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、服务和设备的激增已经使得当前的联网系统设计和管理工具不能设计可靠、安全的网络系统和服务。 事实上，我们已经达到了复杂性、异构性和动态性的水平，我们的信息基础设施正变得难以管理和不安全。 此外，当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、不确定性和安全性要求。 自主计算的研究将有助设计下一代的网络系统和服务，这些系统和服务能够自我管理和控制，并能预测其工作量和自动调整其资源配置以应付新的工作量。廉政公署工作坊将集中讨论自主计算系统的研究课题和发展所面对的挑战。 CLADE研讨会的目标是通过解决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广泛的异质性和动态的创新应用程序的开发。 这包括在网格和其他分布式异构和动态计算环境中开发、部署、管理和评估科学、工程、医学、商业、经济学、教育和其他学科的大规模应用程序。

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.