[oe] OT: Thesis Submitted!

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

(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!


-- 
Regards,

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer | FreeLancer | http://www.Vanille-Media.de