[ieeetcsc-discuss] The early registration deadline for ICAC 2008 is fast approaching (May 16th)

Tue May 13 05:04:47 PDT 2008

Dear Colleague,

The early registration deadline for the International Conference on
Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2008) is fast approaching (May 16th). The ICAC
2008 provisional is excellent. It includes three invited keynote addresses
by Ken Birman, Robert Ghrist and Mark Burgess; high-quality papers and
poster presentations, workshops and tutorials on timely topics. All of these
are covered by the same basic registration fee.

For registration go to:

https://www.epd.engr.arizona.edu/epdform.php?form=icac_2006_form

Apologies for duplicate mailings through separate lists.

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Monday 2 June 2008

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Workshop: 3rd International Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic

Computing (HotAC 2008)

Tutorial: Model-based autonomic computing

Tuesday 3 June 2008

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0830-0900 Breakfast

0900-0915 Opening and welcome

0915-1030 Keynote: Ken Birman

1030-1100 Coffee

1100-1230 Technical session: Virtualization and data centers (1)

 * Power and performance management of virtualized computing environments

   via lookahead control -- Dara Kusic (Drexel University US), Jeffery

   Kephart, James Hanson (IBM US), Nagarajan Kandasamy

   (Drexel University US) and Guofei Jiang (NEC Labs US) 

 * PQR: predicting query execution times for autonomous workload

   management -- Chetan Gupta, HP Labs US)

 * Generating adaptation policies for multi-tier applications in

   consolidated server environments -- Gueyounh Jung (Georgia

   Institute of Technology US), Kaustubh Joshi, Matti Hiltunen,

   Richard Schlichting (AT&T Labs US), Carlton Pu (Georgia Institute

   of Technology US)

1230-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 Technical session: Fault management

 * Semantic-driven model composition for accurate anomaly detection --

   Saeed Ghanbari, Cristiana Amza (University of Toronto CA)

 * Guided problem diagnosis through active learning -- Songyun Duan

   and Shivnath Babu (Duke University US)

 * Clustering analysis for the management of self-monitoring device

   networks -- Andres Quiroz, Manish Parashar (Rutgers University US),

   Nathan Gnanasambandam, Naveen Sharma (Xerox Corporation US)

1530-1600 Coffee

1600-1700 Poster presentations (3 minute madness)

1700-1900 Poster session and drinks reception

Wednesday 4 June 2008

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0830-0915 Breakfast

0900-0915 Housekeeping

0915-1030 Keynote: Data aggregation over networks via integration,

          Robert Ghrist, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US

1030-1100 Coffee

1100-1230 Technical session: Intelligent systems

 * Automatic configuration of an autonomic controller: an

   experimental study -- Thomas Heinis and Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich CH)

 * Dealing with quality trade-offs during service selection --

   Caroline Herssens (Universite catholique de Louvain BE), Ivan Jureta

   and Stephane Faulkner (Universite de Namur BE)

 * Digital evolution of behavioral models  for autonomic systems --

   Heather J. Goldsby, Betty H.C. Cheng, Philip K. McKinley,

   David B. Knoester, & Charles A. Ofria. (Michigan State University US)

1230-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 Technical session: Middleware

 * An adaptive middleware for supporting time-critical event response

   -- Qian Zhu, Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State University US)

 * Tracking transaction footprints for non-intrusive end-to-end

   monitoring -- Bikram Sengupta, Nilanjan Banerjee (IBM US)

 * The design of a new context-aware policy model for autonomic

   networking -- John  Strassner, Srini Samudrala, Greg Cox, Yan Liu,

   Michael Jiang, Jing Zhang (Motorola Labs US), Sven van der Meer,

   Micheal O Foghlu, Willie Donnelly (Waterford Institute of

   Technology IE)

1530-1600 Coffee

1600-1630 Discussion: "Hot topics"

1630-1730 Panel

1900-2300 Conference dinner

Thursday 5 June 2008

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0830-0900 Breakfast

0900-0915 Housekeeping

0915-1045 Technical session: Intrusion management

 * Multi-level intrusion detection system (ML-IDS) -- Youssif

   Al-Nashif, Aathi Arun Kumar, Salim Hariri, Yi Luo, Ferenc

   Szidarovsky (University of Arizona US), Guangzhi Qu (Oakland

   University US)

 * Automating ITSM incident management process -- Rajeev Gupta, Hima K

   and Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research IN)

 * Anatomy of a real-time intrusion prevention system -- Ricardo

   Koller, Raju Rangaswami, Joseph Marrero, Igor Hernandez, Geoffrey

   Smith, Mandy Barsilai, Silviu Necula, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Tao Li

   and Krista Merrill (Florida International University US), 

1045-1130 Coffee

1130-1245 Keynote: Mark Burgess

1245-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 Technical session: Virtualisation and data centres (2)

 * Just-in-time server provisioning using virtual machine standby and

   request prediction -- Fumio Machida, Masahiro Kawato and Yoshiharu

   Maeno, NEC Corporation JP)

