[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming lecture: Content-Based Networking: A New Communication Service

[Anna Lynn SPITZER]

Title:                            ISR Distinguished Speaker Series
2004-05: Content-Based Networking: A New Communication Service

 

Speaker:                      Alexander L. Wolf, University of Lugano,
Switzerland and University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Time:                           1:30 p.m. refreshments, 2 p.m.
presentation

 

Date:                           Friday, May 6, 2005

 

Location:                     McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium

 

Abstract:                      What do sensor grids, personalized news
distribution, decentralized auctioning, service discovery, multi-player
games, and information fusion and dissemination have in common? They are
large-scale, loosely coupled, multi-party, distributed applications that
do not fit the traditional addressed-based unicast and multicast models
of communication. Rather, they embody a style of communication in which
the flow of messages from senders to receivers is determined implicitly
by the dynamic characteristics of the receivers, rather than explicitly
through knowledge of destinations by senders.

 

To support this style of communication, a new communication service
called a "content-based network" has been introduced. In a content-based
network, receivers declare their interests to the network by means of
predicates, while senders simply inject messages into the network at the
periphery. The network is responsible for delivering to each receiver
any and all messages matching the predicate declared by that receiver.

 

Wolf will describe the unique characteristics of content-based routing
and forwarding, and discuss a particular implementation of the approach
in the context of sensor grids.

 

Bio:                              Alexander L. Wolf received his
doctorate degree in computer science from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a professor of informatics at the
University of Lugano, Switzerland, and is in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is the director
of the Computer and Communications Security Center and a faculty
affiliate of the Science and Technology Policy Research Center.

 

His research interests are in the discovery of principles and
development of technologies to support the engineering of large, complex
software systems. Wolf has published papers in a variety of areas,
including software architecture, software process and configuration
management, and most recently in the areas of security, survivability,
dynamic reconfiguration, and content-based networking. He is currently
chair of the ACM SIGSOFT. He serves on the executive committee of the
Impact Project and the editorial board of ACM TOSEM. 

 

 

Sponsored by:             The Institute for Software Research and the
Aerospace Corp., Boeing Co., Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd., IBM Research,
Intel Corp., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Northrop Grumman.

 

 

More information:        Debra A. Brodbeck, Technical Relations
Director, brodbeck at uci.edu

E-mail RSVP required by May 2 to: Nancy Meyers, nmeyers at ics.uci.edu

 

 

 

 

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