Fault Diagnosis and Monitoring in SoA

Identifying occurrences of failure in such SOA is a crucial task. The aim of our research is to develop methods of creating Diagnosing Service which allow identifying (at run-time) if a failure has happened or may have happened. In [1, 2, 4] we presented a model driven approach to using Discrete Event System (DES) for automated generation of Diagnoser services and their integration to exiting architectures. In [3] we extended a modelling language suggested Vanhatalo, H. Voelzer, and Leymann to develop a theory of Diagnosability for SoA. [6] deals with addressing some of the challenges of deployment of a Diagnosing service. I collaborate with Mohammed Alodib and researchers from BT Research Laboratories, among them, Basim Majeed and Xiaofeng Du. One of the outcomes of our research is an Oracle JDeveloper plugin that implements our method.

I am also interested in Diagnosability theory of DES, which I study in collaboration with Rene Boel's team [3].

Selected publications

  1. A model driven approach to the design and implementing of fault tolerant Service Oriented Architectures. M. Alodib B. Bordbar and B. Majeed. Proceeding of the third IEEE International Conference on Information Management (ICDIM), pages 464-469, 2008
  2. A Model Driven Architecture approach to fault tolerance in Service Oriented Architectures, a performance study, M.Alodib and B. Bordbar, accepted for publication in 3rd International Workshop on Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures (MDA4SOA)
  3. On-line monitoring of large Petri Net models under partial observation, G. Jiroveanu, R. Boel and B. Bordbar, accepted for publication in Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems,Volume 18, Number 3, pages 323-354, 2008
  4. On automated generation of Diagnosers in Fault tolerant Service oriented Architectures, M. Alodib, B. Bordbar, B. Majeed, Journal of Digital Information Management, pages 344-350, Volume 7 Issue 6, 2009
  5. A model-based approach to Fault diagnosis in Service oriented Architectures, M. Alodib and B. Bordbar, Proceeding of the 7th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 09) pages 129-139, 2009
  6. Applying Protocol Service for the Monitoring of Business Process, X. Du, B. Bordbar, M. Alodib, and B. Majeed Accepted for publication by GCC 2011.