The Stanford-Berkeley ROC
project is an early project related to self-managing systems. A class was taught by
one of the faculty members in the project. The
link to the "Project Ideas" page lists the projects done in the class.
Source code is available for the "Undo" project.
Shivnath's slides introducing the QueS project are available
here as part of the lecture presentation on January 19.
A short introduction---actually, a demonstration proposal---to the
Fa project
at Duke. This project is a great setting for a good class project.
Another short introduction, this time to the
NIMO project
at Duke. This project is another great setting for a good class project.
Implement a self-managing feature in the
Nagios monitoring engine.
HP Research has some very interesting papers related to self-managing systems: [1], [2], [3], and [4]. These papers demonstrate the power and application of machine-learning techniques in the context of self-managing systems.
Research on autonomic computing at IBM Watson. Here are two interesting papers---[1], [2]---from this project that apply control-theoretic techniques to a web server and a Lotus-notes server respectively.