Mike Smit. Í Education. Employment. Halifax, NS

Transcription

1 Mike Smit Í Halifax, NS Education Doctor of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Dissertation: Supporting Quality of Service, Configuration, and Autonomic Reconfiguration using Services-Aware Simulation Supervisor: Eleni Stroulia Master of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax. Dissertation: Detecting Privacy Infractions in e-commerce Software Applications: A Framework and Methodology Supervisors: Jacob Slonim, Mike McAllister, Kelly Lyons Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), Dalhousie University, Halifax. Dissertation: Automated Analysis of P3P Privacy Policies Supervisor: Mike McAllister 2013-present June/July Employment Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. As a faculty member in the School of Information Management, Faculty of Management, deliver courses in two Masters programs (Information Management and Library and Information Studies); conduct interdisciplinary research that contributes to the training and development of highly qualified personnel; and contribute to the Faculty, the University, and the community through service. Program Director/Manager/Faculty, SHAD Valley Dalhousie, Halifax, NS. As program director ( ), hire and supervise staff; oversee program planning and budget; hold responsibility for an effective and safe program. As manager ( ), plan and execute the logistics and staffing of a 60-person summer program. As faculty, prepare and offer CS lectures and hands-on seminars to 50 of Canada s brightest high school students, enhance their leadership and entrepreneurial skills, and organize lectures from the science community Post-doctoral Fellow, York University [Marin Litoiu], Toronto, ON. Ontario MRI Fellowship. Work with PhD and Masters students; conduct independent research; assist in authoring research proposals; theme postdoc in SAVI Strategic Network present Owner / Operator, ivoteonline.com / PontisTech.ca. Founded and operate a software-as-a-service technical company. Secure and private online voting, online performance review systems, form management systems, content management systems, and custom development of web technologies (HTML5, CSS, Javascript, PHP) Research Fellowship, IBM Centers for Advanced Studies, Toronto, Ontario. Collaborated with IBM development teams (WebSphere Commerce and Tivoli Provisioning Manager). Collaboration included filing a joint patent, training testers and support staff on privacy issues, proposing line items for future product versions. 1/6

2 Publications Submitted Alieda Blandford, Dominique Taylor, and Michael Smit. Examining the role of information in the civic engagement of youth. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS/Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI, Conferences, Journals, & Book Chapters [Chapter] Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, Hongbin Lu, and Marin Litoiu. Services, Networking and Management, chapter Performance Management and Monitoring. Wiley, Cloud IEEE- Bradley Simmons, Mark Shtern, Marin Litoiu, and Michael Smit. Toward a solution for the cloud account delegation problem. In CASCON 14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on collaborative research, Emerging Technology Track. IBM Corp., Mark Shtern, Michael Smit, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu. A runtime cloud efficiency software quality metric. In Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pages , Cornel Barna, Mark Shtern, Hamoun Ghanbari, Michael Smit, and Marin Litoiu. Model-driven elasticity and DoS attack mitigation in cloud environments. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), pp , [Journal] Cornel Barna, Mark Shtern, Michael Smit, Vassilios Tzerpos, and Marin Litoiu. Mitigating DoS attacks using performance model-driven adaptive algorithms. Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 9(1):3:1 3:26, Michael Smit, Bradley Simmons, Mark Shtern, and Marin Litoiu. Enabling an enhanced data-as-aservice ecosystem. In IEEE Congress on Services, Cloud Cup, pp IEEE Computer Society, (Placed 3rd.) Hongbin Lu, Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, and Marin Litoiu. Pattern-based deployment service for next generation clouds. In IEEE Congress on Services, Cloud Cup, pp IEEE Computer Society, (Placed 2nd.) Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, and Marin Litoiu. Toward an ecosystem for precision sharing of segmented big data. In IEEE CLOUD Application and Experience, pp , (Acceptance rate: 25%) Michael Smit, Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu. Supporting application development with structured queries in the cloud. In New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track, Proc. of the 2013 Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp , (Acceptance Rate: 22%) [Journal] Michael Smit, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu. Distributed, application-level monitoring of heterogeneous clouds using stream processing. Future Generation Computer Systems, 29(8) pp , Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, and Marin Litoiu. Navigating the cloud with a MAP. In 13th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), pp , Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, and Marin Litoiu. An architecture for overlaying private clouds on public providers. In 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2012, Las Vegas, USA, pp , (Acceptance Rate: 15.5%) Michael Smit, Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu. Partitioning applications for hybrid and federated clouds. In CASCON 12: Proceedings of the 2012 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on collaborative research, pp , (Acceptance Rate: 25%) [Journal] Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Simulating Service-Oriented Systems: A Survey and the Services-Aware Simulation Framework. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, /6

