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Details		Mícheál Ó Foghlú Research Director

Postal Address		Telecommunications Software & Systems Group [TSSG] ArcLabs Research & Innovation Centre Waterford Institute of Technology [WIT] West Campus Carriganore Co. Waterford Ireland

E-mail		mofoghlu[at]tssg.org
WWW		http://www.ofoghlu.net/log/
Phone		+353 51 302963

Current Position:

Research Director, Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT)
Director, Irish National IPv6 Centre (IPv6-Ireland.org)
Lecturer in the Department of Computing, Mathematics & Physics in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT). Note: the department used to be called the "Department of Physical & Quantitative Sciences" or abbreviated to "P&Q".

Context for Position:

I am one of the co-founders of Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, a research centre in WIT. It has grown from around 5 people in 1996 to 120 in January 2007 and has won 30 Million EUR in funding from Irish and European funding agencies. Prior to taking over as Research Director my main areas of responsibility were in strategic infrastructure for the group and managing the research process for the research students in the TSSG. I have also been involved in commercial spin-off activities. For the academic years 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 I have taken of as Research Director for the centre a role that involves managing the approximately 50 staff and students working on basic and applied research projects in the TSSG.
I was a member of 2nd and 3rd Academic Councils in WIT (Jan 1998 to Apr 2004) and I served on the Research Subcommittee and the Support Committee.

Courses (Academic Year Sep 2006 - Jun 2007):

MSc (taught) Communications Software
Communications Services (Module in Semester II)
MSc/PhD by Research in Computing
Responsible for 11 MSc and PhD students in the TSSG registered in WIT. Responsible for 2 PhD students in the TSSG registered outside of WIT.

Previous Courses (Academic Years Sep 1996 - Jun 2006):

MSc (taught) Communications Software
Communications Services (Module in Semester II)
MSc (taught) Communications Software
Dissertation Supervision
BSc Applied Computing (Year 2)
Computer Organisation
BSc Applied Computing (Year 4)
Projects (I established the project webserver used to store all project deliverables on emhain.wit.ie and developed procedures for running projects)
BSc Applied Computing (Year 4)
Telecommunications Software (elective)
BSc Commercial Software Development (Year 4)
Projects (I established the project webserver used to store all project deliverables on emhain.wit.ie and developed procedures for running projects)
BSc Commercial Software Development (Year 4)
Data Communications & Distributed Systems
BSc Commercial Software Development (Year 4)
Enterprise Information Systems
National Certificate in Commercial Computing (Year 2)
Operating Systems, Networks, and Information Systems
National Certificate in Computer Applications (Year 1)
Visual Presentation Graphics
National Certificate in Industrial Computing (Year 1)
Programming
National Diploma in Information Technology Support (Year 3)
Computer Services Management

