Location: 552 Engineering Tower, Univ. of California, Irvine 92697. Phone : (949) 824-4148

Director:

Prof. Kane Kim

Research Areas

Real-Time Object-Oriented System/Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Fault tolerance, Real-Time Operating Systems.

Graduate Student Researchers

Javier Atero, Emmanuel Henrich, Chansik Im, Moon-Cheol Kim, Sung-Jin Kim, Yuqing Li, Sheng Liu, Seung-Mok Yoo, Liangchen Zheng.

Visiting Researchers

Prof.  Kwangsue Chung (Kwang-Woon Univ.),  Prof.  Tack-Don Han (Yonsei Univ.),  Prof.  Suchong Joo (Won-Kwang Univ.),  Jan Biermeyer

Recent Ph.D Graduates

Dr. Eltefaat Shokri (Sun MicroSystems), 
Dr. Luiz Bacellar (United Tech. Research Center), 
Dr. Chittur Subbaraman (Microsoft),
Dr. Jeff Juqiang Liu (San Diego State University),  
Dr. Seok-Joong Kang (Samsung Electronics)

Recent M.S. Graduates

Masaki  Ishida  (Sony)Hiroshi Miyazaki (Hitachi SK) ,  Prasad Athreya (Microsoft - India),  Justin Frost (Northrup-Grumman),  Vishal Prabhu (Deloitte)

Recent Publications

TMO (Time-triggered Message-triggered Object) (also called RTO.k) programming scheme : You can see some of the recent publications

*  Some publications on real-time fault-tolerant distributed computing including publications on the ROAFTS (Real-time Object-oriented Adaptive Fault Tolerance Support) middleware are also there.  

<< Will be reopen in Jan. 2005 with a new version and a revised manual:   The TMO Programming Tool-Kit, consisting of TMO Support Middleware  (TMOSM/XP), TMO Support Library (a C++ API), and application demos running on Windows XP platforms and WinCE platforms will be available for downloading from here.   For some cooperating research organizations, the Alpha-version (v3.0) which was used in an undergraduate senior course at UCI and the new version (v4.0) has been provided. >>

Recent keynotes and invited presentations by the Lab Director

*  Kim, K.H., "Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Programming and Support Middleware", Proc.  ICPADS 2000 (7th Int'l Conf. on Parallel & Distributed Systems), Iwate, Japan,  July 2000, pub. by IEEE CS Press (Keynote paper), pp.10-20. 

*  Kim, K.H., "Issues Insufficiently Resolved in Century 20 in the Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing Field", Proc.  SRDS 2000 (19th IEEE CS Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems), Nuremberg, Germany,  Oct. 2000, pp.106-115 (Invited paper). 
Slides presented 

*  Kim, K.H., “Middleware of Real-Time Object Based Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing Systems: Issues and Some Approaches”, Proc. IEEE 2001 Pacific Rim Int'l Symp. on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2001), Dec. 2001, Seoul, pp. 3-8 (Keynote paper).

*  Kim, K.H., "Toward QoS Certification of Real-Time Distributed Computing Systems", Proc. IEEE HASE 2002 (7th IEEE CS Symp. on High Assurance System Engineering), Tokyo, Japan, October 2002, pp.177-186 (Keynote paper).

*  Kim, K.H., "Wide-Area Real-Time Distributed Computing in a Tightly Managed Optical Grid - An Optiputer Vision", Proc. 18th Int'l Conf. on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2004), Fukuoka, Japan, March 29 - 31, 2004, Volume 1, pp.2-11 (Keynote paper).

*  Kim, K.H., "Fundamental Research Challenges in Real-Time Distributed Computing", Proc. FTDCS 2004 (10th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems), Suzhou, China, May 2004, pp. 2-9 (Invited paper).

Current Sponsored Research Project

- NSF Next Generation Software (NGS) Program 

"Scalable Distributed Real-Time Simulation of Embedded Systems and Environments" ( PI: Kane Kim;  Faculty investigators Stephen Jenks and Phillip Sheu )

- NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) Program 

"TADE - Timeliness-Assured Design Environment for Distributed Object-Based Embedded Computing" ( PI: Kane Kim;   Co-PI:  Wilfred Recker;   Subcontractor:  Arizona State U.)

Conferences

Recent Past:

Earlier ISORCs and WORDS's

Old publications (which were and may still be of interests to a large community) 

Teaching matters

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