[Nets-seminars] SSE Seminars Week October 11: Pamela Zave and Neno Medvidovic

[Bruno Wassermann]

Dear All, 

Next week we will host two interesting seminars by outside speakers. Please note the time and locations. See you there. 

Pamela Zave
When: Monday, 11 October, 2 - 3 pm
Where: Cruciform B.01 (grid B-2 in http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/map2_hi_res)
Title: On the Architecture of Application Sessions

Abstract:
In the current state of the Internet, it is much too difficult to build,
deploy, and maintain distributed applications.  The goal of this work is
to understand how applications could be supported better, by developing
principles for hierarchies of overlays that span the range from common
application functions to universal connectivity.  The principles must
provide simplicity and separation of concerns as well as security,
reliability, and good resource management.

This talk focuses on the subject of two-way point-to-point application
sessions with capabilities such as physical mobility, multihoming,
anycast, and anonymity or aliasing.  It discusses how they should be
specified as communication services.  It also discusses their possible
implementation architectures within the framework of a particular 
definition of overlays, comparing them in terms of scalability,
generality, and faithfulness to the specification.

Bio:
Pamela Zave received an A.B. degree in English from Cornell University,
and a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
She has held positions at the University of Maryland and Bell Labs, and is
now with AT&T Laboratories--Research.
 Dr. Zave is interested in all aspects of formal methods for software
engineering as applied to networks.  For the past ten years she has led
a group of researchers building and analyzing IP-based voice and
multimedia services using the Distributed Feature Composition
architecture, invented by her and Michael A. Jackson.
 Dr. Zave is an ACM Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. She has won three 
Ten-Year Most Influential Paper awards, three Best Paper awards, the 
AT&T Strategic Patent Award, and the AT&T Science and Technology Medal.  
She is currently chair of IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming 
Methodology.


Neno Medvidovic
When: Tuesday, October 12,  1 - 2 pm
Where: MPEB 1.04
Title: Software Architecture and Mobility: A Perfect Marriage or An Uneasy Alliance?

Abstract:
Developments in the area of software architecture over the past decade have pushed architecture to the forefront of a number of critical software engineering activities: modeling, design, analysis, simulation, implementation, deployment, and evolution. Architecture is advocated as an effective conceptual tool for addressing the many challenges of developing large, complex, distributed systems. Largely in parallel to these developments, significant advances have also been made in the domain of
mobile computing. Many mobile systems are also large, complex, and distributed, yet a majority of the advances in this domain appear not to have resulted from an explicit software architectural focus. Despite this, I posit that architecture offers clear benefits in this domain. In support of this argument, I will overview the state-of-the-art in the area of mobile computing, with a specific focus on the role software architecture should and actually does play in this domain. I will highlight the characteristics of software architectures as well as specific architecture-based approaches that make them particularly suitable to developing mobile systems. I will then present a comprehensive framework targeted at architecture-based system deployment and mobility.

Bio:
Nenad Medvidovic is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) and a faculty associate of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) at the University of California, Irvine. Medvidovic is the Program Co-Chair of the 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011) and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.  Medvidovic is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2000), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the IBM Real-Time Innovation Award (2007), and the USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010).  He is a co-author of the ICSE 1998 paper titled "Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution", which was in 2008 named that conference's Most Influential Paper.  Medvidovic's research interests are in the area of architecture-based software development. His work focuses on software architecture modeling and analysis; middleware facilities for architectural implementation; domain-specific architectures; architectural styles; and architecture-level support for software development in mobile and embedded environments.  He is a co-author of a recent textbook on software architecture.




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