Proposal for Support of The 2nd Annual International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2005)

互联网技术、服务和设备的激增，使得当前的网络系统设计和管理工具无法设计出可靠、安全的网络系统和服务。事实上，我们已经达到了一个复杂、异构和动态的程度，以至于我们的信息基础设施变得难以管理和不安全。之前的一系列研讨会集中讨论了自主计算系统发展面临的研究问题和挑战。这次会议的目标是双重的。首先，通过汇集该领域的研究人员，本次会议进一步了解和解决自主系统和应用程序的开发和部署所面临的具有挑战性的研究问题，并支持动态的、数据驱动的应用系统，即通过以新颖的方式共享处理和数据与其他应用程序动态交互的应用程序。其次，它的产出可以帮助聚焦和明确未来国家科学基金重点领域的潜在方向，以最大限度地提高这些研究投资的科技回报。

The proliferation of Internet technologies, services and devices, have made the current networked system designs, and management tools incapable of designing reliable, secure networked systems and services. In fact, we have reached a level of complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamism that our information infrastructureis becoming unmanageable and insecure. A series of preceeding workshops have focused on the research issues and challenges facing the development ofautonomic computing systems. The objectives of this conference are two-fold. First, by bringing together researchers in this field, this meeting further understand and address the challenging research issues facing the development and deployment of autonomic systems and applications and support dynamic, data-driven application systems, i.e., applications that dynamically interact with others by sharing processing and data in novel ways. Second, its output can be helpful in focusing and crystallizing potential directions of future NSF emphasis areas to maximize the scientific and technological returns from those research investments.