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NSF Center for Autonomic Computing: Vision and Projects
Salim Hariri, Ph.D.

Today’s IT infrastructures face significant management challenges that result from, among other factors, their distributed nature, their need to adapt to unanticipated demands, their heterogeneity, their size, large numbers of users and great complexity and diversity of IT services. Autonomic computing views IT infrastructures and their applications as closed loop control systems that need to be continuously  monitored and analyzed, and plans corrective actions whenever any of the desired properties or functionalities (e.g., performance, fault, security) are violated.  To achieve autonomic computing, it requires the integration and further development of techniques for monitoring, modeling, configuring, controlling and optimizing the behavior of resources and applications. Some techniques are inspired by strategies used by biological systems to deal with complexity, dynamism, heterogeneity and uncertainty. In this presentation, I will discuss our effort to establish an NSF  national research center  for autonomic computing (CAC) jointly with Rutgers University and University of  Florida. This center will be funded by the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers program of the National Science Foundation, CAC members from industry and government, and university matching funds. We have commitment from Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, Merrill Lynch, Telecarda, Raytheon, Northrop-Grumman, BAE Systems, EWA Government Systems, Imaginestics. In this presentation, I will describe briefly the vision of the Center, and several projects that will be sponsored by the NSF CAC starting January 2008.

 
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