[agents] Call for papers: IJARAS 4:1

[Vincenzo De Florio]

 Dear Sirs,



please let me draw your attention to the call for papers for the new issue of 
IJARAS -- the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems:

********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************

*** Vol.4 No.1 ***



SUBMISSION DUE DATE: October 3, 2011.

International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)
Official publication of the Information Resources
Management Association
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS

Editor-in-Chief:
Vincenzo De Florio, Ph.D. - University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium
vincenzo.deflorio at gmail.com

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

International Editorial Review Board:
- Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium
- Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy
- Llorenc Cerda-Alabern - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Spain
- Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples
- Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy
- Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland
- Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil
- Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland
- Konrad Klockner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
- Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
- Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy
- Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK
- Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium
- Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway


MISSION OF IJARAS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible 
publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and 
Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide 
worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to 
design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark 
adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are 
built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite 
the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures 
in their infrastructure and surrounding environments. IJARAS has 
multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to 
technological aspects.

IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction: The 
awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as 
adaptive systems able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changes 
both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal 
assets). IJARAS introduces a problem, which implies a research direction---a
thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating 
through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated 
research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and 
business process re-engineering can be regarded as special cases of a 
larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to 
cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming a 
powerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in 
this area.


RECOMMENDED TOPICS:

IJARAS topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to
  model, design, express, and develop
  adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems;

* Analytical and simulation tools to measure a
  system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new
  environments;

* Conceptual models and paradigms to express change tolerance;

* Methods, models, and architectures to manage and
  express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation;

* Design-time / run-time methods and tools to
  identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption,
  performance, safety, and security;

* Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective
  provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and
  dependability;

* Resilience engineering;

* Autonomic business process execution;

* Adaptive service-oriented computing;

* Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to
  autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems;

* Recovery-oriented computing;

* Methods focusing on optimizing quality of
  experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces;

* Adaptive fault-tolerance;

* Adaptive fault-masking;

* Adaptive data integrity;

* Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics;

* Adaptive and context-aware multimedia;

* Personalization;

* Adaptive data mining;

* Adaptive fault models;

* Adaptive system models;

* Adaptive routing;

* Autonomic applications;

* Architecture-based adaptation;

* "Self-*" systems.



SUBMITTING TO IJARAS:
Prospective authors should note that only original
and previously unpublished articles will be
considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S
GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at 
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf

PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. 
All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the 
Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. 
Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on 
the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be 
forwarded electronically to vincenzo dot deflorio at ua dot ac dot be.


PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems 
is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 
'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 
'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional 
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

SUBMISSION:
Authors may submit manuscripts at
http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx
Please do send also a copy to vincenzo.deflorio at gmail.com


All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of:

Vincenzo De Florio
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems
E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at gmail.com
www.igi-global.com/IJARAS


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Kind regards,

Vincenzo De Florio.