Research Projects

If you tell me, I will forget; if you show me, I will remember; if you let me experience, I will learn.
Lao Tzu.

The current and future projects related to the Laboratory's research domains are supported by external grants or are graduate thesis topics. Courses offered by Dr. Michael Sobolewski are designed to facilitate the execution of these projects.

1. An Algorithmic Logic for Job Control Contexts

2. An Embedded Database Framework for Service-Oriented Computing

3. Monitoring Execution of Service-Oriented Programs

4. Profiling service providers

5. Tracing job execution and performance analysis of service providers

6. Debugging Service-Oriented Programs

7. Comprehensive notification management (notifier, email notifications, tracer, monitor, debugger, profiler, provisioner, reporter, auditor, securer)

8. A Surrogate Framework for Limited Service-Oriented Clients

9. An Activation Framework for Service Providers

10. A Service UI for Service Requestors

11. Smart Proxy Providers for SORCER

12. Jini Security for SORCER

13. Service-Oriented Databases

14. JXTA Service Providers in SORCER

15. Dispatching Service Tasks to JXTA Peers in SORCER

16. Security defined by Policy object  created from DB

17. Authentication and Authorization framework for SORCER (Securer service)

18. Guarded objects in SORCER

19. Proxy verification for SeviceProvider

20. Mobile Code and Agents in SORCER

21. Self-Aware Agents in SORCER

22. An Autonomic Agent-Based Framework in SORCER

23. Notification/Transcription Management in SORCER

24. Answer-Set Semantics SORCER Providers

25. SOAP-Based SORCER Providers

26. Collaborative SORCER Programming Tools

27. A Framework for Thin Service Requestors (web browser, appletviewer, service UI)

28. S2S communication in SORCER (direct, cataloger, space)

29. Service Provisioning in the SORCER Environments

30. Trust in the SORCER Environments

31. Object-Space computing in the SORCER Environments

32. Globus (OGSA) integration with SORCER Environments

33. Document Manager and File Store with SORCER Providers

34. XML Support for SORCER Programming (task and job representations in XML)

35. Embedded policy databases for service providers (protection domains)

36. JavaSpaces manager for SORCER (Spacer service)

37. QoS with capability based lattice computing

38. Job exertions with multiple jobbers over SORCER.lattice

39. Mobile Device (CDC, CLDC) Gateways to SORCER

40. Java Card Cryptography Services for SORCER

41. Transaction management for Requestor/Jobber/Provider

42. Lease management Requestor/Jobber/Provider

43. SORCER Instrumentation - platform MBeans

44. Chunks management for SILENUS

45. Virtual file framework for SILENUS

46. Asynchronous Federated Method Invocation

47. Transactional Federated Method Invocation

48. URL sorcer/silenus protocol handlers

49. Workflow editor for exertion-oriented programming

50. Annotating service context with service signatures

51. Service provider installer with IzPack
    

Computer Science SORCER Lab Box 43104, Boston & 8th, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA Tel: (806)-742-5851   Fax: (806) 742-3519 Email: sorcer@cs.ttu.edu