Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems (EASe 2004)	[CFP-PDF]
11th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2004) May 24-27, 2004 Brno, Czech Republic http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/events/ECBS2004/

Organizers Roy Sterritt University of Ulster, NI Ted Bapty Vanderbilt University, USA Program Committee David F. Bantz, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Dave Bustard. University of Ulster, NI Torsten Eymann, University of Freiburg, Germany David Garlan CMU, USA Mike Hinchey NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Bud Lawson Lawson Konsult AB, Sweden Sam Lightstone IBM Canada Julie A. McCann Imperial College, UK Manish Parashar Rutgers University, USA Fabrice Saffre BT Exact, UK Mark Shackleton BT Exact, UK Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian, UK Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Keith Whisnant Sun Microsystems Inc, USA plus Organizers

ECBS 2004 will be the 11^th formal IEEE sponsored meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques and tools for the engineering of computer-based systems. This emerging discipline is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. CBSs are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes. The rapidly growing complexity of integrating and managing computing systems threatens to overwhelm the capabilities of even the most expert systems and software developers and administrators. Autonomic Systems is emerging as a significant new strategic and holistic approach to the design of computer-based systems. Its goal is the production of systems that are self-managing through key aspects such as self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting and self-optimizing, in effect bringing pre-emptive and proactive approaches to all areas of a computer-based system. Major software and system vendors such as IBM (Autonomic Computing), HP (Adaptive Infrastructure), Sun (N1) and Microsoft (Dynamic Systems Initiative) are concluding that the only viable long-term solution is to create computer systems that manage themselves. To meet this challenge, Autonomic Systems requires a Systems and Software Engineering context as well as extensive collaboration of other fields such as AI. The purpose of the workshop is to develop a research agenda for Autonomic Systems from an ECBS perspective. Accordingly, it will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify major problem domains, match mature technologies to current problems, and chart the trajectory of inter-disciplinary research techniques that can be applied in Autonomic Systems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Architectures, frameworks, components, tools, environments, languages, applications and lessons for Autonomic and Self-Managing Systems development from ECBS disciplines perspective such as systems engineering, software engineering, fault-tolerant computing, safety-critical systems, dependable systems, adaptive systems, self-healing systems and adaptive user interfaces. Full papers: maximum 10 pages, for Author Guidelines see Computer Society instructions at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm or the ECBS web site. Position papers: similar scheme-full paper (10 pages) or short paper (2 pages) Important dates 30^th Nov. 2003 Submission of full papers (for publishing in IEEE ECBS proceedings) 30^th Jan. 2004 Notification of acceptance 15^th Feb. 2004 Camera-ready paper 1^st Mar. 2004 Submission of position papers (for workshop proceedings only) Submissions MS Word, PDF or PS documents to r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk or bapty@isis.vanderbilt.edu [CFP-PDF]