FeBID 2011 - Sixth International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2011)

Sixth International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2011)

June 14, 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany

In conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2011)

About FeBID
FeBID is a series of workshops. In 2011, FeBID is associated with The 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2011). The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the control of computer systems and networks. The focus of the workshop is on novel, practical, systems-oriented work.

Topics of Interest
FeBID 2011 solicits original research papers on applying feedback control and mathematical optimization techniques to analyzing and designing computing systems, networks, and services, such as those in data centers, enterprise systems, real-time systems, embedded systems, sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss recent and innovative results in the field. It is a forum to exchange ideas and experiences on practical control system design and implementation, and to identify future directions and challenges in aligning feedback control techniques with traditional performance analysis, modeling, and simulation.

FeBID seeks contributions on all aspects of system control. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following:

Control engineering, modeling and mathematical optimization applications to server, embedded and network systems, virtualized systems and cloud computing design and implementation
System control for resource management, power management, security, performance, QoS, dependability, and fault-tolerance purposes
Operating system, middleware, and programming language supports
System support and architecture for feedback control loops
Design of systems for controllability: sensor, actuator and control algorithms
Control models, methodologies, and paradigms for computing systems (e.g. non-linear systems, discrete event systems, optimal control)

FeBID also seeks:

Quantified or insightful experience with existing systems
Reproduction or refutation of previous results
Negative results
Problem statement
Early ideas
FeBID explicitly encourages members of the systems community to explore leading-edge topics and ideas before they are presented at a major conference. Two formats of contributions are welcome: regular papers (6 pages), and position papers (2 pages).

Dissemination
There will be NO copyright-transferred formal proceedings for the workshop papers. Top selected papers will be invited for resubmission to a special issue of a reputed journal (to be determined soon).

Important dates
Paper submission:
February 21, 2011 5pm, PST
Acceptance notification:
March 14, 2011
Camera ready paper due:
April 15, 2011
Workshop:
June 14 2011

Steering Committee

Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Joseph L. Hellerstein (Google)
Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis)
Anders Robertsson (Lund University)
Xiaoyun Zhu (VMWare)

Program Chairs

Maria Kihl (Lund University)
Xue Liu (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
Program Committee (Tentative List)
- All steering committee members

- Sherif Abdelwahed (MS State Univ., USA)

- Luis Almeida (Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal)

- Karl-Erik Arzen Lund University)

- Giorgio Buttazzo (Scuola Superiore St’Anna Pisa, Italy)

- Christos Cassandras (Boston Univ., USA)

- Zonghua Gu (Zhe Jiang University, China)

- Naga Kandasamy (Drexel University)

- Xenofon D. Koutsoukos (Vanderbilt University)

- Mikael Johansson (KTH, Sweden)

- Charles R Lefurgy (IBM Research, USA)

- Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)

- Ying Lu (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA)

- Arif Merchant (Google)

- Sandeep Neema (Vanderbilt Univ., USA)

- Sharad Singhal (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)

- Pradeep Padala (Docomo USA Labs)

- Luigi Palopoli (Univ. of Trento, Italy)

- Sujay Parekh (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

- George Pappas (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA)

- Bruno Sinopoli (CMU, USA)

- Jack Stankovic (University of Virginia)

- Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

- Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Pennsylvania State University)

- Mustafa Uysal (VMware)

- Qian Wang (Pennsylvania State University)

- Xiaorui Wang (Univ. of Tennessee, USA)

- Zhikui Wang (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)

Submission Instruction
Workshop papers should be formatted according to standard acm format for conference proceedings http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t...
Two formats of contributions are welcome: regular papers (6 pages), and position papers (2 pages).