The Fourth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems ICAS 2008 March 16-21, 2008 - Gosier, Guadeloupe

Committees

ICAS Advisory Committee

Lubomir Bakule, Academy of Science of the Czech Repubilc, Czech Republic
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada
Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-GRID, Germany
Michael G. Hinchey, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan
Randy H. Katz, Berkeley University, USA
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA
Fabrizio Sestini, European Comission
Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany
Walter F. Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Marian Vajtersic Salzburg University, Austria
Dinesh C. Verma, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Subhash Wadhva, IIT, India
Mazim S. Yousif, Intel, USA

ICAS 2008 Technical Program Committee

Co-Chairs:
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein, Svitzerland
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Special area co-Chairs:
Andrew J. Cowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA [KUI]
Nhien-An Le-Khac, University College Dublin, Ireland [KUI]
Johannes Mayer, Ulm University, Germany [SELF]
Masayuki Murata, Osaka University Suita, Japan [SELF]

Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Matthew Adigun, University of Zululand, South Africa
Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, NUST Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), Pakistan
Razvan Andonie, Central Washington University, USA
Lubomir Bakule Academy of Science of the Czech Repubilc, Czech Republic
Evripidis Bampis, University d'Evry, France
Michael Bauer, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada
Freimut Bodendorf, University of Erlangen, Germany
Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, USA
Phillip Bradford, The University of Alabama, USA
Osman Burchan Bayazit, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway
Dave Bustard, University of Ulster, UK
Doina Caragea, Kansas State University, USA
Helène Lim Choi Keung, University of Warwick, UK
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Tan Kay Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan
Fernando Cerdan, , Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Radovan Cervenka, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennesee, USA
Waltenegus Dargie, TU Dresden, Germany
Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia
José Neuman De Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Spyros Denazis, Hitachi, France
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Artur Dubrawski Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Justin Dyson, University of Warwick, UK
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Deger Cenk Erdil, Binghamton University, USA
Sevki Erdogan, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada
Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Jacqueline Floch, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Frank Golatowski University of Rostock, Germany
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-GRID, USA
Manfred Georg, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Laurent George, Ecole Centrale d'Electronique, France
Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson Research, Canada
Eli Gjørven, Simula, Norway
Alfredo Goñi, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Swapna Gokhale, University of Connecticut, USA
Simone Grassi, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Xiaoyuan Gu, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, University of Texas A&M, USA
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada
Clemens Holzmann, Institut für Pervasive Computing, Austria
Oliver Huw, Ericsson Ireland, UK
Yoshiro Imai, Kagawa University, Japan
Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan
David Jaffe, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
Michael Jenkin, York University, USA
Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden
Randy H. Katz, Berkeley University, USA
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA
Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan
Andy Laws, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Wu- Hon Francis Leung, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Michael J. Lewis, Binghamton University, USA
Hai-Bin Liu, China Aerospace Engineering Consultation Center, China
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Fumio Machido, NEC Corporation, Japan
Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany
Milos Manic, University of Idaho, USA
Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada
Marios Mavronikolas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Johannes Mayer, Ulm University, Germany
Nader Mbarek, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII-Val de Marne, France
Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA
Nimal Nissanke, London South Bank University, UK
Hiroyuki Okamura, Hiroshima University, Japan
Luis Fernando Orleans, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster - Coleraine, UK
Joaquin Peña, University of Seville, Spain
Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA
María S. Pérez-Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Wendy Powley, Queens University, Canada
Jerzy Prekurat, Canadian Bank Note  Co. Ltd., Canada
Francesco Quaglia, University "La Sapienza", Italy
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Reda Reda, Siemens Communications, Austria/Germany
Mauricio G. C. Resende, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies, Slovakia
Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria
Paolo Romano, Rome University "La Sapienza", Italy
Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Maxim Shevertalov, Drexel University, USA
Yang Shi, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany
Thomas Springer, TU Dresden, Germany
Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada
Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin // FOKUS, Germany
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK
Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Marc Teboulle, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Raquel Trillo, University of Zaragoza , Spain
Walter F. Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Kalyan Vaidyanathan, Sun, USA
Marian Vajtersic Salzburg University, Austria
Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Thanh van Do, Telenor R&D, Norway
Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Dinesh C. Verma, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Umberto Villano, Università del Sannio, Italy
Subhash Wadhva, IIT, India
Jun Wang, CUHK, P.R. China
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dirck Wollherr, Technische Universität München, Germany
Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA
Reuven Yagel, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Mazim S. Yousif, Intel, USA
Liu Xiang, Shanghai University, China
Linda Jiang Xie, The University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Arkady Zaslavski, Monash University, Australia
Qian Zhao, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Guy Bernard, INT, France
Abdel Boulmakoul, HPLabs - Bristol, UK
Arnaud Casteigts, LABRI, France
Serge Chaumette, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Paul Couderc, IRISA, France
Laurie Cuthbert,  Queen Mary, University of London, UK,
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada
Frank Eliassen , University of Oslo, Norway
M. Muztaba Faud, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Ziny Flikop, Scientist, USA
Jacqueline Floch, SINTEF, Norway
Simone Grassi, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland
Il'ya S. Kabak ,  Stankin Moscow State Technological University, Russia
John Keeney, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Johannes Mayer, Ulm University, Germany
Pat Martin, Queen's University Kingston, Canada
Masayuki Murata, Osaka University Suita, Japan
Roel Ocampo, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Stefan Paal, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Gerard Parr, University of Ulster- Coleraine, UK
Martin Randles, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Chantal Taconet, INT, France
Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan
Zhao Yong-quan, Shanghai Maritime University, China
Martin Zach, Siemens AG, Austria

KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Mostafa Al Masum, University of Technology Sidney, Australia
Adriano Albertini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Karsten Boehm, FH KufsteinTirol, University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Gaspard Breton, Orange Group, France
Guoray Cai, Penn State University, USA
Luís Carriço, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Vittorio Castelli, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK
Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown, USA
Edwin Costello, University College Dublin, Ireland
Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Belgium
Andrew J. Cowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Lorcan Coyle, University College London, Ireland
Cosmin Dini, IARIA, USA
Carlos Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Richard Etter, Accenture, Switzerland
Donghui Feng, Information Sciences Institute, USA
Jill Freyne, University College Dublin, Ireland
Christophe Garcia, Orange Group, France
Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University, Italy
Daniel Gonçalves, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal
Tracy Hammond, MIT, USA
Alexander Haubold, Columbia University, USA
Bill Hefley, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Meriam Horchani, FT Group, France
Bowen Hui,  University of Toronto, Canada
Mattias Jacobsson, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
Ralf Jung, Saarland University, Germany
Przemyslaw Kazienko, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
Gudrun Klinker, Technische Universität München, Germany
Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge, UK
Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Satoshi Kurihara, University of Osaka, Japan
Andrew Lampert, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Tessa Lau, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Nhien-An Le-Khac, University College Dublin, Ireland
Danico Lee, University of Kansas, USA
Cen Li, Middle Tennessee University, USA
Heiner Litz, University of Mannheim, Germany
Hugo Liu, MIT, USA
Michael J. Lyons, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Ronan MacRuairi, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Jalal Mahmud, Stony Brook University, USA
Rainer Malaka, Universität Bremen, Germany
Nadia Mana, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Stefan Mandl, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Germany
Eric McCreath, The University of Sidney, Australia
Bhaskar Mehta, L3S Forschungszentrum, Germany
Zhenyao Mo, University of Southern California, USA
Yasser Mohammad, University of Kyoto, Japan
José Pascual Molina Massó, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Francisco Montero, Escuela Politécnica Superior de Albacete, Spain
William Niu, University of Sydney, Australia
Paddy Nixon, University College London, Ireland
Elena Not, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
John O’Donovan, University College Dublin, Ireland
Gregory O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland
Alex Olwal, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Michael O'Mahony, University College Dublin, Ireland
Franck Panaget, Orange Group, France
Catherine Pelachaud, Universite Paris XIII, France
Danielle Pele, Orange Group, France
Fabio Pianesi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Johannes Pittermann, Ulm University, Germany
Pierre Proske, Art & Technology, Sweden
I.V. Ramakrishnan, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Charles Rich, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia
Munehiko Sasajima, Osaka University, Japan
Dominique Scapin, INRIA, France
Tim Schwartz, Saarland University, Germany
Ted Selker, MIT, USA
Tevfik Metin Sezgin, University of Cambridge, UK
Anil  Shankar, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Edward Shen, MIT, USA
Jianqiang Shen, Oregon State University, USA
Lijun Tang, Columbia University, USA
Keith Trnka, University of Delaware, USA
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Sebastian von Mammen, University of Calgary, Canada
Hongan Wang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Rainer Wasinger, Macquarie University, Australia
Wayne Wobcke, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Fan Yang, Oregon Health and Science University, USA