Modelling Behavioural Orchestration of Autonomic Systems Communications and Services

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The fourth IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments (MACE 2009) will be held October 26-27, 2009 in Venice, Italy. The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM), and the Autonomic Communications Forum (all pending).

The essence of autonomic management is the ability for a system to self-govern its behaviour within the constraints of the business goals that the system as a whole seeks to achieve. The explosive growth of the Internet, the proliferation of mobile networks and the increasing difficulty in managing multi-vendor environments and the services that they are meant to provide have dramatically increased the system and business complexity of communications environments. The inherent heterogeneity of network device programming models and operational and management data has created a gulf between the resources and services that are provided and the business needs of providers and their customers. This will be exacerbated by future service offerings, which demand the ability to react to changing user needs, business objectives, and environmental changes in an efficient and cost-effective manner.