That should be in the previous post about the 2nd part of the summer 2009, but it's so important I thought it deserved its own post!
So yes Anna and I now share the same family name. The ceremony was nice, see some of the photos on my Facebook [1] account for more details. It was also the occasion for our families to meet – for the first time – and it all went smoothly. Funny moment when my parents “discretely” whispered to me during the ceremony that the rings were on the wrong hand...turns out in Poland and in France THE hand is not the same.
After this, I went to Krakow for a job interview at the Distributed Group of AGH University [2]. This went just as well as the wedding and I was offered a job on the spot! And guess what, I'm starting on the 1st of December. Needless to say that Anna and I are delighted, we'll finally be able to settle somewhere – and in Krakow s'il vous plaît!
[1] http://www.facebook.com/pierre.de.leusse (I've just realised that I'm a resource on the Facebook website, this is so cool and so geeky!)
[2] http://portal.ics.agh.edu.pl
16 November 2009
Summer tour 2009 part 2, more submissions and writing up
It seems a bit late to write about the second part of last summer but here goes.
Following ICWS, I kept writing on my thesis (and still am) as well as polishing an article for a special edition “Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions” of the Wiley's Journal on Security and Communication Networks [1].
This was hard work that finally paid off thanks to David, Aris and couldn't have been done without Theo's guidance [2]. For the record this was a 6 months long denouement, with the 1st submission in January (2009) of 70ish pages which was accepted with major revisions, the 2nd submission of 20 pages long but which didn't comprise a change log that specified what and why we did changes in function of the reviews provided, before finally this last one...
By the way kudos to the reviewers for not only accepting the tedious task of going through and reviewing 70 pages of technical text but also doing it as well as they did! This is probably the best pieces of reviewing I have seen to date.
[1] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114299116/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
[2] David Brossard, Nektarios Georgalas and Theo Dimitrakos
Following ICWS, I kept writing on my thesis (and still am) as well as polishing an article for a special edition “Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions” of the Wiley's Journal on Security and Communication Networks [1].
This was hard work that finally paid off thanks to David, Aris and couldn't have been done without Theo's guidance [2]. For the record this was a 6 months long denouement, with the 1st submission in January (2009) of 70ish pages which was accepted with major revisions, the 2nd submission of 20 pages long but which didn't comprise a change log that specified what and why we did changes in function of the reviews provided, before finally this last one...
By the way kudos to the reviewers for not only accepting the tedious task of going through and reviewing 70 pages of technical text but also doing it as well as they did! This is probably the best pieces of reviewing I have seen to date.
[1] http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114299116/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
[2] David Brossard, Nektarios Georgalas and Theo Dimitrakos
21 July 2009
Summer tour 2009 part 1, AFIN and ICWS
AFIN’09 [1], in Glyfada, earlier this summer was a blast. These IARIA conferences might have a bad reputation amongst the academic community but I keep having a good time. This time I hooked up with some old acquaintance from Luxembourg University and met Reijo Savola from VTT amongst other Finns. We talked a bit about the GEMOM project [2] which seem to share a set of common goals with what we are working on at BT [3]. Hopefully further discussions with Reijo and Habtamu Abie from the Norwegian Computing Center will happen and be fruitful!
At the very opposite, ICWS [4], one of the top event in SOA in the academic calendar was very disappointing…Organisation was poor and the sessions I went to were almost empty. In addition, how can a paper on federated identity such as [5] can even make it to a research conference (especially one like ICWS) is staggering. As far as I can see there is no innovation, XACML solutions have been out there for 2-3 years at least now. Works from industry leaders like Layer 7, Vordel, Microsoft, Axiomatics and academic organisations like Newcastle, Vrije Universiteit and plenty others have been completely missed…very poor choice of paper. A quick look at that paper and its related work section will, I think, shock any SOA security researcher.
