Better Automation of Resource Management Similar to How You Manage Your Life - W
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| Description: | Overview: This webinar illustrates that we all deal more or less effectively-implicitly and explicitly-with multiple deadline-constrained activities in our daily lives. Despite that, when people must deal with developing and managing products and services that have deadlines, they disregard their intuition and instead think in very limited and generally inaccurate terms about deadlines and deadline-based resource management. Because almost no computer systems support deadlines, it is necessary to convert the natural deadlines of systems and applications to priorities. This conversion is inherently lossey, and is made worse by the misunderstandings about deadlines. This webinar next explains deadlines and shows how the common view by computer systems practitioners is a simple, special, and limiting, case. Then, the webinar reveals deadlines as a special case in a powerful comprehensive time constraint framework. The webinar ends with a brief glimpse of how these insights have been successfully applied to create more effective time-constrained systems and services. Why Should you Attend: Deadlines are part of everyone's personal and professional lives. We deal with them-and concurrent tasks contending for resources-in a combination of more or less effective implicit and explicit ways. Deadlines are also a fundamental timeliness concept in many computer systems and other types of products and services. There is a vast body of theory and practice in the field of deadline-based resource management. But ironically, most people who automate resource management for deadline-based products and services have and explicitly use only a limited understanding of deadlines, and of deadline-based resource management algorithms. A conspicuous example is that for real-time computing systems, people imagine that deadlines are only either met or missed, and that missed deadlines are a failure-which is usually incorrect in their lives and in most systems. One reason is insufficient technical knowledge about deadlines and deadline-based resource management algorithms. Another reason is that almost no computing systems support the specification and use of deadlines, although many other kinds of products and services use them for managing timeliness. Instead, virtually every computer system provides priorities, which are only a simple small scale ordering mechanism without inherent semantics (e.g., urgency). So the inherent deadlines of applications and systems have to be converted into the artifact of priorities, which is a common source of design errors. The conversion is especially tricky in distributed systems. This conversion is inherently lossey, and is made worse by the misunderstandings about deadlines. Most embedded and other computing system practitioners have no formal training in the concepts and techniques of deadline-based resource management and concomitant priority mapping. Instead they rely on their own and others' experience by being clever using ad hoc but generally weak schemes that are not amenable to assurance for non-trivial systems. The formal deadline-based methods (e.g., rate monotonic) that real-time researchers focus on are applicable only to simple static niche cases. This webinar offers an easily understood novel insight to the ways people intuitively manage tasks with deadlines (that they sometimes don't recognize as such) in their lives which can lead to better products and services using a comprehensive understanding of deadlines and priorities. Areas Covered in the Session: Casual and informal use of deadlines in peoples' personal and professional lives Synchronization of concurrent activities having deadlines Shared resources among deadline-constrained activities Dynamic uncertainties that potentially affect activity completion times with respect to deadlines Earliness, tardiness, lateness, and why missing a deadline is not necessarily a failure Deadline-based scheduling algorithms known and not known in the computing community but used elsewhere for products and services Deadlines as a special case in a general framework of completion time constraints Priorities, urgency, importance Mapping deadlines to priorities Deadlines in distributed systems Who Will Benefit: System Engineers Software Engineers Programmers Managers at any level of system or Software Development Organizations Speaker Profile: E. Douglas Jensen is internationally recognized as one of the original pioneers, leading visionaries, and accomplished engineers of real-time and distributed real-time systems. His seminal work led to what is believed to be the world’s first deployed commercial product for distributed real-time computer control systems in 1975, and shortly thereafter he made important contributions to the first commercial distributed computing product for industrial process control. For eight years he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at Carnegie Mellon University. There he created and directed the one of the world's largest academic real-time research group, as well as teaching both software and hardware graduate level courses. Before and after CMU, he held senior technology leadership positions in several major computer companies. He continues to advance both the principles and the best practices of real-time systems by contributing to both research and product development. He publishes scholarly papers in prestigious professional society journals and conferences, over 150 as of 2013. He is also active in real-time standards organizations – e.g., he was a member of the team that wrote Sun's Real-Time Specification for Java (and wrote the Foreword for the book), began the Distributed Real-Time Specification for Java, and was the co-architect and co-author of the OMG Real-Time CORBA specification. He is the founder of Time-Critical Technologies, Inc., which provides premiere consulting and related services for corporations and government agencies world-wide on real-time embedded systems. His services include architecture, engineering, design, implementation, technical and business development advise to corporate executives and Boards of Directors, courses, meeting organization and management, technical audits, proposal and report writing, expert witnessing, and more. Price List: Live : $239.00 Corporate live : $479.00 Recorded : $289.00 |
| URL: | http://bit.ly/19WhCxV |
| Date: | Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
| Access: | Public |
| Category: | Webinar*, IT* |
| Created by: | Public Access |
| Updated: | Thursday, October 31, 2013 6:54am UTC |
| : | $239 |
| : | 800-447-9407 |
| : | Webinars@eitaglobal.com |
| : | James Richard |
| : | 8004479407 |
| Comments: | None |