1st ROSSA 2009 workshop call for papers

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ROSSA 2009
1st International Workshop on Run-time mOdels for Self-managing
Systems and Applications
In conjunction with Fourth International Conference on Performance
Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Valuetools 2009,
Pisa Italy

Web site: rossa2009.org


Objectives
Performance models have a central role in the design, capacity planning, and
management of computing systems. Models may be used at design-time to support
capacity planning of the physical infrastructure and to analyze the effects and
trade-offs of different architectural choices, anticipating the discovery of
potential bottlenecks which may degrade system performance.
Models may also be used at run-time to assess the compliance of the running
system with respect to the design-time model and to measure the real system
performance parameters in order to fill the gap between design-time and
run-time.
Models at run-time can also assess the compliance of service level agreements
and trigger the run-time re-con?guration of autonomic systems. The goal of
this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, who
investigate concepts, models and tools for the run-time management of
computing systems to analyze autonomic systems transients and describe
their behavior at very fine grained time scales.

Topics include but are not limited to:

* Run-time monitoring and tools, models parameters estimation
* Control theory models, system identification methods and tools
for autonomic systems
* Burstiness analyses and system transients modeling
* QoS management and dynamic reconfiguration of autonomic systems
* Fault tolerance assurance and availability assessment in evolving run-time systems

Intended audience:
Researchers and practitioners, both from the Academia and from the Industry,
working in the areas of performance evaluation, control theory, system
identification, and QoS management of autonomic systems.

Workshop Publication and Submission Instructions
The workshop papers will be published together with regular papers in the
conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM Digital
Library (pending approval). The following types of submission are solicited:

* Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel
ongoing work. Long papers should be at most 10 pages long.
* Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should
be at most 6 pages long.

All the submissions should be formatted as follows:

* The first page should include the title, author's name(s),
affiliation, mailing address, e-mail, the abstract of the paper and up
to five keywords.
* Papers should be submitted in the ACM conference proceedings format.
Suitable templates can be retrieved from the ACM Web site:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
* Papers should be submitted exclusively as PDF files through easychair.

Organizers

Danilo Ardagna
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italy
http://home.dei.polimi.it/ardagna/
ardagna@elet.polimi.it

Li Zhang
IBM Research
T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY, USA
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/zhangl.index.html
zhangli@us.ibm.com

Program Committee Members

Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jonatha Anselmi, INRIA, France
Achim Baier, itemis, Germany
Giuliano Casale, SAP Research, UK
Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Ivica Crnkovic, Maalardanen University, Sweden
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Bahman Javadi, INRIA, France
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Research, Germany
Samuel Kounev, FZI, Germany
Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada
Wuqin Lin, Kellogg School of Management, USA
Marco Lovera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniel A. Menasce', George Mason University, USA
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM Research, USA
Alma Riska, Seagate Research, USA
Jerry Rolia, Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
Cristina Seceleanu, Maalardanen University, Sweden
Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Evgenia Smirni, The College of William and Mary, USA
Mark Squillante, IBM Research, USA
Malgorzata Steinder, IBM Research, USA
Asser Tantawi, IBM Research, USA
Cathy Xia, Ohio State University, USA
Contact Person
Danilo Ardagna
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Via Golgi 40,
20133 Milano, Italy
ardagna@elet.polimi.it


Important Dates

Deadline for Workshop paper submissions: July 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2009
Camera-ready version and copyright form: August 1, 2009 (hard)
Workshop day: October 19, 2009.