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Technical Sessions










Tuesday, 22 May 2007

Technical Session 1: Policy Management (Session Chair: Emil Lupu)
  • Yanyan Yang, University of California, Davis, USA
  • Charles U. Martel, University of California, Davis, USA
  • Felix Wu, University of California, Davis, USA
CLID: A general approach to validate security policies in a dynamic network
  • Vincent Cridlig, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France
  • Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France
  • Olivier Festor, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France
A model for checking consistency in access control policies for network management
  • Kris Verlaenen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
  • Bart De Win, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Towards simplified specification of policies in different domains
  • Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Dakshi Agrawal, IBM, USA
  • Kang-Won Lee, IBM, USA
Issues in Designing a Policy Language for Distributed Management of IT Infrastuctures

Technical Session 2: Virtualization (Session Chair: Xiaoyun Zhu)
  • Pawel Garbacki, University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Vijay Naik, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Efficient resource virtualization and sharing strategies for heterogeneous grid environments
  • Akshat Verma, IBM India Research Lab, India
  • Upendra Sharma, IBM India Research Lab, India
  • Rohit Jain, IBM India Research Lab, India
  • Koustuv Dasgupta, IBM India Research Lab, India
Compass: Cost of Migration-aware Placement in Storage Systems
  • Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
  • Matthias Goehner, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany 
  • Mario Golling, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany 
  • Michael Kretzschmar, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany 
Towards an Accounting System for Multi-Provider Grid Environments
  • Constantin Adam, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
  • Rolf Stadler, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
  • Chunqiang Tang, IBM, USA
  • Malgorzata Steinder, IBM Research Labs., USA
  • Michael Spreitzer, IBM, USA
A Service Middleware that Scales in System Size and Applications

Technical Session 3: Security Management (Session Chair: Morris Sloman)
  • Chenfeng Zhou, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Evaluation of a Decentralized Architecture for Large Scale Collaborative Intrusion Detection
  • Fan Zhao, University of California, Davis, USA
  • V. Rao Vemuri, University of California, Davis, USA
  • S. Felix Wu, University of California, Davis, USA
  • Fei Xue, University of California, Davis, USA
  • S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California, Davis, USA
Interactive Informatics on Internet Infrastructure
  • Gerhard Muenz, University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Real-Time Analysis of Flow Data for Network Attack Detection
  • Mohamed Nassar, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France
  • Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France
  • Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France
VoIP Honeypot Architecture

Technical Session 4: Workload Management (Session Chair: Yixin Diao)
  • Norman Bobroff, IBM Research, USA
  • Andrzej Kochut, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Kirk Beaty, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Dynamic Placement of Virtual Machines for Managing SLA Violations
  • Italo Cunha, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Jussara Almeida, DCC-UFMG, Brazil
  • Virgilio Almeida, UFMG, Brazil
  • Marcos dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Self-Adaptive Capacity Management for Multi-Tier Virtualized Environments
  • Malgorzata Steinder, IBM Research Labs., USA
  • Ian Whalley, David Chess, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • David Carrera, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
  • Ilona Gaweda, AGH University of Science and Technology, USA
Server virtualization in autonomic management of heterogeneous workloads
  • Zhikui Wang, Xiaoyun Zhu, HP Laboratories, USA
  • Pradeep Padala, University of Michigan, USA
  • Sharad Singhal, HP Laboratories, USA.
Capacity and Performance Overhead in Dynamic Resource Allocation to Virtual Containers

Technical Session 5: Self-Management (Session Chair: Kurt Geihs)
  • Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
  • Luis Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Deterministic Models of Software Aging and Optimal Rejuvenation Schedules
  • Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Labs and Bar Ilan U., Israel
  • David Breitgand, IBM - Haifa Research Lab, Israel
  • Ealan Henis, IBM - Haifa Research Lab, Israel
  • Yaron Weinsberg, The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Maayan Goldstein, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Panacea - towards a self-healing development framework
  • Pratik Biswas, Avaya Inc., USA
Autonomic Software Release Management for Communications Networks

Technical Session 6: Management of High-speed Networks (Session Chair: Marcus Brunner)
  • Mark Yampolskiy, DFN, working at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
  • Matthias Hamm, DFN, working at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
  • Karin Schauerhammer, DFN, Germany
  • Klaus Ullmann, DFN, Germany
Management of Multidomain End-to-End Links, A Federated Approach for the Pan-European Research Network Géant2
  • Jeroen van der Ham, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Paola Grosso, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Ronald van der Pol, SARA, The Netherlands
  • Andree Toonk, SARA, The Netherlands
  • Cees DeLaat, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Using the Network Description Language in Optical Networks
  • Madanagopal Ramachandran, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
  • Timothy Gonsalves, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
  • Usha Rani , NMSWorks Software Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, India
Path Computation Algorithms for Dynamic Service Provisioning in SDH Networks


Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Technical Session 7: Monitoring (Session Chair: Danny Raz)
  • Huadong Liu, University of Tennessee, USA
  • Hui Zhang, Rauf Izmailov, NEC Labs America, USA
Real-time Application Monitoring and Diagnosis for Service Hosting Platforms of Black Boxes
  • Fetahi Wuhib, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Mads Dam, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
Robust Monitoring of Network-wide Aggregates through Gossiping
  • Yongning Tang, DePaul University, USA
  • Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA
  • Bin Zhang, Depaul University, USA
Toward Globally Optimal Event Monitoring & Aggregation For Large-scale Overlay Networks
  • Gléderson Santos, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Vinícius Guimarães, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Brazil
  • Roberto Costa Filho, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Jorge Guedes, PUCRS - GPARC, Brazil
  • José Augusto Oliveira Neto, Vivo, Brazil
  • Ricardo Balbinot, Vivo, Brazil
  • Alexandre Vieira, ULBRA - Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Brazil
UAMA: a unified architecture for active measurements in IP networks

