Professor
Department of Computer Science
Research interests:
Modeling and analysis of complex concurrent systems, such as computer
and communications systems, computer networks, and manufacturing systems;
hierarchical modeling and simulation; distributed computing and in
particular computing on clusters of workstation and/or PCs;
performance evaluation of systems and in particular structural and
operational methods in performance evaluation; Petri nets and timed Petri
nets; software tools for analysis of net models; implementation of software
tools and interoperability of such tools.
Current research areas:
Other research areas:
Recent publications:
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"Two-stage siphon-based deadlock detection in Petri nets" (with D.C. Craig);
in Current Advances in Computing, engineering and Information Technology,
P. Petratos, P. Dandapami (eds.), Int. Society for Advanced Research, Palermo,
Italy, pp.317-330, 2008.
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"Timed Petri nets in modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems";
in: Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Control Systems, vol.1,
Int. Society for Advanced Research, Palermo, Italy, pp.66-73, 2007.
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"Efficient siphon-based deadlock detection in Petri nets" (with D.C. Craig);
Proc. 3-rd Int. Conf. on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens,
Greece, July 2007.
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"Multicomponent compatibility and its verification" (with D.C. Craig);
Proc. 7-th Int. Conf. on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD-07),
Bratislava, Slovakia, pp.233-235, July 2007.
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"Component compatibility and its verification" (with D.C. Craig);
Proc. First Int. Workshop on Software Architecture Research and Practice
(SARP-07), part of the 2-nd Int. Conf. on Digital Telecommunications
(ICTD-07), Silicon Valley, USA, pp.26-32, July 2007.
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"Petri Nets in modeling component behavior and verifying component
compatibility (with D.C. Craig); Proc. Int. Workshop on Petri Nets
and Software Engineering (PNSE'07), part of the 28-th Int. Conf. on
Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Councurrency,
Siedlce, Poland, pp.160-174, June 2007.
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"Verification of component behavioral compatibility"
(with D.C. Craig); Proc. 2-nd Int. Conf. on Dependability of Computer Systems
(DepCoS'07), Szklarska Poreba, Poland, pp.294-304, June 2007.
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"Modeling and analysis of simultaneous multithreading";
Proc. 14-th Int. Conf. on Analytical and Stochastic Modeling Techniques
and Applications (ASMTA-07), a part of the 21-st European Conference on
Modeling and Simulation (ECMS'07), Prague, Czech Republic, pp.115-120,
June 2007.
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"Timed Petri nets in modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems";
Int. Journal of Factory Automation, Robotics and Soft Computing,
issue 2, pp.30-37, April 2007.
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"Compatibility of software components - modeling and verification"
(with D.C. Craig); Proc. Int. Conf. on Dependability of Computer Systems
(DepCoS'06), Szklarska Poreba, Poland, pp.11-18, May 2006.
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"Speedup of distributed iterative solvers of large sparse systems
of linear equations" (with T.D.P. Perera);
WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, vol.4, no.3, pp.281-288, 2005.
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"Modeling and verification of compatibility of component composition"
(with D.C. Craig); Proc. 3-rd Workshop on Modeling of Objects, Components,
and Agents (MOCA'04), Aarhus, Denmark, pp.117-130, October 2004.
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"Cluster tools with chamber revisiting - modeling and analysis using
timed Petri nets"; IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing,
vol.17, no.3, pp.333-344, 2004.
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"Modeling and analysis of dual block multithreading";
in Applying Formal Methods: Testing, Performance, and M/E-Commerce
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3236), Proc. European Performance Evaluation
Workshop (EPEW'04) of the 24-th IFIP WG 6.1 Int. Conf. on Formal Techniques
for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE'04), Toledo, Spain, pp.209-219,
September 2004.
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"On the speedup of distributed linear solvers" (with T.D.P. Perera);
Proc. 5-th EUROSIM Congress on Modeling and Simulation (Special Session
on Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Systems and Networks),
Marne la Vallee, France, pp.222-223, September 2004.
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"Enhanced interleaved multithreaded multiprocessors and their performance
analysis"; Proc. 4-th Int. Conf. on Application of Concurrency to System
Design (ACSD-04), Hamilton, Canada, pp.7-15, June 2004.
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"Estimation of the speedup of distributed applications"; Proc. Int. Conf.
on Advances in the Internet, Processing, Systems, and Interdisciplinary
Research (IPSI'04), Studenica Monastery, Serbia, June 2004.
Other publications
Postal Address:
- Department of Computer Science
- Memorial University
- S.J. Carew Building
- St.John's, NL
- Canada A1B-3X5
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