Farshad A. Samimi, Ph.D.
	Software Engineering and Network Systems Laboratory
	Department of Computer Science & Engineering
	Michigan State University

    Curriculum Vitae [ pdf ] / Concise CV (resume) [ pdf ]

Graduated in 2007, I currently work in Silicon Valley on mobile media technologies.

    Research

• Topics: Mobile Media Technologies, Autonomic Computing, Networking & Communication Services, Adaptive Systems & Middleware, Pervasive Mobile Computing, Overlay Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems
• Service Clouds: Overlay-Based Infrastructure for Autonomic Communication Services

    Publications

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Dissertation

• Farshad A. Samimi, "Service Clouds: Overlay-Based Infrastructure for Autonomic Communication Services," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, 2007. [pdf | bib]

Journals

• Farshad A. Samimi, Philip K. McKinley, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Chiping Tang, Jonathan K. Shapiro, and Zhinan Zhou, "Service Clouds: Distributed Infrastructure for Adaptive Communication Services," IEEE Transactions on Network and System Management (TNSM), Volume 4, Issue 2, pages 84-95, September 2007. [pdf | bib]

Conferences / Workshops

• Farshad A. Samimi and Philip K. McKinley, "Dynamis: Dynamic Overlay Service Composition for Distributed Stream Processing," Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, San Francisco, California, USA, July 2008 (to appear). [pdf | bib] (An extended version is available as technical report MSU-CSE-06-39.)
• Philip K. McKinley, Farshad A. Samimi, Jonathan K. Shapiro, and Chiping Tang, "Service Clouds: A Distributed Infrastructure for Constructing Autonomic Communication Services," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), pages 341-348, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, September 2006. [pdf | bib] (An extended version is available as technical report MSU-CSE-05-31.)
• Farshad A. Samimi, Philip K. McKinley, S. Masoud Sadjadi, "Mobile Service Clouds: A Self-Managing Infrastructure for Autonomic Mobile Computing Services," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems & Services (SelfMan 2006, June 2006, Dublin, Ireland), volume 3996 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS),  pages 130-141, Springer-Verlag, 2006. [pdf | bib]
• Farshad A. Samimi, Philip K. McKinley, S. Masoud Sadjadi, and Peng Ge, "Kernel-Middleware Interaction to Support Adaptation in Pervasive Computing Environments," Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 04), pages 140-145, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 2004. [pdf | bib]

Technical Reports

• Farshad A. Samimi and Philip K. McKinley, "Dynamis: Dynamic Overlay Service Composition for Distributed Stream Processing," Technical Report MSU-CSE-06-39, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, December 2006. [pdf | bib]
• Philip K. McKinley, Farshad A. Samimi, Jonathan K. Shapiro, and Chiping Tang, "Service Clouds: A Distributed Infrastructure for Composing Autonomic Communication Services," Technical Report MSU-CSE-05-31, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, November 2005. [pdf | bib]
• Farshad A. Samimi and Philip K. McKinley, "A Survey of Kernel-Middleware Interaction in Support of Cross-Layer Adaptation in Mobile Computing," Technical Report MSU-CSE-04-44, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 2004. [pdf | bib]

Posters

• Farshad A. Samimi, Zhinan Zhou, and Philip K. McKinley, "Mobile Service Clouds: An Autonomic Infrastructure for Pervasive Mobile Computing ," Tenth Annual CSE Poster Workshop, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, April 21, 2006.
• Farshad A. Samimi, Chiping Tang, and Philip K. McKinley, "UAF: A Distributed Adaptation Framework for Service-Oriented Overlay Streaming," Poster Workshop, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, April 8, 2005. (Won first prize in software engineering category.)
• Farshad A. Samimi and Philip K. McKinley, "Robust Pervasive Computing Using a Kernel-Middleware eXchange (KMX)," Michigan State University CyberSecurity Initiative Workshop, November 15, 2003.

 

 

since August 2005