Yathiraj B. Udupi, Ph.D.

2261 Engineering Building II

Multiagent Systems and Service-Oriented Computing Laboratory,

Department of Computer Science,

North Carolina State University,

Raleigh, NC 27695-8206, USA.

Phone:  919-513-4456 (Office)

Email: ybudupi AT ncsu.edu

 

 

 

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Research Experience

 

Publications

Research Interests:

Multiagent Systems, Policies, Policy-based Governance Architectures, Service Networks and Organizations, Contracts and Agreements Governance,  Service-Oriented Computing, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Trust and Privacy,  P2P Service Networks, Knowledge Sharing and Management; Convergence of these areas for novel applications in Distributed Systems,  Cyberinfrastructures, Hierarchical Organizations and Grid Computing.

 

PhD Details:

–        Dissertation:  Modeling Service Engagements in Dynamic Service Organizations: Multiagent Model and Architecture for Policy-Based Governance  (Defended: March 2008)

–        Advisor:  Dr. Munindar P. Singh, Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Educational Qualifications:

·        Ph.D., Computer Science; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: Mar 2008.

·        M.S., Computer Science; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC: Dec 2005.

·        B. Tech., Computer Science & Engineering; Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M, Chennai), India: Jul 2002.

Teaching Experience:

·        Instructor for a graduate course at  NCSU:  CSC513:  E-Commerce Technologies  Fall 2007

·        Teaching Assistant at NCSU: CSC750/450 : Service-Oriented Computing  Spring 2006

·        Teaching Assistant at NCSU: CSC791J/495J : Web Services  Spring 2004

·        Teaching Assistant at IIT-M:  Introduction to Computing  Spring 2002

Academic Research Experience:

·        Graduate Research Assistant at NCSU:  Fall 2002 – present

Advisor:  Dr. Munindar P. Singh

Professional Research Experience:

·        Research Intern: IBM Research, T.J. Watson Labs, Hawthorne, NY 06/07 – 08/07

Mentor: Dr. Stefan Tai, Manager: Dr. Jakka Sairamesh, Department: Intelligent Business Systems, Business Informatics

·        Research Associate (Intern): Enterprise Software and Systems Lab at HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA  05/06 – 08/06

Mentor:  Dr. Akhil Sahai, Manager:  Vijay Machiraju, Department: Utility Infrastructure Management (UIM)

·        Research Internship at Semantic Web Department at HP Labs, Bristol, UK   06/04 – 11/04

      Mentor:  Dr. Steve Battle, Manager:  Janet Bruten

·        Summer Intern:  R&D Division,  Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS), Chennai, India 05/01 – 07/01

Professional Activities:

·        PC:  GRCIS 2008 Workshop on Governance, Risk, and Compliance at CAiSE2008

·        PC:  WISE2007 Workshop on Governance, Risk, and Compliance

·        Reviewer:  ICWS’04, ICWS’06, ICWS’07

DBLP Entry

Publications:    

Academic:

§         Ph.D. dissertation.

                  Modeling Service Engagements in Dynamic Service Organizations: Multiagent Model and Architecture for Policy-Based Governance.

                  Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, March 2008

§         Ph.D. written preliminary examination.

Trustworthy Service Networks.

      Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, November 2003

 

Refereed Conferences and Workshops:

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh.

Governance of Cross-Organizational Service Agreements: A Policy-Based Approach. 

In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC’07), Research Track,  pages 36 – 43, Salt Lake City, Utah, IEEE Press, July 2007.  (Acceptance ratio: 20%)

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh.

Information Sharing among Autonomous Agents in Referral Networks.

In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC), Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 2007.

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh. 

Multiagent Policy Architecture for Virtual Business Organizations.  

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC’06), Research Track, pages 44 – 51, Chicago, IEEE Press, Sep 2006. (Acceptance ratio: 25%)

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh. 

Contract Enactment in Virtual Organizations: A Commitment-Based Approach. 

In Proceedings of the 21st AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, Massachusetts, pages 722 – 727, July 2006. AAAI Press.  (Acceptance ratio: 30.5%)

§         Renato Bulcao Neto, Yathiraj B. Udupi, and Steve Battle. 

Agent-based Mediation in Semantic Web Service Framework. 

In Proceedings of the First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services (AKT-SWS04), KMi, UK, Dec 2004.

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi, Pinar Yolum and Munindar P. Singh. 

Trustworthy Service Caching: Cooperative Search in P2P Information Systems. 

In Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS-03), Melbourne, pages 32 – 44, 2003. (Acceptance ratio: 50%)

 

Refereed Short Papers:

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh.

Design Patterns for Policy-Based Service Engagements.

In Proceedings of the International IEEE Workshop of Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY), Palisades, NY, June 2008. To appear.

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh. 

Dynamics of Contract-Based Organizations: A Formal Approach Based on Institutions. 

In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 2007.  (Acceptance ratio: 47.6%)

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh. 

InterPol: A Policy Framework for Managing Trust and Privacy in Referral Networks. 

In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 2007.  (Acceptance ratio: 47.6%)

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi, Akhil Sahai and Sharad Singhal. 

A Classification-Based Approach to Policy Refinement. 

In Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM), pages 785 – 788, Munich, Germany, May 2007.

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi, Pinar Yolum and Munindar P. Singh. 

Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Service Networks: A Study of Effectiveness and Structure Evolution. 

In Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-2004), NY, USA, July 2004, pages 1336 – 1337. Poster.  (Acceptance ratio: 50%)

 

Other Research Publications:

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi and Munindar P. Singh.

Design Patterns for Policy-Based Service Engagements.

Technical Report TR-2008-3, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Jan 2008.

§         Yathiraj B. Udupi, Akhil Sahai, and Sharad Singhal. 

A Classification-Based Approach to Policy Refinement. 

HPL Technical Report HPL-2007-06, Jan 2007.

 

 

Drafts:

[Do not cite these without permission. In most cases it will be OK to cite these as unpublished drafts. However I may have improved versions, which I can make available.]

  1. Formalizing Dynamics of Service Engagements:  A Commitments-Based Approach.
  2. Multidimensional Service Matching and Selection.
  3. Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Service Networks: A Study of Effectiveness and Structure Evolution.

 

 

 

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