Umesh Bellur
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Background
 Research
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Patents
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Awards
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  Background

After graduation, II went to work in the industry where I helped establish distributed object standards such as CORBA with  OMG  and J2EE with  JCP .  I  worked for over 10 years at Oracle Corporation, Teknekron Communication Systems and Covad communications after which I helped found a startup in Silicon Valley called  Collation Inc.  in 2001. IBM subsequently acquired Collation in 2005.  I helped Collation secure their first round of $6M in April of 2002 and release their Discover product in Jan 2003 after which I returned to India to join IIT Bombay as an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology. SIT subsequently merged with CSE  - yes mergers and acquisitions happen in academia as well:-))

For more details, please see my  (now somewhat outdated) Curriculum Vitae
 

Research Interests

My current research interests revolve around adaptability in service oriented environments, autonomic computing techniques for distributed component based applications and model driven development techniques in software engineering. These research areas translate to projects in middleware design for different kinds of distributed systems including wireless sensor networks as well as QoS models for such environment. Specific projects  underway in my group are:
 
  1. Semantic Centric Adaptive Service Oriented Computing: Most enterprise computing environments are fairly static and applications for such environments are built by statically hardwiring the interrelationships between components making up these applications. However, in environments that are characterized by a high degree of device mobility, applications have to now be built to dynamically find and bind to dependent components and services. We are focussing on semantic discovery aided by middleware structures that can dynamically bind components to satisfy user requirements. As a part of this effort, we are also seeking to develop a calculus for service orientation that will provide formal foundations for service composition and orchestration.
  2. QoS based routing in large scale Event Broker Networks: While the notion of differentiated quality of services is not new, there does not exist a comprehensive QoS model for event broker networks today. We are putting together one such model and implementing a runtime to enforce the same in arbitrary topologies..
  3. A Model Driven Paradigm for Performance Engineering:Traditional software development methodologies have failed to integrate performance engineering in a seamless manner. As a result performance engineering is adhoc and often done after the application is built and sometimes even deployed. Model driven development and UML 2.0 have given us many hooks to integrate performance concerns at every stage of the software lifecycle. We are developing a methodlogy and tools for integrated performance engineering using OMGs MDA.
  4. Autonomic Distributed Applications in Cloud Computing:  While software has been used to automate many tasks from inventory control to authorization in the enterprise the operational complexity of managing this software has increased dramatically over the last decade. It is no longer feasible to have humans manage the software that manages almost every aspect of the enterprise today. Autonomic computing is concerned with looking into ways and means of automating the management of software infrastructures and applications. I have put together the LAMDA (Lights out Management of Distributed Applications) project here at IITB which is looking into autonomic computing models and analytical methods for distributed application environments
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Awards

  1. SAP Research and Innovation Award for work in QoS based routing in Overlays 2008
  2. IBM Faculty Award for work in Autonomic Computing 2006
 

Publications

Books & Journals

  1. Semantic Matchmaking Algorithms for Web Services Matching, Umesh Bellur and Harin Vadodaria, Book Chapter in Advances in Greedy Algorithms, ISBN 978-953-7619-27-5, IN-TECH Publications.
  2. Incorporating Underlay Awareness into Highly Available P2P Networks, Umesh Bellur and Madhu Kumar,  International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, InderScience Publishers, Vol 4, No. 2, pp 133-160, 2010.
  3. A taxonomy and classification of Adaptive event dissemination middleware with support for service guarantees. Shruti Mahambre, Madhu Kumar and Umesh Bellur, IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Data Dissemination, July 2007
  4. Java Network Programming: Manning Publications, ISBN# 1-884777-49-X .
  5. A Strategic Weapon for Data CLECs in Challenging Conditions. Umesh Bellur and Nagaraju Bandaru, Book chapter in Operations Support Systems 2002: Enabling the Next-Generation Network. ISBN: 1-931695-05-9, IEC Press

