<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="p1">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="p1">Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP!</p><p class="p1">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p></div><div><br></div><div><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7785521831829101" style="font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">ACM CAC 2013 - Call for Papers</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">---------------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The ACM Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> July 29 to August 2, 2013</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Eden Roc Renaissance, Miami Beach, Florida, USA</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> <a href="http://acm-cac2013.cis.fiu.edu/">http://acm-cac2013.cis.fiu.edu/</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Important Dates</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Paper submission due: March 15, 2013, 11:59 pm EST</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Notification to authors: April 26, 2013</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> Final paper due: May 10, 2013</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Overview</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Recent advances in computing, networking, software and mobile technologies have led to the development of cyberspace services that are pervasive and ubiquitous and that touch all aspects of life and economy. Through such advances, cloud and autonomic services will revolutionize the way we do business, maintain our health, conduct education, and how we secure, protect, inform and entertain ourselves. <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Along with these advances, however, we are experiencing strong challenges to our ability to ensure that our cyberspace resources and services are properly regulated, under appropriate review and control, manageable and secure. The insertion of increasingly automated processes and procedures into normal workflows for personal, scientific and business transactions requires extreme care in design of these systems to ensure that such challenges are properly met.</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The main focus of the CAC is to be the premier international forum to present the latest research, applications, and technologies to make cloud and autonomic computing systems and services easy to design, to deploy and to implement, while achieving the simultaneous goals to be self-manageable, self-regulating and scalable with little involvement of human or system administrators. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Conference Tracks and Workshops</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The CAC conference main topics are grouped into four special tracks: Autonomic Cloud Computing; Autonomics for Extreme Scales; Autonomic Cybersecurity; and Autonomic Tools and Applications. Program vice-chairs in each of these research areas will coordinate the efforts regarding papers focused in these tracks. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic Cloud Computing</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Vice Chair Rosa M. Badia</span><br><ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Self-management cloud services</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic cloud applications and services</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Cloud workload characterization and prediction</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Monitoring and analysis of behavior of cloud resources and services</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analysis autonomic computing systems and services</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomics for Extreme Scales</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Vice Chair Gregor von Laszewski</span><br><ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Very large and extreme scale autonomic systems</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Self-optimizing and self-healing at very large and extreme scale</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Self-managing middleware and tools for very large and extreme scales</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at very large and extreme scales </span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic Cybersecurity</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Vice Chair Sherif Abdelwahed</span><br><ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks, and applications</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Metrics to evaluate and performance of self-protection algorithms</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Data mining, stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Metrics to characterize and quantify the cybersecurity algorithms (confidentiality, integrity, and availability of autonomic systems)</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Datasets and benchmarks to compare and evaluate different self-protection techniques</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic Tools and Applications</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Vice Chair Jim Dowling</span><br><ul style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">High performance autonomic applications</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Self* applications in science and engineering</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Self* Human Machine Interface</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Full visibility into the behavior of autonomic systems and services</span></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">In addition, a series of workshops will be planned for presentation of tutorials, focused special topics and material otherwise suited for a workshop setting.</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Paper Submission</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report experiences, measurements, and user studies, and to provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation. Previously published papers and/or papers under review are unacceptable. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Both full and short papers must follow the official </span><a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates" style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">ACM proceedings format</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> with strict adherence to SIGS style (i.e., Option 1). Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submission form, which soon will be available at the conference web site. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that summarizes and highlights the main points of their paper (see below). Extended versions of the best papers will be considered for a special section of TAAS and a special issue in Cluster Computing Journal. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Plagiarism Policy</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Respecting intellectual property rights is a foundational principle of the ACM's Codes of Ethics. Plagiarism, in which one misrepresents ideas, words, computer codes, or other creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation of such ethical principles. Plagiarism can also represent a punishable violation of copyright law. Plagiarism manifests itself in a variety of forms, including verbatim copying, near-verbatim copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without citing the source. Proper citing; i.e., accurate use of quotations marks and differentiating copied text from original, is imperative. Copying elements, such as equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, is also plagiarism. For more information, please visit ACM Plagiarism Policy.</span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Acceptance Policy</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify the conference organizers. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 10, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the conference Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Posters, Demonstrations, and Exhibitions</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">A poster, demonstration, and exhibition session consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that demonstrate autonomic software or autonomic computing principles will be included in the conference. More information will be available soon. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PhD Thesis Digest Forum</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Current PhD students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing are invited to submit a short summary (up to 2 pages) of their theses. Top selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum during the conference. More information will be available soon. </span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Conference Organizers</span><br><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">STEERING COMMITTEE:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Manish Parashar (Chair), Rutgers University, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">GENERAL CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA </span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PC CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PC VICE CHAIRS:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic Cloud Computing Vice Chair:</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic Cybersecurity Vice Chair:</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sherif Abdelwahed, Mississippi State University, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomics for Extreme Scales Vice Chair:</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Autonomic Tools and Applications Vice Chair:</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">WORKSHOP CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">POSTER/DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Andres Quiroz, XEROX, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PHD FORUM CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yeliang Zhang, University of Arizona, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">INDUSTRY CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PUBLICITY CHAIRS:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Erick Passos, Technological University, Brazil</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">David Villegas, IBM, USA</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">PUBLICATION CHAIR:</span><br style="font-family: Times; "><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">LOCAL CHAIR:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA</span></div><b><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></b><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">LOCAL ORGANIZER:</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Martha Gutierrez, Florida International University, USA</span></div><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">SPONSORS</span><br><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) </span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing</span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> University of Arizona</span></div><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> Florida International University</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></span></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">=============================================================<br>Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) <br>NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 <br>94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Phone: (848) 228-6474</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Fax: (732) 445-0593</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu<br>WWW: <a href="http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero">http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero</a><br>=============================================================</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<br></body></html>