SMDB 2013 - International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB)

Autonomic, or self-managing, systems are a promising approach to achieve the goal of systems that are easier to use and maintain in the face of growing system complexity. A system is considered to be autonomic if it is self-configuring, self-optimizing, self-healing and/or self-protecting. The aim of the SMDB workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from both industry and academia to present and discuss ideas and experiences related to self-management and self-organization in all areas of Information Management (IM) ingeneral. SMDB targets not only classical databases but also the new generation of storage engines such as column stores, key-value stores and in-memory databases. Beyond databases SMDB aims to cover autonomic aspects of data intensive systems represented by large-scale map-reduce (e.g., Hadoop) and cloud environments where much work on self-management is needed. Last but not least, SMDB wants to expand its horizons to include self-management of non-traditional, new areas of IM such as social networks and peer-to-peer systems.

Topics of Interest (but not limited to these):

Principles and architecture of autonomic data management systems
Self-capabilities in databases and storage systems
Data management in cloud and multi-tenant databases
Autonomic capabilities in database-as-a-service platforms
Automated testing of data management systems
Automated physical database design and adaptive query tuning
Automated provisioning and integration
Automatic enforcement of information quality
Self-managing distributed / decentralized / peer-to-peer information systems
Self-managing and adaptive aspects in social network systems
Monitoring and diagnostics in data management systems
Policy automation and visualization for datacenter administration
User acceptance and trust of autonomic capabilities
Evaluation criteria and benchmarks for self-managing systems
Use cases and war stories on deploying autonomic capabilities