Peer Reviewed International Conferences

    1. On Using Network Tomography for  Overlay Availability, Umesh Bellur and Mahak Patidar, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India
    2. Automated Web Service Composition Using Semantic Descriptions : Umesh Bellur  and Tanmay Mande, APSCC 2009, Singapore
    3. Decentralized Adaptive Routing for Reliability in Event Broker Networks: Shruti Mahambre and Umesh Bellur, ICPADS 2008, Shenzhen, China
    4. TSAR: Type Specific Adaptive Routing for Reliability in Event Based Middleware: Shruti Mahambre and Umesh Bellur, Poster paper at DEBS 2009, Nashville, USA, July 2009
    5. Web service Ranking using Semantic Profile information: Umesh Bellur and Harin Vadodaria, Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Services, Los Angeles, USA, July 2009.
    6. Underlay Aware Resiliency in P2P Overlays, Madhu Kumar S.D, Umesh Bellur, and V. K. Govindan, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking - ICDCN 2009, Hyderabad, India.
    7. Correctness of Request Executions in Online Updates of Concurrent Programs, Yogesh Murarka and Umesh Bellur, Proceedings of the 14th APSEC, Beijing, China, Dec 2008
    8. Towards Seamless User Mobility in Service Oriented Environments Via Context Awareness, Umesh Bellur and Siddharth Bondre, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Services, Sorrento, Italy, July 2008.
    9. On Extending Semantic Matchmaking to Include Preconditions and Effects, Umesh Bellur and Harin Vadodaria, Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Services, Beijing, China, Sept 2008
    10. Availability Models for Underlay Aware Overlay networks, Madhu Kumar and Umesh Bellur, Second Conference on Distributed and Event Based Systems, Rome Italy, July 2008
    11. An Adaptive Approach for Ensuring Reliability in Event Based Middleware, Shruti Mahambre and Umesh Bellur, Second Conference on Distributed and Event Based Systems, Rome Italy, July 2008
    12. Adding Underlay Aware Fault Tolerance to Event Broker Networks, Umesh Bellur and Madhu Kumar,   ICSOFT 2007, Barcelona, Spain
    13.  A Methodology and Tool for Determining Inter-component Dependencies Dynamically inJ2EE Environments, Umesh Bellur, The Third International Conference on Autonomic and AutonomousSystems, Athens, Greece. June 2007
    14. Root Cause Isolation for Self Healing in J2EE Environments, Umesh Bellur and Amar Agrawal, SASO 2007, Cambridge, USA.
    15.  An Improved Semantic Matchmaking Algorithm, Umesh Bellur and Roshan Kulkarni,  International Conference on Web Services 2007, July 2007, Salt Lake City, USA
    16. A Distributed Algorithm for Underlay Aware and Available Overlay Formation in Event Broker Networks for Publish/Subscribe Systems, Madhu Kumar and Umesh Bellur,  DEPSA 2007, a workshop of ICDCS 2007, Toronto, Canada
    17. Reliable Routing of Event Notifications over P2P Overlay Routing Substrate in Event Based Middleware, Shruti Mahambre and Umesh Bellur,  Hot P2P '07, a workshop of IPDPS 2007, Long Beach, USA
    18. Adaptive Overlays for Event Based Middleware- A case for Chordal Reliability Rings: Madhukumar S.D., Umesh Bellur and V.K. Govindan, ADCOM 2006, India, Dec 2006
    19. Power Aware Duty Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks, Umesh Bellur and Nishant Jaiswal., ICDCN, India, Dec 2006
    20. A Versioning Scheme for Consistent Evolution of OO Applications, Umesh Bellur and Vallieswaran V., 13th APSEC, India,  Dec 2006
    21. Safety Analysis for Dynamic Update of Object Oriented Programs, Yogesh Murarka, Umesh Bellur and Rushikesh Joshi.,13th  APSEC, India,  Dec 2006
