Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Configuration Analytics and Automation

规划补助金：I/UCRC for Configuration Analytics and Automation(CCAA)1161015北卡罗来纳夏洛特大学(UNCC)；Ehab Al-Shaer 1161009乔治梅森大学(GMU)；Sushil Jajodia 1161044加州大学戴维斯分校；Shyhtun Wu北卡罗来纳夏洛特大学(UNCC)、乔治梅森大学(GMU)和加州大学戴维斯分校(UCD)正在合作建立拟议的中心，UNCC是牵头机构。规划拨款将允许这些大学与表示有兴趣加入CCAA的潜在行业成员进行协调、准备和举行会议。拟议中心的目标是建立一个跨学科的学术研究人员和行业伙伴关系，以应对配置分析和自动化的当前和未来挑战，以提高企业IT系统和服务的可管理性、性能、可靠性、安全性和可持续性；并将创新的分析和自动化应用于复杂的网络系统，包括：云和数据中心的企业网络、混合和网络物理系统、智能关键基础设施、面向任务的网络(传感器-执行器网络)、虚拟覆盖、社交网络和移动系统。拟建的中心将满足私营部门处理合规要求的大型企业、政府组织、在私营部门或政府拥有相当大市场份额的IT产品提供商以及作为重要参与者的特定行业采用的利基产品，如IT管理系统和新兴云服务的需求。这三所参与的大学在行业合作和技术转移方面有着良好的记录。此外，CCAA有强大的教育组成部分，包括培训本科生和研究生，在赔偿委员会创建一个新的多学科配置分析证书，并通过课程、研讨会、讲习班和研究项目让少数群体和代表性不足的学生参与。

Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Configuration Analytics and Automation (CCAA) 1161015 University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC); Ehab Al-Shaer 1161009 George Mason University (GMU); Sushil Jajodia 1161044 University of California-Davis; Shyhtsun Wu The University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), George Mason University (GMU) and the University of California-Davis (UCD) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with UNCC as the lead institution. The planning grant will permit these universities to coordinate, prepare and conduct meetings with potential industry members who have expressed interest in joining CCAA. The goal of the proposed center is to build the critical mass of an inter-disciplinary academic researchers and industry partnership for addressing the current and future challenges of configuration analytics and automation to improve enterprise IT system and service manageability, performance, assurability, security and sustainability; and applying innovative analytics and automation to complex networked systems including: enterprise networking of clouds and data centers, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, smart critical infrastructures, mission-oriented networks (sensor-actuator networks), virtual overlays, social networks and mobile systems. The proposed center will address the need of large Enterprises in the private sectors dealing with regulatory compliance requirements; government organizations; and IT product providers who have significant share of the market either in private sector or government and those niche products adopted by specific industries such as IT management systems, and emerging cloud services who are essential participants. The three participating universities have a strong record of industry collaboration and technology transfer. In addition, CCAA has a strong educational components that includes training undergraduate and graduate students, creating a new multi-disciplinary certificate on Configuration Analytics at UNCC, and involving minority and under-represented students through courses, seminars, workshops and research projects.