{"title":"Self Organising Flexible Demand for Smart Grid","authors":"Patricio E. Petruzzi, D. Busquets, J. Pitt","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.19","url":null,"abstract":"In Smart Grids, flexible demand can lower the consumption peaks by flattening the demand curve. Since a centralised approach to allocate electricity consumption suffers from scalability issues, we proposed a self-organising solution in which consumers exchange allocated electricity consumption slots to satisfy their preferences. In addition, cooperation is encouraged using social capital, consumers can help each other in order to obtain the allocations they need.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"27 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":"123581218","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}
Stuart Wagner, J. Giacopelli, A. Ghetie, Isil Sebüktekin, J. Burns, M. Tauil, E. V. D. Berg, P. Manghwani, R. Laddaga, P. Robertson
{"title":"Adaptive, Network-Aware Cluster Selection for Cloud Computing in Wireless Networks","authors":"Stuart Wagner, J. Giacopelli, A. Ghetie, Isil Sebüktekin, J. Burns, M. Tauil, E. V. D. Berg, P. Manghwani, R. Laddaga, P. Robertson","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.30","url":null,"abstract":"We describe and demonstrate fully distributed algorithms that enable cloud clients to select among a set of available computing clusters adaptively, based on measurements of cluster computing loads and the relative bandwidths of paths between the client and each cluster. These techniques are particularly important in cases where (1) clients connect to clusters over stressed wireless networks whose characteristics vary considerably over time, and (2) cloud computing resources are physically dispersed over several locations to improve robustness against physical attack, power failure, network failure, or cyber attack. We demonstrate new means of measuring path bandwidth reliably over multi-hop wireless networks. We then show how the resulting network awareness can be combined with available data on cluster computing loads to arrive at favorable cluster selection decisions by cloud clients, without the need for a centralized cloud controller.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"282 4 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":"127472526","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}
Yu Xiang, Bharath Balasubramanian, Michael Wang, Tian Lan, S. Sen, M. Chiang
{"title":"Self-Adaptive, Deadline-Aware Resource Control in Cloud Computing","authors":"Yu Xiang, Bharath Balasubramanian, Michael Wang, Tian Lan, S. Sen, M. Chiang","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.35","url":null,"abstract":"Modern data centers deliver resources over the cloud for clients to run various applications and jobs with diverse requirements. Today's cloud resource management is able to support certain Quality of Service (QoS) requirements including reliability and security. However, in many settings such as the military cloud where latency requirement is paramount, existing cloud resource management schemes fall short in providing a systematic framework to meet and balance disparate types of application deadlines, since they are primarily focused on speeding up job executions for timely processing. In this paper we present a self-adaptive, deadline-aware resource control framework that can be implemented in a fully distributed fashion, making it suitable for unreliable environments where a single point of failure is not acceptable. Relying on Nash Bargaining in non-cooperative game theory, our framework allocates cloud resources in an optimal way to maximize the Nash Bargaining Solutions (NBS) with respect to both job priority and deadline. Further, it also enables self-adaptive deadline-aware resource allocation and rebalancing under cyber or physical attacks that may diminish cloud capacity. We validate our technique by performing experiments on the Hadoop framework.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"14 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":"126580347","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":"Tile Assembly Simulator: A Software Package for Tile-Based Algorithmic Self-Assembly","authors":"Tyler Fochtman, Matthew J. Patitz","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.29","url":null,"abstract":"Tile Assembly System (TAS) is a free, open-source, and cross-platform application that enables research and education in the field of tile-based algorithmic self-assembly through a full development and simulation environment for the abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM), the kinetic Tile Assembly Model (kTAM), and the 2-Handed Assembly Model (2HAM). There is also a developed wiki site page, selfassembly.net, which has information on algorithmic selfassembly as well as tutorials for TAS.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"38 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":"132659323","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}
Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, H. Caine, X. Yao, B. Rinner
{"title":"CamSim: A Distributed Smart Camera Network Simulator","authors":"Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, H. Caine, X. Yao, B. Rinner","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.11","url":null,"abstract":"Smart cameras allow pre-processing of video data on the camera instead of sending it to a remote server for further analysis. Having a network of smart cameras allows various vision tasks to be processed in a distributed fashion. While cameras may have different tasks, we concentrate on distributed tracking in smart camera networks. This application introduces various highly interesting problems. Firstly, how can conflicting goals be satisfied such as cameras in the network try to track objects while also trying to keep communication overhead low? Secondly, how can cameras in the network self adapt in response to the behavior of objects and changes in scenarios, to ensure continued efficient performance? Thirdly, how can cameras organise themselves to improve the overall network's performance and efficiency? This paper presents a simulation environment, called CamSim, allowing distributed self-adaptation and self-organisation algorithms to be tested, without setting up a physical smart camera network. The simulation tool is written in Java and hence allows high portability between different operating systems. Relaxing various problems of computer vision and network communication enables a focus on implementing and testing new self-adaptation and self-organisation algorithms for cameras to use.