AIMS 2007

Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security

June 21-23 2007

International conference in cooperation with the ACM

Oslo University College Oslo, Norway

Sponsored by the EC IST-EMANICS Network of Excellence (#26854)

ORIGINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Major topics of interest for AIMS include, but are not limited to:
  • Application Services
    • Clustering techniques and technologies
    • Task scheduling
    • Load sharing and balancing
  • Autonomous Infrastructure Management
    • Learning and adaptive systems
    • Voluntary cooperation and autonomous control
    • Control theory and feedback
    • Security models
    • Epidemic models for dissemination and infection
    • Multi-agent systems
    • Swarming applied to autonomics
  • Contemporary Network and System Administration
    • Practice, State of the Art
    • Evaluation, analysis and critcism
    • Integrating and replacing legacy systems
    • Simplifying current models.
  • Distributed and decentralized systems
    • Parallel and distributed architectures
    • Wireless and mobile computing
    • Peer to peer systems
    • Ad hoc networks
  • Economics of Infrastructure Management
    • Service Level Agreements
    • Charging mechanisms and models
    • Auction methods
    • Peering models
    • Voluntary cooperation
    • Business process modeling
    • Reputation systems
  • Modelling / Tools for system management
    • Configuration management
    • Protocol designs
    • Promise theory
    • Policy based management
    • Visualization of networks / vast infrastructures
  • Security
    • Reliable and predictable systems
    • Robust infrastructure
    • Risk analysis in networks
    • Access / Authority / Trust models
  • Virtualization of resources and services
    • Virtualization models
    • Virtualization technologies, such as Xen or UML
    • Applications Domains, e.g., Grids

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline for submissions 12th Feb 2007
  • Notification to Authors 26th Mar 2007
  • Camera ready 6th Apr 2007