Academic Advisor
Research Interests
- Activity Oriented Computing
- End-User Programming
- Service Oriented Architectures
- Game Theory in Multi User Environments
- User Modeling
Research
- SASSY Self-Architecting Software Systems ( GMU - Fall 2008 - present)
This research intends to build a framework for Self-Architecting Software Systems (SASSY), a significant paradigm shift in architecting large-scale real-world software systems. Focusing on service-oriented architectures, SASSY includes:
1) Self-architecting: given the service and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, an optimal architecture is automatically generated with the aid of design patterns. The merit of architectural alternatives is evaluated with the aid of multivariate utility functions.
2) Activity-based specification: behavioral requirements are expressed as activity schemas annotated with QoS requirements and domain ontology.
3) Unification of evolution and adaptation: both the evolution of requirements and changes on monitored run-time conditions and QoS trigger the revaluation of architectural alternatives, and, to the extent possible, the automatic reconfiguration of systems. The intellectual merit lies in the development of a novel framework that advances the representation of software architecture and mixed-initiative activities, while integrating optimization theory and analytic models of QoS. This project is currently funded by the National Science Foundation.
Related Papers
Self-Architecting Software SYstems (SASSY) From QoS-Annotated Models, (Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani, Danny Menasce, Joao Sousa, and Hassan Gomaa), in Principles of Engineering Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 18--19, 2009
- User Modeling (GMU - Summer 2007)
In this research, we focused on searching recent work on User Modeling. It was a literature search to understand the area and different approaches and applications. Many thanks to Prof. Sousa for giving me this opportunity to work with him. For more information about this research click here
SWE Seminars @ GMU
Master Thesis