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Current Research
We have had for many years an established track record and an internationally leading reputation in service-based software architectures and dependable distributed computing. Professor Jie Xu's work on co-ordinated atomic actions, distributed exception handling, and software dependability is internationally known.
This new technology consists of:
1) a service-centric software architecture for building complex Grid applications based on the notion of ultra-late binding, automatic negotiation and our previous experience in service-based software, and
2) new generic services for privacy-preserving and fault tolerance so as to facilitate the secure and dependable execution of Grid applications in a ubiquitous and potentially non-trustworthy network environment.
Our technology represents the significant trend in the application space – future distributed applications will be based on compositions of secure services discovered and provided dynamically at run time. Some of this work won the BCS Brendan Murphy Prize for 2001.
We are leading the EPSRC/DTI e-Demand project on a service-based architecture for dependable e-Science applications and have collaborated with BT, Keele and UMIST through the EPSRC IBHIS project and the EPSRC Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Network “ISEN” (GR/R19625) on the development of the “Software as a Service” architecture. We have also chaired and organised successfully a number of important IEEE conferences and workshops to shape the future research directions, and our work has been published in top US journals and conferences.
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