SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Group
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

The Systems Management Group is a group of researchers in the Distributed Computing Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, USA, with primary responsibility for conducting fundamental research in the areas of distributed system architectures, next-generation modeling and design methodologies, and application and service management for Internet-based electronic commerce solutions.
As the Internet revolutionizes the computing and communications systems and paradigms in many areas, these systems rely on advanced automated algorithms and service management technologies to meet the quality of service required by today's e-business applications. The development of advanced performance and availability management tailored for e-business systems is an essential step toward the development of automated management processes for electronic commerce applications.
The Systems Management Group is responsible for the characterization of operational processes; the design of appropriate instrumentation, data collection and communication mechanisms; and, creation of novel approaches for problem determination, root cause analysis, and problem resolution. The group contributes to IBM and Tivoli products and is in the forefront of research activities in its area of expertise.

Several members of the group serve on the technical program committees of prestigious international symposia, conferences and workshops covering various aspects of network and systems management, such as the International IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM), the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), or the IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM).

The group also contributes to the Application Management Working Group of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) whose goal is to extend the Common Information Model (CIM) by means of defining the management aspects of distributed applications and services.