Dr Peter Popov
Contact details:
Email: ptp@csr.city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7040 8963
Room: A229 College Building
Current Position:
Reader in Systems Dependability
Biography:
Peter has a PhD in Computer Science from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1989). He graduated from the same Institute in 1982. Peter was appointed to a Lectureship in CSR in October 2000, promoted to a Senior Lectureship in October 2002 and a Readership in November 2007. Before that he was a Research Fellow in the same Centre since April 1997 when he joined the CSR. Before joining CSR Peter was employed by the Institute of Computer and Communication Systems of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences which was preceded by 6 years of experience in industry.
Research Interests:
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- Software engineering;
- Software for multiprocessor and distributed systems;
- Real-time process control in distributed systems;
- Software reliability assessment, software safety, fault-tolerance, reliability and dependability, interactive consistency in distributed systems, local area networks performance evaluat
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Some recent publications
- Gashi I., Popov P., Strigini S., "Fault Tolerance via Diversity for Off-The-Shelf Products: a Study with SQL Database Servers", in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, 4(4), pp. 280-294, 2007
- Gashi I., Popov P., "Uncertainty Explicit Assessment of Off-the-Shelf Software: Selection of an Optimal Diverse Pair", in Proc. ICCBSS-2007, Sixth International Conference on COTS Based Software Systems, Banff, Alberta, Canada, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 93-102, 2007.
- Stankovic, V., Popov, P., "Improving DBMS Performance through Diverse Redundancy", Proc. 25th IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'06), 2-4 October 2006, pp. 391-400, IEEE Computer Society, Leeds, UK, 2006.
- Gashi, I., Popov, P., "Rephrasing Rules for Off-The-Shelf SQL Database Servers", Proc. 6th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC-6), 18-20 October, Coimbra, Portugal, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 139-148, 2006.
- P. Popov, B. Littlewood, "The effect of testing on the reliability of fault-tolerant software", Proc International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN2004), pp. 265-274, IEEE Computer Society, 2004.
Peter's full list of research papers and abstracts / full texts