Monday, June 13, 2005

08:00 - 11:00 Tutorial 1: Semantic Web Services for Autonomic Computing: A Conceptual Model, Language, and Execution Environment (Presentation Slides)

12:00 - 03:00 Tutorial 2: AC Toolkit Tutorial

03:30 - 06:30 Tutorial 3: Reinforcement Learning: A Users' Guide

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome

08:45 - 10:00 Keynote I

Title: Looking Forward to the Future
Speaker: Richard ("Rick") F. Rashid, Microsoft Research

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:30 Session I: Autonomic Middleware (Chair: Philip McKinley)

• Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware
  Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, and Karsten Schwan

• Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System
  Jing Xu, Sumalatha Adabala, and José A. B. Fortes

• Design and Evaluation of an Autonomic Workflow Engine
  Thomas Heinis, Cesare Pautasso, and Gustavo Alonso

• Experience with Collaborating Managers: Node Group Manager and Provisioning Manager
  David M. Chess, Giovanni Pacifici, Mike Spreitzer, Malgorzata Steinder, Asser Tantawi, and Ian Whalley

12:30 - 02:00 Lunch

02:00 - 03:30 Session II: Distributed Systems (Chair: Fabrice Saffre)

• Decentralised Autonomic Computing: Analysing Self-Organising Emergent Behaviour using Advanced Numerical Methods
  Tom De Wolf, Giovanni Samaey, Tom Holvoet, and Dirk Roose

• Governor: Autonomic throttling for Aggressive Idle Resource Scavenging
  Jonathan W. Strickland, Vincent W. Freeh, Xiaosong Ma, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudaiy

• Using Transparent Shaping and Web Services to Support Self-Management of Composite Systems
  S. Masoud Sadjadi and Philip K. McKinley

03:30 - 04:00 Break

04:00 - 05:30 Industry Session (Chair: Karsten Schwan)

• Autonomic Management using WSDM, An Interoperability Demonstration by IBM and HP
  H. Kreger, IBM, B. Murray, HP

• Model-Driven Automation
  K. Goswami, HP

• Platform Support for Autonomic Computing
  M. Milenkovic and L. Durham, Intel

06:00 - 08:00 Poster/Exhibit/Demos & Reception

• List of Posters

• List of Exhibits/Demos

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

08:30 - 10:00 Keynote II

Title: A Grassroots Approach to Autonomic Computing (Presentation Slides)
Speaker: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:30 Session III: Monitoring and Self-Healing (Chair: Dejan Milojicic)

• Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization
  Peter Bodik, Greg Friedman, Lukas Biewald, Helen Levine, George Candea, Kayur Patel, Gilman Tolle, Jon Hui, Armando Fox, Michael I. Jordan, and David Patterson

• An Architecture for Quickly Detecting Known Software Problems
  Mark Brodie, Sheng Ma, Guy Lohman, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Laurent Mignet, Natwar Modani, Mark Wilding, Jon Champlin, and Peter Sohn

• Multi-resolution Abnormal Trace Detection Using Varied-length N-grams and Automata
  Guofei Jiang, Haifeng Chen, Cristian Ungureanu, and Kenji Yoshihira

• Implementing Large-Scale Autonomic Server Monitoring Using Process Query Systems
  Christopher Roblee, Vincent Berk, and George Cybenko

12:30 - 02:00 Lunch

02:00 - 03:30 Session IV: Management of Systems and Components (Chair: Milan Milenkovic)

• Information valuation for Information Lifecycle Management
  Ying Chen

• Design of an Autonomic Element for Server Management
  Tony White, Dan Calvert, and Jay Litkey

• Scalable Management
  Robert Adams, Paul Brett, Subu Iyer, Dejan Milojicic, Sandro Rafaeli, and Vanish Talwar

03:30 - 04:00 Break

04:00 - 05:30 Panel: Grand Challenges of Autonomic Computing

Panelists

• Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna

• Alva Couch, Tufts University

• Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University

• Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin

• Mazin Yousif, Intel Research

Moderator

• Jeff Kephart, IBM Research

06:00 - 08:00 Banquet

• Best Student Paper Awards

• Banquet Keynote

Title: Autonomic Computing: Progress and Future Directions
Speaker: Alan Ganek, IBM

Thursday, June 16, 2005

08:00 - 10:00 Session V: Performance and Learning (Chair: Peter Stone)

• Dynamic Black-Box Performance Model Estimation for Self-Tuning Regulators  
  Magnus Karlsson and Michele Covell

• Policy schedule advisor for Performance Management
  Rohit M. Lotlikar, Ranga R. Vatsavai, Mukesh Mohania, and Sharma Chakravarthy

• Learning Automation Policies for Pervasive Computing Environments
  Brian D. Ziebart, Dan Roth, Roy H. Campbell, and Anind K. Dey

• Automated and Adaptive Threshold Setting: Enabling Technology for Autonomy and Self-Management
  David Breitgand, Ealan Henis, and Onn Shehory

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:30 Session VI: Resource Allocation (Chair: Mazin Yousif)

• Dynamic Provisioning of Multi-tier Internet Applications
  Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant Shenoy, Abhishek Chandra, and Pawan Goyal

• Resource Allocation for Autonomic Data Centers Using Analytic Performance Models
  Mohamed Bennani and Daniel A. Menascé

• Towards Self-Configuring Hardware for Distributed Computer Systems
  Jonathan Wildstrom, Peter Stone, Emmett Witchel, Raymond J. Mooney, and Mike Dahlin

•  Boosting Data Center Performance Through Non-Uniform Power Allocation
  Mark E. Femal and Vincent W. Freeh

12:30 - 02:00 Lunch

02:00 - 03:30 Session VII: Security and Architecture (Chair: Yi-Min Wang)

• Intrusion Tolerant and Self-recoverable Network Service System Using Security Enhanced Chip-multiprocessor
  Weidong Shi, Hsien-Hsin Lee, Guofei Gu, Laura Falk, Trevor Mudge, and Mrinmoy Ghosh

• Management of Conflicting Obligations in Self-Protecting Policy Based Systems
  Rema Ananthanarayanan, Mukesh Mohania, and Ajay Gupta

• A Uniform Programming Abstraction for Effecting Autonomic Adaptations onto Software Systems
  Giuseppe Valetto, Gail Kaiser and Dan Phung

June 14, 2005, 06:00 - 08:00 Poster Session

Storage, Database and Networks

• A Mass Storage System Administrator Autonomic Assistant
  Milton Halem and Randy Schauer

• PulStore: Automated Storage Management with QoS Guarantee in Large-scale Virtualized Storage Systems
  Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Sandeep Uttamchandani

• Autonomic Index Management
  Sérgio Lifschitz and Marcos A. V. Salles

• A First Step Towards Autonomic Optical Burst Switched Networks
  J. Praveen, B. Praveen, and C. Siva Ram Murthy

Monitoring and Self-healing

• Mining Log Files for Automatic System Management
  Wei Peng, Tao Li, and Sheng Ma

• PICCIL: Interactive Learning to Support Log File Categorization
  David Loewenstern, Sheng Ma, and Abdi Salahshour

• Pattern recognition based tools enabling autonomic computing
  Anton A. Bougaev

• Myrrh: A Transaction-Based Model for Autonomic Recovery
  Guy Eddon and Steven Reiss

• Automatic Diagnosis of Performance Problems in Database Management Systems
  Darcy G. Benoit

• Measuring the Effectiveness of Self-Healing Autonomic Systems
  Aaron B. Brown and Charlie Redlin

Planning and Learning

• The Case for Automated Planning in Autonomic Computing
  Biplav Srivastava and Subbarao Kambhampati

• Self-Optimization of Task Execution in Pervasive Computing Environments
  Anand Ranganathan and Roy H. Campbell

• FeedbackFlow - An Adaptive Workflow Generator for System Management
  Artur Andrzejak, Ulf Hermann, and Akhil Sahai

• An Active Method to Building Dynamic Dependency Model for Distributed Components
  Yunchun Li, Mingfeng Zhang, Wei Li, and Chunyan Hou

• A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Resource Allocation: First Results
  David Vengerov and Nikolai Iakovlev

Resource Allocation

• Utility-function-driven Resource Allocation in Autonomic Systems
  Gerald Tesauro, Rajarshi Das, William E. Walsh, and Jeffrey O. Kephart

• Model-Driven Placement of Compute Tasks and Data in a Networked Utility
  Piyush Shivam, Adriana Iamnitchi, Aydan R. Yumerefendi, and Jeffrey S. Chase

• Self-Optimizing Architecture for QoS Provisioning in Differentiated Services
  Daniel Yagan and Chen-Khong Tham

• Feedback-based Scheduling for Back-end Databases in Shared Dynamic Content Server Clusters
  Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, Ashvin Goel, and Cristiana Amza

HCI and Policy

• How Can We Trust an Autonomic System to Make the Best Decision?
  Hoi Chan, Alla Segal, Bill Arnold, and Ian Whalley

• Autonomic Policy Creation with Singlestep Unity
  Ophir Ronen and Ron Allen

• On the Need for Negotiation in Policy-based Interaction with Autonomic Computing Systems
  Paul P. Maglio, Christopher S. Campbell, and Eser Kandogan

• How to Leverage Access Control Specification for Autonomic Policy Management?
  Ranga. R. Vatsavai, Sharma Chakravarthy, and Mukesh Mohania

• A Framework for Rule-Based Autonomic Management of Parallel Scientific Applications
  Hua Liu and Manish Parashar

Software Engineering and Autonomic Middleware

• The J3 Process for Building Autonomic Enterprise Java Bean Systems
  Jules White, Douglas Schmidt, and Aniruddha Gokhale

• Distributed Troubleshooting Agents
  Charles Earl, Emilio Remolina, Jim Ong, and John Brown

• AutoPod: Unscheduled System Updates with Zero Data Loss
  Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh

• Architecture-based autonomous repair management - Application to J2EE Clusters
  Sara Bouchenak, Fabienne Boyer, Daniel Hagimont, Sacha Krakowiak, Noel de Palma, Vivien Quema, and Jean-Bernard Stefani

Distributed Systems

• Self-Configuring and Optimizing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Apostolos Malatras, George Pavlou, Stylianos Gouveris, Sivapathalingham Sivavakeesar and Vassilios Karakoidas

• Self-Adaptation of Mobile Agent Population in Dynamic Networks: A Biologically Inspired Approach
  Tomoko Suzuki, Taisuke Izumi, Fukuhito Oosita, and Tshimitsu Masuzawa

• Self-Maintaining Overlay Data Structures for Autonomic Distributed Computing
  Marco Mamei, and Franco Zambonelli

• The Ecology of the Grid
  Fabrice Saffre, José Halloy, and Jean Louis Deneubourg

Architecture and Design Principles

• A Resource Negotiation Infrastructure for Self-Managing Applications
  David Mobach, Benno Overeinder, and Frances Brazier

• Layered Autonomic Systems
  Richard Anthony, Alun Butler, and Mohammad Ibrahim

• Self-Adjusting Trust and Selection for Web Services
  E. Michael Maximilien and Munindar P. Singh

• Autonomicity of NASA Missions
  Christopher Rouff, Michael Hinchey, James Rash, and Roy Sterritt

• Cybernetics and General Systems Theory (GST) Principles for Autonomic Computing Design
  E. A. Stoyanov, M. A. Wischy, and D. Roller

• Towards a Framework and a Design Methodology for Autonomic SoC
  Gabriel Lipsa, Andreas Herkersdorf, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Oliver Bringmann, and Walter Stechele

• Design Flow on a Chip - An Evolvable HW/SW Platform
  Stephan Kubisch, Ronald Hecht, and Dirk Timmermann