------------AMS 2003-----------
		            Autonomic Computing Workshop
            5th Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services
                            June 25th, 2003, Seattle WA
                          http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/ams2003

   (In conjunction with the 12th International Symposium on 
	High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 12))

                                     CALL FOR PAPERS


The increasing complexity of networks, services and applications has
necessitated investigating the design, development and deployment of
active systems, services and applications that are capable of
autonomic existence - i.e. they are self-defining, self-configuring,
self-optimizing, self-protecting, self-healing, context aware and
anticipatory. The 5th Annual International Active Middleware Workshop
will focus on the Autonomic Computing and will bring together leading
researches and ideas in this emerging discipline. The scope of the
workshop includes the following and other related areas:

- Autonomic, dynamic data-driven, pervasive applications
- Autonomic and pervasive Grids
- Programming paradigms applications development support for active and autonomous environments
- Composition and interaction models of autonomic and pervasive applications
- Bio-system analogs in autonomic computing
- Integrative theories and frameworks for autonomic computing
- Multi-agent systems and scout systems 
- Policy engines and deductive shells
- Autonomic/Peer-to-peer/Context-aware middleware services
- Security services and models for autonomous applications and active environments
- Trust management in autonomic and active environments
- Runtime and management issues in autonomic and active environments
asive environments
- Active networks and storage as grid computing resources
- Multi-resolution modeling for scalable applications

PAPER SUBMISSIONS 

AMS 2003 invites authors to submit original and unpublished
work. Please submit extended abstracts (5 pages maximum, IEEE CA
format). Electronic submission is strongly encouraged.  Hard copies
will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. Any questions concerning hardcopy
submissions or any other issues may be directed to the Program Chair.

PUBLICATION

The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society
Press and distributed at the conference.

SPECIAL ISSUE

The 6 best papers in the workshop's focus area of Autonomic Computing
will be chosen for journal-length papers in a special issue of Cluster
Computing, The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please contact the Program Chair: Manish
Parashar, <parashar@caip.rutgers.edu>

IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative)
- Submission deadline: February 28, 2003
- Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2003
- Final Manuscript due: April 07, 2003
- Workshop: June 25, 2003

Sponsored by:
- IBM Corporation
- National Science Foundation
- Society for Modeling and Simulation Intl.
- WINLAB, Rutgers University
- CAT, University of Arizona
- Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling & Simulation
- University of Southern California
- In corporation with IEEE & IEEE Computer Society
	
GENERAL C0-CHAIRS
- S. Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA
- C. S. Raghavendra, Univ. of Southern California, USA

PROGRAM CHAIR
- Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA (parashar@caip.rutgers.edu)

STEERING COMMITTEE
- Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA
- Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
- David Ogle, IBM Corporation, USA (Acting Chair)
- Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA
- C. S. Raghavendra, Univ. of Southern California, USA
- Peter Reiher, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
- Bernard P. Zeigler, Univ. of Arizona, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR
- Yoonhee Kim, Sookmyung Women's Univ., S. Korea

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Prathima Agrawal, Telcordia Technologies, USA
- Micah Beck, Univ. of Tennessee, USA
- Steve Berson, ISI/ Univ. of Southern California, USA
- Rajkumar Buyya, Monash Univ., Australia
- Munehiro Fukuda, Univ. Of Washington, Bothell, USA
- Virginie Galtier, IAAI, France
- Bala Iyer, IBM, USA
- Yoonhee Kim, Sookmyung Women's Univ., S. Korea
- Alexander V. Konstantinou, Columbia Univ., USA
- Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
- Douglas Maughan, DARPA, USA
- Kevin Mills, NIST
- Hilarie Orman, Purple Streak Development, USA
- Maximilian A. Ott, Semandex, USA
- Jens-Peter Redlich, NEC, USA
- Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Vaidy Sunderam, Emory Univ., USA
- Jon Weissman, Univ. of Minnesota, USA