MACE 2006 | |
| Title | 1st IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments |
| Paper Deadline | 15-Sep-06 [double check conference site in case of deadline extension] |
| Date | From:25-Oct-06 To 26-Oct-06 |
| Address | n/a, Dublin, n/a, Ireland |
| URL | http://www.manweek2006.org/mace |
| Description | The essence of autonomic management is the ability for a system to self-govern its behaviour within the constraints of the business goals that the system as a whole seeks to achieve. The MACE workshop will discuss the use of information modelling to capture knowledge relating to network capabilities, environmental constraints and business goals/policies, together with reasoning and learning techniques to enhance and evolve this knowledge. Knowledge embedded within system models will be used by policy-based network management systems incorporating translation/code generation and policy enforcement processes that automatically configure network elements in response to changing business goals and/or environmental context. This realises an autonomic control loop, in which the system senses changes in the itself and its environment, analyses this information to ensure that business goals and objectives are being met; expedites changes should these goals and objectives be threatened, and observes the result. |