Completed Research Projects
Completed Research Projects
Integrade: a Middleware Architecture for Grid Computing
MONET
This is PLENA's follow-up project that aims at building mobile
agent support for Web-based execution and analysis of environmental
simulations.
The Modelling and Simulation of real systems consisting of intelligent agents that cooperate with each other has recently
emerged as an important field of research. Systems of this kind can be
found in the empirical sciences, in technology and in mathematical
theories.
MONET is a cooperation project between IME/USP and GMD FIRST,
supported by CNPq (Brazil) and BMBF (Germany).
Component Technology turns out to be a promising approach for the
construction of complex, distributed and heterogenous software systems.
In this project the goal is to investigate techniques for managing and
configuring componments and their interaction mechanisms.
These techniques are intended to enhance system's
reliability, robustness, flexibility and automatic adaptation to
changing execution environments.
ACCORDS is joint project between LCPD at IME/USP,
UNICAMP and the Department of Computer Science of University of Illinois
at Urbana Champaign, and is supported by CNPq/NSF Collaborative Research Program (Grant No. 680037/99-3).
The goals of project SIDAM (Distributed Information Systems for Mobile
Agents) are to foster research in the issues related
to the design and implementation of distributed information services for mobile
users, and to develop new methods, services, technologies and
protocols suitable for building such services.
A general model has been proposed as an integrator of the several
research areas involved, namely: distributed systems, performance analysis, fault tolerance, software architectures, databases and
knowledge representation.
The construction of this model was motivated by a real-life application: an on-line service providing traffic
information in a big city such as São Paulo. However, we expect the model to be generic enough to be easily adaptable to a variety of
applications, ranging from support systems for strategical actions to
eletronic mail systems for portable computers.
The goal of the Sampa project is to provide a high-level
support for availability management of distributed applications and services.
Sampa defines a decentralized architecture with support for monitoring,
checkpointing, reliable group communication, control and reconfiguration
of fault-tolerant distributed programs.
This project was supported by CNPq and FAPESP.
Project PLENA aims at investigating and developing methods and
techniques that support the development of parallel programs for
environmental modeling, analysis and simulation.
This project was a cooperation project between IME/USP and GMD FIRST,
supported by CNPq (Brazil) and BMBF (Germany).
Project ACCORDS (Automatic Configuration and Monitoring of
Component-Based Distributed Systems) 
Project SIDAM 
The Sampa Project 
PLENA