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"166 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":"128111068","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 Novel Spatial Property Aware Multihop Communication Solution for Autonomous Mobile Networks","authors":"András Kokuti, V. Simon, Bernát Wiandt","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.26","url":null,"abstract":"In line with traditional communication systems, more and more attention is given to autonomous, self-organized networks with no central infrastructure, based on peer-to-peer communication. Designing multihop broadcast protocols for these networks is a complex problem as the task of these protocols is to disseminate messages in a network effectively while avoiding unnecessary use of resources. The vast majority of these protocols (as those used in the present day Internet) do not use spatial information of the nodes to optimize the bandwidth and channel usage. By increasing the awareness of the nodes, equipping them with their physical location, we can achieve a higher level of autonomous functioning, better performance, and higher level communication primitives, like transmitting in a given direction. We have designed a novel communication protocol, based on the spatial properties of the system, the Direction Based Handshake Gossiping, which was implemented in our self-organizing network simulator. For performance comparison we picked three other location based data dissemination protocols from the literature (Distance Adaptive Dissemination, the General Probabilistic Broadcast Algorithm, and Ni et al's location-based scheme). Our simulations show that our solution overperforms the other three protocols in terms of control overhead and number of duplications, which is crucial in self-organized mobile networks, where radio band with and energy are usually scarce resources.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"39 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":"114666702","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 Modelling and Simulation Environment for Self-Aware and Self-Expressive Systems","authors":"Tatiana Djaba Nya, S. Stilkerich, Peter R. Lewis","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.21","url":null,"abstract":"Self-awareness and self-expression are promising architectural concepts for embedded systems to be equipped with to match them with dedicated application scenarios and constraints in the avionic and space-flight industry. Typically, these systems operate in largely undefined environments and are not reachable after deployment for a long time or even never ever again. This paper introduces a reference architecture as well as a novel modelling and simulation environment for self-aware and self-expressive systems with transaction level modelling, simulation and detailed modelling capabilities for hardware aspects, precise process chronology execution as well as fine timing resolutions. Furthermore, industrial relevant system sizes with several self-aware and self-expressive nodes can be handled by the modelling and simulation environment.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"143 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":"133697665","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":"The Challenge of Decentralised Synchronisation in Interactive Music Systems","authors":"Kristian Nymoen, A. Chandra, J. Tørresen","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.18","url":null,"abstract":"Synchronization is an important part of collaborative music systems, and with such systems implemented on mobile devices, the implementation of algorithms for synchronization without central control becomes increasingly important. Decentralised synchronization has been researched in many areas, and some challenges are solved. However, some of the assumptions that are often made in this research are not suitable for mobile musical systems. We present an implementation of a firefly-inspired algorithm for synchronization of musical agents with fixed and equal tempo, and lay out the road ahead towards synchronization between agents with large differences in tempo. The effect of introducing human-controlled nodes in the network of otherwise agent-controlled nodes is examined.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"30 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":"126146554","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. Bures, R. Nicola, I. Gerostathopoulos, N. Hoch, M. Kit, N. Koch, Giacoma Valentina Monreale, U. Montanari, R. Pugliese, N. Serbedzija, M. Wirsing, F. Zambonelli
{"title":"A Life Cycle for the Development of Autonomic Systems: The E-mobility Showcase","authors":"T. Bures, R. Nicola, I. Gerostathopoulos, N. Hoch, M. Kit, N. Koch, Giacoma Valentina Monreale, U. Montanari, R. Pugliese, N. Serbedzija, M. Wirsing, F. Zambonelli","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.23","url":null,"abstract":"Component ensembles are a promising way of building self-aware autonomic adaptive systems. This approach has been promoted by the EU project ASCENS, which develops the core idea of ensembles by providing rigorous semantics as well as models and methods for the whole development life cycle of an ensemble-based system. These methods specifically address adaptation, self-awareness, self-optimization, and continuous system evolution. In this paper, we demonstrate the key concepts and benefits of the ASCENS approach in the context of intelligent navigation of electric vehicles (e-Mobility), which itself is one of the three key case studies of the project.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"14 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":"126795216","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. Benyo, P. Pal, R. Schantz, Aaron M. Paulos, D. Musliner, Tom Marble, J. Rye, Michael W. Boldt, Scott E Friedman
{"title":"Automated Self-Adaptation for Cyber-Defense -- Pushing Adaptive Perimeter Protection Inward","authors":"B. Benyo, P. Pal, R. Schantz, Aaron M. Paulos, D. Musliner, Tom Marble, J. Rye, Michael W. Boldt, Scott E Friedman","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2013.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2013.22","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a recently achieved incremental milestone on the long path toward more intelligently adaptive, automated and self-managed computer systems. We demonstrate the feasibility of integrated cyber-defense connecting anomaly detection and isolation mechanisms operating at different system layers with two complementary mediation policy adaptation techniques in service of automatic remediation against observed attacks and their future variants. We describe a number of experiments evaluating the relevance and effectiveness of the integrated cyber-defense operation.","PeriodicalId":397020,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Self-Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"60 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":"122665250","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}