Conference Chair & Programme Committees

Co-Chair of Technical Programme Committee of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2006) (Dublin, Ireland, October 2006). IEEE ComSoc and IFIP sponsored, proceedings in Springer LNCS 4268.
Treasurer and member of the organising committee of Manweek 2006 (Dublin, Ireland, October 2006) comprising IPOM, DSOM, MMNS, MACE and AGNM, five workshops co-located with a common theme of autonomic network management.
Member of International Programme Committee of the IST Africa Conference series: (Maputo, Mozambique, May 2007), (Pretoria, South Africa, May 2006).
Member of International Programme Committee of the e-Challenges Conference series: (Prague, October 2002), (Bologna, October 2003), (Vienna, October 2004), (Ljubljana, October 2005), (Barcelona, October 2006), (Den Hague, October 2007).
The eChallenges e-2006 Conference took place from 25-27 October in Barcelona, Spain. eChallenges e-2006 attracted over 640 delegates from 53 countries, representing government (23%), industry (15.5%), high-tech SMEs (13.5%) and research/academic organisations (48%) and Exhibitors from 17 countries. Keynote speakers from Belgium, Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Switzerland shared insights into current applied ICT challenges in government, business and research.
eChallenges e-2006 incorporated over 300 presentations from 46 countries and five continents. Continuing a trend of increasing international participation in the eChallenges Community, almost 8% of presenters and 8% of delegates at e-2006 are from outside Europe. By showcasing contributions on commercial, government or societal exploitation of the Internet and ICT from around the world, eChallenges provides a unique opportunity to gain a better appreciation of some of the cultural, technological and training issues impacting on global eAdoption today.
Member of Programme Committee of the 4th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications And Services (MUCS 2007), a workshop at IM2007 (one of the premier telecommunications management conferences held every 2 years), and also the previous three events in the series that were independent workshops: MUCS 2003 (Waterford, Ireland, December 2003), MUCS 2004 (Dublin, Ireland, December 2004), and MUCS 2006 (Cork, Ireland, May 2006) .
Member of the Programme Committee of the IT&T Conference (Athlone 2001) and (Waterford 2002). This conference is focused on the research taking place in the Institute of Technology sector in Ireland into Information Technology and Telecommunications. It is sponsored by TecNet and organised by the Communication Systems, Software Networks (CSSN) research group.
Co-Chair of the technical workshop/conference: EURO VPN 2005 (July 2005, London)
Co-Chair of the technical workshop/conference: Telecom Signalling Networks and Services Forum 2006 (Jan 2006, Amsterdam)

Other External Roles:

IPv6 Task Force Activities: Member of the Irish IPv6 Task Force, and representative on the European IPv6 Task Force, the IST IPv6 Cluster and the world-wide IPv6 Forum.
Approved reviewer for EU Commission research project proposals in the arena of Satellite Communications, ICT, and the take-up of ICT by regional industry.
Approved reviewer for Enterprise Ireland research projects in the area of ICT and Internet Technologies.
Approved reviewer for Swedish VINNOVA programmes.
VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, integrates research and development in technology, transport and working life. VINNOVA´s mission is to promote sustainable growth by financing RTD and developing effective innovation systems.

Affiliations

ACM Professional Member.
IEEE Member.
IEEE Computer Society Member.
IEEE Communications Society Member.
Usenix Member.
SAGE Member.

Research Programmes:

As Research Director in the TSSG I have overall responsibility for all basic (HEA and SFI funded) and applied (mainly EU IST funded) research projects in the TSSG, currently a portfolio of over 30 active projects (January 2007).
I am a technical member of the expert panel in the EU ESFORS project.
I am a technical member of the expert panel in the EU SecurIST project.
I am currently the academic coordinator for the SFI funded Autonomic Management of Communications Networks and Services PI Cluster (Nov 2004 - Oct 2008) with Willie Donnelly and John Strassner as the joint PIs (Principal Investigators).
I was manager of the Irish HEA funded project Jun 2002 - May 2007 M-Zones (Managed Zones) project investigating smart spaces, ad managing interoperability and roaming services between smart spaces.
I was manager of the EU IST funded project Apr 2002 - Mar 2004 INTERMON (Advanced architecture for INTER-domain quality of service MONitoring, modelling and visualisation).
I was manager of the Department of Education funded project Jun 2001 - May 2004 CONVERGE (Convergence of Telecommunications Services and IP-based Services: QoS, Security & Accounting).
I was manager for the EU-funded TenTelecom project Nov 1999 - Jun 2001 NITOURA II (New Information Technologies to Open Up Rural Areas).

