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Second Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems
with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML07)

April 10, 2007, Cambridge, MA
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Program Co-chairs

Program Committee

Steering Committee

  • Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
  • Moises Goldszmidt, Microsoft Research
 

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8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.  

Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop


9:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m.  

Session I

Machine Learning for Efficient Neighbor Selection in Unstructured P2P Networks
Robert Beverly, MIT CSAIL; Mike Afergan, Akamai/MIT
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Gray's Anatomy: Dissecting Scanning Activities Using IP Gray Space Analysis
Yu Jin, György Simon, Kuai Xu, Zhi-Li Zhang, and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
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An Adaptive Anomaly Detector for Worm Detection
John Mark Agosta, Intel Research; Carlos Diuk-Wasser, Rutgers University; Jaideep Chandrashekar and Carl Livadas, Intel Research
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10:45 a.m.–11:15 a.m.    Break
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.  

Session II

Why Did My PC Suddenly Slow Down?
Sumit Basu, John Dunagan, and Greg Smith, Microsoft Research
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SPIKE: Best Practice Generation for Storage Area Networks
Prasenjit Sarkar, Ramani Routray, Eric Butler, Chung-hao Tan, and Kaladhar Voruganti, IBM Almaden Research Center; Kiyoung Yang, University of Southern California
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Analyzing System Logs: A New View of What's Important
Sivan Sabato, Elad Yom-Tov, and Aviad Tsherniak, IBM Haifa Labs; Saharon Rosset, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Machine Learning Approaches to Network Anomaly Detection
Tarem Ahmed, Boris Oreshkin, and Mark Coates, McGill University
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12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.    Lunch
2:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.  

Session III

Snitch: Interactive Decision Trees for Troubleshooting Misconfigurations
James Mickens, University of Michigan; Martin Szummer and Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
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Fingerpointing Correlated Failures in Replicated Systems
Soila Pertet, Rajeev Gandhi, and Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
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Structure from Failure
Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel, and Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
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3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m.    Break
4:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.    Panel Discussion
5:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.    Summary

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