[AISWorld] 1st IEEE/ACM Workshop on Autonomic Computing for Economics

Mon Jan 24 03:27:13 EST 2011

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C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

1st IEEE/ACM Workshop on Autonomic Computing for Economics

The workshop is co-located with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Karlsruhe, Germany between the 14th-18th of June. The workshop will be held on the 14th. 

Papers due: February 21st 2011

Submission Portal: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ace20111

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Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in, and submit papers to, the 1st IEEE/ACM Workshop on Autonomic Computing for Economics. This workshop is intended as a venue for researchers interested in economic models for autonomic systems, the use of autonomic computing to simulate and/or create novel economic models and mechanisms and where autonomic capabilities play a critical role in (business) applications that fuel or require economically-driven decisions.

Whilst the marriage of economic theory within many computing paradigms, such as grid and cloud computing is prevalent, this coupling is yet to visibly demonstrate its authority in autonomic computing and be put into practice. There are many scenarios where economic models, mechanisms and scenarios require the self-* abilities of autonomic computing. For example, in SLA scenarios autonomic behaviour can be essential for consumers and providers to avoid economic penalties and sanctions, market platforms such as the awaited market place for the Internet of Services, require autonomic capabilities in order to manage both financial and computational resources of the market infrastructure, perform failure recovery and to evolve and adapt over time, in bidding or competitive scenarios where autonomic models can stimulate changes in behaviour and actions. We see an unanswered demand for new models and mechanisms that combine and elaborate upon these two heterogeneous disciplines.

Accepted papers in this workshop and the subsequent discussions are envisaged to address one of the following two key research areas:

   1. How market and economic models can be used to support systems management. As markets provide a useful basis for autonomic self-regulation. Here, the idea is to better understand how economic models and mechanisms can be used for systems management. This could include, but is not limited to:

          * fault tolerance (self regulation)

          * charging mechanisms, and

          * various aspects of "utility"

   2. How can we look at the economics (pricing, costing, etc) of autonomic systems -- this relates to issues such as charging for computational and data resources in outsourced environments (such as in Clouds and other resource management systems).

Ultimately, this workshop attempts to bring together an emerging community of researchers in economics and autonomic computing to capture the state of the art research in autonomic economics and discuss the reasons for the research gap. The workshop will addresses new methodologies, simulations and applications where researchers use autonomic approaches to foster new economic scenarios, decisions, mechanisms and models.

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KEY AREAS OF INTEREST

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    * Market models as an autonomic paradigm

    * Market-based systems management

    * Economic models for autonomic computing

    * Economic models for distributed systems management

    * Analysing Self-* properties of electronic markets & economic systems

    * Implementing sustainable electronic markets

    * Fault tolerance and resilient behaviours based on market concepts

    * Economic and market models with autonomic capabilities

    * Autonomic Management of Economic Scenarios, e.g. SLAs and Outsourcing decisions, pricing/charging models, etc.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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    * Papers due: February 21st 2011

    * Author notification: March 14th 2011

    * Camera-ready final papers due: April 15th 2011

    * Workshop takes place on: June 14-18, 2011

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SUBMISSION DETAILS

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Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another workshop, conference or journal. Original papers, no longer than 8 two-column pages (including figures and references), are invited. Please use the ACM format (available: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and submit your paper in PDF format, through the easyChair system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ace20111).

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop themes. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop, and pay the full conference fee, plus any associated workshop. The proceedings of ICAC workshops will be published by ACM, in digital form, and will be distributed at the conference on a memory stick.

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS

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    * Simon Caton, KIT, Germany

    * Dirk Neumann, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany

    * Omer Rana, Cardiff Univesity, UK

    * Rizos Sakellariou, Manchester University, UK

    * Christof Weinhardt, KIT, Germany

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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    * Anandasivam, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,

    * Ivona Brandic, Technical University of Vienna,

    * Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth

    * Heiko Ludwig, IBM Almaden

    * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University

    * Thomas Setzer, Technical University of Munich

    * Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

    * Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Stockholm

Kind regards,

Simon Caton

Dirk Neumann

Omer Rana

Rizos Sakellariou

Christof Weinhardt

Dr. Simon J. Caton

Head of the Cloud Services Research Divison
Institute for Information Systems and Management (IISM)

Senior Researcher
Karlsruhe Services Research Institute (KSRI) 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Englerstraße 14, Geb. 11.40
76131 Karlsruhe

Phone: +49 721 608-5774
Fax: +49 721 608-8399

E-Mail: simon.caton at kit.edu <mailto:simon.caton at kit.edu> 
URL: www.kit.edu <http://www.kit.edu/> ; www.iism.kit.edu <http://www.iism.kit.edu/> ; www.ksri.kit.edu <http://www.ksri.kit.edu/>  

KIT - Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und nationales 
Forschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

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