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Devon M. Simmonds

Assistant Professor

 

Department of Computer Science

UNC Wilmington

CIS Building Room 2046

601 South College Road

Wilmington, NC 28403

Tel: 910-962-3819

Fax: 910-962-7457

simmondsd [at] uncw [dot] edu

 

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Research Areas & Projects  

                         

 

 

Distributed Systems

 

I an interested in the transparent development of distributed applications. Unfortunately, the development and evolution of distributed systems are generally coupled to continuously changing middleware technologies. This coupling is undesirable because changes in the middleware necessitates changes in the application, resulting in unnecessary constraints on the portability, interoperability, reusability, and evolvability of distributed systems. It is imperative that mechanisms be found to make the development and evolution of distributed systems a middleware transparent software development (MTSD) process. MTSD is the development of software without consideration for a specific middleware.

 

Research Projects

 

1.      Middleware transparency research

a.      Student:

b.      Status: Research ongoing.

c.      Results

§  Several publications

 

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