[1] The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, AFIN 2009, June 18-23, 2009 - Athens/Glyfada, Greece, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/AFIN09.html
[2] Genetic Message Oriented Genetic Middleware (GEMOM), A FP7 European Project - January 2008 – June 2010, http://www.gemom.eu
[3] Dimitrakos, T., Brossard, D. and de Leusse, P., Securing the Service Oriented Infrastructure: research challenges and emerging solutions, Handbook on communications and information security, Stavroulakis, P, 2009, To be published
[4] IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA, http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/
[5] Regina N. Hebig, Christoph Meinel, Michael Menzel, Ivonne Thomas, Robert Warschofsky, A Web Service Architecture for Decentralised Identity- and Attribute-based Access Control, Proc. 7th IEEE ICWS (Application and Industry Track), Los Angeles, USA, July 2009
At the very opposite, ICWS [4], one of the top event in SOA in the academic calendar was very disappointing…Organisation was poor and the sessions I went to were almost empty. In addition, how can a paper on federated identity such as [5] can even make it to a research conference (especially one like ICWS) is staggering. As far as I can see there is no innovation, XACML solutions have been out there for 2-3 years at least now. Works from industry leaders like Layer 7, Vordel, Microsoft, Axiomatics and academic organisations like Newcastle, Vrije Universiteit and plenty others have been completely missed…very poor choice of paper. A quick look at that paper and its related work section will, I think, shock any SOA security researcher.
[1] The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, AFIN 2009, June 18-23, 2009 - Athens/Glyfada, Greece, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/AFIN09.html
[2] Genetic Message Oriented Genetic Middleware (GEMOM), A FP7 European Project - January 2008 – June 2010, http://www.gemom.eu
[3] Dimitrakos, T., Brossard, D. and de Leusse, P., Securing the Service Oriented Infrastructure: research challenges and emerging solutions, Handbook on communications and information security, Stavroulakis, P, 2009, To be published
[4] IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA, http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/
[5] Regina N. Hebig, Christoph Meinel, Michael Menzel, Ivonne Thomas, Robert Warschofsky, A Web Service Architecture for Decentralised Identity- and Attribute-based Access Control, Proc. 7th IEEE ICWS (Application and Industry Track), Los Angeles, USA, July 2009
26 May 2009
SOA governance architecture at ICWS
Later this summer, at ICWS [1], I will be presenting some of the ideas developed during the last few months on SOA governance [2]. In our quest to find a way to render business capabilities (e.g. web services) exposure and management easier, we have developed an architectural model that describes how to go at it.
The main points covered are resource (e.g. a software artefact such as a service) contextualisation, visibility, adaptation and life-cycle management as well as policy administration and process management. I know, there is a lot to cover in just 8 standard IEEE style pages, but apparently we’ve managed to do a good enough job for the reviewers to accept the paper.
If you would like more information on the topic please do drop me an email.
[1] IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/
[2] de Leusse, P., Dimitrakos, T., and Brossard, D., A governance model for SOA, IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The main points covered are resource (e.g. a software artefact such as a service) contextualisation, visibility, adaptation and life-cycle management as well as policy administration and process management. I know, there is a lot to cover in just 8 standard IEEE style pages, but apparently we’ve managed to do a good enough job for the reviewers to accept the paper.
If you would like more information on the topic please do drop me an email.
[1] IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/
[2] de Leusse, P., Dimitrakos, T., and Brossard, D., A governance model for SOA, IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA
9 April 2009
Academic achievements
Workshop organisation
Burton Group & BT - SOA governance
Technical committee
MESH 2009, MESH 2010, AFIN 2010, SECURWARE 2011
Technical reviewer
Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal - special issue on Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions
Third IFIP International Conference on Trust Management
Session Chair
MESH 2008, AFIN 09, SECURWARE 10
Book chapter
Dimitrakos, T., Brossard, D. and de Leusse, P., Securing the Service Oriented Infrastructure: research challenges and emerging solutions, Handbook on communications and information security, Stavroulakis, P, 2009, To be published
Journal article
de Leusse, P., Brossard, D. and Georgalas, N. (2010), Securing business operations in an SOA. Security and Communication Networks, 3: 456–485. doi: 10.1002/sec.188
Dimitrakos, T., Brossard, D. and de Leusse, P., Securing Business Operations in SOA, BT Technology Journal, vol.27, no.2 (https://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Journal/BTTJ/current/HTMLArticles/Volume26/22Securing/Default.aspx)
Conference/Worshop papers
de LEUSSE, P., Dimitrakos, T., SOA-based security governance middleware, SECURWARE 2010: the fourth international conference on Emerging security information, systems and technologies : 18–25 July 2010, Venice, Italy, eds. Reijo Savola, et al., IEEE, 2010, ISBN-13 978-0-7695-4095-5.
