[agents] IJARAS: Call for papers & Book announcement

[Vincenzo De Florio]

 Dear Sirs, dear Madams,
this is to kindly inform you of the next two call for papers for IJARAS,the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems.
IJARAS is now in its third year of publication, during which it hosted many an important contribution from top-notch scholars throughout theworld. Its entire first volume has been recently reprinted and is availablefrom March 2012 as book "Technological Innovations in Adaptive and DependableSystems: Advancing Models and Concepts", which may be ordered here:http://www.igi-global.com/book/technological-innovations-adaptive-dependable-systems/59728It is likely the the same reprinting policy will be applied to all volumesof IJARAS.
Please find herein IJARAS' most recent call for papers.
Kind regards,Vincenzo De Florio
********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************
*** Vol.4 No.4, Vol.5 No.1 ***


SUBMISSION DUE DATES: March 16, 2012 (Vol.4 No.4), May 11, 2012 (Vol.5 No.1).
International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS)Official publication of the Information Resources Management Associationwww.igi-global.com/IJARAS
Editor-in-Chief:Vincenzo De Florio, Ph.D. - University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgiumvincenzo.deflorio at gmail.com
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
No publication costs are charged to authors, which receive twocomplimentary copies of the journal.
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---athesis. 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 ones:
* Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to  model, design, express, analyze, 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;
* Robustness, or the emergence of desired properties throught  system evolution. In particular, emergence of safety;
* Conceptual models and paradigms to express and assess  evolvability;
* 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 originaland previously unpublished articles will beconsidered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'SGUIDELINES 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.deflorio at gmail.com.

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 athttp://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspxPlease do send also a copy to vincenzo.deflorio at gmail.com

All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of:
Vincenzo De FlorioEditor-in-ChiefInternational Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic SystemsE-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at gmail.comwww.igi-global.com/IJARAS