ICAS 2019 - The Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
	June 02, 2019 - June 06, 2019
 ICAS 2019
	ISSN: 2308-3913
	ISBN: 978-1-61208-712-2 
		ICAS 2019 is colocated with the following events as part of InfoSys 2019 Congress:
		  - ICNS 2019, The Fifteenth International Conference on Networking and Services
 	  - ICAS 2019, The Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
 	  - ENERGY 2019, The Ninth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies
 	  - WEB 2019, The Seventh International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments
 	  - DBKDA 2019, The Eleventh International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications
 	  - SIGNAL 2019, The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing
 	  - BIOTECHNO 2019, The Eleventh International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies
 	
  Special tracks:
  AUV: Automated  Unmanned Vehicles
  Chair  and Coordinator: Assist. Prof., Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al-Kaff, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain akaff@ing.uc3m.es
  Co-Chair: 
    Dr. Eng. Ahmed Hussein, Universidad Carlos III  de Madrid,  Spain ahussein@ing.uc3m.es
  TERRA: Technologies for Real Robotic Autonomy
  Chair  and Coordinator: Dr Paolo Paoletti,  School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK p.paoletti@liverpool.ac.uk
  ANNIAS: Application of Neural Networks in Intelligent Autonomous Systems
  Chair  and Coordinator: 
    Assoc.  Prof. PhD. Irina Topalova, FaGEEIM, Technical  University Sofia, Bulgaria /
    University of Communications and Posts, Sofia, Bulgari  
    itopalova@abv.bg
 
