Special Issue on Autonomic Pervasive and Context-aware Systems
Guest Edited by David Lewis and Simon Dobson

GUEST EDITORIAL
Autonomic Pervasive and Context-Aware Systems
    David Lewis and Simon Dobson, pp. 1-3

THRESHOLD
Ontologies in the Engineering of Management and Autonomic Systems: A Reality Check
   John Strassner, Declan O’Sullivan and David Lewis, pp. 5-11

PAPERS
Cross-Layer Architectures for Autonomic Communications
    Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon,
    pp. 13-27

Exploiting Context-Awareness for the Autonomic Management of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
   Apostolos Malatras, Antonios M. Hadjiantonis and George Pavlou, pp. 29-55

Distributed Context Retrieval and Consistency Control in Pervasive Computing
   Ioanna Roussaki, Maria Strimpakou and Carsten Pils, pp. 57-74

Ontological Semantics for Distributing Contextual Knowledge in Highly Distributed Autonomic Systems
    John Keeney, David Lewis and Declan O’Sullivan , pp. 75-86

Self-Configuration of Network Services with Biologically Inspired Learning and Adaptation
    Frank Chiang, Robin Braun and Johnson I. Agbinya , pp. 87-116

A Negotiation Scheme for Access Rights Establishment in Autonomic Communication
    Hristo Koshutanski and Fabio Massacci , pp. 117-136