Fast planning through planning graph analysis
Artificial Intelligence
Extending Graphplan to handle uncertainty and sensing actions
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Using temporal logics to express search control knowledge for planning
Artificial Intelligence
Common information model: implementing the object model for enterprise management
Common information model: implementing the object model for enterprise management
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
Automated Planning: Theory & Practice
A Runtime Constraint-Aware Solution for Automated Refinement of IT Change Plans
DSOM '08 Proceedings of the 19th IFIP/IEEE international workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Managing Large-Scale Service Deployment
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2006 International Conference on Middleware
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A solution to support risk analysis on IT change management
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Refined failure remediation for IT change management systems
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Best practices for deploying a CMDB in large-scale environments
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
One Is Not Enough: A Hybrid Approach for IT Change Planning
DSOM '09 Proceedings of the 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Integrated Management of Systems, Services, Processes and People in IT
Improving IT Change Management Processes with Automated Risk Assessment
DSOM '09 Proceedings of the 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Integrated Management of Systems, Services, Processes and People in IT
Changerefinery: assisted refinement of high-level IT change requests
POLICY'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Policies for distributed systems and networks
CLOUD '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing
ITIL Lifecycle Suite 2011 Edition
ITIL Lifecycle Suite 2011 Edition
Planning in the large: efficient generation of IT change plans on large infrastructures
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management
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Change Management, a core process of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), is concerned with the management of changes to networks and services to satisfy business goals and to minimize costly disruptions on the business. As part of Change Management, IT changes need to be planned for. Despite previous efforts to use planning algorithms to generate IT change plans, it remains unknown as to which automated planning algorithm does best solve the IT change planning problem. To answer this question, we compare four domain independent automated planners in the context of an Infrastructure as a Service deployment case study of a three-tier business application. We focus on two aspects: (1) The scalability of the planners to large Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) comprising thousands of resources and (2) their usability by a change manager, in particular how easily a change manager can specify the planning domain and rules to guide the search. For the deployment case study we conclude that Hierarchical Task Network algorithms scale to significantly larger CMDBs than all other examined algorithms. Furthermore, we find that their way to formalize search control naturally matches to the domain of IT change planning compared to that of others who require change managers to have a profound knowledge of the planning algorithm or temporal logic.