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Dr. Howard Foster (BSc, MSc, PhD)

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Howard Foster received his PhD degree in 2006 from Imperial College London in the area of Rigorous Software Engineering for Service Compositions and has more than 15 years industrial experience as an IT consultant for leading business and IT professional service organizations.  He has more than 39 publications spread across leading Journals, Conference and Workshop Proceedings and Book Chapters.  He is also actively working in the area of Enterprise Architecture (Business, Technology and Data), Data Quality Management and IT Service-Orientation.  He has been a committee member for over 43 conference and workshops programmesHe is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Howard is currently working on the Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures SLA@SOI and Sensoria projects for the European Information Society (funded by the European Union).  He has been a Research Associate in Distributed Software Engineering at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and with the School of Informatics, City University London. He is also a member of London Software Systems, a joint research institute established by Imperial College and UCL that focusses on techniques and tools for designing large-scale complex information technology systems.

His interests include services, compositions, choreography and model-based verification and validation techniques.  He is also interested in self-management and organisation of systems, and behavioural-synthesis of software components.

He is a certified Microsoft MCP and experienced in SOA, Web Services, Java/J2EE, and Message-Oriented Middleware.

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Safety, Certification and Compliance for Software Services (WESOA11)

H.Foster and G.Spanoudakis, Safety, Ceritifcation and Compliance for Software Services, in proceedings of the Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA11), Paphos, Cyprus, December 2011. Abstract Preview The maturity of IT processes, such as software development, can be and is often certified. Current trends in the IT industry suggest that software systems in the future will be very different from their counterparts today, with an increasing adoption of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern and the deployment of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on Cloud infrastructures. In this talk we discuss some issues surrounding engineering Software Services for Cloud infrastructures and highlight the need for enhanced control, service-level agreement...

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In this paper we discuss an approach to the dynamic configuration of service monitoring infrastructure from SLAs. Published in Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing, Springer, 2011.

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SMaRT: A Workbench for Reporting the Monitorability of Services from SLAs

H.Foster and G.Spanoudakis, SMaRT: A Workbench for Reporting the Monitorability of Services from SLAs, 3rd International Workshop on the Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented Systems (PESOS) located at the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2011. Abstract Preview Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Software Services aim to clearly identify the service level commitments established between service requesters and providers. A dynamic configuration for the monitoring of these SLAs provides the opportunity for service monitor providers to offer and release monitoring infrastructures for different types of services. Whilst there has been work on automating this monitor matching and configuration, additional support may be...

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