Virtualization - Apr 2011 - ICAC2011 Call For Participation (8th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing)

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                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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     The 8th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing

                         Karlsruhe, Germany     
                          June 14-18, 2011
                     http://icac2011.cis.fiu.edu

                          Sponsored by ACM


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Don't miss Jeff Kephart's keynote talk at ICAC 2011 on "Autonomic 
Computing: The First Decade" and benefit from early registration!

Online registration is open at 
http://icac2011.cis.fiu.edu/registration.shtm.
Reduced fees are available for those registering by May 1, 2011.

Two keynotes by Jeff Kephart and Christian Muller-Schloer will wrap-up a 
decade of Autonomic Computing and of the related area of Organic Computing 
and outline some directions and challenges for future research.
Five attractive workshops are complementing the program, details are at 
http://icac2011.cis.fiu.edu and in the attached Call for Participation.

Looking forward to meeting you at ICAC 2011 in Karlsruhe 

Hartmut Schmeck 
(General Chair of ICAC 2011)


This year's program includes:
- 20 outstanding research papers and 7 short papers
- Poster, demo, and industry presentations
- 5 workshops
- 2 distinguished keynotes

Please join us for the 8th ICAC in Karlsruhe, Germany, on June 
14-18, 2011. The conference is held at the AkademieHotel Karlsruhe.

More information can be found at: 
http://icac2011.cis.fiu.edu

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                         IMPORTANT DATES
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            Early registration deadline: May 1, 2011
            Hotel special rate deadline: May 1, 2011
                                 
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                        CORPORATE SPONSORS
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Gold Level Partner: IBM
Conference partner: Google
Further supporters: Microsoft, 1&1, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
University of Arizona, and TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe.

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                         PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011

4:00PM - 7:00PM
Registration

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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 - WORKSHOPS
FeBID 2011
BADS 2011
ACE 2011

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011 - MAIN CONFERENCE
9:00AM
Welcome addresses

9:15AM - 10:30AM
Session 1: Keynote Talk

9:15AM
Autonomic Computing: The First Decade
Jeff Kephart (IBM Thomas Watson Research Center)

10:30AM
Coffee break

11:00AM - 12:00PM
Session 2: Multicore Systems

11:00AM
Applying Autonomic Principles for Workload Management in Multi-Core 
Systems on Chip
Johannes Zeppenfeld; Andreas Herkersdorf

11:30AM
Smart Data Structures: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Multicore 
Data Structures
Jonathan Eastep; David Wingate; Anant Agarwal

12:00PM
Lunch

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1:30PM - 3:00PM
Session 3: Power Management

1:30PM
How Much Power Oversubscription is Safe and Allowed in Data Centers?
Xing Fu; Xiaorui Wang; Charles Lefurgy

2:00PM
Memory Power Management via Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling
Howard David; Chris Fallin; Eugene Gorbatov; Ulf R. Hanebutte; 
Onur Mutlu

2:30PM
iPOEM: A GPS Tool for Integrated Management in Virtualized Data Centers
Hui Zhang; Kenji Yoshihira; Ya-Yunn Su; Guofei Jiang; Ming Chen; 
Xiaorui Wang

3:00PM
Coffee break

3:30PM - 5:00PM
Session 4: Distributed Systems

3:30PM
A Self-Organizing P2P System with Multi-Dimensional Structure
Raffaele Giordanelli; Carlo Mastroianni; Michela Meo

4:00PM
SILENCE: Distributed Adaptive Sampling for Sensor-based Autonomic Systems
Eun Kyung Lee; Hariharasudhan Viswanathan; Dario Pompili

4:30PM
Budget-Constrained Bulk Data Transfer via Internet and Shipping Networks
Brian Cho; Indranil Gupta

5:00PM
Reception

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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011 - MAIN CONFERENCE

9:15AM
Sponsoring addresses

9:30AM - 10:30AM
Session 5: Testing and Diagnostics

9:30AM
Toward Data Center Self-Diagnosis Using a Mobile Robot
Jon Lenchner; Canturk Isci; Jeffrey Kephart; Christopher Mansley; 
Jonathan Connell; Suzanne McIntosh

10:00AM
Model-based Performance Testing
Cornel Barna; Marin Litoiu; Hamoun Ghanbari

10:30AM
Coffee break

11:00AM - 12:00PM
Session 6: Malware Detection and Clean-up

11:00AM
Inoculation against malware infection using kernel-level software sensors
Raymond Canzanese; Spiros Mancoridis; Moshe Kam

11:30AM
Automatically Clean Up Malware Impacts When Committing OS-level 
Virtual Machines
Zhiyong Shan; Xin Wang; Tzi-cker Chiueh

12:00PM
Lunch

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1:30PM - 3:30PM
Session 7: Performance Modeling and Profiling

1:30PM
A Bayesian Approach to Online Performance Modeling for Database 
Appliances using Gaussian Models
Muhammad Bilal Sheikh; Umar Farooq Minhas; Omar Zia Khan; 
Ashraf Aboulnaga; Pascal Poupart; David J Taylor

2:00PM
Automated Control for Elastic n-Tier Workloads based on Empirical Modeling
Simon Malkowski; Markus Hedwig; Jack Li; Calton Pu; Dirk Neumann

2:30PM
A Flexible Architecture Integrating Monitoring and Analytics for Managing 
Large-Scale Data Centers
Chengwei Wang; Karsten Schwan; Vanish Talwar; Greg Eisenhauer; Liting Hu; 
Matthew Wolf

