I/UCRC: Collaborative Research: I/UCRC Center for Configuration Analytics and Automation

该中心寻求建立一个新的工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC），以开展研究，以提高配置分析和自动化能力，从而使其集成高效，准确和及时的操作，管理和防御复杂的网络信息技术（IT）系统和环境。通过解决配置分析和自动化的挑战，该中心打算提高企业IT系统和服务的可管理性、性能、可靠性、安全性和可持续性。该工作计划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、软件定义网络、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。随着技术向“智能”网络基础设施和“开放”网络发展，未来系统的复杂性和潜在的错误配置可能会显著增加。可配置平台使配置分析和自动化对实现网络经济的持续生产力和竞争力提高至关重要。与工业咨询委员会合作，该中心计划在这一领域产生重大影响，并为工业提供有才华的毕业生来源。该中心计划拥有强大的教育组成部分，包括培训该领域的本科生和研究生，在UNCC创建新的多学科配置分析证书，并通过课程、研讨会、讲习班和研究项目吸引少数族裔和代表性不足的学生。

The center seeks to establish a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) in order to conduct research to improve configuration analytics and automation capabilities in order to enable their integration for efficient, accurate and timely operations, management and defense of complex networked information technology (IT) systems and environments. By addressing the challenges of configuration analytics and automation, the center intends to improve enterprise IT system and service manageability, performance, assurability, security and sustainability. The effort plans to apply innovative analytics and automation to complex networked systems including: enterprise networking of clouds and data centers, software defined networking, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, smart critical infrastructures, mission-oriented networks (sensor-actuator networks), virtual overlays, social networks and mobile systems. Future system complexity and the potential of misconfiguration is likelyto increase significantly as technology progresses toward "smart" cyber infrastructure and ?open? configurable platforms making configuration analytics and automation essential for realizing continued productivity and competitiveness improvements from the cyber-economy. Working with its Industrial Advisory Board, the center plans to have a significant impact in this area and provide a source of talented graduates to industry. The center plans to have a strong educational component that includes training undergraduate and graduate students in this area, creating a new multidisciplinary certificate on Configuration Analytics at UNCC, and involving minority and under-represented students through courses, seminars, workshops and research projects.