Lecturer

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

CURRICULUM VITAE

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

education

1996-1999: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

· Ph.D. in Computer Science - Software Engineering (1999): "Stepwise Refinement of Formal Specifications Based on Logical Formulae: from CO-OPN/2 specifications to Java programs"

1987-1994: University of Geneva, Faculty of Science

· M.Sc. in Mathematics (1993) Domain: Numerical analysis.

· M.Sc. in Computer Science (1994) Domain: Software Engineering.

personal data

Nationalities: Italy, Switzerland

Birth: June 12th, 1966

E-mail: dimarzo at dcs.bbk.ac.uk

French, Italian: Mother tongues

English: Good

German: Fair

employment

2006- : Birkbeck College - School of Computer Science and Information Systems

Lecturer

2004-2005: University of Luxembourg - Software Engineering Competence Center

Senior Researcher

2002-2004: University of Geneva - Centre Universitaire d'Informatique - OSG

Lecturer/Senior Researcher

2000-2001: CERN - IT Division

Scientific Associate (Fellow)

1999: University of Geneva - Centre Universitaire d'Informatique - TiOS

Post-doc

1996-1999: EPFL - Computer Science Department - Software Engineering Laboratory

Research Assistant - Ph.D. Student

1993-1996: University of Geneva - Centre Universitaire d'Informatique - TiOS

Research Assistant

research activities

2010-2013 SAPERE—Self-Aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems

The objective of the EU funded SAPERE project is the development of a highly-innovative theoretical and practical framework for the decentralized deployment and execution of self-aware and adaptive services for future and emerging pervasive network scenarios.

2006-: Dynamically resilient Systems

This research aims at providing a service-oriented architecture enforcing resilience policies at run time based on available and permanently updated metadata.

2006-2008: Resist

I joined the EU Resist Network of Excellence as an affiliated member. My main activity in this project is to participate to the Res-Ex working group focusing on mechanisms supporting resilience explicit computing.

2002-: Self-Organising Applications

Hovering Information (2007-)
Hovering information is a new concept denoting information that stays attached to a specific geographical location rather than to a specific host. As a result, when deployed over a mobile set of peers, hovering information than "hovers" from host to host in order to remain attached to its location. This project is concerned with the development of corresponding algorithms and determination of appropriate models to verify them.

Self-Organising Industrial Assembly Systems (2007-)
This project applies self-organizing principles to assembly systems: modules and product parts to be assembled organize together (among others, choose their coalition partners, their location and monitor themselves) in order to easily and quickly produce a new or reconfigured assembly system each time a new product order arrives or each time a failure or weakness arises in the current assembly system.

Specification Carrying Code
This project proposes the notion of Specification Carrying Code as a basic interaction mechanism which allows entities to adapt/understand unknown peers. Interactions between entities occur through a service-oriented architecture, and are exclusively based on an exchange of capabilities expressed using a formal specification conveying the semantics of the proposed services. In this framework, I am leading the Engineering Self-Organising Applications project, funded by FNRS grant (21-68026.02). This research aims at enabling two or more programs, which do not know each other, to discover each other capabilities by exchanging formal specifications and proofs (2002-2004)

AgentLink III Technical Forum on Self-Organisation in MAS

I was co-chairing the AgentLink III Technical Forum Group on Self-Organisation in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), whose scopes are to group together the computing science research community working on self-organisation and emergent behavior, and to establish and enhance links with other disciplines (2004-2005).

