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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] Distributed algorithms [en] (SSC SIN) Distributed computer science [fr] Phd programs Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Phd Students Borran Fatemeh Favez Cendrine Kalantari Babak Meoni Marco Milosevic Zarko Shahmirzadi Omid de Sousa Santos Nuno Filipe