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Congratulations to Dr Alan Davy and Dr Steven Davy, both of whom graduated with PhDs on Thursday October 23rd. Alan and Steven are remaining with TSSG, as postdoctoral research fellows on the EFIPSANS and Autonomic Internet European FP7 projects, respectively.
I delivered the keynote address at the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management in Salvador, Brazil on April 11th. The title of
my address was "Autonomic network management: how do we govern self-managing networks?". Download the presentations slides here (zipped pdf 4.1Mb)
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| Current Projects |
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I am a Senior Investigator on the Science Foundation Ireland funded Autonomic Management of Communications Networks and Services four year research programme, which is led by Dr William Donnelly (WIT) and John Strassner (Motorola Labs / WIT Visiting Professor). This programme seeks to develop novel methodologies, architectures, processes and algorithms to enable autonomic network management. The essence of autonomic management is the ability for a system to self-govern its behaviour within the constraints of the business goals that the system as a whole seeks to achieve. To achieve autonomic network management we propose the use of information modelling to capture knowledge relating to network capabilities, environmental constraints and business goals/policies, together with reasoning and learning techniques to enhance and evolve this knowledge. Knowledge embedded within system models will be used by policy-based network management systems incorporating translation/code generation and policy enforcement processes that automatically configure network elements in response to changing business goals and/or environmental context. My work on the programme focusses primarily on prevention, detection and resolution of conflicts between groups of deployed policies.
I am also Principal Investigator on the Science Foundation Ireland funded Accounting for Dynamically Composed Services research frontiers project. This three year project, running from late 2005 to late 2008, addresses a crucial problem that must be solved before dynamic service composition becomes commercially viable - how can users be charged for the use of composed services? Focussing on charging and rating for communications services, the programme will develop a domain-specific modelling language for accounting, models for accounting logic supporting dynamic service composition, together with processes, algorithms and architectures to support automated generation and deployment of platform specific mediation and rating logic.
I am a member of the WIT team participating in the European Commission funded Network of Excellence on Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems (OPAALS). OPAALS overarching aims are to build a sustainable interdisciplinary research community in the emerging area of digital ecosystems and to develop an integrated theoretical foundation for digital ecosystems research, which spans three widely different disciplinary domains: social science, computer science, and natural science. Working in the computer science domain, the WIT team are investigating models and processes for distributed knowledge sharing, distributed accountability, distributed trust, and distributed identity that will be appropriate for a wide range of digital ecosystems.
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| Professional Links |
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Steering Committee Member of the IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE)
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TPC Co-chair of MACE 2007 - The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
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Finance Co-chair of Manweek 2007 - The 3rd International Week on the Management of Networks and Services
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Publication Chair of MUCS 2007 - The 4th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services
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TPC Co-chair of MMNS 2006 - The 9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
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Organisation Co-chair of Manweek 2006 - The 2nd International Week on the Management of Networks and Services
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Technical Programme Committee member of ICAC 2009 - The 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009)
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Technical Programme Committee member of ICC 2008 - The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (Communications Software and Services Symposium)
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Technical Programme Committee member of MACE 2008 - The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments
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Technical Programme Committee member of DSOM 2008 - The 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management
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Technical Programme Committee member of MMNS 2008 - The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
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Technical Programme Committee member of NGNM 2008 - The 5th International Workshop on Netxt Generation Networking Middleware
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Technical Programme Committee member of ACNM 2008 - The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management
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Technical Programme Committee member of MDDAS 2008 - The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Model-Driven Development of Autonomic Systems (a COMPSAC 2008 workshop)
