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         The Thirteenth International Conference on 
           Autonomic and Autonomous Systems 
             ICAS 2017 
               May 21 - 25, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain  | 
       
     
     
     
     ICAS Steering Committee
  Satoshi Kurihara, University of Electro-Communications, Japan 
  Ljubo Vlacic, Griffith University, Australia 
  Roy Sterritt, Ulster University, UK 
  Mark J. Balas, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA 
  Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK 
  
  Karsten Böhm, Fachhochschule Kufstein, Austria
  S.G. Ponnambalam, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
  Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK   
  
  Jacques Malenfant, UPMC, France 
  
  Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland 
  
  Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA 
     ICAS Industry/Research Advisory Committee
       Loris Penserini, Informatica e Società Digitale - IES, Italy  
       Stefanos Vrochidis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece 
       Tsuyoshi Ide, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA 
       Petr Skobelev, Knowledge Genesis Group / Samara Technical University, Russia 
       Rajat Mehrotra, Desert Research Institute, USA
       Andreas Kercek, Lakeside Labs GmbH, Austria 
       Claudius Stern, biozoom services GmbH - Kassel | FOM  University of Applied Sciences - Essen, Germany
     ICAS 2017 Technical Program Committee
     Sherif Abdelwahed, Mississippi State  University, USA
Jose Aguilar, Universidad de Los  Andes, Venezuela
Alba Amato, Institute for High-Performance  Computing and Networking (ICAR), Napoli, Italy
Razvan Andonie, Central Washington University, USA
Richard Anthony, University of  Greenwich, UK
Markus Bader, Technische Universität  Wien, Austria
Mark J. Balas, Embry-Riddle  Aeronautical University, USA
Julita Bermejo-Alonso, Universidad  Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Karsten Böhm, Fachhochschule  Kufstein, Austria
Radu Calinescu, University of York,  UK
Paolo Campegiani, University of Roma  Tor Vergata, Italy
Valérie Camps, Paul Sabatier  University | IRIT, France
José Manuel Castro Torres,  University Fernando Pessoa / LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer  Science Laboratory / ISUS - Intelligent Sensing and Ubiquitous Systems,  Portugal
Albert M. K. Cheng, University of  Houston, USA
Feng Chu, University of Evry, France 
Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College  Dublin, Ireland
Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta,  University of Nebraska, USA
Angel P. del Pobil, Jaume I  University, Spain
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di  Milano, Italy
Sotirios Diamantas, Athens  Information Technology, Greece
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University,  Canada
Anna Esposito, Seconda  Università di Napoli & IIASS, Italy
Lukas Esterle, Vienna University of  Technology, Austria
Thaddeus Eze, University of Chester,  UK
Luis Fernando Orleans,  Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
Maurizio Fiasché, Politecnico di  Milano, Italy
Manuel Filipe Santos, Universidade  do Minho | Research Centre Algoritmi, Portugal
Ziny Flikop, Scientist, USA
Stefano Franchi, University of Texas  A&M, USA
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Fabio Gasparetti, ROMA TRE  University, Italy
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, University  Paul Sabatier of Toulouse | IRIT, France
Fatemeh Golpayegani, Trinity College  Dublin, Ireland
Teodor Lucian Grigorie, University  of Craiova, Romania
William Grosky, University of  Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Jordi Guitart, Universitat  Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Maki K. Habib, The American University in Cairo,  Egypt
Gerold Hoelzl, University of Passau,  Germany 
Wladyslaw Homenda, Warsaw University  of Technology, Poland
Wei-Chiang Hong, Nanjing Tech  University, China
Marc-Philippe Huget, Polytech Annecy-Chambery-LISTIC  | University of Savoie, France
Jinho Hwang, IBM T.J. Watson  Research Center, USA
Tsuyoshi Ide, IBM T. J. Watson  Research Center, USA
Luis Iribarne, University of  Almería, Spain
Michael Jenkin, York University,  Canada
