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This timeline is meant to document the history of the SORCER lab
activities.
SORCER remains committed to leading the service-oriented revolution, expanding the boundaries of today's information technology and forecasting and redefining the capabilities of the computer
as the service-oriented metacomputer.
| Mar | 2002 |
SORCER Vision presented; FIPER: The Federated S2S Services in Environment, JavaOne, Sun’s 2002 Worldwide Java Developer Conference |
| Aug | SORCER announced at CE2002 | |
| Keynote paper on "Federated P2P Services in CE Environments" presented at CE2002 | ||
| Sept | Subcontract from GE Global Research Center for FIPER Enhancement'02 | |
| Graduate course CS-5331 Network Security offered (students) | ||
| Nov | Successful NIST FIPER Annual Review | |
| The SORCER Lab opens its doors | ||
| Dec | FIPER Enhancements 2002 completed and documented in four research reports | |
| Jan | 2003 | FIPER Enhancements 2002 documented in five technical reports |
| Jan | The lab finds its own home - CP B20 | |
| Course CS-5331 Advanced Network Programming offered | ||
| Course CS-3392 Computer Networks offered | ||
| Subcontract from GE Global Research Center for FIPER Enhancements'03 | ||
| Feb | SORCER Vision Illustrated in 3 Posters | |
| Mar | Ray Kolonay's Visit, FIPER V.5 Requirements Defined | |
| May | SORCER network infrastructure established | |
| July | CS 4000/5331course Java Programming offered | |
| Sept | 25-30 | Mike invited to Bejing Jiatong Uiversity, Beijing, China - FIPER/SORCER |
| Sept | Website
Support for the 11th International Conference on Concurrent
Engineering - Research and Applications, Beijing, China, 26 - 30
July, 2004 - http://www.ce2004.org Course CS5331 Peer-to-Peer Computing offered |
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| Oct | CE 2004 website hosted by the SORCER Lab | |
| Nov | SORCER at SC2003 | |
| Dec | SORCER P2P Computing projects completed | |
| Jan | 2004 | CS 5331 Mobile Computing offered |
| Successful SORCER Proth Pilot with HPCC TTU | ||
| Feb | 2004 Young Engineer Award, Dr. Scott Burton one of the major contributors to FIPER/SORCER | |
| Successful SORCER Demo at WP AFB | ||
| Mar | Document Manager for CE2004 developed | |
| Apr | SORCR network upgraded (DB server and Xserve G5) | |
| Two SORCER assisted GISO-A and GISO-B senior design projects completed | ||
| SORCER Spring04 Party | ||
| May | SORCER BLAST deployed at USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX | |
| Document Manager deployed by IT TTU with SORCER Lab assistance | ||
| 03 | Thesis defended by Sekhar Soorianarayanan | |
| Mobile Computing projects completed | ||
| SORCER Lab Overview | ||
| June |
Java Communities in Action. June 29, 2004 SGrid - SORCER demo at JavaOne 2004 |
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| July |
Participation at the
11th International
Conference on Concurrent Engineering - Research and Applications,
Beijing, China, 26 - 30 July, 2004 -
http://www.ce2004.org Two SORCER related papers published, Award for Outstanding Service as the Program Chair for Mike Sobolewski |
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| Aug |
Invited talks at Samsung Advanced Institute of
Technology (SAIT) on Grid and Service-Oriented Computing: The
Intergrid Perspective, Seoul, S.
Korea, August 6, 2004 Website Support for the 12th International Conference on Concurrent Engineering - Research and Applications, Renaissance Worthington Hotel - Ft. Worth/Dallas, USA, 25 - 29 July, 2005, http://www.ce2005.org |
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| Sept | 13 | Thesis defended by Mukundan Desikan |
| 14 | Thesis defended by Rama-Krishna Rao Pathangi | |
| Dec | Contributed to Sun's white paper on Build a Compute Grid with Jini™ Technology by Sun Microsystems. | |
| 18 | Sekhar Soorianarayanan, Mukundan Desikan, Rama-Krishna Rao Pathangi graduated | |
| 02 | Thesis defended by Abhijit Rai | |
| 06 | Thesis defended by Sandhya Madireddy | |
| 07 | Thesis Defended by Vivek Khurana | |
| Jan | 2005 | Academic Excellence Grant from Sun Microsystems, 5 new servers and 7 Sun Ray stations for the SORCER lab. |
| CS 5376 Communication Networks offered spring 2005 that includes Service-Oriented Networks (Jini, JXTA, Globus) and SORCER. | ||
| Feb | 25 | SORCER Update, GUG meeting |
| Mar | The Yield Tracker project funded by USDA, Lubbock - funding for two students: Yongjun Rong and Fajin Wang | |
| 09 | Thesis defended by Saurabh Bhatla | |
| 25 | Thesis defended by Ravi-Kiran Malladi-Venkata | |
| 31 | Thesis defended by Kiran Masapari | |
| May | Saurabh Bhatla, Sandhya Madireddy, Kiran Masapari, Abhijit Rai, Ravi-Kiran Malladi-Venkata graduated | |
| Jun | 29 | Thesis defended by Timmayya Ame |
| Jul | 25-29 |
CE2005:
The 12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering:
Research and Applications Next Generation Concurrent Engineering:
Smart and Concurrent Integration of Product Data, Services, and
Control Strategies Renaissance Worthington Hotel - Ft. Worth/Dallas, USA, 25 - 29 July, 2005 - supported by the SORCER lab, three papers presented (see publications) |
| Aug | 01 | Thesis defended by Manu Ravichandran |
| The Yield Tracker project (six months) funded by Professor Steve Maas, USDA, Lubbock completed successfully (Yongjun Rong, Fajin Wang) | ||
| 29 | Course CS-5331 Design Patterns offered | |
| Timmayya Kalappa Ame graduated | ||
| Oct | Two Sun Ray VLANs (Linux/Solaris) with 6 stations on new 2Gbps network - secure access with smart cards | |
| Nov | 02 | Manu's Pizza Farewell Party |
| Dec | The Yield Tracker project for USDA, Lubbock - extended, funding for Vijay Akkineni | |
| 17 | Manu M. Ravichandran and Vivek Khurana graduated | |
| Jan |
11, 2006 |
CS-4000-1/5331-2 Spring 2006, Object-Oriented Programming in Java offered |
| Feb | 23 | COE Research Open House - SORECER research activities including SILENUS, SGrid, Yield Tracker projects demonstrated |
| 25 | SORCER Lab members assist TCEA High School Programming Contest - Judges | |
| April | 07 | SORCER Metacomputing concepts defined |
| May | 11 | Thesis defended by Yongjun Rong (dinner) |
| Jun | 26 | AF Research Lab, WP AFB, Michael Alger - Internship, Mike Sobolewski - ASEE Faculty Fellow 2006 AF SFFP (9 weeks) |
| Aug | 12 | Yongjun Rong graduated |
| Fall 06 | CS 5376 Communication Networks offered, includes Service-Oriented Networks (Jini, JXTA, Globus) and SORCER. | |
| Fall 06 |
CS4311 Senior Project Design offered - 4 SORCER related projects | |
| Sept | 04-07 | Mike invited to BeiHnag Uiversity, Beijing, China - FIPER/SORCER |
| 17 | Manu and Mukundan - home coming | |
| Oct | 26 | Thesis defended by Michael Angelo A. Alger (dinner) |
| 27 | Dissertation defended by Max Berger | |
| Dec | 07 |
Presentations at TTU Grid Users Group
Meeting: - SILENUS: SORCER Federated File System - Max Berger - BitTorrent in SILENUS - Adam Turner |
| 12-20 | Mike invited to Jiaotong Uiversity, Beijing, China - FIPER/SORCER | |
| 15 | Max Berger graduated | |
| Jan | 10, 2007 | CS4311 Senior Project Design offered - 2 SORCER related projects |
| Feb | 22 | Research Open House - SORCER Research Group, Thank you letter |
