DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University

An Architectural Style for the Distributed
Enactment of Business Protocols

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 10-11am, GOL-1400

ABSTRACT
Local State Transfer (LoST) is a simple, declarative approach for
enacting communication protocols. LoST is perfectly distributed and
relies only upon the local knowledge of each business partner. It
involves a novel treatment of the information bases of protocols,
especially in terms of how their parameters are specified. As a
result, LoST can capture subtle patterns of interaction that more
complex approaches cannot handle well. In particular, LoST implements
BSPL, the Blindingly Simple Protocol Language, also introduced in this
talk. Further, LoST lends itself to implementations that are robust
against unordered and lossy message transmission.


BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Munindar P. Singh is a professor in the department of computer
science at North Carolina State University. Munindar's research
interests include multiagent systems and service-oriented computing,
with a special emphasis on the challenges of contracts, governance,
and trust in large-scale open environments.

Munindar's research has been recognized with awards and sponsorship by
the ARO, Cisco Systems, DARPA, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, National Science
Foundation, and the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Sixteen students
have received Ph.D. degrees and 22 students have received M.S. degrees
under Munindar's direction.

Munindar is a Fellow of the IEEE. He serves on the Board of Directors
of IFAAMAS, the International Foundation of Autonomous Agents and
MultiAgent Systems. Munindar is a former editor-in-chief of IEEE
Internet Computing. He serves as a member of the editorial boards of
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS), Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering (IJAOSE), IEEE Internet Computing (IC), and
Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). He previously served on the
boards of Web Semantics (JWS) and Service Oriented Computing and
Applications (SOCA).

Munindar obtained a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Ph.D. in Computer
Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.