Established in 1993, the HP Software University Association (HP-SUA) is a global network for academics in IT management and related disciplines, aimed at sharing experiences in research, teaching and designing, deploying and operating IT environments.
HP Laboratories are closely involved in the association, providing the universities with a direct link to the industry, and providing HP Software product teams with a fruitful interaction with the academic world. The association brings benefits to all parties involved. HP Labs are in the privileged position to share ideas with the leading academic institutions, and HP Software product divisions get useful feedback on the use of HP technologies, products, and solutions in complex and innovative research environments. Funding for HP-SUA is provided by HP through its Research and Development and University Relationship organizations.
HP-SUA holds annually a plenary workshop to share experiences and ideas among academic members of the association and HP, made possible by HP's ongoing sponsorship.
The 2008 HP-SUA workshop will be the 15th of the University Association workshop series, and will be held at Marrakech, Morocco June 22nd to 25th 2008.
For the 2008 workshop HP is actively
approaching leading universities and research institutes and inviting them to
activly participate. Besides our traditional focus on business technology
management, for the first time this year our topics will include Quality Assurance and Business Intelligence. The scope of the workshop will be centered
on the full solution IT Service Lifecycle – design, test, deploy, operate,
maintain, source and retire software solutions. The key themes will center
around managing the business of IT, data center automation, risk and quality
assurance and business intelligence. With this comprehensive focus, we will
reach new people in your organization as well as new organizations. Please feel
free to forward this Call for Papers to colleagues, who might be interested in
the new focus areas.
Additional details on the topics of
research that will form the focus of our discussions at the 2008 Workshop is
outlined in the Call for Papers below.
In response to the call please submit abstracts of your proposed papers
following the guidelines of the Web submission form. Your proposals will be
reviewed by the Program Committee.
The authors of accepted papers or posters will be invited to participate in the
workshop.
As in previous years, the workshop
will be fully funded by HP. Based on the HP sponsorship, HP-SUA will cover
accommodation and travel costs for participants with submissions accepted. This
will cover accommodation cost for 3 nights and for participants from Europe,
North America and North Africa travel cost refunding after the event according
to our expense refund policy. Participants from other geographies will have to
find an agreement with their local HP organizations about their individual
travel cost refunding. For travel of the academic participants, we will work
with an agency to propose cost effective travel. Participants still will be
able to arrange their travel individually but reimbursement will be limited to
the cost of the proposal delivered by our agency.
Call For
Papers
On
behalf of the HP Software Business, HP Laboratories, and HP University
Relations, we are pleased to invite all HP-SUA members to actively participate
to the 2008 HP SUA workshop.
This
year’s workshop covers four major technology areas and the interactions between
them:
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Managing the Business of IT
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Automated Operations
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Risk and Quality Assurance
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Business Intelligence
Managing the Business of IT
IT organizations are increasingly expected to focus on the impact of IT on business processes and business-level objectives and vice versa. Besides the conventional IT metrics such as availability and response time, they need to look at other key performance indicators that have significance from the point of view of the business supported by the IT. Managing the business of IT encompasses techniques for decision making that involve thinking about IT in terms of objectives that are at business level, for organizations that may not traditionally be classified as “businesses”.
Automated Operations
IT organizations seek to transform IT, in order to achieve cost-efficiency, quality compliance, disaster recovery and increased availability in the most complex environments. Technologies for IT Service Management, Business Service Management and Business Service Automation, include – but are not limited to – visualization of the IT environment including all servers, software, network devices, storage and their configurations and interdependencies; orchestration of operations, automating ,triage, troubleshooting and repair; and in general techniques for automation applied to network, server, software and storage.
Risk and Quality Assurance
Quality assurance in software deals with automating key quality-management processes (e.g., defect management, testing management, application readiness analysis, QA project management, etc.) to achieve significant improvements in time and accuracy of test planning, staging, and execution. The time to assess application status and readiness for release, overall application quality and security must be also considered. Risk is a very important factor that needs to be taken into account in quality assurance.
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data mart and occasionally working from operational data. Software elements support reporting, interactive "slice-and-dice" pivot-table analyses, visualization, and statistical data mining. Applications tackle sales, production, financial, and many other sources of business data for purposes that include, notably, business performance management.
We invite contributions on the following
topics.
2008 Workshop Topics:
1 Managing the business of IT
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Aligning business and IT and enabling collaborative
solutions, services and innovation
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IT compliance with regulatory and business
requirements (SOX, Basel II, HIPAA, etc.)
