Hauptseminar Autonomic Computing Wintersemester 20042005

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HauptseminarAutonomic Computing
Wintersemester 2004/2005

• Dr. Pedro José Marrón
• Daniel Minder

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Purpose of this Meeting

• Formalities Your duties, schedule and dates
• Your presentation
• Literature Research
• Preparing your talk
• Preparing your paper
• Assignment of topics

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Your Work

• Prepare a written report on your topic
• Give a five-minute introductory talk giving a
  short overview of your topic (3-4 slides)
• Give a 45-minute talk about your topic

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Procedures and Deadlines Report

• Your report is due on October 29th (please submit
  an electronic version preferred format PDF)
• If you have questions about your report, please
  make an appointment with one of the tutors before
  October 29th. We will give you hints to improve
  it if necessary, but we wont (proof)read and
  correct your entire report before the submission.
• The reports will be posted on the class web page.
  Participants are expected to read the reports
  before the respective talk.

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Procedures and Deadlines Talks

• Introduction Talks
• Five-minute talks are to be held on November 5th
  (all participants)
• Main Talks
• Make an appointment with the person responsible
  for your topic to show your presentation slides
  one week before your talk at the latest
• Submit a preliminary version of your presentation
  slides at least two days before your appointment
  (i.e. at least nine days before your talk)
• Have the final version of your slides ready on
  the date of your talk

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Schedule

• Assignment of topics (today)
• Oct 29th submit final version of your paper
• Nov 5th 5-minute-talks
• from Nov 12th on
• Presentations, one or two talks every Friday
• Dec 17th last talk

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Preparing your Presentation

• General Notes
• Research the literature for relevant articles and
  extract the information pertinent to your
  assigned topic.
• Do not lose focus of the overall topic of the
  seminar and your assigned topic.
• Coordinate with the people presenting related
  topics.
• Prepare a talk on the topic you have examined.
• Prepare a paper summarizing the results of your
  work.

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Literature Research

• Starting points
• Topic description (comes with at least one
  reference)
• Ask your instructor if you need additional help
• Check the library for books, proceedings or
  magazines and transactions
• Digital libraries accessible from university
  computers
• ACM (http//www.acm.org)
• IEEE Computer Society (http//computer.org)
• Web-based research
• Most current information (authors web pages)
• Be careful Recent Information may be inaccurate
• Information from manufacturers and organizations
• Scientific articles, citation indexes like
  ResearchIndex (researchindex.org)

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Presentations

• Attendance to all presentations is mandatory for
  all participants.
• You may not miss any scheduled date without
  excuse.
• You are expected to participate actively in the
  discussions.
• Time
• max. 45 minutes overall presentation time
• about 15 minutes discussion (leaves 30 minutes
  for the talk itself)
• Presentation media
• Electronic presentation (preferred)
• Slides and overhead projector

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Preparing Your Presentation

• Collect and read material
• Understand the goal of the presentation and your
  target audience
• What do you want to want them to learn?
• What does your audience already know?
• What are the core contents of your presentation?
• What kind of presentation will you give (overview
  talk, detailed technical presentation, discussion
  of research directions, )
• Possibly Do you need to prepare additional
  material (handouts, )?
• Consider the time allowed for your presentation
• 2-3 minutes per slide
• Allow 5-10 minutes for questions during the
  presentation

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Structuring your Presentation

• Decide on the contents of your talk
• You will not have time to cover every little
  detailDecide which parts of the information are
  important
• Structure the contents, e.g.
• like in a book
• in logical, historical or functional order
• Estimate time needed to cover each subtopic
• Estimate number of slides per subtopic

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How to Organize a Presentation

• Structure
• Cover slide
• Title of your topic
• Your name
• Date of your presentation
• Title of the seminar
• Overview of the contents (repeat during
  presentation if giving a long talk)
• Main part organized into subtopics
• Summary
• Outlook
• Pay attention to the transitions between subtopics

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Slide Design Suggestions

• Use landscape format
• Use a sans-serif font of sufficient size (e.g.
  20pt Arial)
• Use the same layout throughout your presentation
• Do not overload the slide 7-9 points per slide
  will do
• Discuss only one topic per slide
• Please avoid using complete or overly long
  sentences like the one you are reading now they
  put too much workload on the reader and will not
  really communicate more than what can be said in
  a few short words.
• Avoid using complete sentences
• Use meaningful graphics to enrich your
  presentation

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Giving a Talk

• Have a clear idea of what you are presenting
• Make sure everyone can see the slides, dont
  obstruct the view
• Try to look at (and talk to) the audience most of
  the time
• Speak freely
• Dont read off the slides
• Dont memorize the talk exactly
• Do not stray from the topic you are presenting
• Be prepared to skip slides if you run out of time
• Avoid long discussions with the audience - there
  is time for discussions after the talk
• Practice the talk beforehand, e.g. in front of a
  friend

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Paper Formal Requirements

• The title page should contain
• Title of the seminar
• Name of the topic you have prepared
• Your name and semester
• Date of your talk
• The paper should be
• 10-15 pages long
• written in a 12pt font, single-spaced

