Model Validation By Fault Injection in Enterprise Systems
The Systems Research Group
UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics
UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The Systems Research Group is now seeking well-qualified, motivated PhD researchers who want to be part of the second phase of our development into a world-class research group in systems and software technology. The SRG focuses on the systems aspects of computer science: how individual components are created and composed to create large-scale, highly functional adaptive systems.
To date the group has secured over €5m in funding from a variety of sources in the areas of pervasive computing, visualisation, systems, software verification, software engineering, digital radio hardware, semantics and software tools. In addition the group works closely with industry partners such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft Research, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard.
Positions: (updated as positions are filled)
Start date: Monday, October 6th 2008.
Funding: Includes payment of fees, travel, equipment and a generous stipend.
Closing Date: 5pm on Friday, September 26th 2008.
• PhD Advertisement 1: Model validation by fault injection in Enterprise Systems
Supervisor: Professor Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin
Project: The context of this PhD studentship is a collaborative project between UCD and Oracle on automating fault recovery for large systems. We investigate here automatic fault recovery and the application of autonomic computing principles. Autonomic systems make, informed, constrained, decisions without human intervention. They enable dynamic self-management, self-protection and self-optimisation of software systems, in turn allowing software systems to react to their changing requirements of their environment. These systems collect and collate data from sensors in the environment, analyse the data's relevance to the system's current state and make decisions based on this information. These decisions are made based on models of the systems. Several models of the system can be considered to deal with different aspects: diagnostic, prediction of changes, configuration management, etc. This Ph.D will focus on validation of those models. In particular, validation of models for diagnosis using fault intrusion techniques will be mainly considered. Given a benchmark system and a model for diagnosis, this study aims to understand how to introduce appropriate failures in the system in order to observe its output and then validate the model.
Application Procedure:
Applicants for PhD Positions should have/expect to achieve at least a 2.1 in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a related discipline and possess a keen interest in research. Students need to have either have been educated to degree level through the medium of English or have TOEFL 600 (250) / IELTS 7 or equivalent. EU and international students are eligible.
To apply for this studentship, please email your CV and Cover Letter with the Title of the PhD for which they you applying in the ‘subject line' e.g. Subject: to both:
paddy.nixon at ucd.ie and benoit.gaudin at ucd.ie
For informal enquiries please Contact:
Name: Benoit Gaudin
Email: benoit.gaudin at ucd.ie
Telephone: (01) 716 5352
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