Autonomic Computing Lab

- Education
- Areas of Research Interest
- Outreach (National/International)
- Committees for Conferences/Symposia
- Scholarly Books and Monographs
- Chapters in Scholarly Books and Monographs
- Selected Refereed Journal Articles (Accepted/Published )
- Keynote Speech/Invited Presentations
- Selected Conferences/Symposia

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1986.
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1982.
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria, 1977.

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Autonomic computing, self-protection of networks and computers, self-control and management of network centric systems, high performance distributed computing, agent-based control and management of networked systems, performance analysis of parallel and distributed systems, software design tools for large scale interactive networked systems, high speed networks and communications protocols, cyber security , and proactive network management.

top

Outreach (National/International)

Director, NSF Center for Autonomic Computing, nsfcac.arizona.edu. The center has four sites at UA, Rutgers University, University of Florida and Mississippi State University.
Co-General Chair, The IEEE/ACM Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2010), December 2010, Hangzhou, China.
Advisory Research Board, NSF PIRE: A Global Living Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement, 2010-Present.
Editor-In-Chief: CLUSTER COMPUTING JOURNAL : The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Springer, http://www.springer.com/journal/10586
Steering Committee Co-Chair and Founder of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), http://www.hpdc.org . The IEEE HPDC Symposium series has emerged as a leading International conference in the growing and important field of parallel/distributed and Grid computing.
Co-Founder and Steering Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing http://www.autonomic-conference.org/. This conference becomes the leading forum for research in autonomic computing and has been supported by most of computer, network and software industry including IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, HP, and Cisco.
Founder of The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2004-2006). http://www.icpsconference.org
Steering Committee Chair of The IEEE/ACS ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, http://www.aiccsa08.org.

top

Committees for Conferences/Symposia

Steering Committee Co-Chair, International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2004-2007.
General Chair, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS), 2004-2007.
Steering Committee Chair, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICSSA), 2005-2007.
Steering Committee Co-Chair, Workshop on the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2004), June 2004.
General Chair, The IEEE/ACS ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICSSA), August 2003.
Co-General Chair, 2003 NSF 5 th Autonomic Computing Workshop, July 2003
Steering Committee Chair, Workshop on the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE 2003) , July 2003.
Steering Committee, the 12 th IEEE Int. Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 2003.
Co-General Chair, The 5 th International Workshop on Active Middleware Services, June 2003
General Chair, The 11 th Internal Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, April 2001.
Program Chair, The 10 th International Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, April 2000.
Program Committee Chair, NSF 2 nd Active Middleware Services Workshop, August 2000.
General Chair, IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996-1999.

top

Scholarly Books and Monographs

Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, M. Parashar and S. Hariri, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 0-8493-9367-1, 2007.
Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Salim Hariri and Manish Parashar, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , ISBN 0-471-33288-7, 2004.
Virtual Computing: Concept, Design and Evaluation , Dongmin Kim and Salim Hariri, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7482-7.
Autonomic Computing: Proceedings of the 5 th International Workshop on Active Middleware Services, edited by M. Parashar, S. Hariri and C. Raghavendra, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7695-1983-0.
Active Middleware Services , edited by Salim Hariri, Craig Lee, and Cauligi S. Raghavendra, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7923-7973-X.

top

Chapters in Scholarly Books and Monographs

B. Khargharia and S. Hariri, "Autonomic Power and Performance Management of Internet Data Centers," in Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, Ed.: M. Parashar and S. Hariri, CRC Press, 2007, pp. 435-469.
G. Qu and S. Hariri, "Anomaly-Based Self-Protection against Network Attacks," in Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, Ed.: M. Parashar and S. Hariri, CRC Press, 2007, pp. 493-521.
S. Hariri and G. Qu, "Anomaly Based Security Framework for Network Centric Systems," in National Security, Elsevier HANDBOOKS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS, edited by Hsinchun Chen, T.S. Raghu, Ram Ramesh, Ajay Vinze and Daniel Zeng, Elsevier 2006.
"The Foundations of Autonomic Computing," S. Hariri. Bithika Khargharia, and M. Parashar, in Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications, Editor: A. Zomaya and Olariu, CRC Press LLC, 2005.

