Research Areas and Technical Interests

Research Areas

My specialty was the vertically integrated management of IT services, applications, systems, and networks. From 2009 to 2015, I focused on diagnosis in public clouds that use a PaaS and/or an IaaS:

• Analytics:
  • Diagnosis
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Event Correlation
  • Causal Reasoning
  • Pattern Mining
  • Dependency Graphs
  • Graph Matching
• Integrated Management:
  • Fault Management (ISO/FCAPS)
  • Troubleshooting (Internet)
  • Problem Management (ITIL)
• Cloud Computing:
  • Public clouds
  • Management of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  • Management of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
  • Management of PaaS add-ons
  • Management of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Other Areas of Interest

• Integrated Management:
  • IT Service Management
  • Distributed Systems Management
  • Network Management
  • System Administration
  • Self-Managing Systems
  • Autonomic Computing
  • Autonomic Networking
• Self-* Systems:
  • Self-Adaptation (i.e., local-loop adaptation)
  • Self-Adaptive Services
  • Self-Adaptive Systems
  • Self-Adaptive Networks
  • Self-Organizing Systems
• Distributed Systems:
  • Architecture of Distributed Systems
  • Architecture of Very Large-Scale Systems

Former Areas of Interest

I used to be competent in the following areas and still remember a thing or two:

• Distributed Systems:
  • Service-Oriented Computing
  • SOA
  • Web Services
  • Grid Computing
• Networking:
  • Internet Network Architecture
  • Enterprise Network Architecture
  • Internet Protocols
  • Grid Networking
• Software Engineering:
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
  • Information Modeling: UML, MDA, XML Schemas, and Ontologies
  • Software Architecture
  • Patterns, Antipatterns, Components