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Selected Readings in Autonomic Computing

Introduction, Motivations, Overview

• Paul Horn; "Autonomic Computing: IBM's Perspective on the State of Information Technology"; Technical Report, IBM Corporation, October 15, 2001.
• A. Ganek and T. Corbi, "The Dawning of the autonomic computing era," IBM Systems Journal, 42(1):5-18, 2003. (PDF)
• J. Kephart and D. Chess, "The Vision of Autonomic Computing," IEEE Computer 36(1): 41-50 (2003). (PDF)
• D. Clark, C. Partridge, J. Ramming, J. Wroclawski, "A Knowledge Plane for the Internet," Proceedings of SIGCOMM, 2003. (PDF)
• Wilkes, John, Mogul, Jeff, and Suermondt, Jaap. Utilification. Proc. 11th ACM SIGOPS European WS. Leuven, Belgium: ACM, 2004. HPL Tech Report HPL-2004-124
• Operating Systems Should Support Business Change. Jeffrey C. Mogul, HP Labs. In Tenth USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) 2005, June 2005, Santa Fe, NM.
• M. Parashar, S. Hariri, "Autonomic Computing: An Overview," UPP 2004, Mont Saint-Michel, France, Editors: J.-P. Banâtre et al. LNCS, Springer Verlag, Vol. 3566, pp. 247-259, 2005. (PDF)
• S. Hariri et al, "The Autonomic Computing Paradigm," Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 8, No. 5, 2006. (PDF)
• D. A. Patterson, A. Brown, P. Broadwell, G. Candea, M. Chen, J. Cutler, P. Enriquez, A. Fox, E. Kiciman, M. Merzbacher, D. Oppenheimer, N. Sastry, W. Tetzlaff, J. Traupman, N. Treuhaft, "Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies," UC Berkeley Computer Science Technical Report UCB/CSD-02-1175, March 15, 2002. (PDF)
• White Paper on Autonomic Communication Principles, v.01. (PDF)

Models, Architectures and Approaches

• Emergence-based Approaches
  • R. Anthony, "Emergence: a Paradigm for Robust and Scalable Distributed Applications," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), pp 132-139, May 2004. (PDF)
  • T. De Wolf and T. Holvoet, "Emergence as a general architecture for distributed autonomic computing," K. U. Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Report CW 384, January, 2004. (PDF)
  • O. Babaoglu, M. Jelasity, A. Montresor, "Grassroots Approach to Self-management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems," UPP 2004, Mont Saint-Michel, France, Editors: J.-P. Banâtre et al. LNCS, Springer Verlag, Vol. 3566, pp. 286-296, 2005. (PDF)
• Component/Service-based Approaches
  • S. R. White, J. R. Hanson, I. Whalley, D. M. Chess, J. O. Kephart, "An Architectural Approach to Autonomic Computing," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 2-9, May 2004. (PDF)
  • M. Parashar, Z. Li, H. Liu, V. Matossian and C. Schmidt, "Enabling Autonomic Grid Applications: Requirements, Models and Infrastructures," Self-Star Properties in Complex Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag. Vol. 3460, pp. 273-290, 2005. (PDF)
  • P. K. McKinley, S. M. Sadjadi, E. P. Kasten, and B. H. C. Cheng, "Composing Adaptive Software," IEEE Computer, 37(7):56-64, July 2004. (PDF)
• Agent-based Approaches
  • G. Tesauro, D. M. Chess, W. E. Walsh, R. Das, I. Whalley, J. O. Kephart, and S. R. White, "A multiagent systems approach to autonomic computing," Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2004. (PDF)
  • D. Bonino, A. Bosca, F. Corno, "An Agent Based Autonomic Semantic Platform," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• Control Theoretic Approaches
  • S. Abdelwahed, N. Kandasamy, and S. Neema, "Online Control for Self-Management in Computing Systems," Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Toronto, Canada, May 2004. (PDF)
  • T. F. Abdelzaher, J. A. Stankovic, C. Lu, R. Zhang, and Y. Lu, "Feedback Performance Control in Software Services," IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol 23, No. 3, June 2003. (PS)
  • Y. Diao, J. L. Hellerstein, S. Parekh, R. Griffith, G. Kaiser, D. Phung, Self-Managing Systems: A Control Theory Foundation, 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'05), April 04 - 07, 2005 Greenbelt, Maryland pp. 441-448. (PDF)
• Addressing Legacy Systems
  • G. Valetto, G. Kaiser, D. Phung, "A Uniform Programming Abstraction for Effecting Autonomic Adaptations onto Software Systems," Proceedings of Second International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005), pp.286-297, June 2005  (PDF)
  • G. Kaiser, J. Parekh, P. Gross and G. Valetto, Kinesthetics eXtreme: An External Infrastructure for Monitoring Distributed Legacy Systems, , Proceedings of Autonomic Computing Workshop, 2003, 25 June 2003 Page(s):22-30 (PDF)
  • Christos Karamanolis, Magnus Karlsson and Xiaoyun Zhu. Designing Controllable Computer Systems. In Tenth USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) 2005, June 2005, pp. 49-54, Santa Fe, NM.

