INTEL RESEARCH SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, December 11, 2003
TIME: Noon - 1:30 pm
PLACE: Intel Seminar (417 S. Craig Street - 3rd Floor)
INTEL
EVENTS PAGE: http://www.intel-research.net/pittsburgh/events.htm
SPEAKER:
Anca-Andreea Ivan
New York University
TITLE:
Partitionable Services Framework: Seamless Access to Distributed Applications
in Heterogeneous Environments
ABSTRACT:
The key problem in contemporary distributed systems is writing and automatically
deploying distributed applications in dynamically changing heterogeneous
networks, while ensuring that the user's QoS requirements are satisfied.
One attractive solution would be to write simple distributed applications
that express at a high level their efficiency, security requirements,
and their malleability to environment changes and continuous user input,
and create adaptable infrastructures that automatically and transparently
deploy the applications with minimal user input. Unfortunately, no current
system achieves these goals. In this talk I will explore the thesis that
by exposing qualitative and quantitative properties and relationships
between component-based applications and heterogeneous environments, automatic
deployment in resource constrained and dynamically changing environments
becomes feasible. I will also describe the Partitionable Services Framework
(PSF), a component-based framework developed in order to validate the
idea of my thesis. PSF enables dynamic configuration and transparent adaptation
of general component-based applications. Using PSF, I will highlight the
main contributions of my research: (1) defining suitable component and
network models, (2) building a scalable planner which exploits the expressivity
of the component model to efficiently find a valid plan, and (3) building
a secure application deployment process.
BIO:
Anca-Andreea Ivan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science
at New York University. Her research interests cover the areas of adaptable
distributed systems and applied security. She received her B.S. degree
from the "Politechnica" University Bucharest, Romania, in 1997,
and M.Sc. degree from New York University, NY, in 2000.
For Further
Seminar Info:
Contact Kim Kaan, 412-605-1203,
or visit http://www.intel-research.net.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/