Dr. Mike Smit

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Postdoctoral Fellow E-Mail: msmit<@>ceraslabs.com Address: York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Supervisor: Dr. Marin Litoiu

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Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with Marin Litoiu's research group at York University. I obtained my PhD (Computing Science) in 2011 at the University of Alberta, with Eleni Stroulia and the Service Systems Research Group. My Masters and Honours Bachelor degrees are from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with supervisors Jacob Slonim, Mike McAllister, and Kelly Lyons.

Research Interests
My preferred approach to research is solving real, interesting computing science problems in industry or in collaborations with other disciplines. I am most passionate about work that is collaborative, participatory, interdisciplinary, socially relevant, and cross-institution.  My research has followed an interesting revolution, through the following topics in roughly reverse chronological order: Cloud Computing, Adaptive Systems, Service-oriented Systems, Software Engineering, Software Maintenance, Software Reverse Engineering, Aspect-oriented systems, Web Applications, Policy Enforcement, Privacy, Confidentiality, Security, Trust, Privacy-enhancing technologies, and Electronic Health Records.

Professional Activities
I am on various program committees have reviewed papers for many conferences; however, I am still accepting new assignments. :)

Refereed Publications

1. [Journal] Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Simulating Service-Oriented Systems: A Survey and the Services-Aware Framework. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2012.
2. Michael Smit, Przemyslaw Pawluk, Bradley Simmons, and Marin Litoiu. A web service for cloud metadata. In IEEE Congress on Services, To Appear, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2012. IEEE Computer Society.
3. Przemyslaw Pawluk, Bradley Simmons, Michael Smit, Marin Litoiu, and Serge Mankovski. Intro- ducing STRATOS: A cloud broker service. In IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), To Appear, 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 17%.)
4. Cornel Barna, Mark Shtern, Michael Smit, Vassilios Tzerpos, and Marin Litoiu. Model-based adap- tive DOS attack mitigation. In Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, 2012. To Appear. (Acceptance Rate: 30%.)
5. [Chapter] Himanshu Vashishtha, Michael Smit, and Eleni Stroulia. Migrating a legacy web-based document-analysis application to Hadoop: An experience report. In Migrating to SOA and Cloud Environments: Challenges in Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing Environments. IGI Global, 2012. To Appear.
6. [Chapter] Yuriy Brun, Ron Desmarais, Kurt Geihs, Marin Litoiu, Antonia Lopes, Mary Shaw, and Michael Smit. A design space for adaptive systems. In Software Engineering for Self-adaptive Systems II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012. To Appear.
7. Koosha Golmohammadi, Michael Smit, and Osmar Zaiane. Learning Actions in Complex Soft- ware Systems. In 13th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK), pages 367–381, 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 30%.)
8. Michael Smit and Eleni Stroulia. Automated state-space exploration for configuration management of service-oriented applications. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS ’11, pages 468–475, Washington, DC, USA, 2011. (Acceptance Rate: 17%.
9. Himanshu Vashishtha, Michael Smit, and Eleni Stroulia. Moving text analysis tools to the cloud. In IEEE Congress on Services, pages 107–114, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2010. (Placed third.)
   
   
10. Michael Smit, K. Lyons, M. McAllister, and J. Slonim. Detecting privacy infractions in applications: A framework and methodology. In IEEE 6th International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems, 2009. MASS’09., pages 694–701. IEEE, 2009. (Acceptance Rate: 23%.)
    
    
11. Michael Smit, Eleni Stroulia, and Kenny Wong. Use case redocumentation from gui event traces. In European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pages 263–268, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2008. IEEE Computer Society. (Acceptance Rate: 28%.)
    
    
12. Michael Smit, Andrew Nisbet, Eleni Stroulia, Andrew Edgar, Gabriel Iszlai, and Marin Litoiu. Capacity planning for service-oriented architectures. In CASCON ’08: Proceedings of the 2008 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on collaborative research, pages 144–156, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM. (Acceptance Rate: 30%.)