top

Selected Refereed Journal Articles (Accepted/Published )

Y. Luo, F. Szidarovszky, Y. Al-Nashif, and S. Hariri, "A Game theory network security," J. Inform. Security, 2010, Published Online, July 2010, pp. 41-44, (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jis).
Khargharia, B., S. Hariri and M. Yousif, "An Adaptive interleaving technique for memory performance-per-watt maximization," IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst., vol. 20, no.7, pp.1011-1022, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPDS.2008.136, July 2009.
Bithika Khargharia, Salim Hariri and Mazin S. Yousif, "Autonomic power and performance management for computing systems," Cluster Comput. J., vol. 11, no. 2, pages 167-181, 2008.
Byoung uk Kim, S. Hariri, "Abnormality-based fault detection in distributed system," Intl. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. (IJCIS), vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 406-418, 2007.
Salim Hariri, Guangzhi Qu, Huoping Chen, Youssif Al-nashif, Mazin Yousif, " Autonomic Network Security Management: Design and Evaluation", ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Special Issue on Adaptive Learning in Autonomic Communication, to appear in 2007 .
Salim Hariri, Bithika Khargharia , Huoping Chen , Jingmei Yang , Yeliang Zhang , Manish Parashar , Hua Liu : The Autonomic Computing Paradigm, Cluster Computing Journal, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pages: 5-17, 2006.
Manish Parashar , Hua Liu , Zhen Li , Vincent Matossian , Cristina Schmidt , Guangsen Zhang , Salim Hariri: AutoMate: Enabling Autonomic Applications on the Grid. Cluster Computing Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pages: 161-174, 2006.
Hariri, S.; Guangzhi Qu; Modukuri, R.; Huoping Chen; Yousif, M., Quality-of-protection (QoP)-an online monitoring and self-protection mechanism, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Volume 23, Issue 10, Oct. 2005 Page(s): 1983 - 1993, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSAC.2005.854122 .
Guangzhi Qu, Salim Hariri, Mazin S. Yousif, A New Dependency and Correlation Analysis for Features, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Data Engineering, Vol. 17(9): 1199-1207 (2005).
S. Chandra, M. Parashar, J. Yang, Y. Zhang, S. Hariri. Investigating Autonomic Runtime Management Strategies for SAMR Applications . International Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 33(2-3):247-259, June 2005.
Kiran Modukuri, Salim Hariri, Nader Chalfoun and Mazin Yousif, "Autonomous Middleware Framework for Sensor Networks", Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC), Special Issue on Pervasive Computing and Services, 2005.
M. Parashar, H. Liu, Z. Li, V. Matossian, C. Schmidth, G. Zhang, and S. Hariri, "AutoMate: Enabling Autonomic Applications on the Grid,", Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2005, Springer-Verlag .
M. Parashar, S. Chandra, J. Yang, Y. Zhang, and S. Hariri, "Autonomic Runtime Management of SAMR Applications", International Journal of Parallel Processing, Editor: F. Darema, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Salim Hariri, Guangzhi Qu, Tushneem Dharmagadda, Modukuri Ramkishore, "Vulnerability Analysis of Faults and Attacks in Large-Scale Network", IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, October & November Issue 2003.
R. Baroody, N. Al-Holou, and S. Hariri, "Development of Car Intranet Infrastructure," SAE 2002 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars -Electronic and Electrical Systems, ISBN:0-7680-1291-0, pp. 205-209, 2003.
H. Topocuoglu, S. Hariri, M. Wu, "Performance-Effective and Low-Complexity Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 260-274, March 2002.
