UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics is hosting another highly prestigious event - the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing. This is the first time the conference will be held outside of the United States, where it will return next year.
The term ‘autonomic computing’ is derived from the body's autonomic nervous system, which controls key functions without conscious awareness or involvement. Autonomic computing and communications systems exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimisation, self-healing, and/or self-protection. The idea is to make computers and networks easier and more flexible to deploy and manage.
With significant EU funding in the area of autonomic research, UCD is the Autonomic Competence Centre for LERO, the Irish Software Research Engineering Centre, which is funded by SFI. “Big IT companies are selling autonomic computing as a way of reducing cost of ownership, and indeed all the main companies have a big buy-in to this conference”, said Dr. Simon Dobson, the local chair.
“The purpose of ICAC2006 is to bring together researchers and practitioners to address aspects of self-management in computing systems. In doing so, we hope to help develop and nurture a community that can work together to realise the vision of large-scale self-managing systems”, said Dr. Dobson.
The conference has been able to attract some significant industry figures including John Strassner, Fellow and Director of Autonomic Computing, Motorola Research Labs, Alan Ganek, CTO Tivoli Software, Vice President for Autonomic Computing, IBM Corporation, US, and Martin Curley, Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel.
The conference is taking place in UCD from June 12 – 16th, 2006. Full information on the conference, along with a detailed programme is available here:
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/icac2006/program.htm
