W. Richert, Ulrich Scheller, M. Koch, B. Kleinjohann, Claudius Stern
{"title":"Increasing the Autonomy of Mobile Robots by Imitation in Multi-robot Scenarios","authors":"W. Richert, Ulrich Scheller, M. Koch, B. Kleinjohann, Claudius Stern","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.21","url":null,"abstract":"Because imitation has shown to be able to drastically cut down the exploration space it has been embraced largely by the robotics community to speed up autonomous learning. This has been done mostly in fixed demonstrator-imitator relationships, where a predefined demonstrator is performing the same action over and over again until the robot has learned it sufficiently. In practical multi-robot scenarios, however, the imitation process should not interrupt the observed robot as it will affect its autonomy. Therefore the imitating robot often has only a limited amount of behaviors of the same type to learn from. As this usually does not provide enough information for learning a generalized version of observed low-level actions, it can help the observer to optimize its strategy based on the recognized actions. In this case, first of all the imitating robot has to interpret the observed behavior in terms of its own behavior knowledge. This means that low-level observations have to be segmented into episodes of apparently similar behavior. For these episodes corresponding skills in the observing robot's own behavior repertoire have to be found. And for the episodes sequence corresponding state changes in the observing robot's own strategy have to be determined. How the former can be done has been shown by the authors in a previous paper. In this paper we will describe how our approach for emph{Evolving Societies of Learning Autonomous Systems} (ESLAS) is extended to be capable of multi-robot imitation. We demonstrate how the recognition results can be used in a multi-robot scenario to decentrally align the robots' behaviors, to speed up the overall learning process, and thus increase the overall autonomy.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"41 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":"121392514","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":"Study of the Impact of UMTS Best Effort Parameters on QoE of VoIP Services","authors":"J. O. Fajardo, F. Liberal, Nagore Bilbao","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.52","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates the performance of VoIP services over mobile accesses, with special focus on currently deployed Best Effort UMTS networks. There are different configuration parameters that have a great impact on end users' perception of quality. This paper tries to help understanding the impact of those parameters, and how they can be tuned for a better VoIP experience.","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":"114453907","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":"Autonomic Software License Management System: An Implementation of Licensing Patterns","authors":"Leili Noorian, M. Perry","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract – Businesses are increasingly dependent on flexible software applications for changing market environments, the rigid licensing structures for software distribution, as used with most legacy systems, is becoming even less popular. The deployment of web services in enterprise developments facilitates reusability and interoperation amongst ever growing integrated applications. This paper describes the development of an autonomic Software License Management System under JAX-WS technology of Java Enterprise Edition 5 (JEE5) based on a pattern language of proprietary software licences.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"50 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":"131754043","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":"Device Mapping for Multisensory Media Effects Based on User Preference","authors":"NohSam Park, Sangwook Park, Eui-Hyun H. Paik","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.45","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes user preference based device mapping scheme for multisensory media effects in a ubiquitous home media system. In order to select the most effective device among devices having similar effect properties, users set their priority in advance. As we process neodata in ne-media, which have metadata for multisensory effect, a device is chosen based on user preference and is controlled at the designated time. This enables a dynamic device mapping and gives a user customized service with different media devices even for the same effect.","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":"130863742","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 General Model for Virtual Machines Resources Allocation in Multi-tier Distributed Systems","authors":"P. Campegiani, F. L. Presti","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.49","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a general model for resources allocation of virtual machines in multi-tier distributed environments. Our model describes each virtual machine and each physical host by a multi-dimensional resource vector, allowing the coexistence of both quantitative and qualitative resources, also handling different SLAs. As this model is a generalization of the classical 0/1 Knapsack Problem, we have also developed an heuristic to obtain very near optimum solutions in a timely manner.