CAMPUS I

THE ARENA
-Scaling data centre services
-Automating system administration : landscapes, approaching and costs
-System configuration management
THE TECHNOLOGY
-Unix and z/OS
-Email
-XML-based network management
-Open technology
-System backup : metodologies, algorithms and efficiency models
-What can Web services bring to integrated mnagement
-Internet management protocols
NETWORKS, CONNECTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE
-Management of ad-hoc networks
-Some relevant aspects of network analysis and graph theory
-Knowledge engineering using ontologies
-Application integration using semantic web services
POLICY AND CONSTRAINT
-Security management and policies
-Policy-based management
COMPUTATIONAL THEORIES OF SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
-On the complexity of change and configuration management
-Complexity of system configuration management
-Predictable and reliable program code : virtual machine-based projection semantics
SYSTEMS SCIENCE
-System administration and the scientific method
-System administration and microeconomic modeling
-System reliability
BUSINESS AND SERVICES
-State-of-the-art in a economic management of internet services
-Service provisioning : challenges, process alignement and tool support
-IT service management
-Decision and control factors for IT-sourcing
-How do ICT professinals preceive outsourcing? Factors that influence the sucess of ICT outsourcing
PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
-Systems administration as a self-organizing system : the proessionalization of SA via interes and advocacy groups
-Ethical, legal and social aspects of systems