Technical Session 8: Business-Driven Management (Session Chair: Claudio Bartolini)
  • Issam Aib, Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Making Policy Based Management Business Aware, A Web Server Hosting use case
  • Zhongtang Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Yuan Chen, HP Labs, USA
  • Vibhore Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  • Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett-Packard Labs - Palo Alto, USA
  • Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Automated Availability Management Driven by Business Policies
  • Yixin Diao, IBM Research, USA
  • Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Sujay Parekh, IBM, USA
  • Vladislav Marinov, International University Bremen, Germany.
Predicting Labor Cost through IT Management Complexity Metrics
  • Pascal Kurtansky, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center, ftw. Vienna, Austria
  • Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
The Evaluation of the Efficient Prepaid Scheme TICA for All-IP Networks and Internet Services

Technical Session 9: Measurements and Quality of Service (Session Chair: Luciano Paschoal Gaspary)
  • Irina Rish, Gerald Tesauro, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Estimating End-to-End Performance by Collaborative Prediction with Active Sampling
  • Markus Schmid, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Marcus Thoss, tang-IT Consulting GmbH, Germany
  • Thomas Termin, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Reinhold Kroeger, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
A Generic Application-Oriented Performance Instrumentation for Multi-Tier Environments
  • Bengi Karacali, Avaya Inc., USA
  • Balaji Rao, Avaya Inc., USA
Network Instrumentation for End-to-end Measurements
  • Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Juergen Schoenwaelder, International University Bremen, Germany
  • Matus Harvan, International University Bremen, Germany
  • Jorrit Schippers, Remco van de Meent, University of Twente, The Netherlands
SNMP Traffic Analysis: Approaches, Tools, and First Results

Technical Session 10: Change and Configuration Management (Session Chair: Metin Feridun)
  • Eray Gencay, University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Wolfgang Kuechlin, University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Thorsten Schaefer, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Germany
A Light-Weight SQL-Based Validation System for SAN Configuration
  • Rodrigo Rebouças, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
  • Jacques Sauvé, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
  • Antão Moura, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
  • Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA
  • David Trastour, HP Labs, USA
A decision support tool to optimize scheduling of IT changes
  • Dakshi Agrawal, Mandis Beigi, IBM, USA
  • Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Research, USA
  • Kang-Won Lee, IBM, USA
Planning and Managing the IPTV Service Deployment
  • Sven Graupner, HP Laboratories, USA
Automation Controller for Operational IT Management

Technical Session 11: Security Analysis and Enforcement (Session Chair: Felix Wu)
  • Humberto Abdelnur, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France
  • Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France
  • Isabelle Chrisment, University Henri Poincar, Nancy, France, France
Assessing the security of VoIP Services
  • Alexandros Koliousis, University of Glasgow, Great Britain
  • Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, Great Britain
A Trustworthy Mobile Agent Infrastructure for Network Management
  • Francois Gagnon, Carleton University, Canada
  • Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
  • Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
A Hybrid Approach to Operating System Discovery using Answer Set Programming

Technical Session 12: SOA Management (Session Chair: Karsten Schwan)
  • Ru Fang, Liana Fong, IBM, USA
  • Frank David, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Linh Lam, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Nan Du, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China
  • Ying Chen, IBM China Resarch Lab, P.R. China
  • Christopher Vignola, IBM Software Group, USA
A Version-aware Approach for Web Service Client Application
  • Steffen Bleul, University of Kassel, Germany
Flexible Automatic Service Brokering for SOAs
  • Ricardo Lemos Vianna, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Everton Polina, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Clarissa Marquezan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Leandro Bertholdo, POP-RS, Brazil
  • Liane Tarouco, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Maria Janilce Almeida, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
An Evaluation of Service Composition Technologies Applied to Network Management


Thursday, 24 May 2007

Technical Session 13: Service Management (Session Chair: Hanan Lutfiyya)
  • Vitalian Danciu, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  • Nils gentschen Felde, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
  • Martin Sailer, MNM Team, Germany
Declarative Specification of Service Management Attributes
  • Hani Jamjoom, IBM Research, USA
  • Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Raymond Jennings, IBM Watson Research, USA
  • Debanjan Saha, IBM Watson Research, USA
Service Assurance Process Re-Engineering Using Location-aware Infrastructure Intelligence
  • Marcus O'Connell, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  • Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Service Management in a Dynamic E-Business Environment
  • Giovane Moura, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Giancarlo Silvestrin, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez, UNISINOS, Brazil
  • Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
  • Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
On the Performance of Web Services Management Standards for Network Management - An Evaluation of MUWS and WS-Management

Technical Session 14: Mobility Management (Session Chair: Hong Li)
  • Vasilios Siris, FORTH / Univ. of Crete, Greece
  • Despina Evaggelatou, Univ. of Crete, Greece
Access Point Selection for Improving Throughput Fairness in Wireless LANs
  • Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
  • Simon Schuetz, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
  • Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
Design and Evaluation of Distributed Self-configuring Load-Balancing
  • Michael Kreutzer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
  • Manuel Hartl, FlexSecure GmbH, Germany
A toolbox of mechanisms for robust and scalable service discovery in mobile ad-hoc networks