CFP: Deadline Extended: SLAML'10

["Mohror, Kathryn" <mohror1 () llnl gov>]

       Workshop on Managing Systems via Log Analysis and Machine 
                  Learning Techniques (SLAML '10)

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                          October 2-3, 2010
                        Vancouver, BC, Canada
                             (at OSDI)
               http://www.usenix.org/events/slaml10/cfp/
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              ********   DEADLINE EXTENDED  ***********
   Now accepting full both 8-page full papers and 3-page position papers!

           FULL PAPER SUBMISSION: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 11:59 p.m. PDT
           AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: Friday, August 20, 2010
           FINAL PAPERS DUE: Thursday, September 16, 2010

    SLAML '10 combines the Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) and the Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems 
Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML). We welcome contributions related to either of these important and 
related topics.

    Modern large-scale systems are challenging to manage. Fortunately, as these systems generate massive amounts of 
performance and diagnostic data, there is an opportunity to make system administration and development simpler via 
automated techniques to extract actionable information from the data. This workshop addresses this problem in two 
thrusts: (i) the analysis of raw system data logs and (ii) the application of machine learning to systems problems. We 
expect the large overlap in these topics to promote a rich interchange of ideas between the areas.

Log Analysis: 
    It is well known that raw system logs are an abundant source of information for the analysis and diagnosis of 
system problems and prediction of future system events. However, a lack of organization and semantic consistency 
between system data from various software and hardware vendors means that most of this information content is wasted. 
Current approaches to extracting information from the raw system data capture only a fraction of the information 
available and do not scale to the large systems common in business and supercomputing environments. It is thus a 
significant research challenge to determine how to better process and combine information from these data sources.

Machine Learning: 
    The large scale of available data requires automated and machine-assisted analysis. Statistical machine learning 
techniques have recently shown great promise in meeting the challenges of scale and complexity in datacenter-scale and 
Internet-scale computing systems. However, applying these techniques to real systems scenarios requires careful 
analysis and engineering of the techniques to fit them to specific scenarios; there is sometimes also the opportunity 
to develop new algorithms specific to systems scenarios. This workshop thrust thus also presents a substantial research 
area: the exploration of new approaches to using machine learning to help us understand, measure, and diagnose complex 
systems.

Topics include but are not limited to:
    o Reports on publicly available sources of sample system logs
    o Prediction of malfunction or misuse based on system data
    o Statistical analysis of system logs
    o Applications of Natural-Language Processing (NLP) to system data
    o Techniques for system log analysis, comparison, standardization, compression, anonymization, and visualization
    o Applications of log analysis to system administration problems
    o Use of machine learning techniques to address reliability, performance, power management, security, fault 
diagnosis, scheduling, or manageability issues
    o Challenges of scale in applying machine learning to large systems
    o Integration of machine learning into real-world systems and processes
    o Evaluating the quality of learned models, including assessing the confidence/reliability of models and 
comparisons between different methods


    SLAML '10 will be a 1.5-day workshop held immediately preceding the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems 
Design and Implementation (OSDI '10), which will take place October 4-6, 2010. SLAML'10 will begin on the afternoon of 
October 2, 2010, and run through October 3, 2010.


Workshop Organizers: 
    Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Alice Zheng, Microsoft Research

Submission Instructions:
    Interested speakers should submit their full papers by June 13, 2010, via the Web submission form, which will be 
available here soon. All papers will be subject to peer review under conference standards. Authors may choose to submit 
a paper anonymously or with author names visible to reviewers. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are 
welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Paper submissions may be accepted as papers for the regular workshop 
program or as posters for the poster session. Submissions must be in PDF format and must be no longer than eight 8.5" x 
11" pages, including figures and tables, but not including references, formatted in two columns, using 10 point type on 
12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep.
    All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the workshop. If your accepted paper should not 
be published prior to the event, please notify production () usenix org. The papers will be available online to 
everyone beginning on the first day of the workshop, October 2, 2010.
    Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as 
confidential prior to publication on the USENIX SLAML '10 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as 
confidential.
    Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism 
constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these 
practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for 
details.

   Questions? Contact your program co-chairs, slaml10chairs () usenix org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy () 
usenix org.