Utility computing : 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2004, Davis, CA, USA, November 15-17, 2004 : proceedings / Akhil Sahai, Felix Wu (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems, Operations and Management, DSOM 2004, held in Davis, CA, USA in November 2004. The 21 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on management architecture; service level management; policy management; automated management; analysis and reasoning; trust and security; and implementation, instrumentation, and experience.

Management Architecture -- Requirements on Quality Specification Posed by Service Orientation -- Automating the Provisioning of Application Services with the BPEL4WS Workflow Language -- HiFi+: A Monitoring Virtual Machine for Autonomic Distributed Management -- SLA Based Management -- Defining Reusable Business-Level QoS Policies for DiffServ -- Policy Driven Business Performance Management -- Business Driven Prioritization of Service Incidents -- Policy Based Management -- A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Automated Management in Policy-Based Networks -- An Analysis Method for the Improvement of Reliability and Performance in Policy-Based Management Systems -- Policy-Based Resource Assignment in Utility Computing Environments -- Automated Management -- Failure Recovery in Distributed Environments with Advance Reservation Management Systems -- Autonomous Management of Clustered Server Systems Using JINI -- Event-Driven Management Automation in the ALBM Cluster System -- Analysis and Reasoning -- A Formal Validation Model for the Netconf Protocol -- Using Object-Oriented Constraint Satisfaction for Automated Configuration Generation -- Problem Determination Using Dependency Graphs and Run-Time Behavior Models -- Trust and Security -- Role-Based Access Control for XML Enabled Management Gateways -- Spotting Intrusion Scenarios from Firewall Logs Through a Case-Based Reasoning Approach -- A Reputation Management and Selection Advisor Schemes for Peer-to-Peer Systems -- Implementation, Instrumentation, Experience -- Using Process Restarts to Improve Dynamic Provisioning -- Server Support Approach to Zero Configuration In-Home Networking -- Rule-Based CIM Query Facility for Dependency Resolution -- Short Papers -- Work in Progress: Availability-Aware Self-Configuration in Autonomic Systems -- ABHA: A Framework for Autonomic Job Recovery -- Can ISPs and Overlay Networks Form a Synergistic Co-existence? -- Simplifying Correlation Rule Creation for Effective Systems Monitoring.