Enterprise-scale cloud platforms and services systems, present common and cross-cutting challenges in maximizing power efficiency and performance while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior, and at the same time responding appropriately to environmental and system changes such as hardware failures and varying workloads. Autonomic computing systems address the challenges in managing these environments by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation capabilities to autonomously manage resources and applications based on high-level policies.

Research in cloud and autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from distributed systems, computer architecture, middleware services, databases and data-stores, networks, machine learning, and control theory. The purpose of the Fifth International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of cloud and autonomic computing.

Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to cloud and autonomic computing and their intersections, including  those that bear on connections and relationships among different research areas or report on prototype systems or experiences. The ICCAC conference seeks also papers on autonomic aspects of combining cloud computing with fog and edge computing. The goal is to continue our  international forum focused on the latest research, applications, and technologies aimed at making cloud and autonomic computing systems and services easy to design, to deploy, and to implement, while also being self-manageable, self-regulating and scalable with little involvement of humans or system administrators.

Topics

Autonomic Cloud Computing

    Self-managing cloud services
    Autonomic resource and energy management in cloud computing
    Autonomic cloud applications and services
    Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services
    Cloud workload characterization and prediction
    Monitoring, modeling and analysis of cloud resources and services
    Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services
    Autonomic aspects of combining cloud computing with fog and edge computing

Autonomics for Extreme Scales

    Large scale autonomic systems
    Self-optimizing and self-healing at petacomputing scale
    Self-managing middleware and tools for extreme scales
    Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at extreme scales (peta/exa-computing)

Autonomic Computing Foundations and Design Methods

    Evaluation, validation and quality and correctness assessment of autonomic loops
    Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analyzing autonomic computing systems, control and decision theory
    Model-based design, software engineering, formal methods, testing, programming languages and environments support
    Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services

Autonomic Computing Systems, Tools and Applications

    Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications
    Stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications
    Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems
    High performance autonomic applications
    Self-* applications in science and engineering
    Self-* Human Machine Interface
    Autonomic systems and applications combining cloud computing with fog computing and edge computing

Paper/Poster Submission and Publication

Full papers (a maximum of 12 pages in length), industrial experience reports (a maximum of 8 pages) and posters (a maximum of 4 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to cloud and autonomic computing as indicated above. All papers must follow the IEEE proceedings format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report experiences, measurements, and user studies, and to provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation.

Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICCAC 2017 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically following the instructions from the ICCAC 2017 conference web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the conference and available electronically. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference.

Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that summarizes and highlights the main points of their paper.