Support for International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2004) & International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2004)

互联网技术、服务和设备的激增，使得目前的网络化系统设计和管理工具无法设计可靠、安全的网络系统和服务。事实上，我们已经达到了复杂、异质和动态的程度，我们的信息基础设施正在变得无法管理和不安全。此外，目前控制和管理信息基础设施的设计技术和软件工具无法处理其复杂性、异构性、不确定性和安全要求。自主计算研究将有助设计新一代联网系统和服务，这些系统和服务能够自我管理和控制，并能预测其工作量，并自动调整其资源配置以应付新负载。廉政公署工作坊将集中讨论自主计算系统发展所面对的研究课题和挑战。Clade研讨会的目标是通过解决在分布式计算的大规模应用中出现的复杂问题来鼓励创新，并促进有效利用分布式资源并适应空间和时间上的广泛异质性和动态的创新应用的开发。这包括在网格和其他分布式、异质和动态的计算环境中开发、部署、管理和评估科学、工程、医学、商业、经济、教育和其他学科中的大规模应用程序。

The proliferation of Internet technologies, services and devices, have made the current networked system designs, and management tools, incapable of designing reliable, secure network systems and services. In fact, we have reached a level of complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamism that our information infrastructure is becoming unmanageable and insecure. Furthermore, current design techniques and software tools that control and manage the information infrastructure are incapable of handling its complexity, heterogeneity, uncertainty, and security requirements. Autonomic computing research will enable the design of the next of the next generation of networked systems and services that are capable of managing and controlling themselves, and can anticipate their workloads and automatically adjust the configurations of their resources to meet the new loads.The ICAC workshop will be focused on the research issues and challenges facing the development of autonomic computing systems. The goal of the CLADE workshop is to encourage innovation by addressing the complex issues that arise in large-scale applications of distributed computation and to promote the development of innovative applications that effectively use distributed resources and adapt to a wide range of heterogeneity and dynamics in space and time. This includes development, deployment, management and evaluations of large scale applications in science, engineering, medicine, business, economics, education, and other disciplines, on Grids and other distributed heterogeneous and dynamic computing environments.