ICAS 2019 conference tracks:
	SELFTRENDS: Toward brain-like autonomic and autonomous systems
	 Adaptive robust resource allocation; Optimal self-organized      collective actions; Collective adaptation; Active learning;       Opportunistic collaborative interactive learning; Adaption fairness;      Social and biometric data-aware adaptation; Brain connectivity      models;  Using unbalanced Datasets;  Quantum-inspired optimization;      Automated (industrial) assembly environments; Deep neural networks;      Multimodal knowledge of the brain; Self-organization in M2M      infrastructures; Self-organizing socio-technical systems;      Context-aware data self-adaptation; Multi-level loop encapsulation      in smart systems; Uncertainty in self-adaptive systems; Adaptive      Software defined systems (SDS) scalability; Adaptability in      multi-tenant Clouds; Self-aware model-driven systems; Proactive      self-adaptation; Self-adaptive urban traffic; Adaptive power      profiling; Run-time for self-adaptive systems; Distributed adaptive      systems; Self-improving system integration; Self-improving activity      recognition systems; Feedback computing; Optimal feedback control;      Dynamic adaptive applications; Self-managing Clouds;  Decentralized      autonomic behavior; Market-adaptive trust;  Semantics of      self-behavior;  Self-organizing patterns; Stability propagation in      self-organizing systems; Inconsistency in self-deciding systems;      Reasoning problems tractability; Decidability in self-organizing      systems
	ROBOTRENDS: Robot-related trends
	 Autonomous aquatic agents; Aerial autonomous robots; Drones control      and management; Knowledge-based robot motions; Autonomous mobile      robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Intelligent robots;      Self-reconfigurable mobile robots; Humanoid imitative learning;      Robots in unknown environments; Human centric robots; Adjustable      robust optimizations; Moral autonomous agents and human evolution;      Cognitive robotics; Robot partnership; Affective communication      robots; Human-centric robotics; Visually-impaired and robots;      Evolutionary swarm robotics; Robots and human advices; Universal      robot hands
	SYSAT: Advances in system automation 
	Methods,  techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies  for automating of design systems; 
	  Industrial  automation for production chains; 
	  Nonlinear  optimization and automation control; 
	  Nonlinearities  and system stabilization; 
	  Automation  in safety systems; 
	  Structured  uncertainty; 
	  Open and closed automation loops; 
	  Test  systems automation; 
	  Theory on  systems robustness; 
	  Fault-tolerant  systems
	UNMANNED: Driver-less cars and unmanned vehicles
	Self-driving cars; Drones; Terrestrial unmanned vehicles; Unmanned   aerial vehicles; Underwater unmanned vehicles; Unmanned sea surface   vehicles; Collision control; Traffic surveillance challenges; Path   planning and estimation; Communication between unmanned vehicles;   Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in civil airspace; Unmanned   vehicular clusters; Designing unmanned vehicular-based systems; Safety   of unmanned vehicles; Commercial and surveillance applications;   Emergency applications; Legal aspects of unmanned vehicular systems;   Testbeds and pilot experiments
	AUTSY: Theory and Practice  of Autonomous Systems
	Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous  systems; 
	  Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; 
	  Design methodologies for autonomous systems; 
	  Composing autonomous systems; 
	  Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; 
	  Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; 
	  Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; 
	  Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; 
	  Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; 
	  Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; 
	  Dependability in autonomous systems; 
	  Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; 
	  Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; 
	  Performance and security in autonomous systems; 
	  Management of autonomous systems; 
	  Testing autonomous systems; 
	  Maintainability of autonomous systems
	AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness  Networks, Services and Applications
	Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and  applications; 
	  Modeling context-aware systems; 
	  Specification and implementation of awareness  behavioral contexts; 
	  Development and deployment of large-scale  context-aware systems and subsystems; 
	  User awareness requirements and design techniques  for interfaces and systems; 
	  Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for  specifying context-aware systems; 
	  Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations 
	AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management  of Self-behavioral Networks and Services
	Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of  self-adaptive management mechanisms; 
	  Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; 
	  Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria  and mechanisms; 
	  Tools, languages and platforms for designing  self-driven systems; 
	  Autonomic computing and GRID networking; 
	  Autonomic computing and proactive computing for  autonomous systems; 
	  Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test,  and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; 
	  Experiences with autonomic computing systems 
	CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization 
	Hardware-as-a-service; 
	  Software-as-a-service [SaaS   applicaitions]; 
	  Platform-as-service; 
	  On-demand computing models; 
	  Cloud Computing programming and application   development; 
	  Scalability, discovery of services and data   in Cloud computing infrastructures; 
	  Privacy, security, ownership and   reliability issues; 
	  Performance and QoS; 
	  Dynamic resource   provisioning; 
	  Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; 
	  Load   balancing; 
	  Application streaming; 
	  Cloud SLAs, business models   and pricing policies; 
	  Custom platforms; 
	  Large-scale compute   infrastructures; 
	  Managing applications in the clouds; Data   centers; 
	  Process in the clouds; 
	  Content and service   distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; 
	  Multiple applications   can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); 
	  Grid computing   (multiple computers can be used to run one application); 
	  Virtualization   platforms; 
	  Open virtualization format; 
	  Cloud-computing vendor governance and   regulatory compliance
	MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of  Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems
	Agent-based autonomous systems; 
	  Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their  applicability in autonomic systems; 
	  Autonomy in GRID networking and utility  computing; 
	  Studies on autonomous industrial applications,  services, and their developing environment; 
	  Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for  autonomous systems, GRID middleware 
	CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments
	Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for  satellite systems; 
	  Spatial/temporal  constraints in satellites systems; 
	  Trajectory  corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; 
	  Mechanisms and case studies for  nomadic code systems; 
	  Platforms  for mobile agents and active mobile code; 
	  Performance  in nomadic code systems; 
	  Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; 
	  Guidance  in an a priori unknown environment; 
	  Coaching/learning  techniques; 
	  Pose  maintenance, and mapping; 
	  Sensing  for autonomous vehicles; 
	  Planning for autonomous vehicles; 
	  Mobile networks, Ad  hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks
	ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and  computation 
	Control theory and specific characteristics; 
	  Types of computation theories; 
	  Tools for computation and control; 
	  Algorithms and data structures; 
	  Special algorithmic techniques; 
	  Algorithmic applications; 
	  Domain case studies; 
	  Technologies case studies for computation and control; 
	  Application-aware networking
	MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA
	Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; 
	  Model-driven architectures (MDA); 
	  Service-oriented architectures (SOA); 
	  Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; 
	  Enabled applications through virtualization; 
	  Small-scale virtualization methodologies and  techniques; 
	  Resource  containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; 
	  Large-scale virtualization methodologies and  techniques; 
	  Management of virtualized systems; 
	  Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; 
	  Making virtualization real; 
	  On-demand utilities; 
	  Adaptive enterprise; 
	  Managing utility-based systems; 
	  Development environments, tools,  prototypes
	SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of    context-aware systems
	 Novel approaches to modeling and representing context  adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; 
	  Models of computation for self-management  context-aware systems; 
	  Use of MDA/MDD  (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware  systems; 
	  Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware  systems; 
	  Applications of advanced modeling languages  to context self-adaptability; 
	  Methods for managing adding context to existing  systems and context-conflict free systems; 
	  Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable  context-aware systems; 
	  Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation  mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach,  etc.); 
	  System stability in the presence of context  inconsistency; 
	  Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware  systems; 
	  Business considerations and organizational  modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; 
	  Performance evaluation of  self-adaptable context-aware systems; 
	  Scalability of self-adaptable context-aware  systems  
	KUI: Knowledge-based user interface 
	Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; 
	  User interface design in autonomic systems; 
	  Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; 
	  Knowledge-based       support for the user interface design process; 
	  Built-in knowledge in       adaptive user interfaces; 
	  Requirements       for interface knowledge representation; 
	  Levels for knowledge-based       user interface; 
	  User interface knowledge on       the dynamic behavior; 
	  Support       techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; 
	  Intelligent user       interface for real-time systems; 
	  Planning-based control of interface animation; 
	  Model-based user interface design; 
	  Knowledge-based user       interface migration; 
	  Automated user interface requirements       discovery for scientific computing; 
	  Knowledge-based       user interface management systems; 
	  3D User interface design; 
	  Task-oriented       knowledge user interfaces; 
	  User-interfaces in a domestic   environment; 
	  Centralised control in the home; 
	  User-interfaces for the elderly or   disabled; 
	  User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobility   impaired; 
	  Interfacing with ambient intelligence   systems; 
	  Assisted living interfaces; 
	  Interfaces for security/alarm systems
	AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility
	QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; 
	  Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); 
	  Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); 
	  Admission control resource allocation algorithms; 
	  Monitoring and feedback systems; 
	  Link adaptation mechanisms; 
	  Cross layer approaches; 
	  Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); 
	  QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; 
	  Congestion control mechanisms; 
	  Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...); 
	  Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)
	
Deadlines:
	
              Submission  |         Feb 20, 2019  |       
              Notification  |         Mar 26, 2019  |       
              Registration  |         Apr 09, 2019  |       
              Camera ready  |         Apr 20, 2019  |       
    
Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).