de Leusse, P., Dimitrakos, T., and Brossard, D., A governance model for SOA, IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA
de Leusse, P., Panos Periorellis, Dimitrakos, T., and Srijith K. Nair, Self Managed Security Cell, a security model for the Internet of Things and Services, The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, AFIN 2009, IEEE Computer Society, June 18-23, 2009, Athens/Vouliagmeni, Greece, Best paper award
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Watson, P. and Dimitrakos, T., A semi autonomic infrastructure to manage non functional properties of a service
In UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008, 8-11 September, Edinburgh, UK, National e-Science Centre, 2008
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Watson, P. and Maierhofer, A., Secure & Rapid Composition of Infrastructure Services in the Cloud, In The Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2008, 25-31, August 2008, Cap Esterel, France, pp 770-775, IEEE Computer Society, 2008
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Dimitrakos, T. and Watson, P., An architecture for non functional properties management in distributed computing, Doctoral Consortium on Software and Data Technologies - Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium on Software and Data Technologies, DCSOFT 2008, In Conjunction with ICSOFT 2008
2008, Pages 26-37
Demo
de Leusse, P., Kwolek, B., Zielinski, K., A middleware infrastructure for multi-rule-engine distributed systems, Towards a service-based internet : third European conference, ServiceWave 2010 : Ghent, Belgium, December 13–15, 2010 : proceedings / eds. Elisabetta Di Nitto, Ramin Yahyapour. — Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, cop. 2010. — (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; ISSN 0302-9743 ; 6481). — ISBN-10 3-642-17693-2 ; ISBN-13 978-3-642-17693-7.
de Leusse, P., Kwolek, B., Zielinski, K., A common interface for multi-rule-engine distributed systems, RuleML-2010 Challenge : 4th international rule challenge : Web rule symposium, p. 21–23, 2010 : proceedings., eds. Monica Palmirani, et al. Washington, DC, USA, October. (http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-649/)
de Leusse, P. and Brossard, D., Distributed systems security governance, a SOA based approach, Third IFIP International Conference on Trust Management, Springer, June 15-19, 2009, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Technical reports
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Watson, P., CS-TR No 1037 Enterprise Service Bus: An overview, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Jul 2007
Burton Group & BT - SOA governance
Technical committee
MESH 2009, MESH 2010, AFIN 2010, SECURWARE 2011
Technical reviewer
Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal - special issue on Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions
Third IFIP International Conference on Trust Management
Session Chair
MESH 2008, AFIN 09, SECURWARE 10
Book chapter
Dimitrakos, T., Brossard, D. and de Leusse, P., Securing the Service Oriented Infrastructure: research challenges and emerging solutions, Handbook on communications and information security, Stavroulakis, P, 2009, To be published
Journal article
de Leusse, P., Brossard, D. and Georgalas, N. (2010), Securing business operations in an SOA. Security and Communication Networks, 3: 456–485. doi: 10.1002/sec.188
Dimitrakos, T., Brossard, D. and de Leusse, P., Securing Business Operations in SOA, BT Technology Journal, vol.27, no.2 (https://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Journal/BTTJ/current/HTMLArticles/Volume26/22Securing/Default.aspx)
Conference/Worshop papers
de LEUSSE, P., Dimitrakos, T., SOA-based security governance middleware, SECURWARE 2010: the fourth international conference on Emerging security information, systems and technologies : 18–25 July 2010, Venice, Italy, eds. Reijo Savola, et al., IEEE, 2010, ISBN-13 978-0-7695-4095-5.
de Leusse, P., Dimitrakos, T., and Brossard, D., A governance model for SOA, IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA
de Leusse, P., Panos Periorellis, Dimitrakos, T., and Srijith K. Nair, Self Managed Security Cell, a security model for the Internet of Things and Services, The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, AFIN 2009, IEEE Computer Society, June 18-23, 2009, Athens/Vouliagmeni, Greece, Best paper award
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Watson, P. and Dimitrakos, T., A semi autonomic infrastructure to manage non functional properties of a service
In UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008, 8-11 September, Edinburgh, UK, National e-Science Centre, 2008
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Watson, P. and Maierhofer, A., Secure & Rapid Composition of Infrastructure Services in the Cloud, In The Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications, SENSORCOMM 2008, 25-31, August 2008, Cap Esterel, France, pp 770-775, IEEE Computer Society, 2008
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Dimitrakos, T. and Watson, P., An architecture for non functional properties management in distributed computing, Doctoral Consortium on Software and Data Technologies - Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium on Software and Data Technologies, DCSOFT 2008, In Conjunction with ICSOFT 2008
2008, Pages 26-37
Demo
de Leusse, P., Kwolek, B., Zielinski, K., A middleware infrastructure for multi-rule-engine distributed systems, Towards a service-based internet : third European conference, ServiceWave 2010 : Ghent, Belgium, December 13–15, 2010 : proceedings / eds. Elisabetta Di Nitto, Ramin Yahyapour. — Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, cop. 2010. — (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; ISSN 0302-9743 ; 6481). — ISBN-10 3-642-17693-2 ; ISBN-13 978-3-642-17693-7.
