The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Software Engineering

Research Interests:

My research interests are in the field of software engineering. The underlying theme, and long-term goal, of my research is to devise techniques and tools that aid with the construction, analysis, and maintenance of large-scale distributed and embedded software systems. The inherent complexity of large-scale software systems has always posed a significant challenge to software practitioners. On top of this, an emerging class of non-conventional computing domains (e.g., embedded, pervasive, and mobile) are presenting the practitioners with a formidable set of new challenges: heterogeneity of both hardware and software, limited computing resources, mobility, scalability to large amounts of data and numbers of devices, dynamic reconfigurability, rapid composability, and so on.

The overarching hypothesis of my research is that an architectural focus can also remedy many of the difficulties posed by the newly emerging class of non-conventional computing domains. My work to date has investigated a wide range of issues in the area of distributed and embedded software architectures: self-* systems, architectural middleware, modeling and estimation of Quality of Service (QoS) properties, software deployment, and architectural analysis.

Contact Information:

Email: email obfuscated - click to reveal
Phone: 703-993-1677
WWW: http://cs.gmu.edu/~smalek/