{"title":"A Framework for Dependable Trust Negotiation in Open Environments","authors":"N. Dragoni, A. Saidane","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.16","url":null,"abstract":"Automated Trust Negotiation (TN) is a promising approach to allow strangers to access sensitive data and services in open environments, such as the Web. Although the amount of literature on TN is growing, two key issues have still to be addressed. The first one concerns a typical feature of real-life negotiations: we are usually willing to trade the disclosure of personal attributes in exchange for additional services and only in a particular order (according to our preferences). The second issue concerns dependability. By their nature TN systems are used in unreliable open contexts where it is important not only to protect negotiations against malicious attack, but also against accidental failures.In this paper we address the foregoing issues proposing a novel framework for dependable TN where services, needed credentials, and behavioral constraints on the disclosure of privileges are bundled together. The framework also supports clients and servers that have a hierarchy of preferences among the different bundles.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115273151","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}
K. Breitman, D. Brauner, M. Casanova, R. Milidiú, A. Gazola, M. Perazolo
{"title":"Instance-Based Ontology Mapping","authors":"K. Breitman, D. Brauner, M. Casanova, R. Milidiú, A. Gazola, M. Perazolo","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.18","url":null,"abstract":"We have explored the use of formal ontology and alignment techniques as a general approach to mediate and reconcile different representations. This approach proved to be very effective when fueled by ontologies rich in detail, (properties, restrictions, attributes and axioms that hold among classes), but performs poorly when available representations are incomplete or lacking, which is often the case in real life settings. In this paper we propose an enhancement to the original approach, based on a, instance-based matching technique.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"27 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120905496","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}
J. Strassner, J. Fleck, D. Lewis, M. Parashar, W. Donnelly
{"title":"The Role of Standardization in Future Autonomic Communication Systems","authors":"J. Strassner, J. Fleck, D. Lewis, M. Parashar, W. Donnelly","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.24","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the potential problems of interoperability in the development and widespread future deployment of autonomic communication systems. It draws on experiences from previous standardization efforts in the communications domain and outlines the new challenges faced in building industrial strength networks that are self-configuring, self-healing, self optimizing, self-protecting, and most importantly, self-governing. It then outlines the work-program being undertaken by the Autonomic Communication Forum and introduces the other papers in this session that present details of these challenges and directions being pursued.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122882757","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":"Efficient Policy Conflict Analysis for Autonomic Network Management","authors":"S. Davy, B. Jennings, J. Strassner","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Autonomic network management strives to reduce the complexity associated to managing large scale communications networks. Policy based management is a critical facilitator for this vision and more importantly policy conflict analysis processes must be efficient and scalable to cope with the dynamicity and size of such communications networks. We present an efficient policy selection process for policy conflict analysis that maintains a history of previous policy comparisons in a tree based data structure to reduce the number comparisons required in subsequent iterations. The ability to incorporate historical information into the selection process stems from the two phase approach we take in our conflict analysis algorithm. The first phase of the algorithm initialises a relationship pattern matrix between a candidate policy and a deployed policy, the second phase matches this pattern against a conflict signature. Previous solutions compare candidate policies against all deployed policies sequentially, however our approach can re-use the patterns already discovered from previous iterations of the algorithm to reduce the number of comparisons. Experimental results presented here show that significant performance improvements can be made using this approach, however the degree of this improvement is dependent on the nature of the relationships between deployed policies.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114409710","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}
Jayaprakash Nagapraveen, T. Coupaye, C. Collet, Pierre-Charles David
{"title":"Flexible Reactive Capabilities in Component-Based Autonomic Systems","authors":"Jayaprakash Nagapraveen, T. Coupaye, C. Collet, Pierre-Charles David","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.17","url":null,"abstract":"Reactive behaviour, the ability to (re)act automatically to perform corrective actions in response to the occurrence of situations of interest (events) is a key feature of autonomic computing. In active database systems, this behaviour is incorporated by Event-Condition-Action (or active) rules. Our approach consists in defining mechanisms for their integration in component-based systems to augment them with autonomic properties. The contribution of this article is twofold. Firstly, we propose a rule model, composed of a rule definition model and a rule execution model. Secondly, we propose an architecture for the integration of active rules into component-based systems in which the rules as well as their semantics (execution model, behaviour) are represented/implemented as components, which permits i) to construct personalized rule-based systems and ii) to dynamically modify them and their semantics in the same manner as the underlying system. These foundations form the basis of a framework which can be seen as a library of components to construct the various active mechanisms. Further, the framework is extensible: additional components can be added at will to the library to render elaborate and specific semantics according to application requirements.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123465633","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}
T. Magedanz, J. Lozano, F. Schreiner, F. Gouveia, J. M. González