3 Michael Smit, Przemyslaw Pawluk, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu. A web service for cloud metadata. In IEEE Congress on Services, pp , Los Alamitos, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society. (Placed third.) Przemyslaw Pawluk, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, Marin Litoiu, and Serge Mankovski. Introducing STRATOS: A cloud broker service. In 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), pp , (Acceptance Rate: 18%.) Cornel Barna, Mark Shtern, Michael Smit, Vassilios Tzerpos, and Marin Litoiu. Model-based adaptive DoS attack mitigation. In Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, pp , (Acceptance Rate: 30%.) [Chapter] Himanshu Vashishtha, Michael Smit, and Eleni Stroulia. Migrating a legacy web-based document-analysis application to Hadoop: An experience report. Migrating Legacy Applications: Challenges in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing Environments, pp , [Chapter] Yuriy Brun, Ron Desmarais, Kurt Geihs, Marin Litoiu, Antonia Lopes, Mary Shaw, and Michael Smit. A design space for adaptive systems. In Software Engineering for Self-adaptive Systems II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (Invited.) Koosha Golmohammadi, Michael Smit, and Osmar Zaiane. Learning Actions in Complex Software Systems. In 13th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK), pp , (Acceptance Rate: 30%.) Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Automated state-space exploration for configuration management of service-oriented applications. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 11, pp , Washington, DC, USA, (Acceptance Rate: 17%.) Himanshu Vashishtha, Michael Smit, and Eleni Stroulia. Moving text analysis tools to the cloud. In IEEE Congress on Services, pp , Los Alamitos, CA, USA, (Placed third.) Michael Smit, K. Lyons, M. McAllister, and J. Slonim. Detecting privacy infractions in applications: A framework and methodology. In IEEE 6th International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 09., pp IEEE, (Acceptance Rate: 23%.) Michael Smit, Eleni Stroulia, and Kenny Wong. Use case redocumentation from GUI event traces. In European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp , Los Alamitos, CA, USA, IEEE Computer Society. (Acceptance Rate: 28%.) Michael Smit, Andrew Nisbet, Eleni Stroulia, Andrew Edgar, Gabriel Iszlai, and Marin Litoiu. Capacity planning for service-oriented architectures. In CASCON 08: Proceedings of the 2008 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on collaborative research, pp , New York, NY, USA, ACM. (Acceptance Rate: 30%.) Refereed Workshop & Short Papers Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Maintaining and Evolving Service Level Agreements: Motivation and Case Study. In IEEE International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service- Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems, pp. 1 9, Michael Smit, B. Gergel, H.J. Hoover, and E. Stroulia. Code convention adherence in evolving software. In Software Maintenance (ICSM), th IEEE International Conference on, pp IEEE, Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Autonomic configuration adaptation based on simulationgenerated state-transition models. In 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Exploring simulation-based configuration decisions. In Paul Maglio, Mathias Weske, Jian Yang, and Marcelo Fantinato, editors, Service-Oriented Computing, volume 6470 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Configuration decision making using simulation-generated data. In E. Maximilien, Gustavo Rossi, Soe-Tsyr Yuan, Heiko Ludwig, and Marcelo Fantinato, editors, Service-Oriented Computing, volume 6568 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, /6

4 Michael Smit, Andrew Nisbet, Eleni Stroulia, Gabriel Iszlai, and Andrew Edgar. Toward a simulation-generated knowledge base of service performance. In MWSOC 09: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing, Nov Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Michael Smit, Bruce Fraser, Eleni Stroulia, and H. James Hoover. Comprehending aspect-oriented programs: Challenges and open issues. In International Conference on Program Comprehension, pp , Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Patent Applications 2014 Systems and Methods of Precision Sharing of Big Data, Marin Litoiu, Mark Shtern, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit Privacy Modeling Framework For Software Applications, Joint with IBM, Jen Hawkins, Darshanand Khusial, Kelly Lyons, Michael McAllister, Jacob Slonim, Michael Smit. Funded Research Projects 2015 Nova Scotia Environment, Building a Historic Flood Database: A Big Data Approach, PI; with the Big Data Analytics Institute & The Chronicle Herald NSERC Discovery, Enabling Cloud Computing for Seamless Research Computation, PI NCE, Graphics, Animation, and New Media, Network Investigator, Knowledge Networking for Organizational Work project Dalhousie Research Development Fund, Exploring the Effects of Open Information on Civic Engagement, PI. Teaching INFO 5520, Research Methods INFO 6540, Data Management, course re-developed INFO 6630, Designing Interaction with Information Systems, course re-developed MGMT 5003, Information Systems and Technologies MGMT 5007, Research Methods. Academic Service Organization Program Chair, International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service Oriented Systems and Cloud-based Environments (MESOCA) Program Chair, Personalized Web Tasking (PWT) 2014, Services Congress Poster Chair, International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (IC- SME) Publicity chair, 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) Publicity chair, Cloud Computing Optimization (CCOPT), CCGrid Workshop Co-chair, Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure, CASCON Workshop. Program Committees CASCON (Centre for Advanced Studies Conference) ICSE Formal Demonstrations Track IEEE International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) (IEEE) 4/6

