|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Keynote Address 1: Moving up the Stack: Viewing the Data Center as a [Technical] Communication Problem (Dave Cohen, Merrill-Lynch)
Keynote Address 2: Self-managing Data Centers: The Information Engine for Next Generation Internet Applications (Rich Friedrich, HP Labs)
Keynote Address 3: Agents and Web Services for Autonomic Computing (Katia Sycara, Carnegie-Mellon University)
Panel Session: Web 2.0 for Autonomic Computing: a Panacea or a Replacement
Poster Session:
Web 2.0 for Autonomic Computing: a Panacea or a Replacement
Autonomic computing is a promising new research area that models computing after the biological systems. It has made strides in the computer science and has some applications in the industry. Web 2.0 is a new approach to software, some even say a new business model. How do these two approaches match. Is Web 2.0 a complementary approach that will enable autonomic computing principles to be widely adopted, or is it an alternative way of thinking about and using software that will primarily focus on data and leave the autonomic concepts aside.
Panelists:
Alexander Dreiling, SAP
Venkat Raju, British Telecomm
Dave Cohen, Merrill Lynch
Rich Friedrich, HP
Agents and Web Services for Autonomic Computing
Katia P. Sycara
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
e-mail: katia AT cs.cmu.edu
URL: www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents
Abstract:
Software Agents are computer programs that have to some degree the following characteristics: situatedness, autonomy, interactivity and adaptivity. By situatedness we mean that an agent is in an environment, it receives sensory inputs from the environment and it acts to change the environment in some way. By autonomy, we mean that an agent is goal-directed, and has control over its own actions and internal state, i.e. it can reason and act without direct intervention of others (humans or agents). By interactivity, we mean that an agent interacts in peer to peer fashion with other agents or humans in multiparty interactions in order to accomplish its various goals. By adaptivity we mean that an agent exhibits proactive and reactive behavior to changes in its environment. Web services emphasize interoperability and standards for distributed interactions. These characteristics of agents and Web services could be valuable for autonomic computing. In this talk, I will give an overview of software agents and Web services and indicate how they can enable and enhance various aspects of self-management.
Speaker Bio:
Katia Sycara is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and holds the Sixth Century Chair in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. She is the Director of the Laboratory for Agents Technology and Semantic Web Technologies. She holds a B.S in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Aegean (2004).
Prof. Sycara is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the recipient of the 2002 ACM/SIGART Agents Research Award. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of France Telecom.
Prof. Sycara has given numerous invited talks, and has authored or co-authored more than 300 technical papers dealing with Multiagent Systems, Agents Supporting Human Teams, Multi-Agent Learning, Web Services, the Semantic Web, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation, Case-Based Reasoning and numerous the application of these techniques. Her research in agent technology has resulted in the RETSINA software infrastructure toolkit. Prof. Sycara is one of the contributors to the development of OWL-S, language for Semantic Web services. She served as Invited Expert of the W3C Working Group on Web Services Architecture and as a member of the OASIS Technical committee on UDDI.
Prof. Sycara has served as the program co-chair of the International conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCASE 2007), program co-chair of the 6th IEEE/ACM conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (ITA 2006), program chair of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), as general chair of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 98), as the chair of the Steering Committee of the Agents Conference (1999-2001), as the Scholarship chair of AAAI (1993-1999) and as a member of the AAAI Executive Council (1996-99). She is a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation of Multiagent Systems (IFMAS). She is a founding member of the Semantic Web Science Association. She is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems” and on the editorial board of 7 other journals. For more details on her work, visit www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents.
|
|
|