GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Technical Discussion (Fachgespräch) on

Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems

September 21, 2006, University of Passau, Germany

 

co-located with:

EuroNGI IA.8.2 – New Trends in Network Architectures and Services:

Intern. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006)

September 18 - 20, 2006, University of Passau, Germany

http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwsos

 

 

(For details on our current event, please see the PMSOS 2007 page.)

Overview

Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable.

 

We aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange.

 

Program

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome Address

09:10 - 10:00

P. Wüchner, H. de Meer (University of Passau, Germany):
"Discrete-Event System Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" (slides)

10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:10

P. Merz (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany):
"Self-Organizing Networks for Performance Optimization"

11:10 - 12:00

T. Krop, T. Lange, M. Hollik, R. Steinmetz (University of Darmstadt, Germany):
"Modell zur Analyse des Routenfortschritts in Ad Hoc Netzen" (slides)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 - 13:50

P. Becker, R. Gotzhein, T. Kuhn (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany):
"Performance Simulation of Distributed Embedded Self-Organizing Systems Modeled with SDL" (slides)

13:50 - 14:40

J. B. Schmitt (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany):
"Worst Case Modelling of Wireless Sensor Networks" (slides)

14:40 - 15:00

Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:50

E. S. Tzafestas (University of Athens, Greece):
"Measures of Developing Stability and Perturbations in Ecologies of Services" (slides)

15:50 - 16:15

Closing Discussion

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