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****           Special Session on Autonomic Communication         ****
**      IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference      **
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*                         Las Vegas, Nevada, USA                     *
*                           January 7-10. 2006                       *
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*                    http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2006/                  *
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*                           CALL FOR PAPERS                          *
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Scope of Special Session on Autonomic Communication: 
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The Internet is facing ever-increasing complexity in the construction, 
configuration and management  of heterogeneous wireless networks.  New 
communication paradigms are undermining its original design principles. 
The mobile Internet demands a level of optimum that is hard to achieve 
with  a  strictly-layered  protocol  stack.  All  of  these  have  put 
traditional design methodologies  for the Internet  under examination. 
Autonomic communication  ( AutoComm )  represents  a  vision  of using 
context-awareness  and  distributed  policy-based  control  to achieve 
efficiency, resilience,  immunity,  and  evolvability  in  large-scale 
dynamic communication infrastructure.  Meeting the grand challenges of 
autonomic communication requires scientific and technological advances 
in a wide variety of fields,  and  intensive  cross-disciplinary basic 
and applied research.

This special session will provide a  forum for researchers  working in 
the field of AutoComm to exchange ideas and seek synergies.  The forum 
also aims to bring together academic  and  industry  professionals for 
meaningful collaborations. In doing so, we hope to develop and nurture 
a community  that  work  closely  to  contribute  to the communication 
paradigms of the future Internet.

Topics solicited in this special session span a wide range of areas of 
interests including but not limited to:

- AutoComm in home networks
- AutoComm in consumer communications
- AutoComm in multimedia communications
- Middlebox communications and AutoComm
- Autonomic services
- Autonomic signaling
- Network architecture with AutoComm flavors
- Holistic and systematic cross-layer design for AutoComm
- Protocol engineering featuring self-*
- Bio-inspired principles for AutoComm
- Networked ecosystems
- Self-organizing systems
- Self-optimizing and self-tuning networks
- Self-healing and self-protecting networks
- Self-configuring networks
- Self-governing and self-aware networks
- Composable/Composite functional systems
- Ecological models for AutoComm
- AI and agent technologies for AutoComm
- Adaptive control theories for AutoComm
- Grid solutions for AutoComm
- Network calculus and network coding for AutoComm
- Cellular automatons for AutoComm
- Swarm intelligence for AutoComm
- Economic models for AutoComm
- Learning and knowledge plane construction techniques
- Situation/Context-awareness
- Proactive monitoring and control
- Rule and policy-based management
- Fitness functions for AutoComm
- Cost functions for AutoComm
- Decision theories for AutoComm
- Conflict resolution algorithms for AutoComm
- Evolvability in AutoComm
- AutoComm testbeds
- Mobile code and network programmability

Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline  :             August 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance :          September 30, 2005
Camera-ready version due   :            October 14, 2005

Session Co-Organizers:
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  Jiang (Linda) Xie,   University of North Carolina at Charlotte 
                       (jxie1@uncc.edu)

  Xiaoyuan Gu,         Technical University of Braunschweig 
                       (xiaogu@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)

  Holger Claussen,     Bell Labs Wireless Research, Lucent 
                       (claussen@lucent.com)

Submission Instructions:
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Prospective authors are  invited to submit regular technical papers or 
position papers.  The later should  present novel  technologies  at an 
early stage of development or share future vision. All the submissions 
should  describe  original,   previously  unpublished  research,   not 
currently under review by any other conference or journal. Manuscripts 
should not exceed 5 pages in double-column IEEE format.  Please submit 
the paper through EDAS and send a notice to xiaogu@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de.

1. Log on to http://edas.info  and click on "go to the current list of 
   conferences and special issues".
2. Look under Accepting Submissions.  Click on  CCNC2006 IEEE Consumer 
   Communications and Networking Conference.  You will be  directed to 
   the paper submission page titled EDAS: IEEE Consumer Communications 
   and Networking Conference.
3. On the paper submission page, you will find a list of 
   tracks/sessions. Choose "CCNC2006 special session technical papers"
   and click on the corresponding "submit paper" button 
   (http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4571).
4. Fill in the submission form.
5. Select "Autonomic Communication" from Track pull down at the bottom 
   of the submission form.
6. Click on the "Submit" button.
7. Upload your paper.
8. Send an email notification to xiaogu@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de.

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed.  They will be judged 
with  respect  to their relevance, novelty, significance, correctness,
and readability.