Call for Workshop Proposals_______________________________________________________________________________The 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-2012)
September 04-07, 2012
http://conf.kyusan-u.ac.jp/atc2012/_______________________________________________________________________________
Computing systems including hardware, software, communication, and networks
are growing towards an ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, becoming overly
complex. Such complexity is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeationof embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing andubiquitous complexity, Autonomic Computing (AC) focuses on self-manageable
computing and communication systems that exhibit self-awareness, self-configuration,
self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-x operations to themaximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance. Organic Computing(OC) additionally addresses adaptivity, robustness, and controlled emergence as well as
nature-inspired concepts for self-organization.
Any autonomic or organic 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 in pervasive infrastructures are key factors to enable
dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems, and services.
Trusted/Trustworthy Computing (TC) aims at making computing and communication
systems as well as services available, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable,
sustainable, dependable, persistable, security/privacy protectable, etc.
The ATC-2012 workshops provide vibrant opportunities for researchers and industry
practitioners to share their research experience, original research results and practicaldevelopment experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues.
The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have responsibility of the call for
papers, forming program committee, review and selection of papers as well as planning
the workshop program. The registration fee for workshops will be determined by theconference (not the workshop itself). The fees will be paid to the conference, and theconference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, themeeting room, coffee break, lunch, proceedings and etc.
The proceedings of the ATC-2012 workshops will be published by IEEE-CS
Conference Publishing Services (Indexed by EI).
Prospective workshop organizers should send a proposal containing the following

information to ATC-2012 Workshop Chair.
-Title of the workshop (Full name and Abbreviation)-Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page)-Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop
organization-Procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (for example, how toadvertise and special issues of journals), and the expected number of participants-A tentative list of program committee members-The (tentative) website/URL of your workshop
Approved workshops should strictly follow the important dates, particularly the paper
status notification and camera-ready dates. The submission deadline could be later
than that of the main conference. But a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, the submitted paper must be 6 pages,
and each paper should receive 3 peer reviews.
Planned Schedule
Workshop Proposal Deadline: Ongoing as received
Suggested Papers Submission Deadline: May 15, 2012 (HARD DEADLINE)
Authors Notification: June 15, 2012
Final Manuscript Deadline: June 28, 2012
We look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to ATC-2012
workshops. A workshop proposal should be submitted, to the workshops co-chairs:
atc2012ws@gmail.com.
Best regards,
ATC-2012 Workshop Chairs: (Email address: atc2012ws@gmail.com)
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan (t-tutiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp)
Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan (chh@chu.edu.tw)