UCSB Engineering
Faculty

Louise Moser

Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Louise Moser

Contacts

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560

tel: (805) 448-8249
fax: (805) 893-3262
moser@ece.ucsb.edu

Research Description

The research of the Distributed Systems and Computer Networks Group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, led by Professors Moser and Melliar-Smith, spans a wide range of topics. Current topics of interest include wireless networks and applications, peer-to-peer systems, event-based computing, Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.

Research Groups

  • Distributed Systems and Computer Networks Group

Biography

Louise Moser is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests span the areas of distributed systems, computer networks, and software engineering. Dr. Moser has served as principal investigator for many funded research projects, including projects from NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, UC Micro and UC Discovery, and has supervised more than 100 graduate student researchers. The systems software that she has supervised include the Trans/Total, Totem, AtomicGroup and IntraGroup reliable ordered multicast group communication systems, the Realize real-time and fault tolerance infrastructure for distributed systems, the Eternal fault tolerance and live upgrade infrastructure for distributed systems, the PluggableFT fault tolerance infrastructure for distributed systems, and the Magnet infrastructure for mobile e-commerce agents. Dr. Moser has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers and an area editor for IEEE Computer magazine in the area of networks, and on numerous conference program committees. She has participated in various standards organizations, including the Object Management Group, the Java Community Process, and the Service Availability Forum where she served as editor of the Application Interface Specification. She has published more than 225 conference and journal publications, and has 10 patents granted or pending. Previously, at SRI International, she was a key contributor to the design verification of the Software-Implemented Fault-Tolerant (SIFT) reliable aircraft control computer. She received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.


Selected Publications

  • Design and Implementation of a Consistent Time Service for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems, Computer Systems Science and Engineering Journal, 19, 5, September 2004, 315-323, W. Zhao, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • The SecureRing Group Communication System, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, 4, 4, November 2001, 371-406, K. P. Kihlstrom, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • Strongly Consistent Replication and Recovery of Fault-Tolerant CORBA Applications, Computer Systems Science and Engineering Journal, 17, 2, March 2002, 103-114, P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • Maximizing Welfare through Cooperative Negotiation in a Multi-agent Internet Economy, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, 5, 2, June 2006, 1-21, P. Dasgupta, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • Transparent TCP Connection Failover, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, San Francisco, CA, June 2003, 383-392, R. Koch, S. Hortikar, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • A Personal Handheld Multi-Modal Shopping Assistant, Proceedings of the World Class Technology Summit, Silicon Valley, CA, July 2006, Z. Davis, S. Prasad, M. Hu, M. Schuricht, P. M. Melliar-Smith and L. E. Moser
  • Unification of Transactions and Replication in Three-Tier Architectures Based on CORBA, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2, 1, January-March 2005, 20-33, W. Zhao, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • Managing Real-Time Distributed Multimedia Applications, Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, January 2002, 1-16, V. Kalogeraki, P. M. Melliar-Smith and L. E. Moser
  • Voice-Enabled User Interfaces for Mobile Devices, Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2007, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
  • Byzantine Fault Detectors for Solving Consensus, Computer Journal, 46, 1, 2003, 16-35, K. P. Kihlstrom, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith