Virtualization - Aug 2012 - Call for Participation: The 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012) - September 17-21, 2012 in San Jose, California, USA

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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The 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

San Jose, California, USA
September 17-21, 2012
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu

Sponsored by ACM

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Online registration is open at
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/registration.shtm
Reduced fees are available for those registering by September 2, 2012.

This year's technical program features:

- 3 distinguished keynote speakers:
* Dr. Amin Vahdat, Google/UCSD
* Dr. Subutai Ahmad (VP Engineering), Numenta
* Dr. Eitan Frachtenberg, Facebook

- 24 outstanding technical papers (15 full + 9 short):
* covering core and emerging topics such as clouds, virtualization,
control, monitoring and diagnosis, and energy
* Half of the papers involve authors from industry or government labs

- 4 co-located workshops covering hot topics in:
* Feedback Computing
* Self-Aware Internet of Things
* Management of Big Data Systems
* Federated Clouds



The Conference will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose, 
CA, USA.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Early registration deadline: September 2, 2012
Hotel special rate deadline: September 7, 2012

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CORPORATE SPONSORS
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Gold Level Partner: IBM
Conference partners: VMware, HP, Neustar
PhD Student Sponsor: Google
Other Sponsor: NEC Labs

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 - WORKSHOPS

Feedback Computing 2012
Self-Aware Internet of Things 2012

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 - MAIN CONFERENCE

8:00AM ? 8:45AM
Registration

8:45AM ? 9:00AM
Welcome Remarks

9:00AM ? 10:00AM
Keynote Talk I

Symbiosis in Scale Out Networking and Data Management
Amin Vahdat, Google and University of California, San Diego

10:00AM ? 10.30AM
Break

10:30AM ? 12:00PM
Session : Virtualization

Net-Cohort: Detecting and Managing VM Ensembles in Virtualized Data Centers
Liting Hu, Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology);
Ajay Gulati (VMware); Junjie Zhang, Chengwei Wang (Georgia Institute
of Technology)

Application-aware Cross-layer Virtual Machine Resource Management
Lixi Wang, Jing Xu, Ming Zhao (Florida International University)

Shifting GEARS to Enable Guest-context Virtual Services
Kyle Hale, Lei Xia, Peter Dinda (Northwestern University)

12:00PM-1:30PM
Lunch

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1:30PM - 3:30PM
Session: Performance and Resource Management

When Average is Not Average: Large Response Time Fluctuations in N-tier 
Systems
Qingyang Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology); Yasuhiko Kanemasa,
Motoyuki Kawaba (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.); Calton Pu (Georgia Institute
of Technology)

Provisioning Multi-tier Cloud Applications Using Statistical Bounds on
Sojourn Time
Upendra Sharma, Prashant Shenoy, Don Towsley (University of 
Massachusetts Amherst)

Automated Profiling and Resource Management of Pig Programs for Meeting
Service Level Objectives
Zhuoyao Zhang (University of Pennsylvania); Ludmila Cherkasova 
(Hewlett-Packard Labs);
Abhishek Verma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign);
Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)

AROMA: Automated Resource Allocation and Configuration of MapReduce 
Environment
in the Cloud
Palden Lama, Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

3:30PM-4:00PM
Break

4:00PM ? 5:15PM
Short Papers I

Locomotion at Location: When the Rubber hits the Road
Gerold Hoelzl, Marc Kurz, Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler University 
Linz, Austria)

An Autonomic Resource Provisioning Framework for Mobile Computing Grids
Hariharasudhan Viswanathan, Eun Kyung Lee, Ivan Rodero, Dario Pompili 
(Rutgers University)

A Self-Tuning Self-Optimizing Approach for Automated Network Anomaly 
Detection Systems
Dennis Ippoliti, Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)

Offline and On-Demand Event Correlation for Operations Management of 
Large Scale IT Systems
Chetan Gupta (Hewlett-Packard Labs)

PowerTracer: Tracing Requests in Multi-tier Services to Diagnose Energy 
Inefficiency
Gang Lu, Jianfeng Zhan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese 
Academy of Sciences);
Haining Wang (College of William and Mary); Lin Yuan (Institute of 
Computing Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences); Chuliang Weng (Shanghai Jiao Tong 
University, China)

6:00PM - 9:00PM
Conference Dinner

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 - MAIN CONFERENCE

8:00AM ? 9:00AM
Registration

9:00AM ? 10:00AM
Keynote Talk II

Automated Machine Learning For Autonomic Computing
Subutai Ahmad, VP Engineering, Numenta

10:00AM - 10:30AM
Break

10:30AM ? 12:00PM
Session: Control-Based Approaches

Budget-based Control for Interactive Services with Adaptive Execution
Yuxiong He, Zihao Ye, Qiang Fu, Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft Research)

On the Design of Decentralized Control Architectures for Workload 
Consolidation in
Large-Scale Server Clusters
Rui Wang, Nagarajan Kandasamy (Drexel University)

Transactional Auto Scaler: Elastic Scaling of In-Memory Transactional 
Data Grids
Diego Didona, Paolo Romano (Instituto Superior T?cnico/INESC-ID); 
Sebastiano Peluso,
Francesco Quaglia (Sapienza, Universit? di Roma)

12:00PM - 1:30PM
Lunch

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1:30PM - 2:30PM
Session: Energy

Adaptive Green Hosting
Nan Deng, Christopher Stewart, Jaimie Kelley (The Ohio State 
University); Daniel Gmach,
Martin Arlitt (Hewlett Packard Labs)

Dynamic Energy-Aware Capacity Provisioning for Cloud Computing Environments
Qi Zhang, Mohamed Faten Zhani (University of Waterloo); Shuo Zhang 
(National University
of Defense Technology); Quanyan Zhu (University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign);
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo); Joseph L. Hellerstein (Google, 
Inc.)

2:30PM - 3:30PM
Short Papers II

VESPA: Multi-Layered Self-Protection for Cloud Resources
Aur?lien Wailly, Marc Lacoste (Orange Labs); Herv? Debar (T?l?com SudParis)

Usage Patterns in Multi-tenant Data Centers: a Temporal Perspective
Robert Birke, Lydia Y. Chen (IBM Research Zurich Lab); Evgenia Smirni 
(College of
William and Mary)

Toward Fast Eventual Consistency with Performance Guarantees
Feng Yan (College of William and Mary); Alma Riska (EMC Corporation); 
Evgenia Smirni (College
of William and Mary)

Optimal Autoscaling in the IaaS Cloud
Hamoun Ghanbari, Bradley Simmons, Marin Litoiu, Cornel Barna (York 
University);
Gabriel Iszlai (IBM Toronto)

3:30PM ? 4:00PM
Break

4:00PM - 6:00PM
Poster and Demo Session

6:00PM-9:00PM
Conference Outing (tentative)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 - MAIN CONFERENCE

8:00AM ? 9:00AM
Registration

9:00AM ? 10:00AM
Keynote Talk III

High Efficiency at Web Scale
Eitan Frachtenberg, Facebook

10:00AM-10:30AM
Break

10:30AM - 12:00PM
Session: Diagnosis and Monitoring
Chair: TBD

3-Dimensional Root Cause Diagnosis via Co-analysi
Ziming Zheng, Li Yu, Zhiling Lan (Illinois Institute of Technology); 
Terry Jones
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

UBL: Unsupervised Behavior Learning for Predicting Performance Anomalies 
in Virtualized Cloud Systems
Daniel J. Dean, Hiep Nguyen, Xiaohui Gu (North Carolina State University)

Evaluating Compressive Sampling Strategies for Performance Monitoring of 
Data Centers
Tingshan Huang, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Harish Sethu (Drexel University)

12:00PM
Adjourn

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 - WORKSHOPS

Management of Big Data Systems 2012
Federated Clouds 2012

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ORGANIZERS
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GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of S?o Paulo
Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci.
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, QCRI
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of S?o Paulo
Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware
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================================================================Ioan Raicu,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
================================================================Data-Intensive
Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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