IC Colloquium : New Uses of Simulation in Distributed Software Engineering
Event details
| Date | 24.09.2012 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:30 |
| Speaker | Alexander L. Wolf, Department of Computing, Imperial College London |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
Simulation has been used widely by software engineers to study the functionality and performance of complex distributed system designs.
They are appealing to engineers because of their inherent efficiency and scalability. Unlike many other development artifacts, simulations seem to be used, and therefore well maintained, throughout the development process, both as early design tools and as late evaluation tools. Given the effort invested in the construction and maintenance of simulations, and the degree to which developers trust in them, we wonder whether there are other purposes to which they can be put. In this talk we
present one such use, a novel testing method for distributed systems.
Biography
Alexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prof. Wolf was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New 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. Before moving to London he helped found the Faculty of
Informatics at the University of Lugano, the first such faculty in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.
Prof. Wolf's research interests are directed toward the discovery of principles and development of technologies to support the engineering of
large, complex software systems. He has published in the areas of software engineering, distributed systems, networking, security, and database management. He is best known for his seminal work in software architecture, distributed publish/subscribe services, and content-based networking.
Prof. Wolf currently serves as Vice President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and as a member of the ACM Europe Council. Prof. Wolf also serves on the editorial board of the Research Highlights section of Communications of the ACM.
Prof. Wolf is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a two-time recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Research Impact Award. He received the Outstanding Achievement in Research Alumni Award from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Computer Science.
Simulation has been used widely by software engineers to study the functionality and performance of complex distributed system designs.
They are appealing to engineers because of their inherent efficiency and scalability. Unlike many other development artifacts, simulations seem to be used, and therefore well maintained, throughout the development process, both as early design tools and as late evaluation tools. Given the effort invested in the construction and maintenance of simulations, and the degree to which developers trust in them, we wonder whether there are other purposes to which they can be put. In this talk we
present one such use, a novel testing method for distributed systems.
Biography
Alexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prof. Wolf was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New 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. Before moving to London he helped found the Faculty of
Informatics at the University of Lugano, the first such faculty in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.
Prof. Wolf's research interests are directed toward the discovery of principles and development of technologies to support the engineering of
large, complex software systems. He has published in the areas of software engineering, distributed systems, networking, security, and database management. He is best known for his seminal work in software architecture, distributed publish/subscribe services, and content-based networking.
Prof. Wolf currently serves as Vice President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and as a member of the ACM Europe Council. Prof. Wolf also serves on the editorial board of the Research Highlights section of Communications of the ACM.
Prof. Wolf is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a two-time recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Research Impact Award. He received the Outstanding Achievement in Research Alumni Award from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Computer Science.
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- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Contact
- Christine Moscioni