Call for Papers

Call for Papers
Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks
(FeBID 2008)
Co-located with Sigmetrics 2008

http://controlofsystems.org/febid2008/

Traditional practice in performance modeling focuses on using a variety of techniques including mathematical modeling, simulation, and analysis to understand the behavior of systems for the purpose of better design and evaluation. As IT systems, networks, and services become increasingly complex, this task becomes ever more difficult. In recent years, there has been considerable success in applying feedback control theory to analyzing and designing run-time IT control systems. Feedback control theory complements traditional modeling by providing formal mechanisms to dynamically control behavior of systems at run-time.

The Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2008) will be held June 6th, 2008 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. The FeBID 2008 workshop will offer a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss recent and innovative results in applying control theory to controlling performance of computing systems and networks. It will provide 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 modeling and simulation.

Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Control engineering and applications to server and network systems

Automated resource allocation
Virtual environment management
Centralized or distributed load balancing
Workload management
Power management
Automated configuration management
Congestion control and queue management
Control of IT services and business operations
Control of networks (overlay networks, sensor networks, wireless networks)
Control of middleware (Web servers, application servers, database servers)
Case studies in applying control theory to systems

Control models, methodologies and paradigms

Control system architecture
System identification and modeling techniques
Controllability and observability in computer and network systems

Actuator and sensor design
Analysis of system stability and convergence
Control performance evaluation
Analysis of system robustness and robust control
Control algorithms and functions
Adaptive control design
Optimal control design
Nonlinear control
Decentralized and distributed control
Supervisory control and discrete event systems

Self-configuring, self-organizing, self-tuning, self-healing, or self-managing systems

Self-* systems analysis
Online estimation and adaptation of models
Problem diagnosis and recovery
Adaptive performance troubleshooting
Other emerging techniques for self-* system management (machine learning, economic models)

Authors are invited to submit original contributions in PDF through the workshop website. All submissions should be formatted according to the standard ACM proceedings guidelines and not exceed 6 pages in length. Links to manuscript templates are available at the ACM Proceedings Site.