Large Scale Management of Distributed Systems

Performance of Management Protocols.- Efficient Information Retrieval in Network Management Using Web Services.- On Delays in Management Frameworks: Metrics, Models and Analysis.- Performance Analysis of SNMP over SSH.- Complexity of Service Management.- Uncertainty in Global Application Services with Load Sharing Policy.- Predictable Scaling Behaviour in the Data Centre with Multiple Application Servers.- Quantifying the Complexity of IT Service Management Processes.- Ontologies and Network Management.- Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation for Self-governing Systems.- An Ontology-Based Approach to the Description and Execution of Composite Network Management Processes for Network Monitoring.- Towards a Managed Extensible Control Plane for Knowledge-Based Networking.- Management of Next Generation Networks and Services.- Voice Quality on the Internet in 2005 as Measured by www.TestYourVoIP.com.- A WSDM-Based Architecture for Global Usage Characterization of Grid Computing Infrastructures.- Management of DiffServ-over-MPLS Transit Networks with BFD/OAM in ForCES Architecture.- Business and Service Management.- Detecting Bottleneck in n-Tier IT Applications Through Analysis.- Fast Extraction of Adaptive Change Point Based Patterns for Problem Resolution in Enterprise Systems.- Business-Driven Decision Support for Change Management: Planning and Scheduling of Changes.- Security and Policy Based Management.- Using Argumentation Logic for Firewall Policy Specification and Analysis.- ZERO-Conflict: A Grouping-Based Approach for Automatic Generation of IPSec/VPN Security Policies.- Conflict Prevention Via Model-Driven Policy Refinement.- Short Papers.- Minimum-Intrusion Approaches for In-Service BER Estimation in Transparent WDM Networks.- Ontology-Based Policy Refinement Using SWRL Rules for Management Information Definitions in OWL.- Reconfiguring Self-stabilizing Publish/Subscribe Systems.- Policy and Profile: Enabling Self-knowledge for Autonomic Systems.-