Richard  Jiang, Northumbria University, UK   
Paulo Jorge Sequeira Goncalves,  Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Imed Kacem, Université de Lorraine,  France
Alexey Kashevnik, St. Petersburg  Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences  (SPIIRAS), Russia
Andreas Kercek, Lakeside Labs GmbH, Austria
Won-jong Kim, Texas A&M  University, USA
Ah-Lian Kor, Leeds Beckett  University, UK
Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg  Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences  (SPIIRAS), Russia
Boris Kovalerchuk, Central  Washington University, USA
Satoshi Kurihara, University of  Electro-Communications, Japan
Noel Lopes, Polytechnic of  Guarda, Portugal
José Machado, University  of Minho, Portugal
Prabhat Mahanti, University of New  Brunswick, Canada
Jacques Malenfant, UPMC, France
Pushparaj Mani Pathak, Indian Institute of Technology,  Roorkee, India
Jerusa Marchi, Universidade Federal  de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Konrad Andrzej Markowski, Warsaw University of  Technology, Poland
Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of  Porto, Portugal
Rajat Mehrotra, Desert  Research Institute, USA
René Meier, Lucerne University of  Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Márcio Mendonça, Federal University of Technology  of Paraná, Brazil  
Yasser F. O. Mohammad, KDDI  Laboratories, Japan / Assiut University, Egypt
Masayuki Murata, Osaka University  Suita, Japan
Adnan Abou  Nabout, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany
Nicol Naidoo, University of  KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Vivek Nallur, Trinity College Dublin  | University of Dublin, Ireland
Roberto Nardone, University of  Naples Federico II, Italy
Rafael Oliveira Vasconcelos,  Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) / University  Tiradentes (UNIT), Brazil
Chiemela Onunka,  Mangosuthu University of Technology, South Africa
Flavio Oquendo, IRISA - University  of South Brittany, France
Eros Pasero, Politecnico of Turin,  Italy / Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Loris Penserini, Informatica e  Società Digitale - IES, Italy
Agostino Poggi, DII - University of  Parma, Italy
S.G. Ponnambalam, Monash University  Malaysia, Malaysia
José Ragot, Université de Lorraine, France
Douglas Rodrigues, University of Sao  Paulo (USP), Brazil
Fariba Sadri, Imperial College  London, UK
Lakhdar Sais, CRIL - CNRS,  University of Artois, France
Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri  University of Science and Technology, USA
Jurek Z. Sasiadek, Carleton  University, Canada
Madhavan Shanmugavel, Monash  University Malaysia Campus, Malaysia
Pietro Siciliano, Institute for  Microelectronics and Microsystems IMM-CNR, Italy
Fábio Silva, University of Minho,  Portugal
Maria Silvia Pini, University of  Padova, Italy
David Sislak, Czech Technical  University in Prague, Czech Republic
Petr Skobelev, Knowledge Genesis Group  / Samara Technical University, Russia
Antonino Staiano, University of  Naples, Parthenope, Italy
Bernd Steinbach, University of  Mining and Technology, Germany
Claudius Stern, biozoom services GmbH - Kassel | FOM  University of Applied Sciences - Essen, Germany
Roy Sterritt, Ulster University, UK
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University  of Science and Technology, Poland
Giorgio Terracina, Università della  Calabria, Italy
Emanuele Tonucci, IES - Informatica e Società Digitale, Italy
Viviane Torres da Silva, IBM  Research, Brazil
Ali Emre Turgut, Middle East  Technical University (METU), Turkey
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de  Lisboa, Portugal
Egon L. van den Broek, Utrecht  University, The Netherlands
Pierluigi Vellucci, Università di  Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
Ramon Vilanova i Arbos, Escola  d'Enginyeria - UAB, Spain
Ljubo Vlacic, Griffith University, Australia
Stefanos Vrochidis, Centre for  Research and Technology Hellas - Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece
Yu Weiwei, Northwestern Polytechnical  University, China
Reuven Yagel, Azrieli - Jerusalem  College of Engineering, Israel
Linda Yang, University of  Portsmouth, UK
Xin-She Yang, Middlesex  University, UK
Mingyi Zhang, Huawei US R&D Research Center, USA
Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University,  USA