SASO-biz 2008


Venice, Italy, 21 October 2008

2008 SASO Workshop on Business Applications and Potential of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO-biz 2008)

Venice, Italy, 21 October 2008

This industry-oriented workshop is co-located with the SASO 2008 conference and sponsored by:

The aim of this workshop is to gather people from industry to exchange information about current and future business applications of self-managing, self-adaptive and self-organizing systems, and to strive to anticipate the implications of their large-scale use for industry (providers and customers). How can we turn a technological potential into a mass-market reality?

There will be no proceedings and no papers, just presentations and hopefully fruitful discussions. All speakers and panelists are invited by the Workshop Co-Chairs.

Scope

The main themes of this workshop are the following:

• What is your company currently doing in the area of self-managing, self-adaptive and self-organizing systems?
• What is the degree of maturity of this field? Does your company associate it with research or business?
• Do you have a success story in this field that you would like to report on? Real-life examples of adoption of self-* technologies.
• Is there a need for standardization in this field within 2 years (e.g., for interoperability purposes)?
• Among all self-* technologies, which ones should lead to real business within 2 years and which ones do you expect to remain purely academic in your industrial sector?
• What tough problems need to be solved in this field in the next 5 years?
• Challenge to academics: Is there something extravagant (service, system, feature, etc.) that you would dream to offer to your customers, that you currently do not know how to engineer, and that academics could perhaps help you design?

Audience

We expect to attract CTOs, VPs Engineering, Innovation Directors, Project Managers, Consultants and Senior Engineers from corporations, mid-sized enterprises and startups in diverse industrial sectors. This workshop should benefit:

• Solution Providers by helping them align their projects with what they perceive as business opportunities;
• Customers by helping them decide whether time has come for them to adopt these new technologies because they now understand the gains they bring.

We hope that attendees will make contacts for future business collaborations, but this is not a venue for VPs Sales to sell products to prospective customers. We will have a mix of presentations at this workshop, some of them more technical than others, but none of them will be sheer marketing.

Registration

Registrations for the main conference and all of its satellite workshops are handled by IEEE.

The registration fee is US$288 for IEEE/ACM members and US$384 for non-members. There is no discount for early registration for this workshop, but there is one for the SASO 2008 conference.

On page 2 of the registration procedure, in the menu labeled "Registration Type", select "Tutorial/Workshop Only" if you do not want to register for the main conference.

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Contact

If you have any questions about SASO-biz 2008, please contact the Workshop Co-Chairs by e-mail:

• J.P. Martin-Flatin, Senior Consultant, NetExpert, Switzerland
• Mazin Yousif, CTO, Avirtec, USA

Program

Time	Speaker	Presentation Title
9:00am	Welcome
9:05am	Keynote
9:05am	Seraphin Calo Manager, Policy Lifecycle Technologies Department, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA	Evolving Technologies for Autonomic Management: Virtualization, Ensembles, and Dynamic Communities
10:00am	Session 1: IT Solution Providers' Interest in Self-* Systems (part 1)
10:00am	Pierre Glize CEO, UPETEC, France	Reducing Complexity and Increasing Adaptivity by Engineering Self-Organizing Large-Scale Systems
10:30am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Session 2: IT Solution Providers' Interest in Self-* Systems (part 2)
11:00am	Talk initially scheduled: David Breitgand Research Staff Member, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Replaced by: Mazin Yousif CTO, Avirtec, USA	RESERVOIR: Integrating Virtualization and Grid Technologies for Federated Cloud Computing Autonomic Computing in Next Generation Datacenters -- One Perspective
11:30am	Joe M. Butler EMEA Innovation Centre Technical Lead, Intel, Ireland	SLA@SOI
12:00pm	Jerry Rolia Principal Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Canada	Predictable, Longevous Application Services
12:30pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Session 3: Telecom Solution Providers' Interest in Self-* Systems
2:00pm	Jose A. Lozano López Autonomic Communications Division Head, Telefonica I+D, Spain	Self-Management: Beyond Business Processes Automation
2:30pm	Geoffrey Canright Senior Researcher, Telenor Research & Innovation, Norway	Connected Objects
3:00pm	Fabrice Saffre Principal Researcher, BT, UK	Energy-Aware Self-* Services
3:30pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm	Session 4: Customers' Interest in Self-* Systems
4:00pm	Bernhard Sendhoff CTO, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany	Evolutionary System Design
4:30pm	Christian Frei Principal Scientist, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland	Smart Self-* Features in Power Utilities and Grids: Trends, Prospects and Risks
5:00pm	Panel
5:00pm	Panel Title: Self-* Technologies in Industry: Niche Market Today, Mass Market Tomorrow?
	Panel Chair: J.P. Martin-Flatin, Senior Consultant, NetExpert, Switzerland
	Panelists: Giorgio Borri CIO, Infracom/Multilink Toscana, Italy (slides) Sven A. Brueckner Senior Systems Engineer, NewVectors, USA (slides) Stuart Parham Consulting Engineer, Cisco, UK (slides) Mazin Yousif CTO, Avirtec, USA (slides)
6:30pm	SASO 2008 Welcome Reception

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