Research Interests:

IPv6 and the secure deployment and management of emerging Internet networks (including the Mobile Internet). Service development, deployment, security and management issues in an IP-based telecommunications networking environment.
XML as distributed data passing. Lightweight Internet solutions, using SOAP and scripting for rapid development and deployment of Internet services.
XML as data/content markup. Emerging standards in business (e.g. ebXML), e-Learning course metadata, and user profiling (e.g. IEEE LOM & PAPI), web content syndication (e.g. RSS), telecommunications service level agreements, semantic modelling and ontologies, and other areas.
WWW software development using open source technologies (e.g. Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby). This platform is becoming known as LAMP In particular the use of this platform to develop on-line services for SMEs.
Web services. Microsoft's .NET and its emerging vision of web services. Java, J2EE, EJB, JSP, Java Servlets and the emerging Sun ONE architecture for web services. This includes tracking W3C, OASIS, and WS-I standards.
Traditional object-oriented distributed systems development including CORBA, COM+ and Java RMI. An understanding of these issues is core to the development of alternatives, and indeed when to use these systems.
The emerging peer-to-peer paradigm as captured on the O'Reilly openP2P Portal. In particular the use of open source technologies to open up this arena. One excellent candidate technology (though not strictly p2p) is Jabber.
Perl Programming: see The Perl Institute and/or any of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) mirrors for more details on Perl. Of course I am keeping an eye on Perl 6 as it emerges from the Perl community.
Natural Language Processing, Knowledge-based systems, and Artificial Intelligence in general. I am not progressing this interest much at present, but lessons learned help inform current issues on the use of XML for meta data etc.
Irish Language and Computer Standards
I served as a member of the NSAI AGITS Working Group 6 with Michael Everson. See his company pages at Everson Typography for further details of computer standardization issues in Ireland.
System Administration in complex computing environments, automation through scripting and programming solutions. I am interested in the processes advocated by SAGE and the USENIX communities.
Security of IP-based networks and services, both from a system administrator's and a developer's point of view.

Selected Refereed Publications:

