SIKS/ILLC-Symposium on "Adaptive Languages for Information Systems"


with lectures by Alexander Verrijn-Stuart (Leiden) and Pieter Adriaans (Amsterdam).


DATE/TIME: March 14, 2003, 13:30 -- 15:30 hrs
LOCATION:  Room B2.28, B-building, Roeterseilandcomplex,
           Amsterdam.


Alexander Verrijn-Stuart (Emeritus Leiden University) will talk about
A Real Time Information System Language? ``Dynamic adaptation of
system characteristics _and_ contents''


Abstract: The feasibility and requirements are investigated of
description languages that provide a user domain friendly interface to
information system generators (integrated software design tools) such
that:
 1 Describing an organization will semi-automatically generate its
   systems, including their 'documentation' -- after appropriate
   assessment;
 2 A change in description will semi-automatically update such
   systems, including their contents ('system population') -- after
   similar assessment.
Capability (1) will achieve three things:
 * Responsibility for overall systems definition in hands of
   non-specialist users;
 * System consistency and requirement completeness;
 * System documentation consistent with system design.
Capability (2) will provide two further things:
 * Continuous, high-level 'information planning';
 * Avoidance -- to a large extent -- of costly parallel system test
   runs.
UML does much of this, but not all. A problem analysis -- not a final
solution?



Pieter Adriaans (University of Amsterdam) will talk about Adaptive
System Management.


Abstract: Adaptive System Management is the use of machine learning
and data mining techniques to create self-learning models of the
constantly changing IT-environment that allow us to predict the
behavior of systems in the future and take timely automated remedial
action to prevent system failure or decreased availability of the
system. In this talk I will describe some of the concepts behind ASM
and present some empirical tests.