ESOA Working Group

Self-organising applications (SOAs) are typically based on several interacting software components that can act autonomously and in collaboration with each other, and with no central entity. Such applications include pervasive or wireless applications, as well as those to be deployed on a Grid or a P2P network, possibly relying on agents or mobile agents. In the framework of the AgentCities.NET project (IST-2000-28384), I am chairing the ESOA: Engineering Self-Organising Applications working group, whose goal is to explore some of the challenging issues SOAs raise in the Agentcities environment. (2002-2003)

2002-2005: Trust / Agents

Security founded on the notion of Trust
I was involved in the IST project (IST-2001-32486) " SECURE: Secure Environments for Collaboration among Ubiquitous Roaming Entities ". It aims to develop formal security models for large scale systems based on the notion of trust. My work includes the validation of the approach in the context of the formal model. (2002-2004)

2004-2005: FIDJI

I was in charge of directing the production of a book describing the research activities realised in the framework of the Luxembourg funded FIDJI project. The book proposes a pragmatic approach intended to fill in the divide which lies between architects, designers and developers, and covers software engineering activities from analysis to development.

2004-2005: INTEROP

European Master in Interoperability
In the framework of the EU-funded INTEROP Network of Excellence (IST-1-508011), I am in charge of designing a Research Master in Interoperability for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software at the European level.

2002-2004: Unanticipated Software Evolution

In the framework of unanticipated software evolution, I investigate the means to allow run- time software evolution of code, not anticipated at design time. I am currently proposing a service architecture based on interactions occurring through anonymous and asynchronous communication, and syntactic service description, without relying on the notion of APIs.

2000-2001 : CERN Projects - "ALICE Experiment "

Formal Specification of ALICE DAQ
In the framework of the ALICE collaboration, I formally specified and simulate the whole functionality of the Data Acquisition System (DAQ) of the ALICE high energy physics experiment. I used the Foresight tool, which enables to define the formal specification and to simulate it.

1999-2001: Formal Methods: Real-time

Real-time synchronized Petri nets

This work is conducted in collaboration with EPFL, the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and Luxembourg University of Applied Science. It is dedicated to the definition of a class of high level Petri nets (with inhibitor arcs, and synchronization among Petri nets) with real-time constraints attached to transitions as relative time intervals. My work consists in defining the whole syntax and (strong time) semantics of these nets (1999-2001).

1994-1999: Formal Methods: Petri nets

Concurrent Object-Oriented Petri nets (CO-OPN)

This project studied the formal development and validation of distributed systems using CO-OPN (Concurrent Object-Oriented Petri nets). My work included the specification of distributed systems using CO-OPN, the application of CO-OPN to mobile agents, the use of category theory for defining the semantics of CO-OPN, and the definition of a theory of refinement for CO-OPN. It was funded by FNRS Project (21.32286.91) " Formal Methods for Concurrency " (1994-1999).

Stepwise refinement of formal specifications based on contracts
In the framework of my Ph.D., I defined a theory of stepwise refinement of formal specifications that makes use of logical properties (contract), in order to formally assert that a refinement step is correct. I applied the theory to CO-OPN specifications (1996-1999).
This theory of refinement is currently being applied in the FIDJI project undertaken at the Luxembourg University of Applied Science.

Multi-threaded Transactions
This work was dedicated to the definition of a formal language, called COALA, for expressing systems built using Coordinated Atomic Actions (multi-threaded transactions). The semantics of this language is defined using a high level class of Petri nets. I participated actively to the formal definition of Coordinated Atomic Actions, and to the elaboration of the syntax of COALA. This work was part of the ESPRIT Project (20072) " Design For Validation (DeVa) ". It has been realised in collaboration with people from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and EFPL (1996-1998).

1993-2001: Mobile Agents

Mobile Agents—This project investigated both the specification of systems built with messengers (a kind of mobile agents), as well as the use of messengers for implementing distributed systems. During this project, I participated in establishing messengers as a kind of mobile agents, as well as in positioning messengers wrt other mobile agents environments. In addition, I performed an analysis of several formal languages, and investigated their suitability for expressing mobile agents. I participated as well to the description of the building of some distributed systems with messengers. This work was funded by the FNRS Project (2000-0400631.94) " Communication Messengers as a Basis for Distributed Algorithms (Theory and Implementation) " (1994-1996).

