DSOM 2006
17th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on
Distributed Systems: Operations and Management
Large Scale Management

October 23-25, Dublin, Ireland - held as part of Manweek 2006


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[ DSOM Overview ]
Monday, October 23rd
08:45 - 10:30

Opening Session

10:30 - 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 1 - Performance of Management Protocols

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 2 - Complexity of Service Management

15:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 3 - Ontologies and Network Management

20:00 - 23:00

Reception


Tuesday, October 24th
09:00 - 10:30

Technical Session 4 - Management of next generation network and services

10:30 - 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel Session 1 - Research challenges in network management

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 5 - Business and Service Management

15:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 6 - Security and policy based management

20:00 - 23:00

Gala Dinner


Wednesday, October 25th
09:00 - 10:30

Technical Session 7 - Short Papers

10:30 - 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 8 - Supporting approaches for network management

12:30 - 13:00

Closing Session


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[ DSOM Monday ]
Monday, October 23rd
08:45 - 10:30

Opening Session
Room: Mezzanine Suite
Welcome Address
Radu State, Sven van der Meer, Declan O'Sullivan
DSOM 2006 TPC Co-chairs


Gerard Parr, David Malone, Mícheál Ó Foghlú
IPOM 2006 TPC Co-chairs


Keynote: The changing face of Telecoms Management
Martin Creaner
CTO, TeleManagement Forum


Keynote: The Evolution of Management Patterns
Alexander Clemm
Principal Architect and a Senior Manager, Cisco


10:30 - 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 1 - Performance of Management Protocols
Chair Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Efficient Information Retrieval in Network Management Using Web Services
Aimilios Chourmouziadis, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
George Pavlou, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

On Delays in Management Frameworks: Metrics, Models and Analysis
Abdelkader Lahmadi, Université de Nancy 2, France
Laurent Andrey, Université de Nancy 2, France
Olivier Festor, INRIA-LORIA, France

Performance Analysis of SNMP over SSH
Vladislav Marinov, International University Bremen, Germany
Jürgen Schönwälder, International University Bremen, Germany

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 2 - Complexity of Service Management
Chair Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Uncertainty in Global Application Services with Load Sharing Policy
Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway
Sven Ingebrigt Ulland, Oslo University College, Norway

Predictable Scaling Behaviour in the Data Centre with Multiple Application Servers
Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway
Gard Undheim, Oslo University College, Norway

Quantifying the Complexity of IT Service Management Processes
Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

15:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 3 - Ontologies and Network Management
Chair Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation for Self-Governing Systems
Elyes Lehtihet, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA
Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry-Val d'Essonne, France
Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland

An Ontology-Based Approach to the Description and Execution of Composite Network Management Processes for Network Monitoring
José María Fuentes, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Jorge E. López de Vergara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Towards a Managed Extensible Control Plane for Knowledge-Based Networking
Dave Lewis, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
John Keeney, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
Song Guo, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland

20:00 - 23:00

Reception


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[ DSOM Tuesday ]
Tuesday, October 24th
09:00 - 10:30

Technical Session 4 - Management of next generation network and services
Chair Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Voice Quality on the Internet in 2005 as Measured by www.TestYourVoIP.com
Mark Sylor, Brix Networks, USA
Nagarjuna Venna, Brix Networks, USA
Harrison Ripps, Brix Networks, USA

A WSDM-based Architecture for Global Usage Characterization of Grid Computing Infrastructures
Glauco Antonio Ludwig, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Gerson Geraldo Homrich Cavalheiro, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Walfredo Cirne, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil

Management of DiffServ-over-MPLS Transit Networks with BFD/OAM in ForCES Architecture
Seung-Hun Yoon, Yeungnam University, Korea
Djakhongir Siradjev, Yeungnam University, Korea
Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University, Korea

10:30 - 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Panel Session 1 - Research challenges in network management
Chair Petre Dini, Cisco, USA; Concordia University, Canada
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Panel member: Olivier Festor, INRIA-LORIA, France

Panel member: Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland

Panel member: Jorge E. López de Vergara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Panel member: Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Panel member: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, IIE-CNAM, France

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Technical Session 5 - Business and Service Management
Chair Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, IIE-CNAM, France
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Detecting Bottleneck in n-Tier IT Applications through Analysis
Gueyoung Jung, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Galen Swint, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jason Parekh, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories Palo Alto, USA

Fast Extraction of Adaptive Change Point Based Patterns for Problem Resolution in Enterprise Systems
Manoj K. Agarwal, IBM India Research Labs, India
Narendran Sachindran, IBM India Research Labs, India
Manish Gupta, IBM India Research Labs, India
Vijay Mann, IBM India Research Labs, India

Business-driven decision support for change management: planning and scheduling of changes
Jacques Sauvé, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
Rodrigo Rebouças, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
Antão Moura, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
Claudio Bartolini, HP Laboratories Palo Alto, USA
Abdel Boulmakoul, HP Laboratories Bristol, United Kingdom
David Trastour, HP Laboratories Bristol, United Kingdom

15:30 - 16:00

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Technical Session 6 - Security and policy based management
Chair John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Using Argumentation Logic for Firewall Policy Specification and Analysis
Arosha K. Bandara, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Emil C. Lupu, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

ZERO-Conflict: A Grouping-based Approach for Automatic Generation of IPSec/VPN Security Policies
Kuong-Ho Chen, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Yuan-Siao Liu, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Tzong-Jye Liu, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Chyi-Ren Dow, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Conflict Prevention via Model-driven Policy Refinement
Steven Davy, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA

20:00 - 23:00

Gala Dinner


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[ DSOM Wednesday ]
Wednesday, October 25th
09:00 - 10:30

Technical Session 7 - Short Papers
Chair Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
Room: Mezzanine Suite

Minimum-intrusion approaches for in-service BER estimation in transparent WDM networks
Carolina Pinart, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain

Ontology-based Policy Refinement Using SWRL Rules for Management Information Definitions in OWL
Antonio Guerrero, Universidad Politícnica de Madrid, Spain
Víctor A. Villagrá, Universidad Politícnica de Madrid, Spain
Jorge E. López de Vergara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Alfonso Sánchez-Macián, Universidad Politícnica de Madrid, Spain
Julio Berrocal, Universidad Politícnica de Madrid, Spain

Reconfiguring Self-Stabilizing Publish/Subscribe Systems
Michael A. Jaeger, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Gero Mühl, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Matthias Werner, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Helge Parzyjegla, Berlin University of Technology, Germany

Policy and Profile: Enabling Self-Knowledge for Autonomic Systems
Ray Carroll, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland
John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA
Greg Cox, Motorola Labs, USA
Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ireland

10:30 - 11:00

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Technical Session 8 - Supporting approaches for network management
Chair Olivier Festor, INRIA-LORIA, France
Room: Mezzanine Suite

DECA: A Hierarchical Framework for DECentralized Aggregation in DHTs
Marc S. Artigas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Pedro García, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Antonio F. Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Towards Distributed Hash Tables (De)Composition in Ambient Networks
Lawrence Cheng, University College London, United Kingdom
Roel Ocampo, University College London, United Kingdom
Kerry Jean, University College London, United Kingdom
Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom
Casba Simon, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Robert Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Peter Kersch, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Raffaele Giaffreda, British Telecommunications, United Kingdom

CMDB - Yet Another MIB? On Reusing Management Model Concepts in ITIL Configuration Management
Michael Brenner, University of Munich, Germany
Markus Garschhammer, University of Munich, Germany
Martin Sailer, University of Munich, Germany
Thomas Schaaf, University of Munich, Germany

12:30 - 13:00

Closing Session
Room: Mezzanine Suite
Conference Summary
Radu State, Sven van der Meer, Declan O'Sullivan
DSOM 2006 TPC Co-chairs


Best Paper Awards
Radu State, Sven van der Meer, Declan O'Sullivan
DSOM 2006 TPC Co-chairs


DSOM Future Directions
Raouf Boutaba
DSOM+Manweek Advisor



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