Rob Barrett, Paul Maglio, Eser Kandogan, and John Bailey

                   Multi-agent Systems and Autonomic Computing (Abstract)

                   Prof. Nick Jennings, Southampton University

0915-1030  Session 5: System-level Technologies for Autonomic Computing

·  Towards a Self-Managing Software Patching Process Using Black-Box Persistent-State

   Manifests

         John Dunagan, Roussi Roussev, Brad Daniels, Aaron Johnson, Chad Verbowski,

         and Yi-Min Wang

·  Support for Disconnected Operation via Architectural Self-Reconfiguration

         Marija Mikic-Rakic and Nenad Medvidovic

·  RepStore: A Self-Managing and Self-Tuning Storage Backend with Smart Bricks

         Zheng Zhang, Shiding Lin, Qiao Lian, and Chao Jin

1030-1100  Break

1100-1230  Session 6A: General Architecture and Environment for

                   Autonomic Computing Systems II

·  Emergence: a Paradigm for Robust and Scalable Distributed Applications

         Richard Anthony

·  Unity: Experiences with a Prototype Autonomic Computing System

         David Chess, Alla Segal, Ian Whalley and Steve White

·  On Identifying Stable Ways to Configure Systems

         Gagan Aggarwal, Mayur Datar, Nina Mishra, and Rajeev Motwani,

·  Bringing Planning to Autonomic Applications with ABLE

         Biplav Srivastava, Joseph Bigus, and Donald Schlosnagle

1100-1230  Session 6B: Storage and Database Systems

·  SANBoost: Automated SAN-Level Caching in Storage Area Network

         Ismail Ari, Melanie Gottwals, and Dick Henze

·  Using the Distiller to direct the development of self-configuration software

         Zachary Kurmas and Kimberly Keeton

·  Recommending Materialized Views and Indexes with IBM’s DB2 Design Advisor

         Daniel Zilio, Calisto Zuzarte, Sam Lightstone, Wenbin Ma, Guy Lohman, Robert   

         Cochrane, Hamid Pirahesh, Latha Colby, Jarek Gryz, Eric Alton, Dongming Liang,

         and Gary Valentin

·  An Agent Based Autonomic Semantic Platform

         Dario Bonino, Alessio Bosca, and Fulvio Corno

1230-1345       Lunch Break

1345-1515  Session 7A: Performance Management in Autonomic Computing  Systems II

·  OnCall: Defeating Spikes with a Free-Market Application Cluster

         James Norris, Keith Coleman, Armando Fox, and George Candea

·  Autonomic Self-Optimization According to business objectives

         Sarel Aiber, Dagan Gilat, Ariel Landau, Natalia Razinkov, Aviad Sela, and Segev

        Wasserkrug

·  Automatic Performance Management in Component Based Software Systems        

        Ada Diaconescu, Adrian Mos, and John Murphy

·  Dynamic Resource Allocation of Shared Data Centers Supporting Multiclass Requests

         Sai Rajesh Mahabhashyam and Natarajan Gautam

1345-1515  Session 7B: Autonomic Computing in Massively Distributed Systems II

·  Autonomous Smart Routing for Network QoS

         Erol Gelenbe, Michael Gellman, Ricardo Lent, Peixiang Liu, and Pu Su

·  Mobilized ad-hoc networks: A reinforcement learning approach

         Yu-Han Chang, Tracey Ho, and Leslie Kaelbling

·  Managing User-centric Adaptive Services for Pervasive Computing

         David Lewis, Tony O'Donnell, Kevin Feeney, Aoife Brady, and Vincent Wade

·  Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors

         Aniruddha Bohra, Iulian Neamtiu, Pascal Gallard, Florin Sultan, and Liviu Iftode

1515-1545  Break

1545-1730  Panel Discussions

Self-Managing Systems: Views and Visions (Abstract)

Moderator:

         Ken Birman, Professor, Cornell University

Panelists:

         Donald Young, Architect, Adaptive Enterprise, HP

        Jeffrey Frey, Architect, On Demand Infrastructure, IBM

        Anders Vinberg, Senior Architect, Microsoft:

         Jacob Gabrielson, Principal Software Development Engineer, Amazon

         Karsten Schwan, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

1730-1800  Closing Remarks