Interests:

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Ø        Design for system reliability

Ø        Theoretical foundations of autonomic computing design

Ø        Survivability quantification

Ø        Security quantification

Ø        Self-healing, self-protecting and Fault-tolerant systems

Ø        Software and hardware reliability, verification and testing

Ø        Software aging and rejuvenation

Ø        Reliability measurement, modeling and evaluation

Ø        Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic systems and networks

Ø        Tools for design and evaluation of reliable systems

Ø        Implications of emerging technologies on reliable system design

Ø        Application-specific reliable system (e.g., embedded systems, WWW servers, transaction processing, grid computing)

Ø        Enabling technologies for self-managing systems and networks including Service-oriented Architectures, Web Services, XML, Peer-to-Peer and Open Grid Services

Ø        Reliable communication system

Ø        Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic communications

Ø        Long life systems to support communication infrastructure

Ø        Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing systems and networks

Ø        Languages, development and securely programmable environments for autonomic communications systems

Ø        Human interaction with autonomic communication systems

Ø        Advanced information processing techniques for autonomic communications

Ø        Reliability and Availability Issues in Embedded Systems