<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement!<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>ACM CAC 2013 - Call for Participation<br>----------------------------------------------------</div><div><br>The ACM Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing<br>August 5 to August 8, 2013<br>InterContinental Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA<br><a href="http://www.autonomic-conference.org">http://www.autonomic-conference.org</a><br><br>Overview<br>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><br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>Conference Tracks and Workshops<br><br>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. <br><br>Autonomic Cloud Computing: Vice Chair Rosa M. Badia<br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Self-management cloud services<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Autonomic cloud applications and services<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Cloud workload characterization and prediction<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Monitoring and analysis of behavior of cloud resources and services<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analysis autonomic computing systems and services<br></div><br>Autonomics for Extreme Scales: Vice Chair Gregor von Laszewski<br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Very large and extreme scale autonomic systems<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Self-optimizing and self-healing at very large and extreme scale<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Self-managing middleware and tools for very large and extreme scales<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at very large and extreme scales <br></div><br>Autonomic Cybersecurity: Vice Chair Sherif Abdelwahed<br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks, and applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Metrics to evaluate and performance of self-protection algorithms<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Data mining, stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Metrics to characterize and quantify the cybersecurity algorithms (confidentiality, integrity, and availability of autonomic systems)<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Datasets and benchmarks to compare and evaluate different self-protection techniques<br></div><br>Autonomic Tools and Applications: Vice Chair Jim Dowling<br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• High performance autonomic applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Self* applications in science and engineering<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Self* Human Machine Interface<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Full visibility into the behavior of autonomic systems and services<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services<br></div><br>The conference program and keynote speakers can be found at <a href="http://www.autonomic-conference.org">http://www.autonomic-conference.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The online registration website can be found at <a href="http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1221234">http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1221234</a><br><br><br>Conference Organizers<br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE:<br>Manish Parashar (Chair), Rutgers University, USA<br>Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA<br>John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, USA<br>Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA<br><br>GENERAL CHAIR:<br>Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA <br><br>PC CHAIR:<br>Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA<br><br>PC VICE CHAIRS:<br>Autonomic Cloud Computing Vice Chair:<br>Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain<br>Autonomic Cybersecurity Vice Chair:<br>Sherif Abdelwahed, Mississippi State University, USA<br>Autonomics for Extreme Scales Vice Chair:<br>Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA<br>Autonomic Tools and Applications Vice Chair:<br>Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden<br><br>WORKSHOP CHAIR:<br>Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA<br><br>POSTER/DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR:<br>Andres Quiroz, XEROX, USA<br><br>PHD FORUM CHAIR:<br>Yeliang Zhang, University of Arizona, USA<br><br>INDUSTRY CHAIR:<br>John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, USA<br><br>PUBLICITY CHAIRS:<br>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA<br>Erick Passos, Technological University, Brazil<br>Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University, USA<br>David Villegas, IBM, USA<br><br>PUBLICATION CHAIR:<br>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA<br><br>LOCAL CHAIR:<br>Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA<br><br>LOCAL ORGANIZER:<br>Martha Gutierrez, Florida International University, USA<br><br>SPONSORS<br> ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) <br> NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing<br> University of Arizona<br> Florida International University<br><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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">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: (732) 993-8837</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></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></body></html>