Session details: Autonomous Control for Performance and Reliability Trade-offs in Internet of Services (ACPROSS'17)

The paradigm shift from an information-oriented Internet into an Internet of Services (IoS) has opened up virtually unbounded possibilities for creating and deploying new services. In this reshaped ICT landscape, critical software systems, which include Internet of Things, cloud services, softwarized networks, etc., essentially consist of large-scale service chains, combining and integrating the functionalities of numbers of other services offered by third parties. In this context, one of the most challenging problems is the provision of service chains which offer an adequate level of performance, reliability and quality perceived by the end users, based on a large offering of multiple functionally equivalent services that not only differ in terms of performance and reliability characteristics, but might also exhibit a churn rate and time varying behavior. Motivated by this, the aim of ACPROSS 2017 is to share novel solutions regarding the development of autonomous control methods and algorithms for discussing a high quality, wellperforming and reliable IoS. The workshop is organized and supported by the COST Action IC1304 “Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services” (ACROSS).