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Project and Portfolio Management, including Service
Portfolio Management
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IT Asset Management
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Service Desk
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Incident Management
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Problem Management
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Configuration Management
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Change Management
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Release Management
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Service Level Management
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Capacity Management
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Availability Management
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Business-driven optimization of IT Service Management processes
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IT actions to enhance/optimize business performance
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IT Portfolio Management
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IT Financial Management
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Data Center Automation
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Business insight from operational data
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Reporting and analytics for operational decision support
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Capacity planning and management for performance
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Business process monitoring
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Diagnostic techniques (hotspots, on-demand monitors, etc)
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Application management
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Knowledge management for IT problem resolution
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New software delivery models (SaaS, virtualization, virtual appliances)
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Guided and automated problem triage
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Topology-based event consolidation
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Management of and participation in
virtualized environments
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Adaptive monitoring and thresh-holding through self-learning
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Application-aware network management
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Network security control and compliance
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Smart monitoring
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Flexible and extensible data collection and visualization
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Smart problem diagnosis
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Auto-correction of problems
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Fix/workaround/patch provisioning (Data Center Automation)
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Goal-based automation across the IT service lifecycles
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Orchesration and choreographhy of IT services
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Automated discovery techniques for managing desired state
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CMDB modeling and federation
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Application capture and simulation
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Instrumentation techniques for profiling and
debugging
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Testing of Service-Oriented Architectures and Web
services
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Maintenance of software testing assets
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Problem analysis and diagnostics
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Test methodologies and best practices
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Application lifecycle and integration with IT
operations
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Compatability and interoperability testing
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Load and stress testing innovations
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Monitoring of complex busines processes
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Detection of change an impact and analysis in order
to determine regression testing
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SOA Governance: service development, composition, and
deployment
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Security test management
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Security defect management
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Quality Validation and integration testing
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Defect scanning
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Detection of application vulnerabilities
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Security audit facilitiess
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Conformace reporting
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Models for risk assessment in IT
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Disaster recovery
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IT Continuity and business continuity
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Techniques for risk avoidance, mitigation, retention and transfer in IT
management
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Internet Security
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Security testing, including vulnerability assessment techniques
4.
Business Intelligence
4.1
Next Generation Business Intelligence Platforms
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Near Real-time operational datawarehouse
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Master Data Management
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Actionable Analytics
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Platform that can achieve BI for the Masses
4.2
Evolution from Data Warehouse to Information Management
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Integrated structured, semi-structured, and
non-structured data for querying
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Analytics techniques over multiple data
sources types
4.3
Optimizer technology and costing models over large BI Configurations
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New costing models that require minimal or no
calibration
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Mapping query plans over MPP platform
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Adaptive and Robust Query Optimization
Techniques
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Statistics Update models for Query Optimizers
4.4
Workload Management for Large BI platforms
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Monitoring techniques to detect and handle
runaway queries
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Scheduling and enforcing Service level
guarantees
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Managing Mixed Workload (small and very large
and complex queries)
Submissions
We
invite submissions of extended abstracts
( preferable 3 but up to 5 pages) on the above topics. The suggested
outline for abstracts is:
Please indicate the main topic and up to
two secondary topics for your abstract (e.g. main topic 2.1., side topics 3.1.
and 2.3.)
Upload your abstract at the HP SUA site http://www.hp.com/go/hpsua.
( The upload facility will be available starting from January 24, 2008)
Please understand that submission of
abstracts longer than the specified page limit and full papers will cost
additional efforts for the Program Committee.
Important
dates
Extended abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2008 Now extended to February 22, 2008
Author notification: March 14 2008
Camera ready: May 16, 2008
We are looking forward to your submissions and participation to the
workshop.
Thank you very much and best regards
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs
Abdel Boulmakoul, HP Labs
Ahmed Ezzat, HP Software
Julie Grady, HP University Relations
Chris Peltz, HP Software
Jack Walicki, HP Software
Thomas Nebe, Infonomics-Consulting
2008 HP SUA Workshop: Committees
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EXECUTIVE SPONSOR Tim Howes, HP Software CTO (USA) WORKSHOP CHAIRMAN Rachid Benmokhtar Benabdellah, President, Al Akhawayn
University STEERING COMMITTEE Abdel Boulmakoul / HP Labs (UK) Julie Grady / HP (UK) Chris Peltz / HP (USA) Ahmed Ezzat / HP BI (USA) Jack Walicki / HP (USA) Claudio Bartolini / HP Labs
(USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mohammed Elouedghiri Abdessamad Fatmi Hamid Harroud Ahmed Legrouri Thomas Nebe |
PROGRAM COMMITTEE* All members of the steering committee and
organizing committee Sebastian Abeck / University
of Karlsruhe (Germany) Nazim Agoulmine / University
of Evry (France) Sujoy Basu / HP Labs Amine Bensaid / Al Akhawayn University (Morocco) Martin
Bosler / HP Karima Boudaoud / University
of Nice (France) Raouf Boutaba / University of
Waterloo (Canada) Michael
Brenner / MNM Munich (Germany) Umesh Dayal, HP Labs Kemal
Delic/ HP Wafa El
Garah / Al Akhawayn University (Morocco) Goetz Graefe, HP Labs Julio Guijarro / HP Labs Bernd Gutjahr / HP
Joel
Fleck / HP Noam
Fraenkel / HP Stavros Harizopoulos, HP Labs
Heinz-Gerd Hegering / LRZ Munich (Germany) Roland
Heumesser / HP Meichun Hsu, HP Labs Malcolm Isaacs
/ HP Driss Kettani / Al Akhawayn University
(Morocco) Amitay Korn /
HP Christoph Laye
/ HP Alexei Ledenev
/ HP Cristina Mahon / HP Michael
Pogrebisky / HP Maher Rahmouni
/ HP Labs (UK) Helmut Reiser /
LRZ Munich (Germany) Dave Reynolds, HP Labs Lars Rossen / HP (USA) Jason Rouault/ HP Mathias
Salle / HP (USA) Jacques Sauve / University of Campina
Grande (Brazil) Andy Seaborne, HP Labs Burkhard Stiller / University of Zürich (Switzerland) Gunnar Tapper / HP Frank Vosseler/
HP Klaus Wurster / HP Hans Zeller / HP |
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* additional
members of the Program Committee may be announced later on
the HP-SUA Web http://www.hp.com/go/hpsua |