W. M. Fitzgerald, S. N. Foley, M. Ó Foghlú : "Network Access Control Interoperation using Semantic Web Techniques", 6th International Workshop on Security In Information Systems (WOSIS 2008), Barcelona, Spain, June, 2008.
Elyes Lehtihet, John Strassner, Nazim Agoulmine and Mícheál Ó Foghlú "Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation for Self-governing Systems" Large Scale Management of Distributed Systems: 17th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2006, Dublin, Ireland, October 23-25, 2006), Springer LNCS 4269
Simon N. Foley, William Fitzgerald, Stefano Bistarelli, Barry O’Sullivan and Mícheál Ó Foghlú "Principles of Secure Network Configuration: Towards a Formal Basis for Self-configuration" Autonomic Principles of IP Operations and Management: 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2006, Dublin, Ireland, October 23-25, 2006), Springer LNCS 4268
Sven van der Meer, William Donnelly, John Strassner, Brendan Jennings, Mícheál Ó Foghlú "Emerging Principles of Autonomic Network Management" 1st IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2006, Dublin, Ireland, October 25-26, 2006)
Latif Ladid, Jimmy McGibney, John Ronan, & Mícheál Ó Foghlú "Security and Privacy with IPv6" IEC Annual Review of Communications, Vol. 58 (2005) ISBN: 978-1-931695-36-7
Ó Foghlú, M.
"Infrastructures for Mobile Government Services"
in 1st Euro Conference on Mobile Government (Euro mGov 2005)
I. Kushchu & M. Halid Kuscu, eds..
Presented at Euro mGov Brighton, UK, 10th-12th July 2005
Davy, A., Mahon, F., Doolin, K., Jennings, B., & Ó Foghlú, M.
"Personalised, Context-aware Composition of Pervasive Mobile Services",
in 1st Euro Conference on Mobile Government (Euro mGov 2005)
I. Kushchu & M. Halid Kuscu, eds..
Presented at Euro mGov Brighton, UK, 10th-12th July 2005
Mícheál Ó Foghlú and Eamonn de Leastar
"Infrastructure Requirements for Smart Spaces and Managed Zones"
eAdoption and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies
Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds)
Volume 1, pp. 28-34
IOS Press: Amsterdam; ISBN: 1-58603-470-7
Presented at eChallenges 2004 Vienna, Austria, 27th-29th October 2004
[Awarded Best Paper of this conference.]
Boris Rousseau, Parisch Browne, Paul Malone, Mícheál Ó Foghlú
"Personalised resource Discovery Searching Over Multiple repositories: Using user and information provider profiling"
6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
ICEIS April 2004 (Porto, Portugal)
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P. A. A. Gutiérrez, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlú, S. Michaelis, J. Seger
Acquisition, Modelling and Visualisation of inter-domain routing data
Inter-domain Performance and Simulation Workshop
IPS04 March 2004 (Budapest, Hungary)
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C. P. W. Kulatunga, J. Kielthy, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlú
"Implementation of a simple Bandwidth Broker for DiffServ networks"
Inter-domain Performance and Simulation Workshop
IPS04 March 2004 (Budapest, Hungary)
J. Ronan, S. Davy, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlú
"Performance implications of IPSec deployment"
Inter-domain Performance and Simulation Workshop
IPS04 March 2004 (Budapest, Hungary)
Boris Rousseau, Parisch Browne, Paul Malone, Mícheál Ó Foghlú
"User Profiling for Content Personalisation in Information Retrieval"
19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SAC March 2004 (Nicosia, Cyprus)
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Mícheál Ó Foghlú
"Infrastructure Requirements for Smart Spaces and Managed Zones"
First M-Zones International Workshop (Whitepaper)
December 2003 (Waterford, Ireland)
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J. Kielthy, C. Kulatunga, R. Frisby & M. Ó Foghlú,
"An evaluation of QoS provisioning for UBR Applications in a DS Network"
In proceedings of Information Technology & Telecommunications
IT&T October 2003 (Letterkenny, Ireland)
J. Kielthy, R. Frisby & M. Ó Foghlú
"An initial investigation into QoS provisioning in a DiffServ Network"
In proceedings of Irish Telecommunications Systems Research Symposium
ITSRS October 2003 (Dublin, Ireland)
B. Rousseau, E. Leray & M. Ó Foghlú
"Metadata and Information Management Issues in XML-based Mediation"
International Conference in Enterprise Information Systems
ICEIS April 2003 (Angers, France)
J. Ronan, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlú
"Overhead Issues for Local Access Points in IPSec enabled VPNs"
Interdomain Performance and Simulation (Intermon Workshop)
IPS03 February 2003 (Saltzburg, Austria)
C. Kulatunga, P. Malone, M. Ó Foghlú
"Adaptive Measurement-based QoS Management in DiffServ Networks for Variable Bit Rate Applications"
IPS03 Interdomain Performance and Simulation (Intermon Workshop)
IPS03 February 2003 (Saltzburg, Austria)
M. Nolan, C. Kulatunga, M. Ó Foghlú
"Quality of Service & Security in IP-Based Telecommunications Services"
IT&T Conference
IT&T'02 October 2002 (Waterford, Ireland)
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E. Leray, B. Rousseau, M. Ó Foghlú
"E-Learning Information Management issues in XML-based mediation"
IT&T Conference
IT&T'02 October 2002 (Waterford, Ireland)
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J. Brazil, E. de Leastar, C. Ryan, M. Ó Foghlú
"Workbook Approach to Algorithm Design and Service Accounting in a Component-Orientated Environment"
IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management
October 2002 (Dalas, TX)
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Peer-to-peer Innovations for eBusiness and eWork: A Vision of Emerging Software Service Technologies
Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Shane Dempsey and Eamonn De Leastar
in Challenges and Achievements in E-business and E-work
Edited by Brian Stanford Smith, Enrica Chiozza & Mireille Edin
(Volume 2)
IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002
ISBN 1-58603-284-4
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Presented at conference: eBusiness and eWork, Prague 2002
Regional Initiatives in the South East of Ireland
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
in Challenges and Achievements in E-business and E-work
Edited by Brian Stanford Smith, Enrica Chiozza & Mireille Edin
(Volume 1)
IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002
ISBN 1-58603-284-4
PDF Version
Presented at conference: eBusiness and eWork, Prague 2002
ConnectKey.com: The use of Open Source Technologies to provide cost effective services for eBusiness to SMEs
Mícheál Ó FOGHLÚ
in E-Work and E-Commerce: Novel solutions and practices for a global networked economy
Edited by Brian Stanford Smith & Enrica Chiozza
(Volume 2, pp1110-1118)
IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2001
ISBN 1-58603-205-4
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Presented at conference: eBusiness and eWork, Venice 2001
'Expert Novice Differences and Knowledge Elicitation'
Mícheál Foley and Anna Hart
in The Psychology of Expertise: Cognitive Research and Empirical AI
Robert R. Hoffman (ed.)
Earlbaum, Mahwah NJ, 1994
ISBN 0-8058-1900-2
This is an article in a book which was originally published by Springer-Verlag in 1992. It deals with the subject of my M.Phil. research in the University of Central Lancashire: expert-novice differences in knowledge elicitation for knowledge-based systems. In summary, experts automatically see a problem in terms of solution categories, whereas novices see problems in terms of the symptoms of the problem. Therefore expert systems and knowledge-based systems need to be careful (if they are being designed to be used by novices) to model the expert/novice interaction, and not just the experts' knowledge.