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"157 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":"133991743","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":"Network I/O Extensibility without Administrator Privilege","authors":"T. Okumura, B. Childers, D. Mossé","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.12","url":null,"abstract":"Kernel extension mechanisms for network I/O are very useful for creating customized packet processing. However, such extensions have been accessible only to system administrators for security reasons. This paper investigates an approach to realize network I/O extensibility without administrator privilege. To this end, we build on a novel virtualization scheme developed for network control, hierarchical virtualization of network interfaces, which allows recursive creation of the virtualized network interfaces and attaches the created interfaces to OS entities, such as sockets and processes. We show that the hierarchical virtualization has desirable properties for safe execution of packet processing code inside OS kernels, even by ordinary users and untrusted applications. For proof-of-concept, functionality of the system is demonstrated by a prototype implementation and execution profiling is taken to verify if such a kernel extensibility can be realized at practical performance overhead. The systematic experiments illustrated that the hierarchical virtualization can realize kernel extensibility without administrator privilege.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"53 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":"133821102","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":"Building a Context-Aware Ambient Assisted Living Application Using a Self-Adaptive Distributed Model","authors":"M. Segarra, F. André","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.13","url":null,"abstract":"Ambient assisted living (AAL) applications are intended to allow elderly people to stay at home while connected to their family and medical staff. These applications involve several services as health-care services or infotainment, which are executed on different environments such as hospital, proximity doctor, family homes. These environments constitute a distributed, heterogeneous, highly dynamic infrastructure that makes it necessary to build AAL applications as adaptive software including the necessary mechanisms to dynamically modify their behavior. In this paper we propose a multi-level model to build context-aware self-adaptive entities: the basic level defines the mandatory functionalities for adaptive entities, while upper-levels define how to coordinate adaptation of primitive or composite entities. The generic nature of the model is illustrated by its use when building a self-adaptive distributed data management service for an AAL application.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"19 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":"114684791","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}
Wallace A. Pinheiro, Thiago de S. Rodrigues, M. A. R. D. Silva, Marcio A. N. da Silva, Marcelino Campos Oliveira Silva, G. Xexéo, J. Souza
{"title":"Autonomic RSS: Discarding Irrelevant News","authors":"Wallace A. Pinheiro, Thiago de S. Rodrigues, M. A. R. D. Silva, Marcio A. N. da Silva, Marcelino Campos Oliveira Silva, G. Xexéo, J. Souza","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.11","url":null,"abstract":"Information overload is becoming a big problem in the modern world. Several technologies face this problem, amongst them feed aggregators. Using this technology, users receive a huge amount of news that may contain a large number of irrelevant bits of information. This paper discusses this problem and provides an autonomic way to reduce it through the use of Data Killing Operators. These operators use SECONDO database based on high-level Petri nets patterns.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"5 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120899568","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":"Self-Adaptive Techniques for the Load Trend Evaluation of Internal System Resources","authors":"S. Casolari, M. Colajanni, Stefania Tosi","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.30","url":null,"abstract":"Modern distributed systems that have to avoid performance degradation and system overload require several runtime management decisions for load balancing and load sharing, overload and admission control, job dispatching and request redirection. As the external workload and the internal resource behavior of the modern system is highly complex and variable, self-adaptive techniques require a stable vision of the system behavior. In this paper we propose a trend model that guarantees a robust interpretation for load-aware decision algorithms. Various experimental results in a Web cluster demonstrate that the proposed models and algorithms guarantee better stability of the load and a reduction of the response time experienced by the users.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"93 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":"121284279","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}
Arlei Calazans Moraes, A. Salgado, Patrícia C. A. R. Tedesco
{"title":"AutonomousDB: A Tool for Autonomic Propagation of Schema Updates in Heterogeneous Multi-database Environments","authors":"Arlei Calazans Moraes, A. Salgado, Patrícia C. A. R. Tedesco","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2009.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2009.14","url":null,"abstract":"One of the biggest challenges of building and maintaining applications with long life cycles, is dealing with the inevitable changes in requirements that occur over time. Many of these applications depend on DBMS that most often suffer direct consequences in their schemas due to changes in the reality that they model. In this work, we propose a new alternative to the issue of schema evolution in multi-database environments, which uses concepts of Autonomic Computing in DBMS to propagate updates in schemas replicated within the same environment, thus ensuring their consistency. Our prototype counts with a Multi-Agent System, which executes events for updating schemas in the target DBMS, which may be of different platforms. Repetitive tasks which are performed in different databases to ensure the evolution of replicated schemas are thus eliminated, freeing the DBA to do other tasks that are more important, such as analysis, database design and strategic management of data.","PeriodicalId":258907,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems","volume":"41 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":"122781140","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}