    22. An Underlay Aware, Adaptive Overlay for Event Broker Networks, Madhu Kumar S.D., Umesh Bellur, Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Workshop, Middleware 2006, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2006
    23. An Academic Perspective on Globalization in the Software Industry. Umesh Bellur, Compsac 2006, Chicago, USA, Sept 2006
    24. Transformation of UML Design Model into Performance Model - A Model-Driven Framework., Ramrao Wagh, Umesh Bellur, Bernard Menezes.,ICEIS (3) 2006: 576-580
    25. On OO Design Consistency in Iterative Development, Umesh Bellur and Vallieswaran V., Software Engineering track of ITNG 2006, Las Vegas, USA, April 2006
    26. On Using OO Techniques to Establish Workflow Conformance, Umesh Bellur, Poster Paper in OOPS Track of ACM SAC 2006, Dijon, France, April 2006
    27. xSpace - A Tuple space for XML and its application in Orchestration of Web Services, Umesh Bellur and Siddharth Bondre, Distributed and Grid Computing Track of ACM SAC 2006, Dijon, France, April 2006
    28. Towards a Programming Model and Middleware Architecture for Self-configuring systems, Umesh Bellur and Narendra Nanjangud, COMSWARE 2006, New Delhi, India, January 2006
    29. Functional and Architectural Adaptation in Pervasive Computing Environments, Umesh Bellur, S.K. Nandy, K.Kalapriya and Narendra Nanjangud, MPAC, Middleware 2005, Grenoble, France, Nov 2005
    30. Towards Service Orientation in PErvasive Computing Systems, Umesh Bellur and Narendra Nanjangud, ITCC 2005, Las Vegas, USA, April 2005
    31. A Declarative Framework to create Differentiated Service Levels in Component Based Middleware, PDCS 2004, Cambridge, MA, Nov 2004
    32. Performance Prediction and Physical Design of J2EE based Web applications, WSEAS CSCC 2004, Athens, Greece., July 2004
    33. Autonomic Computing Platform for Distributed Enterprise Computing, Umesh Bellur, Workshop on Software Performance (WOSP), January 2004.
    34. Discovery in distributed object environments - Umesh Bellur, NCOOT  August 2003.
    35. The Role of Components & Standards in Software Reuse at the Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures. 1998, Monteray CA.
    36. Musings of an Engine Builder, Umesh Bellur, Position paper at the OOSPLA `95 Workshop on Object Engines.
    37. Building Large Scale Distributed Systems, Umesh Bellur and Swami Venkates, Position paper at the OOPSLA `95 workshop on "Building Large Scale Distributed Object Systems".
    38. CORBA & Beyond - Frameworks for distributed object system development, Umesh Bellur, OOPSLA `94 workshop on CORBA.
    39. Coauthored the CORBA Component model at OMG as well as the Enterprise Java 1.0 specification.
    40. Clustering - Composition for Active Object systems, Umesh Bellur, Gary Craig, Doug Lea, Proceedings of the 27th Hawaii International conference on System Sciences.(01/94)
    41. DIAMONDS - Principles and Philosophy, Umesh Bellur, Gary Craig, Kevin , Shank, Doug Lea and Vaughn Combs, CASE Center Technical Report # 9313, Syracuse University, 06/93
    42. Clusters: A Pragmatic Approach towards Supporting a Fine Grained Active Object Model in Distributed Systems, Gary Craig, Umesh Bellur, Kevin Shank and Doug Lea, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Systems Engineering, UNLV, 07/93
    43. A Shared Memory Programming Environment for Distributed Systems, Umesh Bellur & Sumana Srinivasan, Proceedings of OpenForum `92 Technical Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 11/92
    44. A C++ Class Flattening Tool, Umesh Bellur & Imran Bashir, Proceedings of C++ at Work, Santa Clara, CA, 11/91
    45. Transparent Load Sharing on UNIX, Umesh Bellur, Gary Craig, Kevin Shank, CASE Center Technical Report, Syracuse University, 05/92

