SAC 2009

Call for Papers

SAC ’09 – 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Special Track on Autonomic and Cloud Computing

March 8 – 12, 2009
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USAl

Track CO-CHAIRS

Rajiv Ramnath, Ohio State University, USA

Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India

Mark Weitzel, IBM Corp.

Organizational Chair

Rajiv Ramnath, The Ohio State University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India
Sandip Bapat, Samraksh LLC
Thomas Bihari, Nationwide Insurance
Greg Eisenhauer, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Neeran Karnik, Symantec Corp.
Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research, India Jay Ramanathan, The Ohio State University Soumitra Sarkar, IBM
Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani, West Virginia University

SUBMISSIONS

ONLY Electronic submissions will be accepted. Please submit papers here:

In case of any issues, please contact the track chairs at:

Umesh Bellur: umesh@it.iitb.ac.in

Rajiv Ramnath ramnath@cse.ohio-state.edu

Mark Weitzel mweitzel@us.ibm.com

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.

The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced).

A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track NOR should it be under review in any other forum.

SAC '09

Over the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. For additional information, please check the SAC web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009

Autonomic and Cloud Computing Track

Autonomic computing been identified as one of the “grand challenges” of computer applications for the next decade. The AC track will center on self-managing environments and applications.

This track, now in its third year at ACM SAC, was started with the express intention of providing a forum for presenting research on infrastructure management.  As with last year, it’s been an outstanding success receiving high quality papers from all parts of the world (although primarily from the Americas and Europe).  In SAC 2008, the selected papers dealt with a wide variety of autonomic computing issues including those listed below:

1.Software engineering of self-testable autonomic software to self-healing wireless sensor network testbeds.
2. Inducting self-healing properties into wireless sensor network testbeds.
3. Formal specification of swarm based missions using the Autonomic System Specification Language (ASSL).
4. Formalisms for the specification of deployment and management policies in autonomic systems.

For the next year, however, year we would like to especially focus on “cloud computing” and dynamic data centers. IT is undergoing a change not seen since the move from mainframes to client-server.Author Nicholas Carr calls this The Big Switch, and says that it will turn computing into "a cheap, universal commodity." Traditional software applications run in enterprise data centers are being replaced by two industry-changing innovations. First, Software as a Service lets business departments turn up mission-critical applications. Second, companies can build their own applications SaaS and Cloud Computing on platforms - like Amazon's EC2/S3 - that give them full flexibility without the headaches of IT operations. This track looks at the challenges of provisioning applications with on-demand infrastructure, and examines the use of on-demand software applications. Both are essential for IT professionals hoping to survive and thrive in this fundamental change.

Related topics may include but are not limited to:

· New technologies and methodologies supporting for system management, such as the modeling and specification of service level agreements (SLA), negotiation or conversation support, SLA violation detection and behavior enforcement.

· Interfaces, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies.

· Experience reports: Measurements, evaluations, or analysis of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of self- managing systems or applications.

·Security, trust and privacy issues in clouds: challenges, models for privacy management, tradeoff between security and other criteria, adaptation to changes in threats, intrusion detection, security and trust models.

· The tie in of IT governance to autonomic computing systems - the translating of high-level business and governance policies to low-level operating level agreements, and generally dealing with the evolution of autonomic computing systems.

· Sustainability of data centers – issues such as power, cooling

·  Virtualization techniques and experiences within clouds.

We invite both experience reports as well as research papers. Industry has taken a leadership position in this domain; hence we especially invite papers that describe enterprises-scale implementations and their challenges. The aims here are to foster interesting discussions between the industry and academia as well as between system designers.

We are certain that these issues afford rich opportunities for research and that this track will continue to be a success in future editions of ACM SAC.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers and posters will appear in the Ssymposium proceedings. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review or one of the other participating SIGs' publications.

IMPORTANT DATES

Aug. 23, 2008: Paper submissions

Oct. 11, 2008: Author notification

Oct. 25, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy Due