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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : New Uses of Simulation in Distributed Software Eng
 ineering
DTSTART:20120924T161500
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DESCRIPTION:Alexander L. Wolf\, Department of Computing\, Imperial College
  London\nAbstract\nSimulation has been used widely by software engineers t
 o study the functionality and performance of complex distributed system de
 signs.\nThey are appealing to engineers because of their inherent efficien
 cy and scalability. Unlike many other development artifacts\, simulations 
 seem to be used\, and therefore well maintained\, throughout the developme
 nt process\, both as early design tools and as late evaluation tools. Give
 n the effort invested in the construction and maintenance of simulations\,
  and the degree to which developers trust in them\, we wonder whether ther
 e are other purposes to which they can be put. In this talk we\npresent on
 e such use\, a novel testing method for distributed systems.\n\n\nBiograph
 y\nAlexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Impe
 rial College London. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer
  Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prof. Wolf was a M
 ember of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill\, Ne
 w Jersey\, and then on the faculty of the University of Colorado\, Boulder
 \, where he held the C.V. Schelke Chair in the College of Engineering. Bef
 ore moving to London he helped found the Faculty of\nInformatics at the Un
 iversity of Lugano\, the first such faculty in the Italian-speaking region
  of Switzerland.\n\nProf. Wolf's research interests are directed toward th
 e discovery of principles and development of technologies to support the e
 ngineering of\nlarge\, complex software systems. He has published in the a
 reas of software engineering\, distributed systems\, networking\, security
 \, and database management. He is best known for his seminal work in softw
 are architecture\, distributed publish/subscribe services\, and content-ba
 sed  networking.\n\nProf. Wolf currently serves as Vice President of the 
 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and as a member of the ACM Europ
 e Council. Prof. Wolf also serves on the editorial board of the Research H
 ighlights section of Communications of the ACM.\n\nProf. Wolf is a Fellow 
 of the ACM\, a Fellow of the IEEE\, a Chartered Fellow of the British Comp
 uter Society\, holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award\, an
 d a two-time recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Research Impact Award. He receiv
 ed the Outstanding Achievement in Research Alumni Award from the Universit
 y of\nMassachusetts at Amherst Department of Computer Science.
LOCATION:INM 202 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=INM202
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