As you may know I am starting a new stage in a new country and institution. Now I am a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher (Postdoc) working at SEERC in Thessaloniki, more specifically in the RELATE-ITN FP7 project. My research will be address some topics such as stream reasoning, cloud computing, big data, etc. to create a system for monitoring QoS in cloud computing environments and service oriented architectures. As far as I know the objective is to get information about applications on the cloud and verify that the current status of different variables are aligned to SLAs so it is necessary to continuosly gather data from applications, promote to an existing knowledge-base and check restrictions through reasoning processes for finally making decisions such as new provisioning, etc.
This first week I was adapting to my new office and I would like to thank you to all administrative staff and colleagues from SEERC for their warm welcome! I am very motivated. My work during this first week was focused on reading papers, testing tools and coding some prototypes. Following I am going to leave a summary of my activities:
Reading (specs, research papers and books)
- NIST Cloud Computing, documents related to Cloud Computing and QoS
- OASIS Cloud Computing Management for Platforms
- Drools Fusion (for Complex Event Processing)
- The SSN Ontology of the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group
- Stream Reasoning papers and presentations
- Continuous Semantics to Analyze Real Time Data
- Semantic-Based Storage QoS Management Methodology — Case Study for Distributed Environments
- Drools Developers Cookbook, Grails and Groovy (starting reading)
- Big Data (first chapters)
- Lambda Architecture
- An example “lambda architecture” for real-time analysis of hashtags using Trident, Hadoop and Splout SQL
- I attended to a seminar on Open Tosca
- JBoss Drools and Drools Fusion (CEP): Making Business Rules react to RTE
- … (other I can not remember)
Writing
- I am finishing a technical report abou our work in the Webindex project
- I am starting to write some papers in different topics that I will announce as soon as they are finished
Development and testing
- I have made a simple Python prototype to partially transform the Webindex in DSPL. The result can be found here. It just is an small example of consuming Linked Data.
- I have integrated Git, Heroku and Travis for creating a quality development environment as Labra suggested and I have to say it really works fine!
- I have made my first prototype with Drools Fusion processing events
- I have made some tests with C-SPARQL
- I have made my first prototype with Grails
- I have downloaded, compiled and deployed the current version of Apache Stanbol.
- I have started to use Cosm (an IoT platform)
- I have deployed the CommonCrawl prototype in Amazon EC2 Elastic Map/Reduce
- Some interesting presentations at
- Runaway complexity in Big Data… and a plan to stop it
- James Ward presentations and blog posts
- Play vs Grails Smackdown UberConf2012
- I have created accounts to monitorize cloud computing applications in the next platforms (of course you need, in most of cases, an Amazon EC2 account):
- I have also created my profile at W3C Community and joined the next groups