experiences from real systems. In addition, the workshop will leverage extended coffee breaks and lunch break to arrange special meetings and to discuss collaborative research agenda built among the participants. </font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><b>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</b></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Authors are invited to submit both research papers and application papers to emphasize the bi-fold focuses of this workshop. </font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif">[Research Papers]</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Paper submissions must represent original, unpublished contributions. All submissions should be formatted according to the standard ACM two-column proceeding guidelines and not exceed 6 pages in length. Manuscript templates are available for download at </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">.</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif">[Application Papers]</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Paper submissions must be based on real experience and working systems. All submissions should be formatted as annotated slides - a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half – and not exceed 15 slides in length.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">All papers are to be submitted through the workshop website (</font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://www.feedbackcomputing.org">http://www.feedbackcomputing.org</a></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">) in PDF files. There will be NO copyright-transferred formal proceedings for the workshop. Accepted papers will be available on the workshop website under authors’ permission.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">One Best Paper Award and one Best Application Paper Award will be announced at the end of workshop to recognize the current best work in Feedback Computing. </font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Paper submission: Jun 15, 2012</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Author notification: Jul 27, 2012</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Final paper due: Aug 24, 2012</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Workshop: Sep 17, 2012</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#0000FF" face="sans-serif"><b>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</b></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">General Chair</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Program Co-Chairs</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Zhikui Wang (HP Labs)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Publicity Co-Chairs</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Xiaoyun Zhu (VMWare)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Matina Maggio (Lund University)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Steering Committee</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Joseph L. Hellerstein (Google)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Anders Robertsson (Lund University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Xiaoyun Zhu (VMWare)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Program Committee</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Sherif Abdelwahed (Mississippi State University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Karl-Erik Arzen (Lund University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Christos Cassandras (Boston University) </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Anton Cervin (Lund University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Chris Gill (Washington University in St. Louis)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Maria Kihl (Lund University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Jeffrey Kephart (IBM Research)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Charles R Lefurgy (IBM Research)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Xue Liu (McGill University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Ying Lu (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Arif Merchant (Google) </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Pradeep Padala (VMWare)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Sharad Singhal (HP Labs)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Eric Rutten (INRIA Grenoble)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Mark Squillante (IBM Research)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Eduardo Tovar (Polytechnic Institute of Porto)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"> Qian Wang (Pennsylvania State University)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Feedback Computing 2012: The 7th International Workshop on Feedback Computing</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">17 September 2012, San Jose, California, USA</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://www.feedbackcomputing.org">http://www.feedbackcomputing.org</a></font><br>
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