The 2^nd IEEE International Conference on
Autonomic Computing (ICAC-05)

ICAC 2005 Panel

Grand Challenges of Autonomic Computing

PANELISTS: 

• Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna

• Alva Couch, Tufts University

• Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

• Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin

• Mazin Yousif, Intel Research

MODERATOR:

• Jeff Kephart, IBM Research

ABSTRACT:

During the last three years, autonomic computing has emerged as a new and exciting sub-discipline of computer science. Widespread enthusiasm is evinced by several autonomic computing workshops that have been affiliated with major conferences in artificial intelligence, distributed computing, high performance computing, software engineering, and also by special issues on facets of autonomic computing in various major academic journals.

At this juncture in its evolution, it is appropriate for the autonomic computing research community to engage in some self-examination. Accordingly, we have assembled a panel of experts representing a diversity of subject areas and viewpoints to define and debate the scope and future of autonomic computing. In particular, the panelists will address questions such as:

• What are the grand challenges of autonomic computing, and how can we best encourage researchers to address these challenges?

• What important lessons and ideas should the autonomic computing community draw from past and present work in other research communities? What can it contribute to other research communities?

• What essential new ideas, techniques, or applications distinguish autonomic computing from related sub-disciplines? What is the proper scope of autonomic computing?

• How can the autonomic computing community work together to create and demonstrate full-fledged autonomic systems? Are there good challenge problems that can motivate meaningful progress towards the ultimate vision of self-managing systems?