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Paper Contents

• Abstract of your paper
• Introduction (outlining the contents of the
  paper)
• Main part Results of your literature research
  discussion
• Summary and outlook
• Bibliography
• Make sure that a reader of your paper could
  understand it without further information
• Pay special attention to the structure
• Make sure the reader can follow the line of your
  arguments
• Important Stay objective!
• Do not copy source material, verbatim quotes only
  if absolutely necessary

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Referencing Other People's Work

• Any material you use for your paper must be
  listed in the bibliography and cited at the
  appropriate place in the text.
• Verbatim quotes of source material are
  discouraged
• If you absolutely need to quote something, you
  must properly identify the passage as a quotation
  and cite the source.
• Quotes should be a maximum of 2-3 sentences.
• Again Avoid quotations, use your own words.
• Warning Copying material under any other
  circumstances is plagiarism and will immediately
  result in a failing grade (5.0) for the seminar
• We easily discover plagiarism by using search
  tools!

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Contact Information

• Web page
• http//www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/de
  /teaching/ws0405/seminars/AC/
• Instructor
• Dr. Pedro José Marrón
• Phone [phone]Email marronpo_at_informatik.u
  ni-stuttgart.deRoom 2.156 (Computer Science
  Building)
• Office hours by appointment

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Topics (1)

• 1 IntroductionJeffrey O. Kephart, David M.
  Chess. The Vision of Autonomic Computing. IEEE
  Computer, 2003R. Want, T. Pering, D.
  Tennenhouse. Comparing Autonomic and Proactive
  Computing. IBM Systems Journal, 2003
• 2 Architectural-based Adaptation IJeff Kramer,
  Jeff Magee. The Evolving Philosophers Problem
  Dynamic Change Management. IEEE Transactions on
  Software Engingeering, 1990

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Topics (2)

• 3 Architectural-based Adaptation II Peyman
  Oreizy, Michael M. Gorlick, Richard N. Taylor,
  Dennis Heimbigner, Gregory Johnson, Nenad
  Medvidovic, Alex Quilici, David S. Rosenblum,
  Alexander L. Wolf. An Architecture-Based Approach
  to Self-Adaptive Software. IEEE Intelligent
  Systems Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp 54-62,
  May/June 1999.
• 4 Architectural-based Adaptation III Shang-Wen
  Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl, Joao Pedro
  Sousa, Bridget Spitznagel, Peter Steenkiste,
  Ningning Hu. Software Architecture-based
  Adaptation for Pervasive Systems. Interational
  Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
  Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing, 2002

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Topics (3)

• 5 P2P Internet Systems I Ion Stoica, Robert
  Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, Hari
  Balakrishnan. Chord A Scalable Peer-to-peer
  Lookup Service for Internet Applications. ACM
  SIGCOMM, 2001
• 6 P2P Internet Systems II Ben Y. Zaho, Ling
  Huang, Jeremy Stribling, Sean C. Rhea, Anthony D.
  Joseph, John D. Kubiatowicz. Tapestry A
  Resilient Global-Scale Overlay for Service
  Deployment. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
  Communications, 2004

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Topics (4)

• 7 Recovery-Oriented Computing IGorge Candea,
  Armando Fox. Recursive Restartability Tuning the
  Reboot Sledgehammer into a Scalpel. 8th Workshop
  on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2001
• 8 Recovery-Oriented Computing II Aaron B. Brown,
  David A. Patterson. Rewind, Repair, Replay Three
  Rs to Dependability. SIGOPS European Workshop,
  2002

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Topics (5)

• 9 Pervasive Systems I Christian Becker, Marcus
  Handte, Gregor Schiele, Kurt Rothermel. PCOM A
  component system for Pervasive Computing.
  International Conference on Pervasive Computing
  and Communications, 2004
• 10 Pervasive Systems II Manuel Roman and Roy H.
  Campbell. Providing Middleware Support for Active
  Space Applications. In Proc. of ACM/IFIP/USENIX
  International Middleware Conference (Middleware
  2003), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003.Manuel
  Roman, Herbert Ho, Roy H. Campbell. Application
  Mobility in Active Spaces. International
  Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia,
  2002.

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Topics (6)

• 11 Operating Systems and Middleware I G.
  Coulson, G.S. Blair, M. Clarke, N. Parlavantzas.
  The Design of a Highly Configurable and
  Reconfigurable Middleware Platform. ACM/ Springer
  Distributed Computing Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp
  109-126, April 2002
• 12 Operating Systems and Middleware II Danilo
  Beuche, Olaf Spinczyk, Wolfgang
  Schröder-Preikschat. Finegrain Application
  Specific Customization for Embedded Software.
  Proceedings of the International IFIP TC10
  Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Embedded
  Systems (DIPES '2002), Kluwer Academic
  Publishers, ISBN 0-140207156-6, Montreal, Canada,
  August, 2002.

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Talks Schedule

• 12.11. Topics 1 / 2
• 19.11. Topics 3 / 4
• 26.11. Topics 5 / 6
• 03.12. Topics 7 / 8
• 10.12. Topics 9 / 10
• 17.12. Topics 11 / 12