Research Grants

  1. Motorola Research grant for research into seamless mobility in service oriented environments., $14000 for 2006-2007, Sept 2006.
  2. Intel IT Research Council, Grant for research into Self healing and Performance Modeling of Enterprise Applications,  $24000 along with Prof. Varsha Apte of CSE, IITB, January 2006
  3. Intel Corp, Linux Based Video Learning Solution for Distance Education, US $60,000 along with Prof. Deepak Phatak, January 2005
  4. Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India - Service Oriented Architectures for NRDMS Applications, Rs 15 Lakh, April 2005
  5. Intel IT Research Council, Follow up grant for research into Autonomic Computing issues,  $24000 along with Prof. Varsha Apte of CSE, IITB, March 2005
  6. L&T Infotech - Enterprise Integration Architectures with Service Orientation, Rs 12 Lakh, June 2004
  7. Intel IT Research Council, Dynamic Determination of Topology for Distributed enterprise applications,  $12000 along with Prof. Varsha Apte of CSE, IITB, July 2004
  8.  IRCC at IIT Bombay - Autonomic Computing Infrastructure, Rs 2 Lakh, Seed Grant, July 2003

Courses Taught

  1. Spring 2009 - Distributed systems (Undergraduate).
  2. Autumn 2008 - Special topics in Service Oriented Computing (Graduate).
  3. Autumn 2007 - Database Information Systems  -(undergraduate) theory and accompanying lab.
  4. Autumn 2006,  Advanced Software Engineering (Graduate) jointly with Prof. Kavi Arya.
  5. Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004 -Distributed Algorithms (Graduate)
  6. Autum 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005 - OO Techniques (Graduate)
  7. Spring 2003 -  Seminar Series on Electronic commerce and eBusiness (IT 616)

Professional Activities

Program Committees (PC Member unless indicated otherwise)

Standards Bodies

Invited Talks

  1. Keynote speaker at the Redhat Service Oriented Architectures summit, Mumbai, India, Dec 2008.
  2. Keynote Speaker at Economic Times Intelligence Group  Knowledge Forum  - Business Process Management event at Chennai and Mumbai,  India, July 2007
  3. Keynote speaker at the CIO Club, Computer Society of India, Mumbai, India June 2007
  4. Department Colloquim talk at Department of Computer Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA,  May 28th 2007
  5. Keynote Speaker at  IDC Two City Knowledge Conference on Service Oriented Architectures, New Delhi and Mumbai, India, February 2007
  6. Invited Speaker at SAIG conference of Siemens Research,  Mumbai, India, Jan 2007
  7. Keynote Speaker at ADCOM 2006, Suratkal, India, Dec 2006
  8. Department Colloquim talk at Marquette University, Dept of MSCS,  Milwaukee, WI, USA, Sept 2006
  9.  L&T Infotech Presentation on JavaSpaces, Mumbai, India,  June 2005
  10. Stochastic Methods in Autonomic Computing, Talk at IBM IRL, New Delhi  May 2005
  11. SAP Innovation Congress,   Autonomic Computing - problems and approach. Florida, USA,  March 2004,
  12. Seminar on Oss  for Broadband Networks and Services.  WIPRO, Bangalore, India  Oct 2003.
  13. Hewlett Packard Labs, , Lights out Management of Distributed Applications, Palo Alto, CA, USA, June 2003
  14. Fourth IITB-Persistent Workshop on Data Management,  Security Technologies underlying Databases, 2003, IITB, India - Seminar on Security in eBusiness Environments
  15. Marcus Evans Telecom CIO Summit, Lake Geneva, May 2001.
  16. Panel chair for OSS at new generation networks at OSS Summit,  Miami, Feb 2001.
  17. Enterprise Application Integration at Next Generation OSS, Denver, Sept 2000
  18. Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, 1998, Monterey, CA - The Role of Components & Standards in Software Reuse.

Patents Granted

1 7,337,184 Full-Text Topology mapping of a multitier compute infrastructure
2 7,281,046 Full-Text Application program interface for automating high speed network access ordering and provisioning processes
3 7,243,306 Full-Text Service descriptor for a multitier compute infrastructure
4 7,210,143 Full-Text Deployment of applications in a multitier compute infrastructure
5 6,463,079 Full-Text Processing orders for high bandwidth connections