Awards

Best Paper Award at DSOM 2006 Conference
The paper titled “Fast Extraction of Adaptive Change Point Based Patterns for Problem Resolution in Enterprise Systems” by (Manoj K Agarwal, Narendran Sachindran, Manish Gupta, Vijay Mann all from IRL) won the Best Paper Award at the 17th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2006) held on October 23-25, 2006 in Dublin, Ireland. The paper presented a method that automatically generates change point based problem signatures using administrator feedback, thereby removing the dependence on domain experts. The problem signatures generated by our method are flexible, in that they do not require exact matches for triggering, and adapt as more information becomes available. Unlike traditional data mining techniques, where one requires a large number of problem instances to extract meaningful patterns, this method requires few fault instances to learn problem signatures. The paper demonstrated the efficacy of this approach by learning problem signatures for five common problems that occur in enterprise systems and reliably recognizing these problems with a small number of learning instances.