Marc A. Chiarini - Publications

• Alva Couch, Mark Burgess, and Marc Chiarini, "Management Without (Detailed) Models", to appear in Proc. Sixth International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), Brisbane, Australia, July 7-9, 2009, Springer.
• Alva Couch and Marc Chiarini, "Dynamics of Convergent Operators", to appear in Proc. Third International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS), Enschede, The Netherlands, June 30-July 2, 2009, Springer.
• Marc Chiarini and Alva Couch, "Dynamic Dependencies and Performance Improvement", in Proc. Large Installation System Administration Conference 2008, San Diego, CA, November 2008, USENIX Association, pp. 9-21. Acceptance rate 17/42 (40%). Click to read.
• Alva Couch and Marc Chiarini, "Dynamic Consistency Analysis for Convergent Operators", in Proc. Second International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, Bremen, Germany, July 1-3, 2008, Springer, pp. 148-161. Winner, Best Paper Award. Click to read.
• Alva Couch and Marc Chiarini, "A Theory of Closure Operators", in Proc. Second International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, Bremen, Germany, July 1-3, 2008, Springer, pp. 162-174. Click to read.
• Alva Couch, Hengky Susanto and Marc Chiarini, "Modeling Change Without Breaking Promises", in Proc. First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, Oslo, Norway, June 21-22, 2007, Springer, pp. 97-108.Click to read.
• Alva Couch, Marc Chiarini, and Hengky Susanto, "Estimating Reliability of Conditional Promises", in Proc. First International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, Oslo, Norway, June 21-22, 2007, Springer, pp. 85-96.Click to read.

Presentations and Other Writings

• Marc Chiarini, Summaries of refereed papers and invited talks from the 2007 USENIX LISA Conference, Dallas, TX. Miscellaneous Topics I and II technical session, Glenn Fink "Who's the Boss? Autonomics and New-Fangled Security Gizmos with Minds of Their Own." ;Login: Magazine, February 2008. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini and Alva Couch, "Frequency Domain Analysis and Visualization of Web Server Performance". Displayed at LISA 2007 poster session. Proposal | Poster | WIP Report.
• Marc Chiarini and Alva Couch, "Machine Learning for the System Administrator", Submitted to LISA '07: 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference, USENIX Association, Dallas, TX, November 2007. Please do not cite. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini, "Using Redirection to Enhance Software Management", work-in-progress report presented at LISA 2006. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini, Josh Danziger, and Alva Couch, "Understanding One's Systems: A New Role for Auditing". Submitted to LISA 2006. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini, Josh Danziger, and Alva Couch, "Improving Troubleshooting via Dynamic Analysis of Dependencies". Displayed at USENIX Annual Technical Conference poster session. 2006. Proposal | Poster.
• Marc Chiarini, Summaries of refereed papers and invited talks from the 2006 USENIX LISA Conference, Washington DC. Theory technical session, Elizabeth Zwicky's "Teaching Problem Solving: You Can and You Should" and Alva Couch's "The Future of System Administration: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Self-Managing Systems". ;Login: Magazine, April 2007. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini, Summary of Paul Graham's "Hackers and Founders" invited talk at the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA. ;Login: Magazine, December 2006. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini, Summaries of refereed papers and invited talks from the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA. Virtualization technical session, and Trevor Blackwell's "Real Operating Systems for Real-time Motion Control". ;Login: Magazine, October 2006. Click to read.
• Marc Chiarini, Summaries of refereed papers and invited talks from the 2005 USENIX LISA Conference, San Diego, CA. Configuration Management Theory technical session, Theory technical session, and Brent Chapman's, "Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn From the Fire Department". ;Login: Magazine, April 2006. Click to read.