| 24 | SORCER Lab members assist TCEA High School Programming Contest - Judges | |
| Mar | 05 | TTU University Day - presenting CS/SORCER |
| 05 | Mike selected as a ASEE Faculty Fellow for 2007 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program at AFRL/VA WPAFB, OH. Chris Hard as his research assistant. | |
| 28 | Thesis defended by Adam Turner (dinner) | |
| April | 17 |
Mike signed three international collaborative
agreements: 1. With the Computer Research Institute of Korolev Samara State Aerospace University, Samara, Russia and the School of Mathematics and Information Technologies of Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia 2. 720 Laboratory, BeiHang University, Beijing, China 3. Intelligent Engineering Laboratory, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China |
| 25 | Thesis defended by Daniela Inclezan (dinner) | |
| Thesis defended by Fajin Wang (dinner) | ||
| May | 16-24 | Mike invited by Samara State Aerospace University and Ulyanovsk State University |
| 22 | Mike awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Computer Science at Ulyanovsk State University, May 22, 2007 | |
| Jun | 6-7 | Daniela [paper] and Max [paper] presented papers at 2nd Annual Symposium on Information Assurance |
| Jun Aug |
24 24 |
SORCER related research at AFRL/VA WPAFB, OH. Mike as an ASEE Faculty Fellow for 2007 Air Force Summer Faculty and Chris Hard as his research assistant. |
| Aug | 27 | Fall 2007 SORCER related courses offered: CS4392 and CS5376 |
| Aug | 28- Nov 1 |
Dr. Wensheng Xu from Beijing Jiaotong University, a Visiting Scholar for 2 months at SORCER Lab (SCoD project) |
| Sept | 3-7 | Professor JT Deng's (BeiHang University, China) visit to SORCER Lab and Palo Duro Canyon - SCoD project coordination |
| Sept | 19-24 | Professor John Cha's (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) visit to SORCER Lab - CoSEA project coordination |
| Oct | 15- 21 | The Russian Delegation visit to SORCER Lab and TTU |
| Nov | 20 | Li Guo from BeiHang University, Beijing, China, a visiting Scholar for 1 year at SORCER Lab (CoSEA project) |
| Jan | 2008 | CS3365 Software Engineering offered for SORCER adepts |
| Jan | 11 | Thesis defended by Adam Thomas-Murphy (dinner) |
| March | 26 | Thesis defended by Daniel Kerr |
| Apr | 18 |
Seminar for Mechanical Engineering, TTU Metacomputing in Concurrent Engineering [ Abstract] |
| April | 30 | Thesis defended by Chris Hard |
| Jun | SORCER papers presented at ASIA'08 (Best Paper Award), ICEIS 2008, WETICE'08 | |
| Jun | 22 | Mike's SORCER Research at AFRL, June 23 August |
| Aug | 25 | Fall 2008 SORCER related courses offered: CS3365 and CS5376 |
| Oct | 14 | Thesis defended by Sujit Bhosale |
| Nov |
Pawl Rubach from Warsaw School of Economics, Poland,
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at SORCER Lab, Nov 2008-May 2009 Research: SLA-based QoS Framework for Federated Autonomic Computing |
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| Jan | 2009 | CS3365 Software Engineering offered for SORCER adepts |
| March | 24 | Thesis defended by Greg McChesney |
| Apr | 28 | CS Colloquium, Pawel Rubach: SLA-based QoS Framework for Federated Computing Environments |
| May | 4 | Thesis defended by Satish Vellanki |
| Jul | Dec | Mike's SORCER Research at AFRL/WPAFB, Directorate of Air Vehicles, Multidisciplinay Science and Technology Center. |
| Oct | 9 | Thesis defended by Amaresh Ghosh |
| Jan | 2010 | SORCER Lab moved to SORCERsoft.org as the independent lab with the goal to create the open source metacomputing platform. |
| Feb | 17 | SORCER presented at the workshop on Service Oriented Architecture pushed to the limit in eGovernment by the European Commision |
| From | June | Mike's SORCER research continued at AFRL/WPAFB, Directorate of Air Vehicles, Multidisciplinay Science and Technology Center. |
