Fwd: Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009

[Anton Chuvakin <anton () chuvakin org>]

Self-explanatory and of definite interest to this list.

Anton

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From: Greg Bronevetsky <greg () bronevetsky com>
Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Subject: Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009

      Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009
      http://www.systemloganalysis.com Call for Papers

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                     October 14, 2009
                       Big Sky, MT
                         (at SOSP)
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         FULL PAPER SUBMISSION: Monday, June 29th, 2009
         AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: Monday, July 27, 2009
         FINAL PAPERS DUE: Monday, September 14, 2009
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System logs contain a wide variety of information about system status
and health,
including events from various applications, daemons and drivers, as
well as sampled
information such as resource utilization statistics. As such, these
logs represent a
rich source of information for the analysis and diagnosis of system problems and
prediction of future system events. However, their lack of
organization and the general
lack of semantic consistency between information from various software
and hardware
vendors means that most of this information content is wasted. Indeed, today's
most popular log analysis technique is to use regular expressions to
either detect
events of interest or to filter the log so that a human operator can
examine it manually.
Clearly, this captures only a fraction of the information available in
these logs and
does not scale to the large systems common in business and
supercomputing environments.

This workshop will focus on novel techniques for extracting operationally useful
information from existing logs and methods to improve the information
content of future
logs. Topics include but are not limited to:
  o Reports on publicly available sources of sample log data.
  o Log anonymization
  o Log feature detection and extraction
  o Prediction of malfunction or misuse based on log data
  o Statistical techniques to characterize log data
  o Applications of Natural-Language Processing (NLP) to logs
  o Scalable log compression
  o Log comparison techniques
  o Methods to enhance astandardize log semantics
  o System diagnostic techniques
  o Log visualization
  o Analysis of services (problem ticket) logs
  o Applications of log analysis to system administration

Papers limited to 6 2-column pages using >=10pt font.

Workshop Chair:
  Greg Bronevetsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
  greg () bronevetsky com

Program Committee:
  Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratory
  Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
  Sébastien Tricaud, INL
  Sapan Bhatia, Princeton University
  Risto Vaarandi, CCD CoE
  Jim Jansen, Penn State University
  Wei Xu, University of California, Berkeley
  Anton Chuvakin, Qualys
  Hugh Njemanze, ArcSight
  Kara Nance, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  Raffael Marty, PixlCloud

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    Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D
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