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Lancaster, United Kingdom LA1 4WA E-mail: asf [at] comp.lancs.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 15245 10377 I am a research associate in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, working with security and resilience monitoring in next generation networks. I received my Ph.D. in Computing from Imperial College London, in September 2009. I obtained my M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2005 and 2002 respectively. |
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COMPOSITION OF SELF-MANAGED CELLS The Self-Managed Cell (SMC) framework provides an infrastructure for building autonomous ubiquitous systems. An SMC consists of a set of hardware and software components that are able to work autonomously, based on a policy-driven feedback control-loop. Ubiquitous applications typically involve several interacting SMCs, which must establish peer-to-peer collaborations, federate and compose into larger structures. In my Ph.D. I investigated the support for the design and the establishment of policy-based SMC interactions by systematically composing simpler abstractions as building blocks of a more complex interaction. I applied software engineering, patterns and model-checking techniques for composing and federating policy-based systems. A copy of my thesis can be found here. RESEARCH INTERESTS Ubiquitous and autonomous systems, self-management, policy-based management, software engineering, network anomaly detection and remediation, and network security. |
TALK @ ACITA 2008  The talk "A Role-based Infrastructure for the Management of Dynamic Communities" gives an overview of part of my Ph.D. work, where I describe how nodes in a MANET are assigned to the roles needed to support management and security functions in a wireless community and establish the respective policy-based interactions. This presentation was given a couple of years ago at the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Aliance (ACITA), an internal project meeeting which was held at Imperial College London.
GRADUATION CEREMONY  My Ph.D. award ceremony took place on the 5th of May 2010, at the Royal Albert Hall, in London. Photos were finally posted here! |
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