Eric Freudenthal  (2004), Assistant Professor. Research Areas: Design
and development of self-organizing parallel and distributed systems
that provide high performance over a range of operating
conditions. Synopsis: Extension of peer-to-peer techniques to achieve
robustness and security in self-organizing distributed systems that
span administrative domains.  Specific interests in techniques for (a)
detection and maintenance of localized clusters, (b) construction
self-organizing ad-hoc coalitions of systems that provide security,
high performance, and robustness, (c) dynamic modulation of service
quality and access levels based on connectivity and
level-of-authorization, and (d) decentralized access control of
systems that expose and therefore are able to reason over partial
transitive trust.