{"title":"Autonomic Virtualized Environments","authors":"D. Menascé, M. Bennani","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.13","url":null,"abstract":"Virtualization was invented more than thirty years ago to allow large expensive mainframes to be easily shared among different application environments. As hardware prices went down, the need for virtualization faded away. Virtualization at all levels (system, storage, and network) became important again as a way to improve system security, reliability and availability, reduce costs, and provide greater flexibility. Virtualization is being used to support server consolidation efforts. In that case, many virtual machines running different application environments share the same hardware resources. This paper shows how autonomic computing techniques can be used to dynamically allocate processing resources to various virtual machines as the workload varies. The goal of the autonomic controller is to optimize a utility function for the virtualized environment. The paper considers dynamic CPU priority allocation and the allocation of CPU shares to the various virtual machines. Results obtained through simulation show that the autonomic controller is capable of achieving its goal","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130089094","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":"Specification with Java IDL for Correctness and Maintainability of Distributed Software System","authors":"K. Sung","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.55","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a specification language named Spec and its processor using JLEX and CUP are suggested to specify the correctness property of a distributed concurrent software system. The correctness property to be specified deals with such properties as partial correctness, invariant, mutually exclusive access to a critical section, data replication, and accessibility. The specification about data replication and accessibility are for describing the liveness property for the fault tolerance of a distributed application, while the specification about partial correctness, invariant, and mutual exclusiveness are for describing the safety property. The Spec processor is supposed to extract the constructs related to Java IDL and then invoke the Java runtime command, idlj, which in turn generates stub and skeleton source files accompanied with some infrastructure code for connecting to the ORB. Making use of the specification along with Java IDL syntax, users can specify the desired behavior of a target system in the context of correctness property. Using the suggested specification technique, developers can be helped to enhance the understandability and maintainability of the final system by emphasizing the front-end of software development lifecycle","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132785176","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-Managing Application Composition for Cross-Platform Operating Environments","authors":"Stefan Paal, R. Kammüller, Bernd Freisleben","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.51","url":null,"abstract":"In cross-platform operating environments consisting of heterogeneous computing nodes, spontaneous application execution is a challenging task. Application components are not deployed on each computing node but are uploaded to distributed code repositories. The actual application deployment and composition has to be performed for each computing node individually. In this paper, a self-managing composition framework is presented to support the separated management of component deployment and application composition. On the one hand, it enables the specific packaging and description of application components. On the other hand, it manages the lookup and binding of suitable application components on-demand. The realization and use of the approach is described and its application in a cross-platform operating environment is illustrated","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116076959","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":"Agreement-aware Semantic Management of Services","authors":"Qian Zhao, Yu Zhou, M. Perry","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.12","url":null,"abstract":"Automation of versatile process management will aid greater efficiency and lower costs. It is widely expected that highly structured agreements should be executed and enforced automatically. In the progress of building an executable license agreement framework, we have noticed that diverse agreement processing and automation have commonalities leading us to propose a generic architecture that can provide various automated agreement services that leverage ontology, rule and agent technologies","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124912956","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 Model driven software platform for Network Management Applications","authors":"S. Prabhu","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.3","url":null,"abstract":"NMS/EMS applications are designed to perform management tasks such as fault, configuration, performance, accounting and security on the various network elements. Typically network information such as physical, logical inventory, alarms and the like are persisted on the management station's database. The management station also routinely accesses the devices for faults and configurations. Due to the diverse nature of the network, applications need to understand the different management protocols and associated device intricacies to interact with the device. Similarly applications are exposed to the underlying data model and database access mechanisms. This makes the applications hard to evolve and cumbersome to maintain as any changes in the underlying mechanisms warrants a change in the application. Thus there is a need for a uniform model and a component based on it for device as well as database access, which abstracts the underlying details so that applications can focus on providing valuable services. The objective of this paper is to highlight the need for a uniform model and propose a metadata driven approach for device and database access components","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126323160","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}
B. Bhushan, S. Steglich, B. Mrohs, C. Räck, T. Toniatti
{"title":"Life Cycle Management of Personalized and Context-aware Services in Mobile Networks Environment","authors":"B. Bhushan, S. Steglich, B. Mrohs, C. Räck, T. Toniatti","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.32","url":null,"abstract":"As an essential part of mobile service-orientated computing, life cycle management allows service providers (SPs) and mobile network operators (MNOs) to manage services provisioning, launch new service offers, maintain them, and, finally, to withdraw them or improve them. This is vital because services are launched rapidly and life cycle steps are becoming shorter. To address this need, this paper proposes services life cycle management interfaces for context-aware services. SPs need automated mechanisms that conform to the standard practices and emerging requirements of the mobile industry. Since context-awareness and personalized features add agility to mobile services, they must be reflected in the life cycle management, which is one of the strong themes in this paper and novelty of the interfaces presented. Key stakeholders and their requirements are analyzed. Analysis results are used as a guide for the development of interfaces. Therefore the work is readily adaptable in a real-life situation","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127419302","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 Model-Driven Development Framework for Non-Functional Aspects in Service Oriented Grids","authors":"H. Wada, J. Suzuki, Katsuya Oba","doi":"10.1109/ICAS.2006.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAS.2006.4","url":null,"abstract":"Service-oriented grids are grid computing systems built with the notion of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Using two major abstract concepts, services and connections between services, each grid application is designed as a collection of loosely-coupled services in an implementation independent manner. In service-oriented grids, the non-functional aspects of services and connections (e.g., message transmission and security) should be described separately from their functional aspects because different applications use services and connections in different nonfunctional requirements. This paper presents a UML profile to graphically specify and maintain non-functional aspects in service-oriented grids as implementation independent UML models. The UML models are transformed into implementation specific code by a model-driven development tool. This paper demonstrates how the proposed UML profile is used in model-driven development of service-oriented grid applications","PeriodicalId":279708,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'06)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133225852","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}