ComScript- The aim of the ComScript Project was twofold: it provided a platform for the dynamic (re)configuration of protocol stacks and offered at the same time a language for the implementation of distributed applications. My work consisted in the implementation of protocol stacks within the ComScript environment. It was part of the FNRS Project (21-31121.91) " ComScript - a Generic Platform for Heterogeneous Communications Protocol Architectures " (1993-1994).

scientific activities

task force / working groups

IEEE ETTC Organic Computing Task Force - Member

IEEE CIS Standards Committee—Task Force in Terminology and Taxonomy—Member

ERCIM SERENE Working Group

editorial board activities

Editor-in-chief: ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems (TAAS) - First Issue Fall 2006

Editorial Board Member: Multiagent and Grid Systems - An International Journal. ISSN: 1574-1702.

Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems. InderScience. First issue Spring 2007.

organising committees

General chair: ACM ERCIM SERENE 2010 workshop

Track co-chair: International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS'09)

Conference co-chair: IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'09)

Conference co-chair: IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC'08)

Workshop co-chair: Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'08)

Program co-chair: First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO'07)

Program co-chair: IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC'06)

Multi-Agents for Modeling Complex Systems workshop (MA4CS'05, MA4CS'06, MA4CS'07)

Engineering with Complexity and Emergence Workshop (ECE'05)

Engineering Self-Organising Applications Workshop (ESOA'03, ESOA'04, ESOA'05)

Doctoral Symposium chair - Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications (I-ESA'05, I'ESA'06)

program committees

International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS’10)

International Conference on Cloud Computing (2010)

IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS 2010)

Formal Aspects of Virtual Organisation Workshop (FAVO’09)

ICST Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems (Autonomics 2009)

Bio-inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS’09, BADS’10)

International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009)

ACM ERCIM SERENE'08 Workshop

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2007)

IEEE Autonomic and Trusted Computing Conference (ATC'07)

IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Conference (CEC'07)

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'07)

International Conference on Complex Open Distributed Systems (CODS'07)

International Conference on Adaptive Business Systems (ICABS'07)

Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI'07)

ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'07, SAC'08, SAC'09)

Journées Francophones des Systemes Multi-Agents (JFSMA'06, JFSMA'07, JFSMA'08)

International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'06, ICAC’09)

International Symposium on Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABModSim 2006)

International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptation of Multi-Agents and Grid Systems (SOAS'05, SOAS'06, SOAS'07)

International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT'06)

International Conference on Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications (INTEROP-ESA'05)

Workshop on Self-Managed Systems and Services (SelfMan'05, SelfMan'06)

Socially Inspired Computing - Engineering with Social Metaphors

International Conference on Advances in Intelligent Systems Theory and Applications (AISTA'04)

First International Workshop on Coordination and Petri Nets

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Conference (AAMAS'04, AAMAS'05, AAMAS'06, AAMAS'07, AAMAS'08)

International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC'04)

European Workshop on Multiagent Systems (EUMAS'03, EUMAS'05, EUMAS'06)

Scientifc Engineering of Distributed Java Applications (FIDJI'01/02/03)

Eighth International Workshop on Enterprise Security, Special Session on Trust Management in Collaborative Global Computing (2003)

The 8th ECOOP WORKSHOP ON MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEMS: New Frontiers (MOS'02)

Mobile Agent Technology - Special Issue of the Informatik Forum Journal (2002)

Agent-Based High Performance Computing Workshop (Agents'99).

reviewer

Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

EEE/IFIF International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’09)

Information Sciences - Elsevier

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Doctoral Symposium - International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007)

Thomson Learning (2006)

IEEE E-Transactions on Network and Service Management (2006)

Cybernetics and Systems Journal (2006)

Third Workshop on Modeling of Objects, Components and Agents (MOCA'04)

International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'20004)

International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'04)

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'04)

Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'03)

Journal of Systems and Software (2003)

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'03)

The Computer Journal (2002)

International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets (ICATPN'98, ICATPN'01 , ICATPN'04)

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-33 )

Internet Society Conference ( INET'98 )

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

DeVa project.

expert

Projects funded by the Luxembourg government

Projects funded by the Swiss government (COST)

Projects funded by the UK government (EPSRC)

additional activities

AgentLink III - University of Geneva Contact Point (2004-2006)

International Collaborator on a project funded by the Greek Government (PENED program)

invited talks

· Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems. FESTO Industrial Symposium on Advanced Automation 2008. Stuttgart. November 2008.

