SAC-FIRE workshop collocated with AUTONOMICS 2008
October 15, 2008The Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems (AUTONOMICS 2008) was held on September 23-25, 2008 in Turin, Italy. The conference hosted two workshops in the areas of innovative service technologies (INSERTECH 2008) and middleware for network eccentric and mobile applications (MINEMA). In addition, the Third International SAC-FIRE Workshop was also organized along with AUTONOMICS 2009 with the participation of experts from the European Commission, Telecom Italia, Martel, the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Athens and Create-Net. The workshop concentrated on different sub-topic related to the main theme of situated and autonomic communications (SAC) and developments within the European Commission's Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) activities.
As a courtesy of Telecom Italia, the technical sessions of AUTONOMICS 2009 were conducted in the halls and auditorium of Telecom Italia's main research facility in Turin. The keynote session of the conference were delivered by Dr. Roberto SARACCO, Director of Long Term Research Department at Telecom Italia, and Dr. Mihaela ULIERU, Canada Research Chair in Adaptive Information Infrastructures for the e-Society at the University of New Brunswick. The organizational process of the conference was lead by Dr. Antonio MANZALINI from Telecom Italia and Dr. Fanrice SAFFRE from BT Group CTO.
For more information on AUTONOMICS 2008, please visit the official conference website at http://www.autonomics.eu.