UCSB Engineering

P. Michael Melliar-Smith

Professor

Contacts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560

tel: (805) 448-8250
fax: (805) 893-3262
pmms@ece.ucsb.edu

Biography

Michael Melliar-Smith is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests span the areas of distributed systems, communication networks and protocols, and fault tolerance. He has served as PI for numerous funded research projects, including projects from DARPA, AFOSR, NSF, UC Micro and UC Discovery. These funded research projects include the DARPA funded Thunder and Lightning project to develop a 30 Gbit/s ATM switch and optical transmission system, and the recent AFOSR MURI Protocol Engineering Research Center project, which involved six universities. He has authored or coauthored more than 240 publications, has more than 10 patents granted or pending , and he has supervised more than 100 graduate student researchers. Prior to UCSB, at GEC Computers in England, Dr. Melliar-Smith was principal designer of the GEC 4080, which won the Queen's Award for Innovation. At the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he invented the definitions of fault, error and failure, as well as the recovery block method for software fault tolerance. As Senior Computer Scientist and Program Director at Stanford Research Institute, he was involved in the design of the Software-Implemented Fault-Tolerant(SIFT) aircraft flight control computer and was leader of the NASA funded Enhanced Hierarchical Design Methodology (EHDM) project for formal specification and verification.

Selected Publications

• A Reservation-Based Extended Transaction Protocol, IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst., Vol. 19, No. 2, 2008, 188-203, Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser and P.M. Melliar-Smith
• Collaborative Computing Using the Atom Publishing Protocol, ITNG, 2008, 291-296, Firat Kart, Louise E. Moser and P. Michael Melliar-Smith
• Resource management using multiple feedback loops in soft real-time distributed object systems, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 81, No. 7, 2008, 1144-1162, Vana Kalogeraki, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser and Yannis Drougas
• A Distributed e-Healthcare System Based on the Service Oriented Architecture, IEEE SCC, 2007, 652-659, Firat Kart, Gengxin Miao, Louise E. Moser, and P. M. Melliar-Smith
• Achieving Atomicity for Web Services Using Commutativity of Actions, J. UCS, Vol. 13, No. 8, 2007, 1094-1109, P. Michael Melliar-Smith and Louise E. Moser
• Reliable Data Distribution and Consistent Data Replication Using the Atom Syndication Technology, International Conference on Internet Computing, 2007, 124-132, Firat Kart, Louise E. Moser and P. Michael Melliar-Smith
• A Personal Handheld Multi-Modal Shopping Assistant, ICNS, 2006, 117, Zachary Davis, Michael Hu, Shreyas Prasad, Michael Schuricht, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser
• Location-Aware Voice-Enabled Web Services for Mobile Devices, MOMM, 2006, 291-300, Shreyas Prasad, Zachary Davis, Michael Hu, Michael Schuricht, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser
• Making Web Services Dependable, ARES, 2006, 440-448, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, and Wenbing Zhao
• Speech-Enabled Web Services for Mobile Devices, swws, 2006, 103-109, Michael Hu, Zachary Davis, Shreyas Prasad, Michael Schuricht, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser: