IBM基礎研の福田です。 表記のようなオートノミックコンピューティングに関する 会議の案内をお送りします。 -- Takeshi Fukuda IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory ====================================================================== Conference on the Human Impact and Application of Autonomic Computing Systems (CHIACS2) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/chiacs/ April 21, 2004 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York [Call for Abstracts] The complexity of large-scale computing systems is beginning to overwhelm software developers and system administrators. One approach to this problem is to create systems that configure and manage themselves under human supervision---an approach often called autonomic computing. Introducing autonomic components into the creation and management of large-scale computer systems will change the relationships between systems and people; for instance, high-level policy-based control (supervision) will replace low-level parameter tuning (configuration setting). But not a lot is known about this kind of transformation in the human-computer relationship. How will human system supervisors learn to trust an autonomic system that sets its own configuration parameters? How should an autonomic system keep its supervisors informed of its states, problems, or suggested solutions? How will developers treat autonomic systems? This conference aims to bring together stakeholders in the success of autonomic computing---including human science researchers, computer science researchers, IT architects, product developers, outsourcing practitioners, and consultants---to explore real-world autonomic computing and its effects on the way people and systems work together to generate business value. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Human-Computer Relationship: Autonomic computing will change the role of IT professionals by increasing their efficiency, enabling them to cope with complexity, and moving them up the business-value chain from configuration management to policy management. Other aspects of IT and business management will also change around the IT staff. How will the skills and distribution of expertise change over time? What new skills will be needed in system management and system development? What impact will changes in the IT department have on the rest of the enterprise? Trust and Adoption: Autonomic systems will only be adopted when they are trusted. Historically, some forms of automation have been readily adopted while others have not. What factors have contributed to successful adoption and exploitation of highly automated functions in the past? What encourages a person to work with a system rather than to avoid the system or to work around it? Development and Testing: Autonomic computing will bring greater unpredictability in configuration and connections between management components than are found in traditional systems. Developers will need to design autonomic components capable of being both independently deployed and highly interconnected. Application developers will need to instrument applications to exploit autonomic management functions. Service delivery organizations will need to show that introducing autonomic technology will improve service levels in mission-critical environments. What new skills are needed to develop and test autonomic systems? What new software engineering practices will be required? Policy: A key feature of autonomic computing is the transition from managing systems through low-level configurations to managing systems through high-level business-oriented policies. Management by policies is a central theme of autonomic computing, yet work needs to be done to unify current policy systems and move them to workable IT and business scenarios. Two particular challenge areas have emerged: (1) validating policy systems as workable in real-world systems, and (2) moving policy from the IT domain to the business domain. [Submissions] Abstracts (up to 1 page) are invited on topics related to human interaction with autonomic systems and real-world applications of autonomic systems, as described above. Submissions should articulate the topic, status of work, and future plans, and will be evaluated on relevance and quality. Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to present their work at the conference, and may also be invited to prepare full-length chapters for inclusion in the proceedings, to be prepared after the conference. Submit abstract to chiacs@us.ibm.com. Deadline for submissions: February 18, 2004 Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2004 [Sponsors] IBM Academy of Technology IBM Autonomic Computing [References] IBM Autonomic Computing: http://www.ibm.com/autonomic/ IBM Autonomic Computing Research: http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic The Vision of Autonomic Computing: http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/research/papers/AC_Vision_Computer_Jan... [Conference Chairs] Rob Barrett, Paul Maglio, Michael Shallcross - IBM ======================================================================