Masters Thesis:<br/>Self Healing Systems<br/>using<br/>The Software Matrix

Anirudha successfully defended this work on December 09, 2005, before his committee: Drs. Kamal Jabbour (chair), Daniel Pease, Marek Podgorny, and Jim Fawcett (advisor), all from the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The Software Matrix is a framework that was originally developed to support software salvage. Salvage is a reuse mechanism that focuses on software blocks that are typically significantly bigger that a single class. This work extends the Software Matrix concept and implementation to support Self Healing. By employing message-passing and mediator structures and by supporting the discovery of needed types, we've built a pluggable architecture that can gracefully support the resurrection of failed subsystems. The implementation is quite simple, consisting of only a couple of thousand lines of code. Demonstrating how to achieve self healing with a very simple structure and implementation is one of the important contributions of this work.

Self Healing Software Matrix

Anirudha's committee - Dr.s Pease, Fawcett, Podgorny, and Jabbour (not in picture)"