Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009

[Greg Bronevetsky <greg () bronevetsky com>]

       Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL) 2009
       http://www.systemloganalysis.com Call for Papers

                ===============================
                      October 14, 2009
                        Big Sky, MT
                          (at SOSP)
                ===============================

          FULL PAPER SUBMISSION: Monday, June 29th, 2009
          AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: Monday, July 27, 2009
          FINAL PAPERS DUE: Monday, September 14, 2009
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

System logs contain a wide variety of information about system status 
and health,
including events from various applications, daemons and drivers, as well 
as sampled
information such as resource utilization statistics. As such, these logs 
represent a
rich source of information for the analysis and diagnosis of system 
problems and
prediction of future system events. However, their lack of organization 
and the general
lack of semantic consistency between information from various software 
and hardware
vendors means that most of this information content is wasted. Indeed, 
today's
most popular log analysis technique is to use regular expressions to 
either detect
events of interest or to filter the log so that a human operator can 
examine it manually.
Clearly, this captures only a fraction of the information available in 
these logs and
does not scale to the large systems common in business and 
supercomputing environments.

This workshop will focus on novel techniques for extracting 
operationally useful
information from existing logs and methods to improve the information 
content of future
logs. Topics include but are not limited to:
   o Reports on publicly available sources of sample log data.
   o Log anonymization
   o Log feature detection and extraction
   o Prediction of malfunction or misuse based on log data
   o Statistical techniques to characterize log data
   o Applications of Natural-Language Processing (NLP) to logs
   o Scalable log compression
   o Log comparison techniques
   o Methods to enhance astandardize log semantics
   o System diagnostic techniques
   o Log visualization
   o Analysis of services (problem ticket) logs
   o Applications of log analysis to system administration

Papers limited to 6 2-column pages using >=10pt font.

Workshop Chair:
   Greg Bronevetsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
   greg () bronevetsky com

Program Committee:
   Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratory
   Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
   Sébastien Tricaud, INL
   Sapan Bhatia, Princeton University
   Risto Vaarandi, CCD CoE
   Jim Jansen, Penn State University
   Wei Xu, University of California, Berkeley
   Anton Chuvakin, Qualys
   Hugh Njemanze, ArcSight
   Kara Nance, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
   Raffael Marty, PixlCloudWorkshop on the Analysis of System Logs 
(WASL) 2009