[BBLISA-announce] Feedback Computing 2012 - Call for Participation (September 17, 2012)

[Yixin Diao]

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                          Feedback Computing 2012
           The 7th International Workshop on Feedback Computing
                     http://www.feedbackcomputing.org

                         In conjunction with ICAC
                         San Jose, California, USA
                            September 17, 2012

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SCOPE

Following the success of the FeBID workshops over the past six years, we
debut the Feedback Computing workshop: a unique forum built around the
concepts and technologies of applying, analyzing, designing, and exploiting
feedback in computing systems. The creation of this new workshop represents
the growing use of feedback in a broader agenda and is a timely response to
the following two trends: (1) Computing systems are growing larger,
smarter, and more complex, and encompass new fields such as cyber-physical
systems, social networks, and mobile applications. While much existing work
focuses on individual components and systems, it is time to take a more
systematic approach and address the dynamical complexity of interactions
that arise system-wide with much large scale. (2) Many research disciplines
such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, automatic control,
cyber-physical systems, and autonomic computing rely on feedback to achieve
goals such as autonomy, learning, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or
performance optimization. However, much of existing work focuses on
isolated disciplines. It is time to take a more holistic approach and
address the foundations and use of feedback, broadly defined, in computing.


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PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Keynote: Jeffrey Kephart (IBM Research)

Technical Session 1: Control Theory and Applications

Overload Management in Data Stream Processing Systems with Latency
Guarantees
Evangelia Kalyvianaki (Imperial College London)
Themistoklis Charalambous (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
Marco Fiscato (Imperial College London)
Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

A Model-based Framework for Automatic Recovery from Incipient Faults in
Computing Systems
Rui Jia (Mississippi State University)
Sherif Abdelwahed (Mississippi State University)
Abdelkarim Erradi (Qatar University)
Rashid Hadjidj (Qatar University)
Asim Ali (Qatar University)

Towards a Passivity Framework for Power Control and Response Time
Management in Cloud Computing
Michael D. Lemmon (University of Notre Dame)

Event-Based Response Time Estimation
Manfred Dellkrantz (Lund University)
Maria Kihl (Lund University)
Anders Robertsson (Lund University)
Karl Johan Åström (Lund University)

Technical Session 2: Performance Optimization

ATM: Adaptive Task Management for the vSphere Platform
Aalap Desai (VMware)
Chirag Bhatt (VMware)
Zhichao Li (Stony Brook University)
Rajit Kambo (VMware)

Intermediate Deadline Assignment for Distributed Real-Time Systems: Utility
Maximization and Challenges
Jinkyu Lee (University of Michigan)
Insik Shin (KAIST)

Data Centers as Demand Response Resources in the Electricity Market: Some
Preliminary Results
Rui Wang (Drexel University)
Nagarajan Kandasamy (Drexel University)
Chika Nwankpa (Drexel University)

Technical Session 3: Learning and Coordination

On How to Coordinate the Behavior of Independent Adaptive Systems
Jacopo Panerati (Politecnico di Milano)
Marco Triverio (Politecnico di Milano)
Martina Maggio (Lund University)
Marco Domenico Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano)

Modeling VM Performance Interference with Fuzzy MIMO Model
Lixi Wang (Florida International University)
Jing Xu (Florida International University)
Ming Zhao (Florida International University)

Discrete control for the coordination of administration loops
Soguy Mak-Karé Gueye (LIG / UJF)
Noël De Palma (LIG / UJF)
Eric Rutten (LIG / INRIA)

Poster Session

Feedback-Based Generation of Hardware Characteristics
Marcus Jägemar (Ericsson AB)
Sigrid Eldh (Ericsson AB)
Andreas Ermedahl (Ericsson AB)
Björn Lisper (Mälardalen University)

SMART Computing Systems: Sensing, Modelling, Actuating, Regulating, and
Tuning
Martina Maggio (Lund University)
Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos (Politecnico di Milano)
Alberto Leva (Politecnico di Milano)

Two-Stage Prediction for CPU Time Allocation in Soft Real-Time Systems
Safayet N Ahmed (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Bonnie Ferri (Georgia Institute of Technology)

A Hybrid System Approach to Model Dynamic Information Flow Tracking
Maria Khater (University of New Mexico)
Rafael Fierro (University of New Mexico)
Antonio Espinoza (University of New Mexico)
Jedidiah R. Crandall (University of New Mexico)

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
	Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Program Co-Chairs
	Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
	Zhikui Wang (HP Labs)

Publicity Co-Chairs
	Xiaoyun Zhu (VMWare)
	Matina Maggio (Lund University)


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Feedback Computing 2012: The 7th International Workshop on Feedback
Computing
17 September 2012, San Jose, California, USA
http://www.feedbackcomputing.org
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