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André Schiper Professor PhD (EPFL, 1980) web site: http://lsrwww.epfl.ch/schiper/ office(s): INF236 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 34248,36459 BIOGRAPHY André Schiper graduated in Physics from the ETHZ in Zurich in 1973 and received the PhD degree in Computer Science from EPFL in 1980. He has been a professor of computer science at EPFL since 1985, leading the Distributed Systems Laboratory. During the academic year 1992-1993 he was on sabbatical leave at the University of Cornell, Ithaca, New York (working with Ken Birman and Aleta Ricciardi), and in 2004-2005 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France (working with Bernadette Charron-Bost). His research interests are in the area of dependable distributed systems, middleware support for dependable systems, replication techniques (including for database systems), group communication, distributed transactions, and MANETs (mobile ad-hoc networks). Prof. Schiper is member of the editorial boards of Distributed Computing (DC), Springer Verlag - ACM, Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE, International Journal of Security and Networks (Inderscience). MAIN PUBLICATIONS A. Schiper. Dynamic group communication. Distributed Computing, 18(5):359-374, 2006. [ Details | Full Text ] A. Schiper and S. Toueg. From Set Membership to Group Membership: A Separation of Concerns. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 3(2):2-12, 2006. [ Details | Full Text ] X. Défago, A. Schiper, and P. Urbán. Total Order Broadcast and Multicast Algorithms: Taxonomy and Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 36(4):372-421, 2004. [ Details | Full Text ] F. Pedone and A. Schiper. Handling message semantics with Generic Broadcast protocols. Distributed Computing, 15(2):97-107, 2002. [ Details | Full Text ] K. Birman, A. Schiper, and P. Stephenson. Lightweight causal and atomic group multicast. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 9(3):272-314, 1991. [ Details | Full Text ] Publications Journals Conferences Technical Reports CURRENT WORK HO (Heard-Of) model: Model for solving agreement problems SAMOA: Protocol framework GrPerf: Performance evaluation of group communication GrMANET: Group communication for MANETs André Schiper's research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Hasler Foundation. MISSION Research in distributed systems Teaching: - Concurrent programming - Operating systems - Distributed systems - Distributed algorithms

Skills Distributed systems, Fault tolerance, Replication, Transactions, Middleware, MANETs Teaching Communication Systems Concurrency [fr] (SSC SEL SIN) Distributed algorithms [en] (SSC SIN) Distributed computer science [fr] (SSC SEL SIN) Phd programs Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Phd Students Borran Fatemeh Favez Cendrine Kalantari Babak Meoni Marco Milosevic Zarko Petrovic Darko Shahmirzadi Omid de Sousa Santos Nuno Filipe