5 th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE) IEEE International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA) International Workshop on the Engineering of Mobile-Enabled Systems (MOBS) International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA) 2012 International Workshop on Migrating Legacy Applications to Service Oriented Systems (MILES) 2012 Cloud Computing Optimization (CCOPT) 2011 ICSM Industry Track (International Conference on Software Maintenance) 2010 International Workshop on SOA Migration and Evolution (SOAME) Reviewer / Secondary Reviewer Big Data and Society IEEE Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 2014 International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering Journal of Systems and Software 2014 Computational Intelligence 2014 Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 2012 IEEE/IFIP CNSM (Conference on Network and Service Management) 2012 ACM QEST (Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems) 2011 STITC Perspectives [book chapters] 2011 JISA (Journal of Internet Services and Applications) 2011 IEEE IT Professional CASCON (Centre for Advanced Studies Conference) 2010 ICSOC (International Conference on Service-oriented Computing) WEBIST (International Conference on Web Information Systems) 2009 ICSM (International Conference on Software Maintenance) Posters / Demos / Open Source 2014 Model-driven Elasticity and DoS Attack Mitigation in Cloud Environments (with Cornel Barna, Marin Litoiu, Mark Shtern). (Toronto, ON, Nov. 3-5, 2014) 2013 Tool support for curating scholarly works: Google Chrome plugin. Jswm Pattern-based Deployment Service, pattern-deployer 2012 Feedback Loops for Model-Based Adaptive DoS Attack Mitigation. CSER Fall Meeting. (Toronto, ON, Nov. 4, 2012) STRATOS: A Cloud Broker. CSER Fall Meeting. (Toronto, ON, Nov. 4, 2012) Code Convention Adherence in Evolving Software. ICSM (Williamsburg, VA, Sept 25-30) Software Configuration Self-optimization using a Simulation-generated Knowledge Base. CASCON (Toronto, ON, Nov 1-4, 2010) Software Configuration Self-optimization using a Simulation-generated Knowledge Base. CASCON (Toronto, ON, Nov 1-4, 2010) Software configuration and autonomic re-configuration using simulation. USENIX Middleware (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; Nov 30-Dec 4, 2009) Capacity planning through simulation. CASCON (Toronto, ON, Nov 2-5, 2009). 5/6

6 Selected Research-related Presentations 2015 Data Literacy and Open Data. CODE Promotion Event, Treasury Board Secretariat 2015 GRAND NCE Five Years Later: Knowledge Mobilization, Mobilizing Science Knowledge and Research in the 21st Century: An NCE Sharing of Best Practices Symposium 2014 Privacy, New Technology, and the Role of Information Professionals. Maritime Connections Conference 2014 Information & Community (and Politics). Pecha Kucha Privacy, New Technology, and the Ongoing Conflict. Information Without Borders Conference 2014 Cloud Account Delegation. Consortium for Software Engineering Research Annual Meeting (Markham, ON) Healthcare.gov: One Year Later. Management Without Borders Plenary Session (Halifax, NS) Cloud Computing: Comparing the Glossy Brochure to Reality. Faculty Computer Science Research Lunch Series 2014 Privacy, New Technology, and the Ongoing Conflict. Information Without Borders Conference 2014 Healthcare.gov: An American Horror Story. Management Without Borders Plenary Session 2013 Managing Applications on Software Defined Infrastructures. CASCON SAVI Workshop (Toronto, ON) Supporting Software Development on the Multi-cloud. Consortium for Software Engineering Research Annual Meeting (Markham, ON) Supporting Software Evolution to the Multi-cloud with a Cross-Cloud Platform. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) Dark clouds with silver linings: The challenge and opportunity of new technology. School of Information Management Public Lecture Series Beyond The Cloud: Practical Next Steps For Systems And Software. Líderes Académicos (Academic Leaders), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Guadalajara, Mexico) Automating the partitioning the application on two tier clouds. CASCON 2012 Workshop on Smart Applications for Virtual Infrastructure. (Toronto, ON) Overlaying Private Clouds on Public Clouds (with Security, Availability, Scalability). SAVI Testbed Meeting (Toronto, ON) Monitoring Large-scale Heterogeneous Systems. SAVI Testbed Meeting (Toronto, ON) Elasticity for the Clouds of Today and Tomorrow. IBM University Days (Toronto, ON). (With M. Litoiu, B. Simmons) Application partitioning for public and private clouds. IBM Tech Transfer Talk (Toronto, ON). (With M. Litoiu) Supporting Quality of Service, Configuration, and Autonomic Reconfiguration using Services-Aware Simulation. University of Alberta CS Seminar Series (Edmonton, AB) Autonomic Configuration Adaptation Based on Simulation-generated State-transition Models. Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) Fall Meeting (Toronto, ON) Text Analysis Leveraging HPC. Mind the Gap: A Multidisciplinary workshop bridging the gap between High Performance Computing and the Humanities. (Edmonton, AB) Self-configuring Using a Simulation-generated Knowledge Base. Department Seminar, University of Alberta. (Edmonton, AB). 6/6