Evangelia Kokolaki, M. Karaliopoulos, I. Stavrakakis
{"title":"Parking Assisting Applications: Effectiveness and Side-Issues in Managing Public Goods","authors":"Evangelia Kokolaki, M. Karaliopoulos, I. Stavrakakis","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.8","url":null,"abstract":"With the emergence of mobile communication devices and social networking applications, new opportunities arise for various mobile networking applications. In this paper, we seek to experimentally study some fundamental properties of vehicular social applications that have been deployed to assist in the parking search process. The awareness and incentive mechanisms that are commonly incorporated in different instances of social parking applications are modeled and simulation scenarios are considered to explore particular aspects of these applications. It is shown that application users experience improved performance due to the increased efficiency they generate in the parking search process, without (substantially) degrading the performance of non-users. This is extremely important since applications managing common (public) goods should not provide benefits to their users by penalizing or almost excluding non-users. The incentive mechanisms are effective in the sense that they do provide preferential treatment to those fully cooperating but they induce rich-club phenomena and difficulties to newcomers. Interestingly, those problems, that may be a concern for all applications managing common (public) goods, seem to be alleviated by free-riding phenomena and dynamic behaviors.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130209203","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}
Yvonne Bernard, Jan Kantert, Lukas Klejnowski, N. Schreiber, C. Müller-Schloer
{"title":"Application of Learning to Trust-Adaptive Agents","authors":"Yvonne Bernard, Jan Kantert, Lukas Klejnowski, N. Schreiber, C. Müller-Schloer","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.28","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we analyse and evaluate, in which ways learning techniques can be applied to agents in an open system, which have to map continuous situations into a continuous action space. The agents are part of an open desktop grid, where agents can offer and use computational power of other volunteer agents in order to improve their speedup for bag of-task applications. Moreover, the agents use a trust-based mechanism, which enables the system to exclude misbehaving agents from the community. In this paper, the decision mechanism of such agents is enhanced using learning techniques to determine optimal cooperation thresholds.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134311088","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-Organizing Watch Platform for Assisting and Reminding Personal Activity","authors":"Kyung Chun Lee, Ki Eun Seong, Soon-Ju Kang","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.15","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking and monitoring of personal activities by using wearable device can be applied in various different ways. For example, if one analyzes activity of people with dementia by using such device, then the identification of the illness and the diagnosis of the symptoms become much more efficient. In this demo, we propose the watch platform, Personal Activity Assisting & Reminding (PAAR) watch, which tracks the user's activity and suggests various services based on the history of personal activity accumulated inside the watch. In order to realize self-awareness and self-organization concept in PAAR watch, some advanced concepts such as peer-to-peer direct communication between the watch and external devices and ultra-low power consumption schemes are designed and implemented in the proposed platform architecture.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131791036","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. Thayer, M. Burstein, R. Goldman, U. Kuter, P. Robertson, R. Laddaga
{"title":"Comparing Strategic and Tactical Responses to Cyber Threats","authors":"J. Thayer, M. Burstein, R. Goldman, U. Kuter, P. Robertson, R. Laddaga","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.25","url":null,"abstract":"The STRATUS project seeks to provide resilience against cyber threats to distributed systems. STRATUS is designed to anticipate, diagnose, and respond proactively to threats. It uses a reactive technique to respond to the latest events quickly and a more `strategic' technique that recognizes attack plans and responds to them proactively. We focus on a set of experiments where we approximate the behavior of STRATUS in order to evaluate its responses given a variety of missions and attacks. We show the relative merits of responding to threats using local, reactive responses versus strategically ones and present evidence that justifies combining the two approaches to system defense.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124160570","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":"Secure Channel Service for MANETs","authors":"F. D. Angelis, J. Fernandez-Marquez, G. Serugendo","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.32","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows how to use a well defined set of self-organizing services for establishing and preserving a confidential and adaptive channel between two communicating entities on top of an ad-hoc mobile network.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"233 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116293933","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}
Philip Mayer, Annabelle Klarl, R. Hennicker, Mariachiara Puviani, F. Tiezzi, R. Pugliese, Jaroslav Keznikl, T. Bure
{"title":"The Autonomic Cloud: A Vision of Voluntary, Peer-2-Peer Cloud Computing","authors":"Philip Mayer, Annabelle Klarl, R. Hennicker, Mariachiara Puviani, F. Tiezzi, R. Pugliese, Jaroslav Keznikl, T. Bure","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.16","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomic computing - that is, the development of software and hardware systems featuring a certain degree of self-awareness and self-adaptability - is a field with many application areas and many technical difficulties. In this paper, we explore the idea of an autonomic cloud in the form of a platform-as-a-service computing infrastructure which, contrary to the usual practice, does not consist of a well-maintained set of reliable high-performance computers, but instead is formed by a loose collection of voluntarily provided heterogeneous nodes which are connected in a peer-to-peer manner. Such an infrastructure must deal with network resilience, data redundancy, and failover mechanisms for executing applications. We discuss possible solutions and methods which help developing such (and similar) systems. The described approaches are developed in the EU project ASCENS.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130033915","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":"Designing Self-Aware Adaptive Systems: From Autonomic Computing to Cognitive Immune Networks","authors":"Nicola Capodieci, E. Hart, Giacomo Cabri","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.17","url":null,"abstract":"An autonomic system is composed of ensembles of heterogeneous autonomic components in which large sets of components are dynamically added and removed. Nodes within such an ensemble should cooperate to achieve system or human goals, and systems are expected to self-adapt with little or no human-interaction. Designing such systems poses significant challenges. In this paper we propose that the system engineer might gain significant inspiration by looking to the biological immune system, particularly by adopting a perspective on the immune system proposed by Cohen known as the Cognitive Immune Network. The goal of this paper is to show how the current literature in autonomic computing could be positively enriched by considering alternative design processes based on cognitive immune networks. After sketching out the mapping in commonalities between the Cognitive Immune Network and the autonomic computing reference model, we demonstrate how these considerations regarding the design process can be exploited with an engineered autonomic system by describing experiments with a simple robotic swarm scenario.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115649533","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}
Jan Kantert, Yvonne Bernard, Lukas Klejnowski, C. Müller-Schloer
{"title":"Interactive Graph View of Explicit Trusted Communities in an Open Trusted Desktop Grid System","authors":"Jan Kantert, Yvonne Bernard, Lukas Klejnowski, C. Müller-Schloer","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.9","url":null,"abstract":"We present self-organisation processes within a decentralised P2P open Desktop Grid System. Every agent aims to maximise the speedup of his jobs by joining the system. Therefore he needs to cooperate with other agents. We use a trust metric to assess the willingness of cooperation for other agents. To further optimise their speedup agents can form explicit Trusted Communities with trusted peers. Thus they improve their performance and system robustness. The demos show a visual representation combining global effects and local interactions in an interactive graph view.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124604790","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":"Spatial Computing Meets Realistic Mobile Wireless Problems","authors":"Bernát Wiandt, V. Simon, András Kokuti, J. Beal","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.24","url":null,"abstract":"Controlling and leveraging the vast and ever-growing number of wireless devices around us has become a serious problem. Spatial computing offers a promising approach toward solving this problem, in the form of higher-level dis-tributed programming abstractions. Many challenging mobile communications problems, however, can only be investigated using a realistic and detailed model of wireless communication. We thus demonstrate a new research platform, integrating the MIT Proto spatial computing suite with the OMNeT++ network simulator framework, which will enable investigation of spatial computing solutions to difficult mobile wireless problems.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134243725","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":"Exemplifying Conflict Resolution in Multi-objective Smart Micro-Grids","authors":"Sylvain Frey, A. Diaconescu, D. Menga, I. Demeure","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.10","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed autonomic management systems following contradictory objectives raise difficult design challenges. We proposed a generic architecture to address this concern and exemplified it via manager integration solutions for multi-objective micro-grids (low-tension networks of the size of a district). This demo showcases some of these sample implementations via the MisTiGriD simulation platform with the aim of inspiring designers facing similar challenges.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116283528","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}