- "Taming Complexity with Self-Managing Systems,"
Invited talk, Department of Informatics, Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 13, 2020,streamed through
Youtube
(right click to open in a new tab).
- "Taming Complexity with Self-Managing Systems,"
keynote address at the International Conf. Enterprise Information Systems,
Heraklion, Crete, Greece:w
, May 5, 2019.
- Resource Optimization for IaaS and SaaS Providers, Featured Talk, International Computer Measurement Group Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 3, 2015.
- Autonomic Computing: a new design principle for complex systems, advanced doctoral course, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, May 26-27, 2015.
- Autonomic Computing: a novel design principle for complex systems, Computer Science Department Seminar, George Mason University,
November 19, 2014.
- Autonomic Computing and its Applications,
tutorial given at the USENIX/ICAC 2014 Conf.,
Philadelphia, PA, June 17, 2014.
- On the Use of Performance Models in Autonomic Computing, WPerformance 2012, Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society, Curitiba, Brazil, July 18, 2012.
- Cloud: magic and myth, panel member at the
Open Source Industry Day sponsored by the Open Source Software Institute and by the NSA,
May 30, 2012, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University.
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Distributed System Performance,
panel member at the 2011 Computer Measurement Group Conf.,
Dec. 8, 2011, Washington, DC.
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Self-Architecting Software Systems,
Symp. on Computer Systems Research in honor of Satish K. Tripathi,
Sept. 22, 2011, University at Buffalo, NY.
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Autonomic SOA Software Systems, 2010 Computer Measurement Group Conference, December 7, 2010, Orlando, FL.
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Virtualization at the Data Center: consolidation and self-management,
Symantec Government Symposium, June 16, 2009.
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Virtualization and the On-Demand Data Center,
Green Computing Summit, Washington, DC, December 3, 2008.
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Panel: Virtualization, panel member, Symantec Government Symposium, Washington, DC,
July 31, 2008.
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Web Workloads: Characterization, Modeling, and Application,
3-hour tutorial with V.A.F. Almeida, 2007 World Wide Web Conference,
Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007.
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Achieving QoS in Complex Distributed Systems through Autonomic Computing,
invited talk, Alcatel Technical Academy, Antwerp, Belgium, October 3, 2005.
(Slides)
- Quality of Service Challenges for Web Based Systems
and E-commerce, keynote address,
Kick-off meeting of the E-Quality Research
Center, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 30, 2005.
- Quality of Service Aspects and Metrics in Grid Computing (3.1MB),invited talk, NY Computer Measurement Group, New York, NY, February 11, 2005.
- Fundamental Concepts in Performance Engineering,
3-hour tutorial presented at the 2004 Computer Measurement Group Conference,
Las Vegas, NV, December 5, 2004.
- On the Use of Online Performance Models in Autonomic Computing, invited talk at IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, July 15, 2004.
(slides - 295KB)
- QoS Challenges and Directions for Large Distributed
Systems, invited talk at the
Workshop on Quality of Service
for Geographically Distributed Systems, Rome, Italy, June 9, 2004
(slides - 594KB).
- Fundamental Concepts in Performance and Capacity Planning,
Sunday Workshop at the 2003 Computer Measurement Group
Conference, Dallas, Texas, Dec. 7-12, 2003.
- Self-Managing E-commerce Sites,
keynote address at the WWW/Internet 2003 IADIS International
Conference, November 6, 2003, Algarve, Portugal
(Slides) (893KB).
- Fundamental Concepts in Performance and Capacity Planning,
Sunday Workshop at the 2002 Computer Measurement Group
Conference, Reno, Nevada, Dec. 8-13, 2002.
- Using Performance Models to Dynamically
Control E-Commerce Performance, invited talk at the
First Seminar on Advanced Research in Electronic Business,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 7-8, 2002.
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Capacity and performance planning for Web Services,
Webcast through
searchWebServices.com on October 22, 2:00PM EDT.
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Technologies for Scalable Web Services,
tutorial at the 2002 Mascots Conference,
Fort Worth, Texas, October 13, 2002.
- Software, Performance, or Engineering?,
keynote address at the Third International Workshop on Software
and Performance (WOSP 2002), July 24-26, 2002 - Rome, Italy.
- QoS Measurement and Control of Web
and E-commerce Services, North Carolina State University's
Electronic Commerce Seminar Series, March 20, 2002.
- QoS Measurement and Control of Web
and E-commerce Services,
NY Computer Measurement Group Winter Meeting,
February 8, 2002.
- Technologies for Scaling Web Services,
3-hour tutorial at the 2001 CMG Conference, Dec. 1, 2001,
Anaheim, CA.
- QoS Issues in Web and E-commerce Services,
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Computer Science and Engineering Division,
University of Michigan, October 25, 2001.
- Using Performance Models to Dynamically Control
E-Commerce Performance, keynote speaker at the 2001 Aachen
International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of
Computer-Communication Systems, Aachen, Germany, September 12, 2001.
- Why Should I Model My Servers?,
invited speaker at the panel "Server Performance Modeling
and Tuning" at OPNETWork 2001, Washington, D. C.,
August 29, 2001.
- Understanding Workloads in E-Business, Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, May 1, 2001.
- Scaling for E-Business: 3 hour tutorial at the 26th International
Conference for the Resource Management & Performance Evaluation of Enterprise Computing
Systems (CMG'2000), Orlando, FL, December 10, 2000.
- Scaling for E-Business: 3 hour tutorial at the 2000 ACM Conference on E-Commerce,
Minneapolis, MN, October 17, 2000.
- Scaling for E-Business: invited talk at the Fall Northeast Computer
Measurement Group Meeting, New York, NY, September 15, 2000.
- Scaling for E-Business: invited talk at the 2000 Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2000), San Francisco, CA, September 1, 2000.
- Analysis of E-commerce Servers: special talk at the OPNETWork 2000 Conference,
Washington, DC, August 29, 2000.
- Scaling for E-Business: 3 hour tutorial at the 99.99% Web Server Availability
Conference, San Francisco, August 16, 2000.