E. Al-Hajery and S. Hariri, "Application-Oriented Communication Protocols for High-Speed Networks," International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 90-101, 2002.
M. Parashar and S. Hariri, "Interpretive Performance Prediction for Parallel Application Development," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 60, pp. 17-47, 2000.
S. Park, and S. Hariri, "Adaptive Communication System," Cluster Computing Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 229-246 , 2000.
S. Hariri, H. Xu, and A. Balamash, "A Multilevel Modeling and Analysis of Network-Centric Systems," Special Issue of Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal, Elsevier Science on Engineering Complex Computer Systems, 23 (3), pp 169-180, 1999.
H. Topcuoglu, S. Hariri, et al "The Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Distributed Computing Environment," Cluster Computing Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1998.
S. Park and S. Hariri, "A High Performance Message-Passing System for Networks of Workstations," The Journal of Supercomputing , Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997.
M. Parashar and S. Hariri, "Compile-Time Performance Prediction of HPF/Fortran 90D," IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology , pp.57--73, spring 1996.
P. Sundareswaran and S. Hariri, "Netanalyzer: A Retrospective Network Analysis Tool," International Journal of Computers and Applications , Vol.19, No.2, pp.77--83, 1997.
M. O. Esonu, A. J. Al-Khalili, "Design Techniques for Fault-Tolerant Systolic Arrays," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing , pp.151--168, November 1995.
K. Kwiat, W. Debany, and S. Hariri, "Effects of Technology Mapping on Fault Detection Coverage in Reprogrammable FPGAs," IEE Proceedings Part E: Computers and Digital Techniques, November 1995.
M. O. Esonu, A. J. Al-Khalili, "Area Efficient Computing Structures for Concurrent Error Detection in Systolic Arrays," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing , pp.237--260, October 1995.
S. Hariri and H. Mutlu, "Hierarchical Modeling of Availability in Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol.21, No.1, pp.50-56, January 1995.
S. Hariri, M. Parashar, J. B. Park, F. K. Yu, and G. Fox, "Communication System for High-Performance Distributed Computing," Concurrency Practice and Experience Journal , Vol. 6, pp.251--270, June 1994.
S. Hariri, A. Choudhary, and B. Sarikaya, "Architectural Support for Designing Fault-Tolerant Open Distributed Systems," IEEE Computer , Vol. 25, No. 6, pp.50--62, June 1992.
C. S. Raghavendra, V. K. Prasanna Kumar, and S. Hariri, ``Reliability Analysis in Distributed Systems ," IEEE Transactions on Computers , Vol. C-37, No. 3, pp. 352--358, March 1988.
S. Hariri and C. S. Raghavendra, ``SYREL: A Symbolic Reliability Algorithm Based on Path and Cutset Methods," IEEE Transactions on Computers , Vol. C-36, pp. 1224-- 1232, October 1987. Also, reprinted in IEEE Tutorial: Distributed Computing Network Reliability , edited by S. Rai and D. Agarwal, 1990.
V. K. Prasanna Kumar, S. Hariri, and C. S. Raghavendra, ``Distributed Program Reliability Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. SE-12, No. 1, pp.~42--50, January 1986. Also, reprinted in IEEE Tutorial: Advances in Distributed System Reliability , edited by S. Rai and D. P. Agarwal, 1990.
C. S. Raghavendra, S. Hariri, ``Reliability Optimization in the Design of Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. SE-11, No. 10, pp.1184--1193, October 1985. Also, reprinted in IEEE Tutorial: Distributed Computing Network Reliability , edited by S. Rai and D. Agarwal, 1990.