 * 1000 Islands: integrated capacity and workload management for the next

   generation data center -- Xiaoyun Zhu, Donald Young, Brian J. Watson,

   Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Jerry Rolia, Bret McKee, Chris Hyser

   (HP Labs US), Daniel Gmach (Technical University of Munich DE),

   Thomas Christian and Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs US)

 * CARVE: a cognitive agent for resource value estimation -- Johnathan

   Wildstrom, Peter Stone and Emmett Witchel (University of Texas at

   Austin US)

1530-1600 Summary

1600-1800 Social session

Friday 6 June 2008

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Workshop: Agents for Autonomic Computing

Posters

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 * Towards a self-configurable weather research and forecasting system

   -- S. Masoud Sadjadi (Florida International University US) 

 * Tailoring resources: the energy-efficient consolidation strategy

   goes beyond virtualization -- Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Vicenc

   Beltran, Nicholas Poggi, Kevin Hogan, Josep Lluis Berral, Richard

   Gavalda, Eduard Ayguade, Toni Moreno and Jordi Guitart

   (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya ES)

 * Enabling autonomic meta-scheduling in grid environments-- S.

   Masoud Sadjadi (Florida International University US) 

 * Runtime fault-handling for job-flow management in grid environments

   -- S. Masoud Sadjadi (Florida International University US) 

 * An autonomic software development methodology based on Darwinian

   evolution -- Benjamin Beckmann, Laura Grabowski, Philip McKinley

   and Charles Orfia (Michigan State University US)

 * Utility-based reinforcement learning for reactive grids -- Julien

   Perez (LRI-CNRS FR), Cecile Germain-Renaud (LRI/LAL FR), Balazs

   Kegi (Universite de Paris-Sud FR) and Charles Loomis (LAL-CNRS FR)

 * Autocorrelation-driven load control in autonomic systems --

   Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Qi Zhang (College of William and Mary

   US), Alma Riska (Seagate Research US) and Evgenia Smimi (College of

   William and Mary US)

 * A run-time configurable software architecture for self-managing

   systems -- Richard Anthony, Mariusz Pelc, Paul Ward, James

   Hawthorne and Kaveesh Pulnah (University of Greenwich UK)

 * Policy-based automation in the autonomic data center -- David

   Kaminsky, Brent Miller, Abdi Salahshour and  Jim Whitmore (IBM US)

 * Self-Configuration in Autonomic Systems using Clustered CBR

   Approach -- Malik Jahan Khan, Mian Mihammed Awais and Shafey

   Shamail (LUMS PK)

Keynote abstracts

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Scalable Management for Global Services

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Ken Birman

As enterprises go global, it's increasingly clear that we need a

standard Internet service to play such roles as tracking the nodes on

which applications are running, monitoring health (live, failed, or

unreachable), supporting locking and other forms of synchronization,

maintaining parameters and dynamic status, etc.  Such functionality

could open the door to a wide range of autonomic behaviors.  Lacking

it, developers have generally rolled their own solutions.  For

example, the DNS can perform some of these functions, but it lacks the

performance, scalability and consistency properties needed for many

purposes.  This talk will touch on some recent success stories in the

area, then look to the future and ask whether it isn't time to replace

the DNS with some form of globally deployed management service: a GMS.

Data Aggregation over Networks via Integration

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Robert Ghrist

This talk considers the problem of aggregating coarse redundant data

over networks, using a non-standard integration theory. A toy problem

to be addressed is as follows: given a collection of targets in a

domain and a network of sensors which count the number of targets

nearby, the goal is to determine the total number of targets. The

difficulty is that the sensors are minimal --- they can neither

localize nor identify the targets. This makes it difficult to

eliminate redundant data.

The solution we construct is an integration theory based on sheaves

and the Euler characteristic (both of which will be exposited in the

talk). It is powerful enough to solve a wide variety of problems while

remaining computable quickly in a distributed manner.

The Promise of Self-Adapting Equilibrium

Mark Burgess

How should we understand autonomics? As software engineering, as biology?
Mark Burgess is the visionary author of cfengine, probably the first
autonomic system for server management dating back to 1993, which now
manages hundreds of thousands of computers all over the world. Since writing
his manifesto "Computer Immunology" for self-repairing computing in 1998 he
has led research efforts at Oslo University College to realize self-healing
systems in practice, using strong scientific and engineering principles.  In
this talk he will share with us some of the principles that have made
cfengine successful and his vision for realizing autonomic computing,
including the importance of promise theory and dynamic equilibria that not
only offer engineering principles, but also reveal the essential economics
behind cooperative computing.

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Masoud Sadjadi, PhD                  
Assistant Professor                  
School of Computing and Information Sciences         
Florida International University     
University Park, ECS 212C            
11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 

Email:   <mailto:sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu> sadjadi at cs.fiu.edu
Web:   <http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi> www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi
Tel:  305-348-1835
Fax:  305-348-2336
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