HD videos of policy driven components in distributed systems governance

I've been thinking about that for some time now: YouTube has the potential to be a great tool to increase research visibility and generate some feedback. I've already uploaded 3 videos showcasing some of the things I've done in the context of policy driven components in distributed systems governance.

The channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/PDLAGH

A middleware infrastructure for multiple rule-engine distributed systems

The rule technological landscape is becoming ever more complex, with an extended number of specifications and products. It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to integrate rule-driven components and manage interoperability in multi-rule engine environments. The described work presents the possibility to provide a middleware infrastructure for rule-driven components in a distributed system. The authors' approach leverages on a set of middleware, discovery protocol, rule interchange and user interface to alleviate the environment's complexity.
http://youtu.be/uNvHXPPquCw

Towards governance of rule and policy driven components in distributed systems

The rule and policy technological landscape is becoming ever more complex, with an extended number of specifications and products. It is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to integrate rule and policy driven components and manage interoperability in distributed environments. The described work presents an infrastructure going towards the governance of heterogeneous rule and policy driven components in distributed systems. The authors' approach leverages on a set of middleware, discovery protocol, knowledge interchange and consolidation to alleviate the environment's complexity.
http://youtu.be/i2PTbrTpNpY

yieldrif web console

Short tutorial on http://yieldrif.appspot.com/
http://youtu.be/fOUm55kkBr4

UK e-Science ALL HANDS MEETING 2008

Last week I was present at the AHM in Edinburgh. Amongst other cool things were talks from Andrew Martin and from Ross Anderson. Andrew's defence of the fact that security specialists should work together to come up with practical solutions (e.g. patterns, guidelines, scenarios) rather than work in their own corner was spot on.

The AssessGrid project demo along with the poster by Karim Djemame were also interesting. I'm working on similar issues of negotiation of non functional properties and I hope to have the chance to discuss more of this with Karim in the futur.

John and Paul's talks [1, 2] went well and it was good to see what they've been up to in more details.

Finally, my talk [3] went rather well, although I was disapointed by the low attendence.

[1] A Peer-to-Peer Database Server based on BitTorrent
[2] An Adaptive Distributed Query Processor for e-Science using Dynamic Service Deployment
[3] A semi autonomic infrastructure to manage non functional properties of a service