de Leusse, P., Kwolek, B., Zielinski, K., A common interface for multi-rule-engine distributed systems, RuleML-2010 Challenge : 4th international rule challenge : Web rule symposium, p. 21–23, 2010 : proceedings., eds. Monica Palmirani, et al. Washington, DC, USA, October. (http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-649/)
de Leusse, P. and Brossard, D., Distributed systems security governance, a SOA based approach, Third IFIP International Conference on Trust Management, Springer, June 15-19, 2009, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Technical reports
de Leusse, P., Periorellis, P., Watson, P., CS-TR No 1037 Enterprise Service Bus: An overview, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Jul 2007
4 April 2009
Gartner report “Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets” 2009
The Gartner report “Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets” version 2009 has arrived [1]. Of course it mentions that with the current crisis, SOA governance is more than ever of importance for organisations. But more importantly the report mentions that albeit the market (of SOA governance technologies) is still in turmoil, the companies have dramatically matured. This might mean that we could finally get some policy enforcement and governance common specifications...yes I'm an idealist...Please note that the report does mention the non existence of SOA governance interoperability common specification.
Governance seems to have officially passed the stage of being just “stick it into a registry so that we know where it is” (i.e. resource visibility) and we can read in this report a little bit about integration, interaction, monitoring, validation and life cycle management. I do keep hearing about governance product that are in fact “just” registries and repositories.
In fact, I'm quite pleased with this report as the very topic of my research in underlined as a “very apparent key data point”: “Customers are looking to govern their interactions with business partners and services provided by the cloud”.
We even get a quick definition (their own): "SOA governance is about ensuring and validating that assets and artifacts within the architecture are operating as expected and maintaining a certain level of quality".
[1] Gartner report “Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets”, available at http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/Images/Software_AG_Article4_SOA_tcm16-37108.pdf
Governance seems to have officially passed the stage of being just “stick it into a registry so that we know where it is” (i.e. resource visibility) and we can read in this report a little bit about integration, interaction, monitoring, validation and life cycle management. I do keep hearing about governance product that are in fact “just” registries and repositories.
In fact, I'm quite pleased with this report as the very topic of my research in underlined as a “very apparent key data point”: “Customers are looking to govern their interactions with business partners and services provided by the cloud”.
We even get a quick definition (their own): "SOA governance is about ensuring and validating that assets and artifacts within the architecture are operating as expected and maintaining a certain level of quality".
[1] Gartner report “Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets”, available at http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/Images/Software_AG_Article4_SOA_tcm16-37108.pdf
12 March 2009
Self Managed Security Cell, a security model for the Internet of Things and Services (IoTS)
I'm delighted to announce that my paper with Panos [1] and Theo [2] on Self Managed Security Cell, a security model for the Internet of Things and Services (IoTS) has been accepted at AFIN 2009 [3].
This paper discusses what we feel is necessary for security to work efficiently in the IoTS. IoTS is such an exciting domain and this paper is a written version of dicussions on the topic we've had at work/coffee/home/in front of the XBox...:)
[1] http://periorellis.blogspot.com/
[2] http://labs.bt.com/cissr/People.html
[3] The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet AFIN 2009
This paper discusses what we feel is necessary for security to work efficiently in the IoTS. IoTS is such an exciting domain and this paper is a written version of dicussions on the topic we've had at work/coffee/home/in front of the XBox...:)
[1] http://periorellis.blogspot.com/
[2] http://labs.bt.com/cissr/People.html
[3] The First International Conference on Advances in Future Internet AFIN 2009
10 March 2009
SOA governance Burton Group & BT workshop
A few weeks back I got very frustrated that BT's contract with the Burton Group didn't allow me to get the SOA Governance Infrastructure [1] report from Anne Thomas Manes. This could basically be the title of my thesis! :)
So as the good student that I am (I don't want to hear any laughs!), I wrote to them to explain my predicament and propose a deal: i'll show you mine, if you show me yours!
