Thesis Topics for my Research Students

last updated: a long time ago!!!

This is completely out of date. It's better to talk to me in person. Right now, I'm looking for full-time people to work on the OnAIR, AcMus, InteGrade, Borboleta, and Distributed Debugging projects.

Distributed Systems

Dependence Management in Component Based Systems / Dynamic Adaptation

Topic 1: using Java and the SIDAM prototype / Directory Service / Distributed Information System
Topic 1.1: using AspectJ, research the applicability and benefits of Aspect-Oriented Programming in the development of ComponentConfigurators. (note that this topic is independent from 1.1)
Topic 2: using CORBA/C++ and the Multimedia Reflector System

Automatic Configuration of Component Based Distributed Systems

Topic 3: using CORBA/C++, the 2K AutoConfig Service and the Gaia Unified Object Bus

Resource Management in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

Topic 4: using CORBA/C++, the 2K Distributed Resource Manager, the Gaia Unified Object Bus, should run in Linux, Solaris, and (maybe) windows. Integrate w/ 2K AutoConfig Service.

Mobile Agents for Dynamic Reconfiguration

Topic 5: using (CORBA) dynamicTAO, C++, Java, aglets, and the Gaia Unified Object Bus

Version control in Component Systems

Topic 6: using CORBA, maybe XML, and Java or C++

Mobile Agents for Dynamic Reconfiguration in ubiquitous computing scenarios

Topic 7: using (CORBA) dynamicTAO, C++, Java, aglets, and the Gaia Unified Object Bus

A Framework for Consistent Dynamic Reconfiguration based on ComponentConfigurators

Topic 8: CORBA implementation in Java and/or C++

Monitoring and visualization of Distributed Object Systems

Topic 9: CORBA, C++, and Java

My order of preference in this topic is (best)1, 3, 4, 8, 6, 9, 5, 7, (least good, but still good) 2.

Computer Music

Andante - a Musical Mobile Agent System

Topic 10: using Java 1.3, aglets, MIDI and other sound synthesis tools

Musical Acoustics Systems

Topic 11: components, CORBA, agents

Miscellaneous

Epidemiological Simulation Software

Topic 12: components, extensibility, plugable modules

Component-Based Reflective CORBA ORB with proper Dependence Management

Topic 13: design patterns, reflection, components, extensibility, plugable modules