To deal with the increasing complexity of large–scale computer systems, computers must learn to manage themselves, in accordance with high–level guidance from humans and a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. <SPAN class=Text>The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC–08) is to bring together researchers and practitioners to address all aspects of self–management in computing systems. In doing so, we will continue to develop and nurture a growing community that can work together to realize the vision of scalable self–managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin and Jacksonville.</SPAN><B>Keywords:</B> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Autonomic computing systems</STRONG> that exhibit autonomic characteristics, such as self–configuration, self–optimization, self–healing, self–protection, and self–governance. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Fundamental scientific aspects of self–managing systems:</STRONG> understanding, controlling, and/or exploiting emergent behavior; methods to automate manual operations; implementation of new device, network and system functionality; behavior orchestration. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Software architectures</STRONG> for self–managing systems, based on appropriate supporting technologies such as Grid Services, agent–based systems, Web Services, model–based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social computing. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>System–level technologies, middleware or services</STRONG> that entail interactions among two or more elements of self–managing components, devices and systems. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies</STRONG> for building self–managing components, systems and applications. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Self–managing components</STRONG>, such as server, storage, network, mobile device, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalized to other components. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Interfaces to autonomic systems</STRONG>, including user interfaces, mechanisms for controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Applications of autonomic systems</STRONG> with respect to future Internet and other next generation architectures. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>Experiences with autonomic systems or component prototypes</STRONG>: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large–scale deployments of self– managing systems or applications. </SPAN> <LI><SPAN class=Text><STRONG>General management topics</STRONG>, such as minimization of power/energy consumption, modeling of communications entities (e.g., SLAs), negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, tie in with IT governance, and legacy system support. </SPAN></LI>
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