| Sept | 6 | Tutorial at CE2010: Metacomputing Analysis and Design in SORCER and the paper on Version Control Management for Federated |
| Oct | 28 | Keynote at OTM2010: Exerted Enterprise Computing: from Protocol-oriented to Exertion-oriented Networking |
| Nov | 16 | Dissertation defended by Pawel Rubach |
| Jan | 2010 | Keynote on Provisioning Object-oriented Service Clouds for Exertion-oriented Programming at the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011) |
| June | 26-20 | Service ORiented Computing EnviRonment (SORCER) for Large Scale, Distributed, Dynamic Fidelity Aeroelastic Analysis & Optimization at International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics (IFASD2011), Paris, France. |
| Oct | 28 | Keynote at OTM2010: Exerted Enterprise Computing: from Protocol-oriented to Exertion-oriented Networking |
| Jan | 2012 | The SORCER related project funded by NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China): No. 51175033, from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2015, ”Research on manufacturing resource integration and coordination management based on SOOA in cloud manufacturing environment”. |
| May | Object-Oriented Service Clouds for Transdisciplinary Computing in Cloud Computing and Services Science, (Eds.) I. Ivanov, M. van Sinderen, B.Shishkov, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4614-2325-6, 2012, pp. 3-32 | |
| Sept |
Unified Mogramming with Var-Oriented Modeling and Exertion-Oriented Programming Languages, Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2012, 5, 9, (http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=22393) |
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| Sept | 3-7 | SORCER Service-oriented Programming for Design Space Exploration at CE2012 |
| Feb | 2013 |
The snaphost of of SORCER (open source version) released by SORCERsoft.com/SMT Software S.A., the contract number POIG.01.04.00-14-062/12 Engineering Toolkit in cooperation with the Polsih-Japanese Institute of IT. The SORCERsoft.com S.A. is focused on the commertial tools for the SORCER environment. |
| June | 1-2 | Workshop on Exertion-oriented Programming with Open Source SORCER, Ulyanovsk State University, Russia |
| June | <16 | The first version of the stable open source SORCER realased by SORCERsoft.com |
| Sept | 2-6 | A SORCER related keynote, paper, and tutorial presnted at the CE2013 conference, Melbourne, Australia by the AFRL/WPAFB team (Drs R. Kolonay, M. Sobolewski, and S. Burton) |
| Jan | 2014 | Jan 13-17 a graduate SORCER-based course on Service-oriented Network System by Mike Sobolewskis at Polish-Japanese University, Warsaw, Poland |
| May | <29 | Keynote on "Integrated Product Development with Context-aware Multi-fidelity Domain-specific Models and True Services" at the International Conference on Advanced and Agile Manufacturing Systems (ICAM-2014) |
| May | 30 | At ICAM 2014 Mike Sobolewski received the ISPE USA Life Time Achievment Award Certificat |
| June | "Service Oriented Computing Platform: An Architectural Case Study" by Mike Sobolewki in R. Ramanathan and K. Raja, Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing, Vol. 1, Chapter 10. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-6178-3. | |
| Sept | 8-11 | "Unifying Front-end and Back-end Federated Services for Integrated Product Development", Keynote at the 21st ISPE Inc. International Conference on Concurrent Engineering held at the Beijing Jiaotong University, China, September 8-11th, 2014. (http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/moving-integrated-product-development-to-service-clouds-in-the-global-economy) Presented an Academic Lecture to the members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering on "A Federated Computing Environment to Achive the Best in Class Approach (BCA)". Certificat |
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