{"title":"Ontonuts: Reusable Semantic Components for Multi-agent Systems","authors":"S. Nikitin, A. Katasonov, V. Terziyan","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.34","url":null,"abstract":"The volumes of data in information systems are growing drastically. The systems become increasingly complex in trying to handle heterogeneity of ubiquitous components, standards, data formats, etc. According to the vision of Autonomic Computing, the complexity can be handled by introducing self-manageable components able to \"run themselves.\" Agent Technology fits this vision, whereas interoperability among autonomic components can be tackled by Semantic Technologies. The problem of efficient heterogeneous data sharing, exchange and reuse within such systems plays a key role. We present an approach of constructing semantic capabilities (self-descriptive functional components) for software agents and a mechanism for distributed data management that applies these capabilities to build various industrial business intelligence systems.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114727774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural Reconfiguration: An Autonomic Strategy for GCM Components","authors":"F. Baude, L. Henrio, Paul Naoumenko","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.28","url":null,"abstract":"Component models are becoming more and more popular in the design of autonomic applications. In autonomic component systems, we can consider each component as an autonomic element able to dynamically reconfigure itself (maintain equilibrium with the environment by reacting to its changes). As component applications are assemblies of structured pieces of code, a powerful dynamic reconfiguration strategy for such applications is structural reconfiguration (adding, removing components). In this paper, we rely on the Grid Component Model (GCM) for programming autonomic and distributed applications. GCM components can be equipped with a very rich component-structured control part, i.e. the place where autonomic strategies are designed and implemented. Our aim is to demonstrate that GCM is suited to the development of autonomic systems, capable to maintain equilibrium with the environment by applying structural reconfiguration. We illustrate this by describing and analysing a complete example.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134521235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous QoS Resource Manager with Prediction","authors":"Ramon Nou, J. Torres","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.25","url":null,"abstract":"As long as computers continue to get more CPU processing power, data centers need to optimize their power usage. We can do this and maintain the same complexity level as before by using virtualized environments. We can put a large number of small isolated servers, inside a large one and improve a large number of values like the wattage or power consumption, space usage, and resource usage. In this paper, we present a prototype with which we distributere sources between two virtualized servers, one with Tomcat and another with Globus, and both sharing the same host. The prototype is able to maintain the required SLA and QoS using prediction with simulation in real time. Our goal is to demonstrate that simulation can be used to improve resource managers decissions. In this paper, we use those simulations inside a shared server with several different applications using virtualization.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115221520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resource-Definition Policies for Autonomic Computing","authors":"R. Calinescu","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.16","url":null,"abstract":"The paper introduces a framework for the formal specification of autonomic computing policies, and uses it to define a new type of autonomic computing policy termed a resource-definition policy. We describe the semantics of resource-definition policies, explain how they can be used as a basis for the development of autonomic system of systems, and present a sample data-centre application built using the new policy type.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131492706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Learning Based Method for Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"S. H. Khasteh, S. Shouraki","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.63","url":null,"abstract":"Topology Control (TC) is one of the most important techniques used in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks to reduce energy consumption and radio interference, The goal of this technique is to control the topology of the graph representing the communication links between network nodes with the purpose of maintaining some global graph property (e.g., connectivity), while reducing energy consumption and/or interference that are strictly related to the nodes' transmitting range. In this paper we present a new distributed learning based method to choose nodes transmitting range, in this method we run a range adjustment mechanism periodically to choose a near optimal transmitting range, we don't need any information about location of nodes or distance between nodes or received signal strength, the communication overhead of this method is very low, performance evaluation results show that this method decrease the energy consumption and overcome other existing methods in some scenarios.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115669929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Challita, S. Mousset, F. Nashashibi, A. Bensrhair