Programming Systems and Application Environments

• J. P. Bigus, D. A. Schlosnagle, J. R. Pilgrim, W. N. Mills III, and Y. Diao, "ABLE: A toolkit for building multiagent autonomic systems," IBM Systems Journal, 41(3):350--371, 2002. (PDF)
• H. Liu, M. Parashar, S. Hariri, "A Component-Based Programming Model for Autonomic Applications," Proceedings of the 1st  International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• J. Xu. S. Adabala. J. AB Fortes, "Towards Autonomic Virtual Applications in the In-VIGO System," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• J. P. Birman, R. van Renesse, J. Kaufman, W. Vogels, "Navigating in the Storm: Using Astrolabe for Distributed Self-Configuration, Monitoring and Adaptation," Autonomic Computing Workshop Fifth Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS'03), 2003. (PDF)

Middleware and System Services

• A-C Huang and P. Steenkiste, "Building Self-adapting Services Using Service-specific Knowledge," Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), Research Triangle Park, NC, 2005. (PDF)
• V. Kumar, B. F. Cooper, K. Schwan, "Distributed Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Middleware," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005), Seattle, Washington, USA. (PDF)
• S. M. Sadjadi and P. K. McKinley, "Using Transparent Shaping and Web Services to Support Self-Management of Composite Systems," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Seattle, Washington, June 2005. (PDF)
• J. W. Strickland, V. W. Freeh, X. Ma, S. S. Vazhkudai, "Governor: Autonomic Throttling for Aggressive Idle Resource Scavenging," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• B. Urgaonkar, P. Shenoy, A. Chandra, P. Goyal, "Dynamic Provisioning of Multi-tier Internet Applications,"  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• Robert Adams, Paul Brett, Subu Iyer, Dejan Milojicic, Sandro Rafaeli, and Vanish Talwar, "Scalable Management ", ICAC 2005
• Sandip Agarwala and Karsten Schwan, "SysProf: Online Distributed Behavior Diagnosis through Fine-grain System", In the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006).

AI, Learning and Autonomic Computing

• E. Kycyman, Y.-M. Wang, "Discovering Correctness Constraints for Self-Management of System Configuration," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• A. Ranganathan and R. H. Campbell, "Pervasive Autonomic Computing Based on Planning," Proceedings of the 1st  International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• Michael Mesnier, Eno Thereska, Gregory R. Ganger, Daniel Ellard, Margo Seltzer, "File Classification in Self-* Storage Systems," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• M. Chen, A. X. Zheng, J. Lloyd, M. I. Jordan, E. Brewer. "Failure Diagnosis Using Decision Trees," Proceedings of the 1st  International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• P. Ulam, A. Goel, J. Jones and J. W. M. Iv, "Using Model-Based Reflection to Guide Reinforcement Learning," IJCAI 2005 Workshop on Reasoning Representation, and Learning in Computer Games, May, 2005. (PDF)
• M. Karlsson, M. Covell, "Dynamic Black-Box Performance Model Estimation for Self-Tuning Regulators," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• P. P. Maglio, C. S. Campbell, E. Kandogan, "Learning Automation Policies for Pervasive Computing Environments," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• G. Jiang, H. Chen, C. Ungureanu, K. Yoshihira, "Multi-resolution Abnormal Trace Detection Using Varied-length N-grams and Automata,"  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• M. Brodie, S. Ma, G. Lohman, L. Mignet, N. Modani, M. Wilding, J. Champlin, P. Sohn, "Quickly Finding Known Software Problems via Automated Symptom Matching," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)