top

Keynote Speech/Invited Presentations

S. Hariri, Keynote Address, "Autonomic Computing Paradigm: The Next Era Computing and Programming Paradigm," The Eighth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2009), August 27-29, 2009, Lanzhou, China.
S. Hariri, Keynote Address, "Autonomic Computing Paradigm: The Next Era for Designing Self* Computing Systems and Services," The Seventh Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2009. CNSR '09, pp. xxiv-xxv, 11-13 May 2009. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CNSR, 2009.
S. Hariri, Keynote Address, "Autonomic Computing Paradigm: The Next Generation Programming Paradigm for Developing Self* Applications," International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE), June 23, 2008.
Keynote Speech: Autonomic Security Solutions for Wireless Networks, International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2007.
Keynote Speech: Security Challenges and Autonomic Solutions in Sensor Networks, The 2007 International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2007), Paris, France, May 2007.
SMU Distinguished Lecture Series : Autonomic Computing: The Next Era of Computing , SMU, Dallas, Nov. 8, 2006.
Keynote Speech: Autonomia: An Autonomic Control and Management University, High Performance Computing (HPC 2005) Symposium, San Diego, CA, April 4, 2005.
"Autonomic Computing for Large Scale Scientific and Engineering Applications, S. Hariri, AGU Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 2005, San Francisco.
"Autonomic Computing: The Next Era of Computing," S. Hariri, IEEE/ACS International Conference on Pervasive Services, Beirut, Lebanon, July 2004.
"Autonomic Runtime System for Large Scale Applications," S. Hariri, Proceedings of the European Commission - US National Science Foundation Strategic Research Workshop on Unconventional Programming Paradigms: Challenges, Visions and Research Issues for New Programming Paradigms, Mont Saint-Michel, France, September 2004.
"Autonomia: An Autonomic Control and Management Environment," Intel FM Innovative Center, Folsom, California, November 19, 2004.
"Autonomic Computing: The Next Era of Computing," S. Hariri, IEEE/ACS International Conference on Pervasive Services, Beirut, Lebanon, July 2004.
"Autonomic Runtime System for Large Scale Applications," S. Hariri, Proceedings of the European Commission - US National Science Foundation Strategic Research Workshop on Unconventional Programming Paradigms: Challenges, Visions and Research Issues for New Programming Paradigms, Mont Saint-Michel, France, September 2004.
"Autonomia: An Autonomic Control and Management Environment," Intel FM Innovative Center, Folsom, California, November 19, 2004.
Keynote Speech : Autonomic Computing: The Next Era of Computing, ISC 16 th Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Reno, Nevada, USA, August 2003.
Autonomic Computing Tutorial, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Tunis, Tunisia, July 2003.
High Performance Distributed Computing: High Speed Communication Protocols and Architectural Support, Load Scheduling and Balancing in Distributed Systems, Agent-based Proactive Control and Management, UA HPDC On-going Projects: CATALINA and ADViCE, at the MENA Summer School 2002 on Parallel, Distributed, Mobile, and Internet Computing, Sponsored by the United Nations University, Beirut, Lebanon, July 2002.
Plenary Speech : Autonomic Computing: The New Era of Computing to Design, Control, Manage and Optimize Large Scale Distributed Information Systems, The 15 th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2002), September 2002.
Next Generation Internet Technologies and Services: Research Challenges and Opportunities, IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2001.
Proactive Control and Management of Smart Applications, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, December 2000.

