Call for papers

We are faced with an era where the wide spread use of small portable wireless devices and wireless technologies are building the pervasive vision. This pervaded world generated new communications paradigms: autonomic and opportunistic communications.
Communication among devices in a pervasive environment can happen if the devices can communicate autonomously, and manage their own evolution and configuration changes in the network, without explicit user or administrator action. In a pervasive world, even in the absence of any connectivity infrastructure mobile devices can communicate using the connection "opportunities" that arise due to mbility.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic communications and computing are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment are particularly welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communication
• Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and
  opportunistic networks
• Adaptive security for self protection of networks
• Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and
  opportunistic communications
• Mobility models for opportunistic networking
• Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communication
• Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks
• Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communication
• Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements