1st International Workshop on Agent technology and Autonomic Computing ATAC 2006 Deadline extended to May 28, 2006

Aims and scope Call for Papers

Agent technology is one of the most prominent and attractive technologies in computer science at the beginning of the new millenium. It is not only a promising technology, but it is also emerging as a new way of thinking : a conceptual paradigm for analyzing problems and for designing systems, for dealing with complexity, distribution, and interactivity while providing a new perspective on computing and intelligence. Recently, an interest has been witnessed in computing community to autonomic computing. Inspired by the functioning of the human nervous systems, autonomic computing is to design and build computing systems that posses inherent self-managing capabilities. While autonomic computing is a quite new revolutionary move to the discipline of computing and so far a holistic solution has not yet appeared, we think that agent technology is already available for being integrated into the framework of autonomic computing. We look primarily in this workshop for ideas that foster the link between agent technology and autonomic computing. Theoretical as well as practical aspects are welcome. The organisers welcome participation and contributions from those working or interested in the intersection of agent technology and autonomic computing.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest for ATAC '06 include, but are not limited to :

Agents for autonomic systems
Agents in self-healing
Agents in self-optimization
Agents in self-cofiguration
Agents in self-protection
Agent computing versus autonomic computing
Applications domains of agent technology and autonomic computing

Submission procedure and formatting guidelines

Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format to Walid.Chainbi(at)lycos.com by the deadline given below in the list of important dates. The contributions should be named as contact-author-surname.pdf (example: gregory.pdf). Papers should be written in english with a maximum of 12 pages. Accepted papers will be published in a workshop note and distributed among participants during the workshop. Depending on the quality of contributions, we are planning to publish a post-proceedings of the papers either as a book or a aspecial issue of an international journal.

Workshop Chair

Dr. Walid Chainbi
ENIS
Département d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées
B.P.W. -3038- Sfax - TUNISIA
E-mail: Walid.Chainbi(at)lycos.com

Important Dates

May 28, 2006 submission due
June 23, 2066 Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2006 camera-ready due

Program Committee

Name	Organisation	Country
Walt Truszkowski	NASA Goaddard Space Flight Center	USA
Walid Chainbi	Ecole Nationale des Ingénieurs de Sfax	Tunesien
Rainer Unland	Universität Duisburg-Essen	Deutschland
Cherif Branki	University of Paisley	Großbritannien
Hans Czap	Universität Trier	Deutschland
Cosimo Anglano	University del Piemonte Orientale	Italien
David Chess	Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM Research Division	USA
Roy Sterritt	University of Ulster at Jordanstown	Nordirland
Manish Parashar	The State University of New Jersey	USA
Salim Hariri	University of Arizona	USA
Dominic Greenwood	Whitestein Technologies AG	Schweiz