top

Selected Conferences/Symposia

Bithika Khargharia, Haoting Luo, Youssif Al-Nashif and Salim Hariri, "AppFlow-based Autonomic Performance-per-Watt Management of Large-Scale Data Centers, The 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom-2010), Hangzhou, China, December 2010.
Yi Luo, F. Szidarovszky, Y. Al-Nashif, and S. Hariri, "Game Tree Based Partially Observable Stochastic Multi-Stage Game Model," IIE Annual Conference and Expo (IERC 2009, May 30-June 3, 2009, Miami, Florida.
Y. Jaraweh, A. Hary, Y.B. Al-Nashif, S. Hariri, A. Akoglu, and D. Jenerette, "Accelerated Discovery Through Integration of Kepler with Data Turbine for Ecosystem Research," the IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2009, pp. 1005-1012.
Youssif Alnashif, A. Kumar, S. Hariri, G. Qu, Y. Luo, and F. Szidarovsky, "Multi-Level intrusion detection system (ML-IDS)," in International Conference on Autonomic Computing, pp. 131-140, 2008.
Salim Hariri, Yaser Jararweh, Yeliang Zhang, and Talal Moukabary, "Physics aware programming paradigm: approach and evaluation," CLADE 2008, pp. 1-6.
Bithika Khargharia, Salim Hariri, Wael Kdouh, Manal Houri, Hesham El-Rewini, and Mazin S. Yousif, "Autonomic power and performance management of high-performance servers," IPDPS 2008, pp. 1-5.
H. Chen, and S. Hariri, "An evaluation scheme of adaptive configuration techniques," 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2007), pp. 493-496.
H. Chen, Y. Al-Nashif, G. Qu, and S. Hariri, "Self-configuration of network security," 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007), pp. 97-97, Annapolis, Maryland U.S.A, October 2007.
Bithika Khargharia, Salim Hariri, and Mazin S. Yousif, "Self-optimization of performance-per-watt for interleaved memory systems," HiPC 2007, pp. 368-380.
Bithika Khargharia, Salim Hariri, Ferenc Szidarovszky, Manal Houri, Hesham El-Rewini, Samee Ullah Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad, and Mazin S. Yousif, "Autonomic power and performance management for large-scale data centers," IPDPS 2007, pp. 1-8.
Samer Fayssal, Salim Hariri, and Youssif Al-Nashif, "Anomaly-based behavior analysis of wireless network security," in Proc. Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking & Services (MobiQuitous 2007), pp.1-8, August 2007.
Samer Fayssal and Salim Hariri, "Anomaly-based protection approach against wireless network attacks," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services ICPS 07, Turkey, pp. 193-195, July 15th 2007.
Byoung uk Kim and S. Hariri "Anomaly-based fault detection system in distributed systems," 5th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2007), Busan, Korea, pp 782-789, August 2007.
A. Traian, S. Oh, and S. Hariri, "Analyzing attacks in wireless ad hoc network with self-organizing maps," Fifth Annual Conf. on Communication Networks and Services Research, CNSR'07, pp. 166-175, May 2007.
Donald P. Cox and Salim Hariri, "Efficacy of modeling & simulation in defense life cycle engineering," SCSC 2007, pp. 1105-1111.
Donald P. Cox, Youssif B. Al-Nashif, and Salim Hariri,, "Application of autonomic agents for global information grid management and security," SCSC 2007, pp. 1147-1154.
B. Khargharia, S. Hariri, S. M. Yousif, "Autonomic power and performance management for computing systems," IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2006. ICAC '06, June 2006, pp. 145 - 154.
Yeliang Zhang, Salim Hariri, Jianwei Xiang, and Jim Yeh, "PARM: Physics aware runtime manager for large-scale scientific and engineering applications," The 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Paris, France, pp. 363-364, June 2006.
Huoping Chen, Salim Hariri, and Fahd Rasal; "An Innovative Self-Configuration Approach for Networked Systems and Applications"; The 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), Vols 1-3, pages 537-544, 2006.
Y. Zhang, X. S. Li, O. Marques. Towards an Automatic and Application-Based Eigensolver Selection. LACSI Symposium, October 11 - 13, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005.
J. Nieplocha, M. Krishnan, B. Palmer, V. Tipparaju, Y. Zhang. Exploiting Processor Groups to Extend Scalability of the GA Shared Memory Programming Model. Accepted by Computing Frontiers 2005 Conference May 4-6, 2005, Ischia, Italy.
Yeliang Zhang, Vinod Tipparaju, Jarek Nieplocha, Salim Hariri. Parallelization of the NAS Conjugate Gradient Benchmark Using the Global Arrays Shared Memory Programming Model. Accepted by Joint Workshop on High-Performance Grid Computing and High-Level Parallel Programming Models held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005.
Jingmei Yang, Huoping Chen, Salim Hariri, and Manish Parashar, "Self-Optimization of Large Scale Wildfire Simulations," International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 2005.

top

Salim Hariri, Director