{"title":"Towards Autonomic Communication Mechanisms for Service Composability Management","authors":"T. Magedanz, J. Lozano, F. Schreiner, F. Gouveia, J. M. González","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.22","url":null,"abstract":"The Autonomic Communication Forum dedicates itself to leverage innovative mechanisms in order to provide new levels of integrated autonomicity to a future self-managed networks and network elements. Current trends in networking technologies are applying Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and concepts. Trying to improve the SOA capacities with the autonomic principles, the Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF) has created the Service Composability Management Working Group (SCM WG). This document outlines the fundamental objectives of the ACF SCM WG explaining potential benefits for the telecommunication industry, they are extending the spectrum of research. As Next Generation Networks seem to be the next telecommunication network and services architecture, the main section explains where SCM principles will be utilized in order to enhance NGN service composition mechanisms as well as NGN composite service management mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116322549","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":"Beyond Automation: Hybrid Human-Computer Decision Support Systems in Hospitals","authors":"Christoph Niemann, Torsten Eymann","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.10","url":null,"abstract":"Scheduling in hospitals is a decision problem that relies on encoded information (such as room assignments or diagnoses) as much as on non-encoded information (medical knowledge). To support clinical scheduling with information systems, both types of information and their respective carriers have to be incorporated in combination, thus always requiring a \"human-in-the-loop'', which prohibits full autonomy. In contrast to other proposals in Autonomic Computing, this paper makes a case for a hybrid human-computer decision support system to support scheduling in hospitals that combines humans' ability to improvise and to assess a situation, with computers' ability to communicate quickly to achieve emergent self-organization. Furthermore, the paper outlines an approach to evaluate such a system.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126515007","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":"Engineering Autonomic Systems Self-Organisation","authors":"M. Randles, D. Lamb, A. Taleb-Bendiab","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.12","url":null,"abstract":"For future generations of autonomic systems it is becoming increasingly evident that pre-programmed models of behaviour and communication will be inadequate. The environment, in which the systems and their autonomic components are situated, is most likely to be the real world and so open-ended. It is not possible to foresee all system eventualities or actions, that may be needed to be performed, nor the methods by which novel observations may be detected or communicated. Additionally these systems are going to have to adapt to human requirements and so develop shared conventions of communication between themselves and human users in order to cope with novel meanings and requests from unknown sources. This paper proposes the use of cognitive systems reasoning over models of self-organising emergent behaviour as one method to address this problem. The actions of individual participants in the system form Markov Chains, which allows the autonomic observer systems to gain, or be endowed with, a grounded definition of some emergent behaviour. Furthermore the parameters of the associated Markov Decision Problem can be adjusted to the required outcome. It is further proposed that mathematical logic is the most natural specification medium for these cognitive systems. Thus a dialect of First Order Logic, Situation Calculus, is described with facilities to handle sensing and knowledge and stochastic actions. This is then shown as a specification for a known observed, naturally occurring emergent phenomenon that can be solved as a Markov Decision Problem.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132167021","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":"Tagging and Tracking System for Prisons and Correctional Facilities – A Design Roadmap","authors":"C. Mulholland, Roy Sterritt, P. O'Hagan, E. Hanna","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.27","url":null,"abstract":"Prisons and correctional facilities, particularly within Europe, have moved away from the traditional role of restrictive management and into one more akin to mentoring and re-education. This change of direction coupled with staffing shortages creates the need for security systems capable of self-management to relieve prison staff of the more fundamental tasks of managing movement and interaction and allow them to focus on the individual. This paper aims to provide a potential design roadmap to the tagging and tracking element of an existing self-managing security system for use in prisons and correctional facilities. Logical processes and autonomic computing elements have been suggested to support self-management while tracking technology solutions are discussed that best uphold optimum data security. The use of SVG is considered as an animation capable user interface solution.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133314660","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}
X. Elkorobarrutia, Mikel Muxika, G. Sagardui, F. Barbier, Xabier Aretxandieta
{"title":"A Framework for Statechart Based Component Reconfiguration","authors":"X. Elkorobarrutia, Mikel Muxika, G. Sagardui, F. Barbier, Xabier Aretxandieta","doi":"10.1109/EASE.2008.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EASE.2008.11","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes a reconfiguration mechanism for statechart-based software components and presents a framework that supports it. The reconfiguration capability that each component acquires can be used as a mechanism for self-healing and better adapting the component to environmental condition variations. The latter can also be considered as a support for coping with incomplete or bad specifications due to the lack of exact knowledge of the environment. It will also be shown that it can be used to easier resolve composition issues when creating a system by means of component-composition. This framework helps creating statechart based components that reside in the middle ground between a blackbox component and an statechart interpreter. In addition to supporting a Model Driven development style, the framework creates a reflective architecture of the component without any involvement from the developer. This reflectiveness adds the ability to modify the component’s statechart model at run-time and can be used as a basis for a self healing mechanism.","PeriodicalId":383637,"journal":{"name":"Fifth IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ease 2008)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131728620","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}