{"title":"Particle Filters for an Accurate Localization of Communicant Vehicles","authors":"G. Challita, S. Mousset, F. Nashashibi, A. Bensrhair","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.43","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an accurate localization strategy for vehicles in urban environments by using the communication between vehicles and the vision systems when GPS data is unavailable or has a poor quality of signal due to multitracks or bad satellite visibility. The new generation of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS systems) based on cooperation between vehicles can offer serious perspectives to the road security. The inter-vehicle cooperation is made possible thanks to the revolution in the wireless mobile ad hoc network. The method relies on the Monte Carlo Method or what we call a particle filter for the treatment of the GPS data and the vision data that will be collected from the loading system inthe vehicles. From the modelling point of view, a particularity of the method is due to the use of vision systems and the communication through a wireless communication devices. The experiments on our fleet of communicating vehicles carried out in real conditions prove the feasibility of this approach.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122950147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey on Security Challenges for Swarm Robotics","authors":"Fiona Higgins, A. Tomlinson, K. Martin","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.62","url":null,"abstract":"Swarm robotics is a relatively new technology that is being explored for its potential use in a variety of different applications and environments. Previous emerging technologies have often overlooked security until later developmental stages, when it has had to be undesirably (and sometimes expensively) retrofitted. We identify a number of security challenges for swarm robotics and argue that now is the right time to address these issues and seek solutions. We also identify several idiosyncrasies of swarm robotics that present some unique security challenges. In particular, swarms of robots potentially (i) employ different types of communication channels (ii) have special concepts of identity, and (iii) exhibit adaptive emergent behaviour which could be modified by an intruder. Addressing these issues now will prevent undesirable consequences for many applications of this type of technology.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124802263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeffery Li, Patrick Martin, W. Powley, Kirk Wilson, C. Craddock
{"title":"A Sensor-Based Approach to Symptom Recognition for Autonomic Systems","authors":"Jeffery Li, Patrick Martin, W. Powley, Kirk Wilson, C. Craddock","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.29","url":null,"abstract":"The increased complexity of today's distributed, composite, Web-based systems presents difficult and unique systems management problems. The way these systems interact, and the fact that they often span organizational boundaries, render them difficult to monitor and manage. Autonomic Computing has emerged as a promising approach to the management of complex systems. A key to realizing fully autonomic systems is the development of monitoring tools that provide the controllers with adequate and meaningful performance information, especially the identification of symptoms that indicate potential underlying problems. We present an event- driven sensor approach to a monitoring system whereby a hierarchy of dedicated, simple sensors monitors and correlates low level events into a meaningful representation of the system performance that can be used for problem determination. Our approach utilizes the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standards.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129113321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge Management in Autonomic Database Performance Tuning","authors":"D. Wiese, G. Rabinovitch","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.20","url":null,"abstract":"Databases are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. High performance, availability and further policy goals need to be satisfied under any circumstances to please customers. In order to tune the DBMS within their complex environments highly skilled database administrators are required. Unfortunately, they are becoming rarer and more and more expensive. Hence, improving performance analysis and moving towards automation of problem resolution requires a more intuitive and flexible source of decision making. This paper points out the importance of knowledge for autonomic database tuning, proposes a component-based knowledge model and briefly presents first prototypical evaluation results.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128613560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization Architecture of a Modular Architecture for Robotic Control: MARC Control Structure Applied to a VTOL UAV","authors":"S. S. Dhaliwal, A. Ramirez-Serrano","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.26","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Modular Architecture for Robotic Control (MARC) for unconventional Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). MARC was developed for a Double-Ducted Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle, capable of maneuvering within densely obstructed environments. The focus of this paper is to present the characteristics of the MARC architecture for the use of a twin-duct VTOL as an optimal platform for indoor flight used for surveillance and reconnaissance missions. This paper describes how MARC utilizes dynamic weighting, from potential functions, to impact the influence of multiple independent task and action based control systems. MARC optimizes the influence of multiple control modules to enable complex behaviors based on user defined operational goals. The test vehicle possesses flight characteristics that incorporate optimal control in 6 DOF for rapid \"aggressive\" maneuvers for navigation. The results showcase the potential for the MARC control system to optimize the performance of mobile robotics, specifically unconventional vehicles.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131725961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}