· Hovering Informationn - Self-Organising Information that finds its own storage. Asian University. Taichung, Taipei. June 2008.

· Hovering Information. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Computation Series. November 2007.

· A Generic Framework for the Engineering of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems. RISE'07. Luxembourg. November 2007. (slides)

· Self-Organisation and Emergence in Multi-Agent Systems. Invited Speaker. Symposium on Organic Computing. Berlin. February 2007. (slides)

· A Service-Oriented Infrastructure for Adaptive Systems Based on Specification-Carrying Code. EUMAS'06. Lisbon, December 2006. (slides)

· Semantic Interoperability in Service-Oriented Computing. First Tuesday on Interoperability. Geneva. June 2005. (slides)

· About Self-Organisation, Emergent Behaviour, and Self-Management. Panel. SelfMan'05 Workshop. Nice, May 2005 (slides)

· Engineering Emergent Behaviour: A Vision. Invited Talk. MABS'03. Melbourne. July 2003. (slides)

· SECURE Applications Scenario. Global Computing Workshop. Rovereto. March 2003. (slides)

· Designing Fault-Tolerant Mobile Systems. Keynote Speaker. FIDJI'02. Luxembourg. November 2002. (slides)

· CO-OPN: Concurrent Object-Oriented Petri Nets. Lisbon. September 2002. ( slides )

· Grilles de Calculs et Réseaux Pair-à-Pair. Les jeudis de l'IST. Luxembourg. May 2002. (slides)

awards and honours

· Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Autonomous Adaptive Systems

· Nomination for Descartes Prize 2003

· CERN fellowship (1999)

teaching activities

summer schools / doctoral schools

· February 2009 - DECOI - International Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution

· September 2008 - PERADA Summer School

· April 2008 - Pisa Doctoral School - Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems

Birkbeck teaching

· 2006-: Java Programming (Basics) / 1st year course

· 2006-: Social and Organisational Issues in Computing (SOIC) / 3rd-4th year course

· 2006-: Adaptive Systems / 3rd-4th year course

Ph.D Students

· A. A. Villalba Castro. Hovering Information. PhD in Information Sysems. Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, Expected 2010.

· R. Frei. Self-Organising Assembly Systems. PhD Thesis. Joint Birkbeck—Uninova, March 2010.

· Martin Kelly. Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithms in the context of Decentralised Car Traffic Control. PhD. Birkbeck.

· Thidawan Kaylsri. Social Networks Clustering. PhD. Birkbeck.

· M. Oriol: "An Approach to the Dynamic Evolution of Software Systems". PhD in Information Sysems. Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Geneva, 2004.

externally funded research programs

· SAPERE—Self-Aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems EU project. FP7-ICT-2009.8.5 (2010-2013)

· Royal Society Conference Grant (2008)

· PerAda Research Exchange (2008)

· "A Social Semantic Infrastructure supporting Ambient Intelligence". Swiss SNF project 200020-105476/1. (2004-2005)

· "Engineering Self-Organising Applications". Swiss SNF project 21-68026.02. (2002-2004)

· "Communication Messengers as a Basis for Distributed Algorithms (Theory and Implementation)" Swiss SNF Project 2000-0400631.94 and its follow-up. (1994-1996)

· "ISACOM - Intelligent Scheduling Algorithms with COmmunication Messengers". Swiss SNF Project 21-43370.95.(1995)