The 3rd International Conference on
Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06)

Organized by Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. (HUST)
Co-Sponsored by HUST, NSFC, ChinaGrid, IFIP
In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society
Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006

Notice: After the open ceremony and keynotes at Lake View Garden Hotel (LVGH) in the morning of September 3, all of us will take bus in 11:45AM at LVGH from Wuhan to Three Gorges Dam and Yichang, a city about 4.5 hours away from Wuhan by bus. The cruise boarding place is in Yichang city, NOT in Wuhan city.

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  Computing systems including hardware, software, communication and networks are growing with ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, and becoming overly complex. Such the complexity is getting more critical along with ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, autonomic computing focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that perform self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-ware operations to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance.
   Any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the Internet and pervasive infrastructure based global computing exist universally in the course of dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems and services. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are available, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persist-able, security/privacy protect-able, etc.
  A series of grand challenges exist to achieve practical self-manageable autonomic systems with truly trustworthy services. ATC-06 addresses the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all technical aspects related to autonomic and trusted computing and communication. ATC-06 as a conference comes out of the First Int’l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES-05, Japan, Dec.), and the Int’l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS-06, Austria, April).

Scope

    Topics include but are not limited to the following

• Autonomic Computing Theory and Models
   Nervous/organic model, reaction, pro-action, control, persistence, negotiation, cooperation, etc.

• Autonomic Computing Architectures and Systems
  Autonomic elements, relationship, architecture, framework, middleware, prototype, system, etc.

• Autonomic Computing Components and Modules
  Autonomic component/module such as memory, storage, database, device, server, proxy, OS, etc.

• Autonomic Communication and Services
  Autonomic network, in-network data mining, trust propagation, functional compositionad, hoc/sensor net, grid, P2P, web service, semantics, agent, transaction, etc.

• Autonomic System Tools and Interfaces
  Tool/interface for autonomic system development, test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc.

• Trust Models and Specifications
  Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc.

• Trust-related Security and Privacy
  Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy, intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc.

• Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems
  Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc.

• Trustworthy Services and Applications
  Trustworthy Internet/web/grid/P2P e-services, mobile/pervasive services, novel applications, etc.

• Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues
  Trust standards and issues related to personality, ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc.