[Politecnico di Milano] [Department of Electronics and Information] [PhD Program]

Autonomic Services

Course for PhD candidates in Information Engineering

Nov. 2011

Proff. Barbara Pernici,  Cinzia Cappiello, Pierluigi Plebani

Objectives:

The course introduces the topics of designing and managing services with autonomic properties.The goal of the course is to provide a basic introduction to autonomic services and architectures, to discuss their role in Virtual Organizations and e-science applications, and to present in detail self-managing and autonomic optimization techniques.

Program

The program of the course and instructors are as follows:

1* Introduction: Autonomic services research issues. Architecture of Autonomic service centers (Pernici) 

2* Run time support of autonomic services: QoS negotiation and optimization, adaptive Web services, approaches to self-healing processes (Pernici) 

3* Web Service retrieval (Plebani) 

4* Design of autonomic services; reliable services (Cappiello) 

5* Green IT: the GAMES approach to energy efficiency in data centers based on adaptive services (Pernici)

Course material

slides and papers will be posted on the Corsi on Line web site http://corsi.metid.polimi.it/

slides for the previous edition of the course http://home.dei.polimi.it//pernici/PhD/AutonomicServices09.html

Evaluation

The evaluation will be based on project work: a report (approx 20-30 pages) with a critical analysis of 5-6 papers will be presented and discussed during a final lecture (see schedule below).

Each student must present an individual report. The list of selected papers, on topics related to the course, must be agreed with Prof. Pernici.

Lectures will be held in the following days: 

November 2, 2011 

November 9, 2011 

November 16, 2011 

November 23, 2011 

November 30, 2011 

Final evaluation for all students December 14, 2011 

The course is also open to students admitted to the PhD program in 2011-12.

last update by Barbara Pernici on Nov. 1, 2011