Data-Ken
“Knowledge about Data” - The website and blog of Jeff Fischer

Publications

In 2008, I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at UCLA under Professor Rupak Majumdar. In my dissertation, Robust Service Composition, I developed new approaches to ensure the reliability of service-based systems. This involved identifying key correctness properties and enforcing these properties through lightweight verification tools. I addressed four specific issues: lost messages in asynchronous programs, the consistency of long running transactions, reconciliation of access control policies, and the trust by end users of composed applications.

I was a "non-traditional" PhD student - I had worked in industry for ten years before returning to school. This gave me a different perspective regarding which problems are interesting and their solutions, which I tried to reflect in my research work.

Conference Publications

  • Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar, and Shahram Esmaeilsabzali. Engage: A Deployment Management System, Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI '12), June 2012. [abstract] [pdf]
  • Jeffrey Fischer, Daniel Marino, Rupak Majumdar, and Todd Millstein. Fine-Grained Access Control with Object-Sensitive Roles, European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP '09), July 2009.
  • Jeffrey Fischer and Rupak Majumdar. A Theory of Role Composition, International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '08), September 2008.
  • Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar, and Francesco Sorrentino. The Consistency of Web Conversations, Automated Software Engineering (ASE '08), September 2008.
  • Jeffrey Fischer and Rupak Majumdar. Ensuring Consistency in Long Running Transactions, Automated Software Engineering (ASE '07), November 2007.
  • Jeffrey Fischer, Rupak Majumdar, and Todd Millstein. Tasks: Language Support for Event-driven Programming, Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM '07), January 2007.
  • Michael Emmi, Jeffrey Fischer, Ranjit Jhala, and Rupak Majumdar. Lock allocation, Principles of Programming Languages, January 2007.
  • Jeffrey Fischer, Ranjit Jhala, and Rupak Majumdar. Joining dataflow with predicates, Foundations of Software Engineering, August 2005.
  • Jeffrey Fischer and Milos Ercegovac. A component framework for communication in distributed applications, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2000, pp 647-653.

PhD Thesis

  • Jeffrey Fischer, Robust Service Composition, UCLA Computer Science Department, 2008. [pdf]

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