Autonomic and Grid Computing
Scientific contributions

Activities of the Group:

  • The Group collaborates with leading industrial players in IT and Telecommunications , as well as important reasearch labs in the research areas falling in the scope of the group acitvities. Prominent examples include: IBM, Sum Microsystems, INTRACOM, CMU, USC, Stanford University, Fraunhofer, INRIA, University of Karlruhe, and more
  • The Group collaborates actively with leading Greek universities and research insitutes, as well as with Greek Reserach and Technology Network
  • The Group created and maintains a toy Grid infrastructure consisting of 3 Solaris9 machines with Globus Toolkit
  • The group follows Several IETF mailing lists, as well as the globus toolkit mailing lists
  • Prof. Polymenakos is the coordinator of the E-Business Forum Study Group Z6: 'Grids for E- business', while Dr. John Soldatos is a rapporteur in the same group
  • Dr. Soldatos is reviewer for the IEEE Communications Magazine, the Computer Communications Magazine as well as several international conferences
  • Dr. Soldatos was a co-chair of the DPSN 2004 workshop, held in the scope of the IFIP-TP6 Networking 2004 conference
  • The autonomic and grid computing research group is responsible for a series of executive training courses and seminars related to enterprise middleware, enterprise applications and multiservice networking (See the AIT central site for more details and schedules).

Technical Skills of group memebrs:

  • Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, FORTRAN, Pascal, COBOL, Lisp, Python, MATLAB
  • Markup-Scripting Languages: HTML, XML, XSLT, DHTML (Javascript & CSS, VBScript), VoiceXML
  • RDBMS Systems (emphasis on Software development): Oracle, mySQL, Postgres,MSAccess
  • Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX (Solaris, AIX), Linux
  • WWW Servers: iPlanet WWW Server, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Apache, Microsoft Personal Web Server
  • WWW Server Side Programming: Java Server Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages (ASP).
  • Application Servers (J2EE): Tomcat-Jakarta, Borland Enterprise Server, Sun One App Server, IBM's Web Sphere, BEA Weblogic
  • Distributed Programming: Sockets, Java RMI, CORBA, W3C Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), Grid Programming (GT3 / OGSA)
  • Programming Patterns, EJB specific patterns, Integrated Development / Software Engineering Tools (Microsoft Developer Studio, JBuilder, Sun NetBeans, Rational Rose, Sun One Studio, Oracle Developer, Oracle Designer,...).
  • Network technologies/protocols/services: TCP/IP, UDP, ATM, VOIP, SNMP, CMIP, JMAPI, JAIN, MPLS, GMPLS, IPv6,...
  • Simulation of Digital and Analog Systems (ADS, Simulink)