The purpose of this workshop is to present and to discuss the principles of Autonomic Communication – a new communication paradigm to assist the design of the Next Generation Networks. This conference explicitly focuses on the grounding principles to achieve purposeful behavior on top of self-organization (self-management, self-healing, self-awareness, etc.). Papers are solicited that study network element’s autonomic behavior exposed by innovative (cross-layer optimized, context-aware, and securely programmable) protocol stack in its interaction with numerous often-dynamic network groups and communities. The goals are to understand how desired element's behaviors are learned, influenced or changed, and how, in turn, these affect other elements, groups and the network.

   Self-organized Internet will be able to sense changes in its environment, to perceive these changes and to understand the meaning of these changes, thus facilitating new ways to perform network control, management, middle box communication, service creation, etc. based on universal and fine-grained multiplexing of numerous policies, rules and events that is done autonomously but facilitates desired behavior of groups of network elements. Though the primary application domain is the Internet, papers addressing autonomic communication principles for critical mission systems are also welcome.

Papers are solicited on at least the following topics

• Policy-based communication and policy multiplexing in NGN
• Group communication for control and management plane
• Designing evolvable next generation networks
• Self-organisation for NGN re-configurability
• Autonomic Communication calculi
• Theoretical foundations of autonomic network control
• From Autonomic Communication to mobile code
• Generic service composition at run-time
• Context handling within Autonomic Communication;
• Theoretical foundations of rule-based systems;
• Immunity of Autonomic Communication;
• Applied Autonomic Communication (QoS, traffic engineering, routing, etc.)