[Colloquium] Liu/Dissertation Defense/5-4-06

[Margaret Jaffey]

	Department of Computer Science/The University of Chicago

			***  Dissertation Defense ***


Candidate: Chuang Liu

Date:  Thursday, May 4, 2006

Time and Location:  9:30 a.m. in Ryerson 251

Title:  A Symmetric and Polyvalent Resource Location System

Abstract:
The recent development of Internet leads to a new generation of large- 
scale distributed applications, ranging from grid-based scientific  
computing applications to p2p content distribution networks and multi- 
player online games, which run on heterogeneous and dynamic resources  
connected by Internet. To archive good performance or efficiency,  
these systems need to run on resources with required properties.  
Therefore, resource location service, that is a mechanism for both  
publishing resource descriptions and locating resources satisfying  
specified constraints, has been used as a primitive service to build  
these distributed systems.

In this presentation, I present the modeling of new resource location  
problems appeared in distributed systems, and proposing high- 
performance algorithms to solve these problems. Based on these models  
and algorithms, I built a scalable resources service that support  
queries for a computer and computer set connected by the Internet  
with desired individual or aggregated properties.

Candidate's Advisor:  Prof. Ian Foster

A draft copy of Mr. Liu's dissertation will be available soon in Ry  
161A.


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Margaret P. Jaffey                             margaret at cs.uchicago.edu
Department of Computer Science
Student Support Rep (Ry 161A)        (773) 702-6011
The University of Chicago                  http://www.cs.uchicago.edu
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