This technology has been retired.

Contributing to this technology were engineers from several IBM locations: Almaden Research Center, Californa; Research Triangle Park (RTP), N.C.; and Autonomic Computing (AC) Division in RTP:

• Eser Kandogan, Ph.D., is a research staff member at Almaden. His interests include human interaction with complex systems, policy-based system management, ethnographic studies of system administrators, information visualization, and end-user programming.
• Eben Haber, Ph.D., works on human-comptuer interaction at Almaden. He has worked on data mining, visualization, and user interface design.
• Andrew Eberbach works for the AC team at RTP. Previously, he served as an intern in IBM's Extreme Blue program.
• Abdi Salahshour is a senior software engineer and problem determination architect for the AC group. He has served in many roles in design and development of database diagnostic tools; system management, self-healing architecture, and enablement in heterogenous and distributed environments; and several joint projects with IBM Research.
• Neeraj Joshi works as a staff software engineer in the AC group. He focuses on OSGI and the Integrated Solutions Console and has previously worked on self-healing technologies.
• Dan Jemiolo is a staff software engineer in the AC group. His main focus is the creation of developer tools that help IBM's partners and customers build autonomic systems.
• Balan Subramanian is a staff software engineer. He focuses on AC technology enablement, data collection, problem determination, and infrastructure for AC. Mr. Subramanian was a core developer on the Generic Log Adapter and Touchpoint Simulator.
• Rob Barrett, Ph.D., is a research staff member at Almaden. His current work focuses on the user experience of system administration and human aspects of autonomic computing.
• Paul Maglio, Ph.D., is a senior manager at Almaden. His group works in the areas of social, cognitive, and computer and business sciences. He holds twelve patents and has published more than 60 scientific papers.
• Allen Cypher, Ph.D., is currently working at IBM Research. His main research interests are programming by demonstration and end-user programming, in projects such as Cocoa, Eager, and "Watch What I Do."

For platform(s):

• Linux
• Windows XP

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For topics:

• Autonomic computing
• data management
• Systems management
• Web Services Distributed Management