Invited Keynotes, Talks & Panels

Talk - "The TSSG in WIT: An Irish Case Study of Academic Industrial Collaboration" International Forum for University Presidents IFUP-2006 (ICU, Daejeon, Korea, October 12th 2006)
Talk - "Managing the Variety of Media Platforms within the SIP Network Architecture" IIR Telecommunications Signalling Forum (London, 5th October 2006)
Talk - "Using IPv6 to Enhance Security" Telecom Signalling Networks and Services Forum (Amsterdam, 17th January 2006)
Keynote - "IPv6: The Two-Way Internet: The End-2-End innovation" European VPN Services Forum (London, 15th June 2005)
Panel - "eGovernment: A tool for good governance?" Irish eGovernment Summit (Dublin, 23rd November 2004)
Talk - "WIT Experience with IPv6" HEAnet National Networking Conference (Kilkenny, Ireland, November 2003)
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Other Publications:

Perl 5 Quick Reference
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
QUE, Indianapolis, 1996
ISBN 0-7897-0888-4
This is a book detailing all the special variables, operators and functions in Perl, in a format designed for ease of use as a reference tool.
Perl 5 Guia de Referência Rápida
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
QUE, Editora Campus, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1997
ISBN 85-352-0144-0
A Portugese edition of the Perl Quick Reference.
Perl 5 Soluciones Instantáneas
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
QUE, Prentice Hall Hispanoamericana, Mexico, 1997
ISBN 968-880-877-6
A Spanish edition of the Perl Quick Reference.
Perl 5 Quick Reference
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
QUE, Prentice Hall Japan, Tokyo, 1997
ISBN 4-88735-054-6
A Japanese edition of the Perl Quick Reference.
Special Edition: Using Perl for Web Publishing
David Harlan, Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Paul Doyle, Shelley Powers and Matthew D. Healy.
QUE, Indianapolis, 1996
ISBN 0-7897-0659-8
This book has a much wider scope than the quick reference. It covers the use of Perl in designing CGI scripts for use as server-side executable scripts on a WWW server.
The Web Programming Desktop Reference 6-in-1
Michael Afergan, Rick Darnell, Brian Farrar, Russ Jacobs, David Medinets, Robert Mullen, and Mícheál Ó Foghlú
QUE, Indianapolis, 1996
ISBN 0-7897-1028-5
This book is a re-packaging of the Perl Quick Reference with five other related QUE Quick Reference books (HTML, Java, ActiveX, VBScript, JavaScript) to produce a useful overall Web reference book.