By exploring systems' capability for self-learning, self-healing, self-recovery, self-configuring, self-adapting, etc, autonomic computing aims to build "autonomic nervous systems" which address the challenges of complicated systems arising from the rapid explosion of information and system/solution integration. IJAC serves as a forum for individuals in the field to publish their research results, thus facilitating communication and networking among autonomic computing researchers and engineers, and stimulating production of high-quality autonomic computing solutions and architectures.

Topics covered include
-Autonomic programming models, tools and environments
-Autonomic resources scheduling and management
-Autonomic middleware and toolkits
-Autonomic monitoring and management
-Autonomic policy and QoS/IT system management
-Autonomic performance evaluation and modelling
-Autonomic architectures and mathematical foundations
-Autonomic application integration issues
-Autonomic grid, services
-Autonomic access control and security issues
-Ontology programming for self-configuring
-Sensor array structure and signal processing
-Intelligent control and pattern recognition
-Autonomic applications, system solutions, case studies
-Convergence of web services, grid and autonomic computing

Editor in Chief
Ma, Kun, University of Jinan, China
(kun.ma.cn@ieee.org)

Editorial Board Members
Badr, Youakim, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA-Lyon), France
Boutaba, Raouf, University of Waterloo, Canada
De Carvalho, Andre Ponce de Leon F., University of S?o Paulo, Spain
Huang, Yueh-Min, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Koenig, Andreas, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
Nayak, Amiya, University of Ottawa, Canada
Pallickara, Shrideep, Indiana University, USA
Pan, Jeng-Shyang, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute, Poland
Parashar, Manish, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Park, Jong Hyuk, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Republic of Korea
Rana, Omer F., Cardiff University, UK
Strassner, John, Motorola Labs, USA
Vasilakos, Athanasios, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Verma, Brijesh, Central Queensland University, Australia
Xhafa, Fatos, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Yousif, Mazin, Avirtec Corporation, USA