About the Book
When deployed as infrastructure components of real-time business processes, service computing applications we rely on for our daily activities elicit the proper addressing of performance and dependability issues. While recent developments in service-oriented architectures have come a long way in many aspects, ranging from semantics and ontologies to frameworks and design processes, performance and dependability remains a research demanding field. Performance and Dependability in Service Computing: Concepts, Techniques and Research Directions highlights current technological trends and related research issues in dedicated chapters without restricting their scope. This book focuses on performance and dependability issues associated with service computing and these two complementary aspects, which include concerns of quality of service (QoS), real-time constraints, security, reliability and other important requirements when it comes to integrating services into real-world business processes and critical applications.
About the Author :
Valeria Cardellini is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy. She received her PhD degree in computer science in 2001 and her Laurea degree in computer engineering in 1997, both from the University of Roma “Tor Vergata”. She was a visiting researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1999. Her research interests are in the field of distributed computing systems, with special emphasis on large-scale systems and services based on Internet and the Web. On these subjects she has (co)authored more than 50 papers in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. She has been co-chair of AAA-IDEA 2009, has served as a member of program and organizing committees of international conferences on Web and performance analysis areas, and serves as frequent reviewer for various wellknown international journals. She is a member of ACM and IEEE. Emiliano Casalicchio , Ph.D., is a researcher at the University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy. Since 1998 his research is mainly focused on large scale distributed systems, with a specific emphasis on performance oriented design of algorithms and mechanisms for resource allocation and management. Domains of interest have been locally distributed web servers, enterprise, grid, and mobile systems, Service Oriented Architectures and Cloud systems. He is author of about 70 publications on international journals and conferences, and serves as reviewer for international journals and conferences (IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer). His research is and has been founded by the Italian Ministry of Research, CNR, ENEA, the European Community and private companies. Moreover, he is and has been involved in many Italian and EU research projects, among which PERF, CRESCO, MIA, MOTIA, D-ASAP, MOBI-DEV, AEOLUS, DELIS, SMS. Kalinka Regina Lucas Jaquie Castelo Branco is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, working in the department of Computer Systems. She has experience in computer science, with emphasis on distributed computing systems and parallel computers, working mainly in the following areas: distributed systems, computer networks, security, performance evaluation, and processes scheduling. She is member of Brazilian Computer Society. Julio Cezar Estrella received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2010, the MSc degree in Computer Science in 2006, both at Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, and the BSc in Computer Science at State University of Sao Paulo - Julio de Mesquita Filho in 2002. He has experience in computer science with emphasis in computer systems architecture, acting on the following themes: service oriented architectures, Web services, performance evaluation, distributed systems, computer networks and computer security. He is an Assistant Professor working in the Department of Computer Systems at Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of Sao Paulo. He is member of the Brazilian Computer Society, IEEE and ACM. Francisco Jose Monaco , Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, holds a professorship at the Department of Computer Systems, University of São Paulo, where he teaches courses on system software for both graduate and undergraduate students, and conducts scientific research in computational modeling and simulation. His main topics of investigation include evolutionary multi-objective optimization and unsupervised machine learning. He has authored several scientific articles, served in conferences' and journals' technical committees, and participated in national and international research projects. Dr. Monaco has been serving on the steering board of the USP Open Source Competence Center for over a decade, where he also coordinates the curricular course on Open-Source Systems for students of computer sciences, computer engineering, and information systems.
