Re: OT: Thesis Submitted!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Peco


On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 12:06 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> (cross posted, please watch your replies)
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> sorry for disturbing you with a (kind-of) off-topic post, but I need to
> share my enthusiams -- and since a lot of time which I should've spent
> doing research was actually spent doing open source stuff, it's not
> _that_ off-topic ;)
> 
> Here we go:
> 
> Today I have submitted my Ph.D. thesis “Component-based adaptive
> Middleware for mobile distributed systems” to the examination office!
> 
> My thesis shows how the encapsulation of middleware functionality into
> components can lead to an adaptive middleware system that — by the means
> of a reflective architecture — features dynamic adaptation to changing
> application requirements and to changing environmental conditions. Using
> the developed µMiddle architecture, you can add and modify
> 
>       * application interfaces (e.g. RPC, Message Passing, Tuple Space),
>       * marshalling strategies (e.g. ASCII, Binary, XMLRPC, SOAP),
>       * stream operations (e.g. compression, encryption),
>       * transport protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, ATP),
>       * service discovery modules (e.g. SDP),
>       * context awareness modules (battery, environmental lighting,
>         CPUload),
> 
> and more directly within a running middleware system using a highly
> abstracted graph-based Meta-Object-Protocol that guarantees safe and
> consistent changes.
> This kind of capability is of increasing importance for next generation
> mobile distributed systems and leads to more flexible middleware and
> application architectures.
> Subject to the agreement of the board, I will get an appointment for the
> public defense of my thesis — hopefully not later than December this
> year.
> 
> I want to acknowledge all of you who supported and believed in me in the
> past 5 years — thanks guys!
> 
> 


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