Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Professor

Bell University Laboratory Chair in Software

Chair, Computer Engineering Group

Middleware Systems Research Group

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering &

Department of Computer Science

University of Toronto

10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G4

Tel: (416) 946-7586 Fax: (416) 978-4425

Email: jacobsen AT eecg DOT toronto DOT edu

Web: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jacobsen

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Hans-Arno Jacobsen holds the Bell University Laboratory Chair in Software and is the Chair of the Computer Engineering Group. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He directs the Middleware Systems Research Group and conducts research on event processing, publish/subscribe messaging and filtering, content-based routing, service-oriented architectures, aspect orientation, and green middleware.

Announcements

* For the 2010 academic cycle, starting in September (possibility to start over the summer), we are looking for 1 or 2 qualified graduate students to join our AspeCtC (ACC) research efforts. The ideal candidates have experience with compiler development in C and have prior exposure to aspect orientation.

* For the same cycle, we are looking for other qualified graduate students to join research activities in our group.

Initiatives and Major Projects

http://research.msrg.utoronto.ca/Padres
PADRES Publish/Subscribe Middleware

http://www.aspectc.net/
ACC for Boosting Modularity in C

http://event-based.org
Event-based.org about "Everything Events"

http://www.debs.org/2008
Distributed Event-based Systems Conference

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Research Group

The Middleware Systems Research Group includes students from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science.

Recent http://msrg.org/media/news.php}MSRG News and Events.

Current Students

Post-doctoral Fellows

  • Bala Maniymaran (Maniy), investigates "Event Processing Languages"

  • Chunyang Ye investigates "Event Exposure by Web services"

Ph.D. Candidates

  • Guoli Li investigates "Past and Future Data Query in Publish/Subscribe"

  • Vinod Muthusamy investigates "Declarative Distributed Applications"

  • Alex Cheung investigates "Load-balancing in Content-based Publish/Subscribe"

  • Reza Sherafat investigates "Fault-resilient Publish/Subscribe"

  • Young Yoon investigates "Highly Available Publish/Subscribe"

  • Chen Chen investigates "Overlay Construction for Publish/Subscribe and Messaging Systems"

  • Mo Sadoghi investigates "Publish/Subscribe Matching Algorithms"

Master's Candidates

  • Tony Chau, M.Eng. Candidate investigates "SLA-driven SOA Application Development"

  • Naweed Tajuddin, M.A.Sc. Candidate investigates "Static and Dynamic Publish/Subscribe Overlay Provisioning"

  • Patrick Lee, M.Sc. Candidate investigates "Datacenter-orient Overlays for Cloud Computing"

  • Amer Farroukh, M.A.Sc. Candidate investigates "Intrusion Detection"

  • Harsh Singh, M.A.Sc. Candidate investigates "Wire-line Publish/Subscribe"

Selected Talks

  • "Using Publish/Subscribe and Events to Enhance BPM Solutions". Presentation at the Gartner Event Processing Summit (Fall 2007). PPT

  • "Event Processing: An Academic Perspective". Presentation at the 2nd Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS) Symposium (Fall 2007). PPT

  • "AspeCt-oriented C". Presentation material about AspeCt-oriented C. PPT

  • "OS Customization versus OS Code Modularity with AspeCtC". Operating Systems Lecture Slides. PDF

Publications

A more recent collection of selected publications is available available via our group's publication list. Please send us your comments and feedback.

Recent Papers

  • Guoli Li, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Adaptive Content-based Routing in General Overlay Topologies". Coming soon.

  • Songlin Hu, Vinod Muthusamy, Guoli Li, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Distributed Automatic Service Composition in Large-Scale Systems." Distributed Event-Based Systems, July 2008. PDF

  • Charles Zhang and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Externalizing Java server concurrency with CAL". In ECOOP 2008: 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Paphos, Cyprus, July, 2008. PDF (draft)

  • Guoli Li, Shuang Hou, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Routing of XML and XPath Queries in Data Dissemination Networks". 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). Beijing, China 2008. PDF

  • Alex Wun and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "A Policy Framework for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Middleware" (Extended Version). ACM Middleware, November 2007, Newport Beach, California, USA. PDF

  • Zhengdao Xu and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Adaptive Location Constraint Processing" International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), Beijing, China.

  • Zhengdao Xu and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Evaluating Proximity Relations Under Uncertainty". IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey.

Technical Reports

  • Milenko Petrovic, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Managing Automation Data Flows in Sensor/Actuator Networks". Middleware Systems Research Group Technical Report, November 2007. PDF

  • Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Fault-Tolerant Publish/Subscribe Systems". Technical Report CSRG-570, Middleware Systems Research Group, University of Toronto, November 2007. PDF

  • Guoli Li, Vinod Muthusamy and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Adaptive Content-based Routing". In General Overlay Topologies. Middleware Systems Research Group Technical Report, October 2007. PDF

  • Zhengdao Xu and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Expressive Location-based Continuous Query Evaluation With Binary Decision Diagrams". Middleware Systems Research Group Technical Report, Nov. 2007. PDF

  • Vinod Muthusamy and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "Infrastructure-less Content-Based Publish/Subscribe." Middleware Systems Research Group Technical Report, March 2007. PDF

  • Michael Gong and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. "AspeCt-oriented C Language Specification". Working Technical Report, Middleware Systems Research Group. PDF

Research Projects

Current Projects

  • PADRES: Content-based Message Routing and Publish/Subscribe Middleware. Funded by CA, Sun Microsystems, NSERC, OCE, and CITO.

  • eQoSystem: SLA-driven Declarative Distributed Applications. Funded by IBM and NSERC.

  • Application Integration: Principles and Practice. Funded by Bell Canada and BUL.

Other Projects

  • ACC: AspeCt-oriented C for Boosting Modularity of C-based Systems

  • M-ToPSS and L-ToPSS: Middleware for Mobility and Location-based Services

  • MicroToPSS: Middleware for Sensor Networks

Recent Committee Work

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