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Technical Programme Committee member of OPAALS 2008 - The 2nd International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems
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Technical Programme Committee member of IET IE 2008 - The 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments
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Technical Programme Committee member of PDCAT 2008 - The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies
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Technical Programme Committee member of CIICT 2008 - 2008 China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies
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Technical Programme Committee member of
DSOM 2007,
EVGM 2007,
MMNS 2007,
CCNC 2007,
CODS 2007,
SSMO 2007,
UIC 2007,
ATC 2007,
CIICT 2007,
IET IE 2007,
DSOM 2006,
MACE 2006,
UIC 2006,
IE 2006,
CCNC 2006 and
MUCS 2006
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Technical Programme Committee member of IS&N 2000 - The 7th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks
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Technical Programme Committee member of IN 2000 - IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop
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Peer Reviewer for events listed above plus: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks, Journal of Network and Systems Management, International Journal of Network Management, Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, IM 2009, ICC 2008 (WN Symp.), IM 2007, GIIS 2007, Pervasive 2006, MUCS 2006, NOMS 2006, IM 2005, Globecom 2004, LCN 2004, IS&N 2001, IN 2001
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Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers [IEEE]
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Member of the Association for Computing Machinery [ACM]
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Elected Member of Waterford Institute of Technology's 5th Academic Council (2007-2010)
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| Grant Funding (as PI) |
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2007: Enterprise Ireland MoRP (Mobile Retail Payment) Proof of Concept Project [€87k]
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2006: Enterprise Ireland SIPmeter Proof of Concept Project [€86k]
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2006: Enterprise Ireland FeedHenry Commercialisation Fund / Technology Development Project [€397k]
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2005: Science Foundation Ireland Accounting for Dynamically Composed Services Research Frontiers Project [€187k]
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2005: Enterprise Ireland Henry Proof of Concept Project [€90k]
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2004: Enterprise Ireland Billing4Rent Innovation Partnership Project [€328k total; €230k WIT budget]
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1998: European Commission MARINER ACTS Project [€1.3m total; €325k DCU budget]
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| Publications |
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Full list of Publications. Some recent ones:
Balasubramaniam, S., Botvich, D., Jennings, B., Davy, S., Donnelly, W. & Strassner, J. 2009, Policy-constrained Bio-inspired Processes for Autonomic Route Management, to appear, Computer Networks, accepted August 2008. (pre-print .pdf)
Davy, S., Jennings, B., Strassner, J. 2008, Application Domain Independent Policy Conflict Analysis Using Information Models, in Proc. 2008 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), IEEE, pp. 17-24. (.pdf)
Jennings, B., van der Meer, S., Balasubramaniam, S., Botvich, D., Ó Foghlú, M., Donnelly, W. & Strassner, J. 2007, Towards Autonomic Management of Communications Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 112-121. (.pdf)
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Current Students |
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Paul Malone, PhD (Accountability as a means of Optimising Participation in Digital Ecosystems), anticipated graduation - autumn 2009
Lei Xu, PhD (Domain Specific Language for Composed Service Accounting Logic), anticipated graduation - autumn 2009
Jason Barron, MSc by Research, co-supervised with Dr Steven Davy, anticipated graduation - autumn 2010
Brian Meskill, MSc by Research, co-supervised with Dr Alan Davy, anticipated graduation - autumn 2010
Patrick Hayden, Taught MSc Dissertation (Preformance Evaluation of Credit Caching in Pre-paid Systems), anticipated graduation - autumn 2009
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Former Students |
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Dr Alan Davy, PhD, thesis: "Measurement based Quality of Service Control for Communications Networks", co-supervised with Dr Dmitri Botvich, graduated - autumn 2008, currently with TSSG
Dr Steven Davy, PhD, thesis: "Harnessing Information Models and Ontologies for Policy Conflict Analysis", co-supervised with John Strassner, graduated - autumn 2008, currently with TSSG
José Sebastian, Taught MSc Dissertation: "Overload Control for SIP servers", graduated - autumn 2008, currently with Cisco Systems
Chen Chen, Taught MSc Dissertation: "Deployment and Analysis of the DIAMETER credit control application", graduated - autumn 2008, currently with TSSG
Michael White, MSc by Research, thesis: "Context-driven, User-centric Adaptive Access Control for Smart Spaces via XACML Policies", graduated - autumn 2005, currently with Feedhenry Ltd.
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| Education |
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PhD, Dublin City University, Ireland, 2001
Thesis: Network-oriented Load Control for SS.7/IN (.pdf - 3.7Mb)
Supervisor: Prof Thomas Curran
BEng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland, 1993
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