First Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML)

June 27, 2006

Saint-Malo, France
(Co-located with SIGMETRICS 2006)

http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/sysml/

Return to workshop overview and call for papers

Public reviews
 
Public reviews of the regular papers [pdf]

Program
 
8:30 - 10:00Welcome and Session I - Broad questions for authors and discussion

10:00 - 10:30Coffee and refreshment break

10:30 - 12:00 Session II - Paper presentations
  • Learning Communication Patterns in Singularity
    Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Tim Harris (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) [ pdf ]
  • ConSil: Low-cost Thermal Mapping of Data Centers
    Justin Moore, Jeffrey Chase (Duke University), Parthasarathy Ranganathan (HP Labs) [ pdf ]
  • Automatically Extracting Fields from Unknown Network Protocols
    Karthik Gopalratnam (U. Washington), Sumit Basu, John Dunagan, Helen Wang (Microsoft Research, Redmond) [ pdf ]
  • Bounding an Attack’s Complexity for a Simple Learning Model
    Blaine Nelson, Anthony D. Joseph (UC Berkeley) [pdf ]

12:00 - 14:00Lunch and break-out discussions

14:00 - 15:30Session III - Paper presentations
  • Adaptive Monitoring in Enterprise Software Systems
    Mohammad Munawar, Paul Ward (U. of Waterloo) [ pdf ]
  • Online Performance Management Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning
    Gerry Tesauro, Rajarshi Das (IBM T.J. Watson), Nicholas Jong (UT Austin) [ pdf ]
  • Active Sampling for Accelerated Learning of Performance Models
    Piyush Shivam, Shivnath Babu, Jeffrey Chase (Duke University) [ pdf ]
  • User Model Transfer for Email Virus Detection
    Marco Barreno, Blaine Nelson, Russell Sears, Anthony D. Joseph (UC Berkeley) [ pdf ]

15:30 - 16:30Long break and poster presentations
  • An Investigation of Grid Performance Predictions through Statistical Learning
    Hui Li, Lex Wolters (Leiden University) [ pdf ]
  • Resource Management for Chained Binary Classifiers
    Deepak Turaga, Olivier Verscheure, Upendra Chaudhari, Lisa Amini (IBM T.J. Watson) [ pdf ]
  • Towards Learning-based Sensor Management
    Karsten Steinhaeuser, Nitesh Chawla, Christian Poellabauer(U of Notre Dame) [ pdf ]
  • Active Sampling in Systems Management Applications
    Irina Rish (IBM T.J. Watson) [ pdf ]

16:30 - 17:30Break-out reports and discussion

17:30End of program