Call for Papers Workshop on DECENTRALIZED SELF MANAGEMENT FOR GRIDS, P2P, AND USER COMMUNITIES http://www.ist-selfman.org/wiki/index.php/SelfmanWorkshop Oct. 20 or 21, 2008, Isola di San Servolo (Venice), Italy In conjunction with SASO 2008, Oct. 20-24, 2008 Important dates: * Submission of position paper: July 5, 2008 (required for attendance) * Notification of acceptance: Aug. 5, 2008 * Final copy: Sept. 15, 2008 * Workshop: Oct. 20-21, 2008 The Internet is a fantastic tool for information and resource sharing. User communities such as families, friends, schools, clubs, etc., can pool their resources and their knowledge: hardware, computation time, file space, photos, data, annotations, pointers, opinions, etc. However, infrastructures and tools for supporting such activities are still relatively primitive. Existing P2P networks enable world-wide file sharing but are limited to read-only data and provide no security or confidentiality guarantees. Grids support closed-membership virtual organizations (VOs), but their management remains largely manual. Web 2.0 social networks, blogs, and wikis remain centralized and have limited functionality. This workshop examines issues of decentralized self management as they relate to these areas. The workshop is co-located with SASO 2008, the Second International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (). The workshop covers the application of: * Peer-to-peer techniques such as structured overlay networks * Self-adaptive techniques such as feedback loop architectures * Agoric systems, collective intelligence, and game theory * Decentralized distributed algorithms * Autonomic networking techniques to: * Virtual organizations * Collaborative and social applications * Computer-supported cooperative work, collaborative editing, code management tools, or co-operative engineering * Data replication, distributed file systems or distributed databases * Security and confidentiality in distributed systems To attend the workshop, you must submit a position paper of no more than 5 pages to the workshop organizers. Technical papers may be submitted as well. All accepted submissions will be published in an IEEE postproceedings. Submissions should be sent to the following address (preferably by email in pdf format): Peter Van Roy Dept. of Computing Science and Engineering Place Sainte Barbe, 2 Universitˇ catholique de Louvain B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Email: peter.vanroy@uclouvain.be Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The review will focus not only on the paper's quality but also on its novelty and ability to engender fruitful discussions. All authors of accepted position papers are invited to attend the workshop. Note that workshop attendees must register both to the conference and the workshop. Workshop PC members are also encouraged to submit position papers and that these papers will be reviewed to the same standards as outside submissions. This workshop is sponsored by the European projects Grid4All and SelfMan , with corporate sponsorship from France Tˇlˇcom R&D. Keynote speaker [TBA] Organizing committee Peter Van Roy, Universitˇ catholique de Louvain, Belgium Marc Shapiro, INRIA & LIP6, Paris, France Seif Haridi, SICS & KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Program committee Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Seif Haridi, SICS & KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA Mark Miller, Google Research, USA Pascal Molli, LORIA, Nancy, France Luc Onana Alima, UMH, Mons, Belgium Nuno Pregui¨a, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institut Berlin, Germany Marc Shapiro, INRIA & LIP6, Paris, France Peter Van Roy, Universitˇ catholique de Louvain, Belgium Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA