1st International Workshop on Run-time mOdels for Self-managing Systems and Applications
ROSSA 2009
In conjunction with Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Valuetools 2009,
Pisa Italy
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News
- The workshop deadline has been extended to July 24, 2009.
- The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a book under Springer Birkhauser's "Autonomic Systems" series.
- The workshop papers will be published together with regular papers in the conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM Digital Library
Important Dates
Deadline for Workshop paper submissions:Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2009
Camera-ready version and copyright form (hard): August 15, 2009
Workshop day: October 19, 2009
Objectives
Performance models have a central role in the design, capacity planning, and management of computing systems. Models may be used at design-time to support capacity planning of the physical infrastructure and to analyze the effects and trade-offs of different architectural choices, anticipating the discovery of potential bottlenecks which may degrade system performance.Models may also be used at run-time to assess the compliance of the running system with respect to the design-time model and to measure the real system performance parameters in order to fill the gap between design-time and run-time.
Models at run-time can also assess the compliance of service level agreements and trigger the run-time re-configuration of autonomic systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, who investigate concepts, models and tools for the run-time management of computing systems to analyze autonomic systems transients and describe their behavior at very fine grained time scales.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Run-time monitoring and tools, models parameters estimation
- Control theory models, system identification methods and tools for autonomic systems
- Burstiness analyses and system transients modeling
- QoS management and dynamic reconfiguration of autonomic systems
- Fault tolerance assurance and availability assessment in evolving run-time systems
Researchers and practitioners, both from the Academia and from the Industry, working in the areas of performance evaluation, control theory, system identification, and QoS management of autonomic systems.
Accepted papers and Technical program
Session I: Workshop opening
14.00-15.00
Session II: Analytical Performance Models.
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.00. Coffee Break
Session III: Run-time Parameters Estimation.
16.30-17.30.
Session IV: Black-box Models and Frameworks for Run-time Autonomic Management.
17.30-18.20.
Paola Inverardi. Run-time Models in Adaptive Service Infrastructures
Software in the near ubiquitous future will need to cope with variability, as software systems get deployed on an increasingly large diversity of computing platforms and operates in different execution environments. Heterogeneity of the underlying communication and computing infrastructure, mobility inducing changes to the execution environments and therefore changes to the availability of resources and continuously evolving requirements require software systems to be adaptable according to the context changes. Software systems should also be reliable and meet the user's performance requirements and needs. Moreover, due to its pervasiveness, software systems must be dependable. Supporting the validation of these self-adaptive systemes to ensure dependability requires a complete rethinking of the software life cycle. The traditional division among static analysis and dynamic analysis is blurred by the need to validate dynamic systems adaptation. Models play a key role in the validation of dependable systems, dynamic adaptation calls for the use of such models at run time. In this talk I will describe the approach we have undertaken in recent projects to address the challenge of assessing dependability for adaptive software systems.Paola Inverardi is a Professor at the Computer Science Department at University of L'Aquila. Her research interests are in the field of the application of formal techniques to the development of software systems. These include software specification and verification of concurrent and distributed systems, deduction systems, and Software Architectures. Current research interests mainly concentrate in the field of software architectures specifically addressing the verification and analysis of software architecture properties, both behavioral and quantitative. On this topics Paola collaborates with several national and international companies. Recently Paola is working also on the design and development of mobile resource aware applications.
Workshop Publication and Submission Instructions
The workshop papers will be published together with regular papers in the conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM Digital Library. The following types of submission are solicited:- Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 10 pages long.
- Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be at most 6 pages long.
- The first page should include the title, author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, e-mail, the abstract of the paper and up to five keywords.
- Papers should be submitted in the ACM conference proceedings format: Suitable templates can be retrieved from the ACM Web site.
- Papers should be submitted exclusively as PDF files through easychair.
Organizers
Danilo ArdagnaDipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italy
http://home.dei.polimi.it/ardagna/
ardagna@elet.polimi.it
Li Zhang
IBM Research
T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY, USA
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/zhangl.index.html
zhangli@us.ibm.com
Program Committee Members
Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, BrazilVirgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jonatha Anselmi, INRIA, France
Achim Baier, itemis, Germany
Giuliano Casale, SAP Research, UK
Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Ivica Crnkovic, Maalardanen University, Sweden
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Bahman Javadi, INRIA, France
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Research, Germany
Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada
Wuqin Lin, Kellogg School of Management, USA
Marco Lovera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniel A. Menasce', George Mason University, USA
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM Research, USA
Alma Riska, Seagate Research, USA
Jerry Rolia, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
Cristina Seceleanu, Maalardanen University, Sweden
Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Evgenia Smirni, The College of William and Mary, USA
Mark Squillante, IBM Research, USA
Malgorzata Steinder, IBM Research, USA
Asser Tantawi, IBM Research, USA
Cathy Xia, Ohio State University, USA
Contact Person
Danilo ArdagnaDipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Via Golgi 40,
20133 Milano, Italy
