These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Third International ICST C- ference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems, Autonomics 2009, held at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, during September 911, 2009. As for the previous editions of the conference, this year too the primary goal of the event was to allow people working in the areas of communication, design, progr- ming, use and fundamental limits of autonomics pervasive systems to meet and - change their ideas and experiences in the aforementioned issues. In maintaining the tradition of excellence of Autonomics, this year we accepted 11 high-quality papers out of 26 submitted and had 5 invited talks, covering various aspects of autonomic computing including applications, middleware, networking protocols, and evaluation. The wide interest in the autonomic systems is shown by the broad range of topics covered in the papers presented at the conference. All papers presented at the conf- ence are published here and some of them, which are considered particularly intere- ing, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Autonomics and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS). The conference also hosted the First International Workshop on Agent-Based Social Simulation and Au- nomic Systems (ABSS@AS).

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Marco Mamei is research associate at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he received the PhD in computer science in 2004. His current research interests include distributed and pervasive computing, swarm intelligence, and multiagent systems. He is a member of the IEEE, AIIA and TABOO.

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the thirs International ICST conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems, Autonomics 2009, held in Cyprus Univesity of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, in September 2009.

The 11 revised full papers out of 26 submitted and hosted 5 invited talks, covering various aspects of autonomic computing including application, middelware, networking protocols and evaluation.

Inhalt
Autonomics 2009.- A-OSGi: A Framework to Support the Construction of Autonomic OSGi-Based Applications.- A Network-Coding Based Event Diffusion Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks.- Expressing Adaptivity and Context Awareness in the ASSISTANT Programming Model.- Experiences in Benchmarking of Autonomic Systems.- An Online Adaptive Model for Location Prediction.- MPM: Map Based Predictive Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Integrating Autonomic Grid Components and Process-Driven Business Applications.- Using a Teleo-Reactive Programming Style to Develop Self-healing Applications.- Sensor Selection for IT Infrastructure Monitoring.- Context-Aware Self-optimization in Multiparty Converged Mobile Environments.- Context Discovery in Mobile Environments: A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach.- ABSS@AS 2009 Workshop.- Consequences of Social and Institutional Setups for Occurrence Reporting in Air Traffic Organizations.- Can Space Applications Benefit from Intelligent Agents?.- A Generic Agent Organisation Framework for Autonomic Systems.- Metareasoning and Social Evaluations in Cognitive Agents.- Experiments on the Acquisition of the Semantics and Grammatical Constructions Required for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences.- An Autonomic Computing Architecture for Self-* Web Services.