UC Institute for Software Research
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Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Washington University in Saint Louis
Coexistence, Collaboration, and Coordination Paradigms in the Presence of Mobility
Slides (pdf) of the talk
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April 4, 2008
Friday
Refreshments and Networking: 1:30
- 2:00
Presentation: 2:00 - 3:30
Faculty Host: André
van der Hoek, ISR
RSVP: Email RSVP required to Jessica Garcia at
by Monday March 31, 2008.
Location: UCI Bren Hall room 6011 (building #314)
Cost: No cost to attend.
Directions and parking information are available.
Abstract: Mobile computing is a broad field of study made possible by advances
in wireless technology, device miniaturization, and innovative
packaging of computing, sensing, and communication resources. This
talk is intended as a personal intellectual journey spanning a
decade of research activities, which have been shaped by the concern
with rapid development of applications designed to operate in the
fluid and dynamic settings that characterize mobile and sensor
networks. The presence of mobility often leads to fundamental
changes in our assumptions about the computing and communication
environment and about its relation to the physical world and the
user community.
This, in turn, fosters a sometimes radical reassessment of one's
perspective on software system design and deployment. Several
paradigm shifts made manifest by considerations having to do with
physical and logical mobility will be examined and illustrated by
research involving formal models, algorithms, middleware, and
protocols. Special emphasis will be placed on problems that entail
collaboration and coordination in the mobile setting.
About the Speaker: Gruia-Catalin Roman has an established research career with numerous
published papers in a multiplicity of computer science areas
including mobile computing, formal design methods, visualization,
requirements and design methodologies for distributed systems,
interactive high speed computer vision algorithms, formal languages,
biomedical simulation, computer graphics, and distributed databases.
His current research involves the study of formal models,
algorithms, design methods, and middleware for mobile computing and
sensor networks.
Roman was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, in
Philadelphia, where he received a B.S. degree (1973), an M.S. degree
(1974), and a Ph.D. degree (1976), all in computer science. He has
been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis since 1976 and
served as department chair for ten years. Roman served as associate
editor for ACM TOSEM, held leading positions in several
international conferences and workshops, and was the general chair
for ICSE 2005.
He is a founding member of the Saint Louis Information Technology
Coalition and an external advisor for the Saint Louis Science Center.