Second International Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing (ACC 2006) Message from the Workshop Organizers

T hese are the refereed proceedings of the Second International IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing, ACC 2006. It is now undeniable that autonomic communications and computing is a booster to pervasive vision. Ubiquitous and self-organized Internet, ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks are expected to be some of the basic building blocks of pervasive computing environments. However, the promise of pervasive computing environments will not be realized unless these systems can be autonomic. The new pervasive autonomic communications and computing architectures must reach satisfactory levels of autonomic features (self-organization, self-healing, self-protection, self-reconfiguration etc.) needed in ubiquitous environments by data harnessing. New pervasive autonomic communications and computing systems base their operations on a local knowledge base data harnessing describing the set of information that services will use to convey a given service request/response. The local information space continuously evolves with the information derived from the host node’s neighborhood, with time, connectivity, location, a device user’s own information and other types of context information. This workshop, at its second edition, consolidates the success of the first edition of this Workshop series. It succeeded in providing a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia on this novel and exciting area. The workshop attracted very high interest among the international community, and received good submissions from all around the world. This figure is very positive and indicates that the ACC workshop is establishing itself as a worldwide reference event in the field. The high number of submissions provided an excellent opportunity for selecting a high-quality program. The members of the Technical Program Committee, together with several additional external reviewers, worked hard to provide the basis for the final paper selection. We finally selected 8 papers for presentation in the workshop technical sessions. Overall, the final program is excellent and diverse, and covers both fundamental issues such as autonomic security as well as emerging and innovative topics. It should be noted that, given the many submissions and the lack of space, many good papers could not be accommodated. The main program of ACC 2006 opens with a key note speech, and covers one full day single track of technical papers, plus an experts panel at the end of the day to debate timely and challenging issues of Autonomic Computing and Communications.