CALL FOR PAPERS
             IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

                      AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

   The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of
   networked  devices  and  applications  such as sensor networks, mobile
   systems,  Grids,  and  Peer-to-Peer  communications  create  a  unique
   challenge  for  network and system administrators. Future applications
   will  involve  mobile users, possibly with on-body sensors interacting
   with  a  pervasive  computing environment that detects their activity,
   current  context  and  adapts  accordingly.  Innovative  solutions are
   required  for  managing  the  plethora of network devices and systems,
   multiple   inter-connected   networking   technologies  --  wired  and
   wireless,  and the complexity of distributed applications. The promise
   of  pervasive computing environments will not be realized unless these
   systems  can effectively "disappear"; and for this they need to become
   autonomous  by  managing their own evolution and configuration changes
   without  explicit  user  or  administrator  action. The term Autonomic
   communications  and  computing  is used for this form of self-managing
   systems   able   to   support   self-configuration,  self-healing  and
   self-optimization.  The  importance  of  this  research  area has been
   recently  stressed  by the increasing demand for securely programmable
   and  autonomous network elements. The ultimate aim is to assist in the
   design  of  next  generation  self-organizing, context-aware pervasive
   systems  and  service-oriented  computing environments so as to better
   support  highly  dynamic and mobile users and vitual organizations. In
   this  context,  original  contributions  are solicited in all relevant
   areas, including but not limited to:
     * Theoretical foundations of autonomic communication systems
     * Tools   and  techniques  for  designing,  analyzing  and  building
       autonomic systems and networks
     * Adaptive security for self protection of systems and networks
     * Economic,   biological   and  social  models  used  for  autonomic
       communications
     * Advanced   information   processing   techniques   for   autonomic
       communications   including  policies,  context-awareness,  machine
       learning, statistical and optimization techniques, control theory,
       knowledge bases, planning, and goal driven role based management
     * Enabling  technologies  for  self-managing  systems  and  networks
       including   Service-oriented  Architectures,  Web  Services,  XML,
       Peer-to-Peer and Open Grid Services
     * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing systems and
       networks
     * Languages,  development and securely programmable environments for
       autonomic communications systems
     * Human interaction with autonomic communication systems

   Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with
   the  IEEE  J-SAC  format  described  in  the  Information for Authors.
   Authors   should   submit   an  electronic  version  (PDF  format)  to
   jsac-sp-issue@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca according to the following schedule:

                 Manuscript submission:   OCTOBER 1, 2004
                 Acceptance notification: March 1, 2005
                 Final manuscript due:    June 1, 2005
                 Publication:             4th Quarter 2005

   Raouf Boutaba
   University of Waterloo
   School of Computer Science
   rboutaba@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Germán Goldszmidt
   IBM Research - Hawthorne
   tpccim2003@hotmail.com Heinz-Gerd Hegering
   Leibniz Supercomputing Center
   Munich University
   Heinz-Gerd.Hegering@lrz-muenchen.de

   Jürgen Schönwälder
   International University Bremen
   j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de Morris Sloman
   Imperial College London
   m.sloman@imperial.ac.uk