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

Autonomic Services

Course for PhD students in Information Engineering

Sept.-Oct. 2009

Proff. Barbara Pernici, Mariagrazia Fugini, Cinzia Cappiello

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) (slides)

2* Run time support of autonomic services: services retrieval, QoS negotiation and optimization, adaptive Web services (Pernici) (slides)

3* Self-healing systems: definition and basic principles; approaches to self-healing processes; the PAWS approach and WS-Diamond (Pernici) (slides)

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

5* Web Service retrieval (Plebani) (slides)

Course Timetable

Lectures will be held with the following schedules:

23/9 14.30-18.30 aula PT1
2/10 14.30-18.30 aula PT1
6/10 14.30-18.30 sala seminari
14/10 9-13 sala seminari
4/11 14.30-18.30 sala seminari

27/10 14.30-18.30 student presentations aula 3B (schedule)

The course is also open to students admitted to the PhD program in 2010.

Exams

Exams will consist in a presentation of a paper related to one of the course topics and in the preparation of a report with a critical analysis of 3-5 papers, proposed by the students and agreed with the instructors.

The course materials will be available at http://home.dei.polimi.it/pernici/PhD/AutonomicServices09.html

Proposed papers for presentations

last update by Barbara Pernici on Nov. 9, 2009