Applications

• V. Markl, G. M. Lohman and V. Raman, "LEO: An Autonomic Query Optimizer for DB2," IBM Systems Journal Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, January 2001. (PDF)
• Z. Zhang, S. Lin, Q. Lian, C. Jin, "RepStore: A Self-Managing and Self-Tuning Storage Backend with Smart Bricks," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• N. Kushmerick and T. A. Lau, "Automated Email Activity Management: An Unsupervised Learning Approach," IUI 2005 - Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM, January 2005. (PDF)
• N. Kandasamy, S. Abdelwahed, J. P. Hayes, "Self-Optimization in Computer Systems via On-Line Control: Application to Power Management,"  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)
• J. Wildstrom, P. Stone, E. Witchel, R. J. Mooney, M. Dahlin, "Towards Self-Configuring Hardware for Distributed Computer Systems,"  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• L. Qiao, B. R. Iyer, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, S. Uttamchandani, "PULSTORE.: Automated Storage Management with QoS Guarantee,"  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'05), 2005. (PDF)
• I. Ilyas, P. J. Haas,  V. G. Markl, P. G. Brown and A. I. Aboulnaga, "CORDS: Automatic discovery of correlations and soft functional dependencies," SIGMOD 2004, ACM, February 2004. (PDF)
• W. Trumler, J. Petzold, F. Bagci, T. Ungerer, "AMUN - Autonomic Middleware for Ubiquitous eNvironments Applied to the Smart Doorplate Project,"  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)

Autonomic Grid Computing

• M. Parashar and J.C. Browne, "Conceptual and Implementation Models for the Grid",  Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Grid Computing, IEEE Press, Vol. 93, No. 3, March 2005. (PDF)
• J. Kaufman, T. Lehman, G. Deen, J. Thomas, "OptimalGrid -- autonomic computing on the Grid,"IBM article, 2003. [HTML]
• A. J. Chakravarti, G. Baumgartner, M. Lauria, "The Organic Grid: Self-Organizing Computation on a Peer-to-Peer Network," Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'04), 2004. (PDF)

• H. Liu, V. Bhat, M. Parashar and S. Klasky, "An Autonomic Service Architecture for Self-Managing Grid Applications," Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2005), Seattle, USA, November 2005. (PDF)

Nature/Biology-Inspired/Self-Organization

• R. Nagpal, "Towards a Catalog of Biologically-inspired Primitives," Workshop on Engineering Self-organising Applications, Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems Conference (AAMAS), 2003, LNAI 2977. (PDF)
• R. Nagpal et al, "Programming Methodology for Biologically-Inspired Self-Assembling Systems," AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to High Level Functionality, March 2003. (PDF)
• G. Serugendo, N. Foukia, S. Hassas, A. Karageorgos, S. K. Mostefaoui, O. F. Rana, M. Ulieru, P. Valckenaers, C. Van Aart, "Self-organisation: Paradigms and applications", Engineering Self-Organising Systems, Vol. 2977, 2004. (PDF)
• O. Babaoglu, G. Canright, A. Deutsch, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, L. Gambardella, N. Ganguly, M. Jelasity, R. Montemanni, and A. Montresor, "Design patterns from biology for distributed computing," Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems, November 2005. (PDF)
• G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, and L. M. Gambardella, "AntHocNet: An adaptive nature-inspired algorithm for routing in mobile ad hoc networks," European Transactions on Telecommunications, Special Issue on Self-organization in Mobile Networking, 2005. (PDF)
• F. Ducatelle, G. Di Caro, and L. M. Gambardella, "Using ant agents to combine reactive and proactive strategies for routing in mobile ad-hoc networks," International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Special Issue on Nature-Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications, 2005. (PDF)
• S. Hofmeyr and S. Forrest, Architecture for an Artificial Immune System, Evolutionary Computation 7, No. 1, 1289-1296 2000. (PS)
• F. Qin, J. Tucek, J. Sundaresan, and Y. Zhou, Rx: Treating Bugs as Allergies - A safe method to survive software failures, In Proc. SOSP, 2005. (PDF)
• David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris. "Resilient Overlay Networks". Proc. 18th ACM SOSP, Banff, Canada,October 2001.
• Guy Lohman, Sam S. Lightstone. "SMART: Making DB2 (more) autonomic",short paper.
• C. Lumezanu, S. Bhola, M. Astley. "Utility Optimization for Event-Driven Distributed Infrastructures". To appear in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006.