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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

    Alexander Keller

  2. NEC Europe Ltd. Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany

    Marcus Brunner

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Alexander Keller is a Research Staff Member in the Autonomic Computing Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Technische Universität München, Germany, in 1994 and 1998, respectively and has published approximately 40 refereed papers in the area of distributed systems management. His research interests revolve around change management for applications and services, service provisioning, and service level agreements. He serves on several technical program and organizing committees of related conferences and workshops and is a member of the USENIX Association, the IEEE, and the DMTF CIM Applications and Metric Extensions Working Groups. He was a main contributor to the IBM Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) framework, which served as the basis for the upcoming GGF WS-Agreement standard.

Marcus Brunner is Chief Researcher at the Network Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd. in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. He obtained his M.S. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 1994. Aside from the involvement in different national and international projects, his primary research interests include network architectures, programmability in networks and their management, network and service management for various technologies such as IP, MPLS, GMPLS, 3G, 4G, and Quality of Service management in general. He serves as Editor of the eTransactions on Network and Service Management (eTNSM) and he is in several Technical Program and Organization Committees of major network management and networking conferences such as NOMS, IM, Globecom, ICC, LCN, IWAN, DSOM, PolicyWorkshop, and IPOM. Additionally, he worked in the standardization in the IETF and the DMTF.

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Keller, A., Brunner, M. Self-Managing Systems and Networks. J Netw Syst Manage 13, 147–149 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-005-4438-5

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