(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) San Jose, California, USA October 29-30th 2007 http://magellan.tssg.org/2007/mace/mace.php (Held as part of Manweek 2007 - http://www.manweek.org) CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) will be held from October 29-30th 2007 in San Jose, California, USA. The workshop will be technically sponsored (confirmation pending) by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). As part of Manweek 2007 MACE will be co-located with four other events: the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2007); the 7th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007); the 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007); and the 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Virtualization Grid Networking and Management (EVGM 2007). The MACE workshop aims to promote the realisation of Autonomic Communications Environments (ACEs) Â* service-centric environments exhibiting self-governing behaviour. Within an ACE, services will be created that are self-aware and self-healing. In their deployment, they will be self-adapting, self-optimising and self-configuring; and in operation they will be self-protecting, self-managing and self-composing. These features will enable ACE services to adapt to changing business needs and environmental conditions without manual intervention. Realisation of this vision represents a significant challenge for the networking and computer science research communities, requiring advances in disparate areas ranging, for example, from software modeling to network security, and from machine learning to performance optimisation. M ACE 2007 will bring together researchers from academia and industry in a workshop setting in which research challenges can be identified, ideas for potential solutions exchanged, and research results discussed. Topics of interest for paper submission include, but are not limited to: - Advances in Modelling and Meta-Modelling; - Governance Models (incl. Policy-based Management); - Methodologies (incl. Lifecycle, Behaviour, Design by Contract); - Mathematical Models of Autonomic Systems and ACEs; - Biology-inspired Techniques and Algorithms; - Sociology-inspired Techniques and Algorithms; - Model and Language Driven Development (incl. UML and code generation techniques); - Intelligent Service Negotiation, Composition, and Security; - Tool, Simulation and Testbed support for Autonomic Systems and ACEs; - Testing and Validation Processes; - Managing and Handling Context: Sensing, Inferring, and Application; - Autonomic Wireless Access and Seamless Mobility; - Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Inference Techniques; - Algorithms and Processes for Network Robustness and Performance; - Evolving industry standards to facilitate ACEs. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Submission of late-breaking results and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research is encouraged. Papers that are published, or concurrently submitted to another journal, conference, or book should not be submitted. The Proceedings will be published in the Multicon Lecture Notes series. Papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs, and should not exceed 15 pages in length. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via http://jems.sbc.org.br/mace2007. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: May 13th 2007; Notification: July 6th 2007; Camera ready: August 2nd 2007; Workshop: October 29 - 30th 2007. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Joan Serrat, Universitat Polità cnica de Catalunya, Spain John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nazim Agoulmine, UniversitÃ* d'Evry, France Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, Norway Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Greg Cox, Motorola Labs, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France Joel Fleck, Hewlett Packard, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Salim Harari, University of Arizona, USA Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Conor McArdle, Dublin City University, Ireland Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, USA JosÃ* Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Caera, Brazil Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe, Germany Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Radu State, INRIA-LORIA, France Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA