Welcome

The two premier conferences on autonomic computing, the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC) are unified into one from 2018 on. The first joint conference, the 15th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2018) will be held in Trento, Italy on September 3-7, 2018, as part of the Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* 2018), and co-located with: IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2018).

ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such as data centers, computer clouds, smart cities, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks, and embedded or pervasive environments, are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome for people to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving self-management requires and motivates research that spans a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory, user interface design, data management, software engineering, emergent behavior analysis, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities in their approaches to making resources, applications and systems more autonomic.

Awards

The following awards have been assigned during the conference!

Best paper award Karsten Schwan @ ICAC 2018

Cloud Application Predictability through Integrated Load-Balancing and Service Time.
Tommi Nylander, Marcus Thelander Andrén, Karl-Erik Årzén and Martina Maggio

Best paper award @SASO 2018

Disobedience as a Mechanism of Change.
David Burth Kurka, Peter Lewis, Alina Patelli, Aniko Ekart, and Jeremy Pitt

Best demo award

A Macro-Level Order Metric for Self-Organizing Adaptive Systems.
David King, and Gilbert Peterson

Best doctoral symposium award

Reactive and Adaptive Security Monitoring in Cloud Computing.
Clément Elbaz

Best poster award

  • This One Simple Trick Disrupts Digital Communities
    Philip Feldman, Aaron Dant and Wayne Lutters
  • Disobedience as a Mechanism of Change,
    David Burth Kurka, Peter Lewis, Alina Patelli, Aniko Ekart, and Jeremy Pitt