1st International Workshop on Agent technology and Autonomic Computing -ATAC 2006
Deadline extended to May 28, 2006
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, 2006 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 |
Tunisia |
| Rainer Unland |
University of Duisburg-Essen |
Germany |
| Cherif Branki |
University of Paisley |
United Kingdom |
| Hans Czap |
University of Trier |
Germany |
| Cosimo Anglano |
University del Piemonte Orientale |
Italy |
| David Chess |
Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM Research Division |
USA |
| Roy Sterritt |
University of Ulster at Jordanstown |
Northern Ireland |
| Manish Parashar |
The State University of New Jersey |
USA |
| Salim Hariri |
University of Arizona |
USA |
| Dominic Greenwood |
Whitestein Technologies AG |
Switzerland |
 
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