3:00PM
Untangling Mixed Information to Calibrate Resource Utilization in Virtual
Machines
Lei Lu; Hui Zhang; Guofei Jiang; Haifeng Chen; Kenji Yoshihira; 
Evgenia Smirni

3:30PM
Coffee break

3:30PM - 6:00PM
Session 8: Poster and Demo Session

6:00PM
Departure for conference banquet

7:00PM
Conference banquet

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FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2011 - MAIN CONFERENCE

9:00AM
Sponsoring addresses

9:15AM - 10:30AM
Session 9: Keynote Talk

9:15AM
Organic Computing: Quo Vadis?
Christian Muller-Schloer (Leibniz University Hannover)

10:30AM
Coffee break

11:00AM - 12:30PM
Session 10: Short Paper Session

11:00AM
Self-Adaptive Software System Monitoring for Performance Anomaly Localization
Jens Ehlers; Andre van Hoorn; Jan Waller; Wilhelm Hasselbring

Decision Making in Autonomic Computing Systems: Comparison of Different 
Approaches and Techniques
Martina Maggio; Henry Hoffmann; Marco D. Santambrogio; Anant Agarwal; 
Alberto Leva

Using Reinforcement Learning for Controlling an Elastic Web Application 
Hosting Platform
Han Li; Srikumar Venugopal

Bootstrapped Migration for Linux OS
Jui-Hao Chiang; Maohua Lu; Tzi-cker Chiueh

Autonomous Multi-Processor--SoC Optimization with Distributed Learning 
Classifier Systems XCS
Andreas Bernauer; Gunnar Arndt; Oliver Bringmann; Wolfgang Rosenstiel

A Control Theory Based Approach for Self-Healing of Un-handled Runtime
Exceptions
Benoit Gaudin; Emil Vassev; Michael Hinchey; Patrick Nixon

Clustering Performance Anomalies in Web Applications Based on Root Causes
Satoshi Iwata; Kenji Kono

12:30PM
Lunch

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2:00PM - 4:00PM
Session 11: Resource Management

2:00PM
A Multi-objective Approach to Virtual Machine Management in Datacenters
Jing Xu; Jose Fortes

2:30PM
ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for MapReduce Environments
Abhishek Verma; Ludmila Cherkasova; Roy Campbell

3:00PM
Maestro: Quality-of-Service in Large Disk Arrays
Arif Merchant; Mustafa Uysal; Pradeep Padala; Xiaoyun Zhu; Sharad Singhal; 
Kang Shin

3:30PM
Enhancing Virtualized Application Performance Through Dynamic Adaptive Paging 
Mode Selection
Chang Bae; John Lange; Peter Dinda

4:00PM
Coffee break and Adjourn

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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2011 - WORKSHOPS
OC 2011
IEEMC 2011

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                       Organizing Committee
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Hartmut Schmeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Wolfgang Rosenstiel (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

STEERING COMMITTE:
Salim Hariri (Co-Chair, University of Arizona, USA)
Jeffrey Kephart (Co-chair, IBM Research, USA)
Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA)
Karsten Schwan (Georgia Tec, USA)
Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, USA)
Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida, USA) 
John Wilkes (Google, USA)
Sandra Tipton (IBM, USA)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: 
Joseph Hellerstein (Google, USA)
Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Tom Holvoet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

POSTER/DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR:
Michael Beigl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS:
Ming Zhao (Florida International University, USA)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR:
Lei Liu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Friederike Pfeiffer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 

INDUSTRY CHAIR:
Eno Thereska (Microsoft Research, UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Michael Beigl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Umesh Bellur (Indian Institutes of Technology, India)
Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University, USA)
Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs, USA) 
Chita Das (Penn State University, USA)
Yixin Diao (IBM Research, USA)
Raghu Ganti (IBM Research, USA)
Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
David Hutchison (Lancaster University, UK)
Ravi Iyer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Jeff Kephart (IBM, USA)
Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research, USA)
Charles Lefurgy (IBM Research, USA)
Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)
Pedro Marron (Duisburg, Germany)
Milan Milenkovic (Intel, US)
Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs, USA)
Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA)
Ana Radovanovic (Google, USA)
Anders Robertsson (Lund, Sweden)
Masoud Sadjadi (Florida International University, USA)
Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Onn Shehory (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Sharad Singhal (HP Labs, USA)
Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Neeraj Suri (Technische University Darmstadt, Germany)
Eno Thereska (Microsoft Research, UK)
Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Adam Wolisz (Technische University Berlin, Germany)
Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, USA)
Xiaoyun Zhu (VMware, USA)

ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS:
Paul Alcock
Azman Ali
Radovan Bruncak
Daniel Chen
Yuan Chen
Xabriel J. Collazo-Mojica
Javier Delgado
Ciprian Docan
Daniel Gmach
Ajay Gulati
Gabriela Jacques da Silva
Matthew Jakeman
Hyunjoo Kim
Solomon Lasluisa
Andreas Louca
Angelos Marnerides
Asit K Mishra
Philip P. Moltmann
Nithin M. Nakka
Antonio Pecchia
Cuong Pham
Andres Quiroz
Junghwan Rhee
Ivan Rodero
Alberto Egon Schaeffer Filho
Steven Simpson
Paul Smith
David Villegas 
Wade Vinson
Zhikui Wang
Joel Wolf
Keun Soo Yim
Fan Zhang

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