A few hours later I had a polite answer requesting a date for this meeting and names of Burton's analysts. Yes my work is that interesting! :) Thanks to my supervisor, Theo Dimitrakos [2] we could arrange for the meeting to take place and host it.
The SOA governance Burton Group & BT workshop is taking place at Adastral Park this Thursday (03.12.2009) where we will receive Richard Watson [3] and Manfred Haertel to discuss this very exciting topic.
[1] Anne Thomas Manes, SOA Governance Infrastructure, Application Platform Strategies Reference Architecture template, Burton Group, http://www.burtongroup.com/Research/PublicDocument.aspx?cid=946
[3] Theo Dimitrakos, Head of Security Architectures Research http://labs.bt.com/cissr/People.html
[3] Richard Watson, Analyst, Emphases: XML, java, J2EE, SOA, web services http://www.burtongroup.com/AboutUs/Bios/PrintBio.aspx?Id=149
So as the good student that I am (I don't want to hear any laughs!), I wrote to them to explain my predicament and propose a deal: i'll show you mine, if you show me yours!
A few hours later I had a polite answer requesting a date for this meeting and names of Burton's analysts. Yes my work is that interesting! :) Thanks to my supervisor, Theo Dimitrakos [2] we could arrange for the meeting to take place and host it.
The SOA governance Burton Group & BT workshop is taking place at Adastral Park this Thursday (03.12.2009) where we will receive Richard Watson [3] and Manfred Haertel to discuss this very exciting topic.
[1] Anne Thomas Manes, SOA Governance Infrastructure, Application Platform Strategies Reference Architecture template, Burton Group, http://www.burtongroup.com/Research/PublicDocument.aspx?cid=946
[3] Theo Dimitrakos, Head of Security Architectures Research http://labs.bt.com/cissr/People.html
[3] Richard Watson, Analyst, Emphases: XML, java, J2EE, SOA, web services http://www.burtongroup.com/AboutUs/Bios/PrintBio.aspx?Id=149
IFIPTM'09 SOA security governance demonstration
No post for ages as I've been kept very busy for the last few months.
But some results are starting to show up and to start: a demonstration proposal from David Brossard and myself has been accepted at IFIPTM 09 [1]. I'll present a prototype of SOA security governance I'm working on (the evaluation bit of my thesis). Some interesting (complex) middleware that allows to simplify and render security more dynamic for distributed systems. I cannot write much more about it since BT is attempting to patent it but it's both interesting and cool ;).
I've seen in the accepted papers that my ex colleague at Newcastle University Georgios PITSILIS is presenting his research. I hope I'll be able to catch up with him and see what he's up to now [2].
[1] The 3rd IFIP International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM'09) http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/IFIPTM/
[2] Georgios PITSILIS. Trust-enhanced Recommender Systems for Efficient
On-line collaboration http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/IFIPTM/apaper.html
But some results are starting to show up and to start: a demonstration proposal from David Brossard and myself has been accepted at IFIPTM 09 [1]. I'll present a prototype of SOA security governance I'm working on (the evaluation bit of my thesis). Some interesting (complex) middleware that allows to simplify and render security more dynamic for distributed systems. I cannot write much more about it since BT is attempting to patent it but it's both interesting and cool ;).
I've seen in the accepted papers that my ex colleague at Newcastle University Georgios PITSILIS is presenting his research. I hope I'll be able to catch up with him and see what he's up to now [2].
[1] The 3rd IFIP International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM'09) http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/IFIPTM/
[2] Georgios PITSILIS. Trust-enhanced Recommender Systems for Efficient
On-line collaboration http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/IFIPTM/apaper.html
8 January 2009
SOA is Dead; Long Live Services
It's been all over the technical news for the last few days and it won't fail to stir up quite a few heated discussions: it's of course Anne Thomas Manes' article SOA is Dead; Long Live Services [1].
It is indeed very interesting. But as Stefan Tilkov comments on Infoq [2]:
[1] http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2009/01/soa-is-dead-long-live-services.html
[2] http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/is-soa-dead
It is indeed very interesting. But as Stefan Tilkov comments on Infoq [2]:
In all fairness, Anne seems to object to the word SOA, not necessarily the concept, because it seems to have lost its meaning for many people.
[1] http://apsblog.burtongroup.com/2009/01/soa-is-dead-long-live-services.html
[2] http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/is-soa-dead
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