For more than 25 years, I have been looking into large-scale distributed systems. A recurring theme is that I have always been looking into simple solutions, knowing that even those simple solutions will easily get complicated no matter what. Learning the hard way, I by now know that it’s relatively easy to make something complicated, and that it can be tremendously difficult to keep matters simple.<\/p>\n
Since a number of years, my attention has moved to further decentralization of distributed systems, which spawned an interest in epidemic-based\u00a0 solutions. I have started to use the term extreme distributed systems<\/strong> as complete decentralization allows us to develop extremely large systems, which almost naturally brought me to complex networks. Since a number of years, I am also considering spatial distributed systems, notably wireless systems with extremely small nodes (cf. sensor networks).<\/p>\n I have become a firm believer of use-inspired research as explained in an excellent book called Pasteur’s Quadrant<\/a>.<\/p>\n I have worked with many different people and have supervised many masters and PhD students<\/a>, leading to a fair number of papers<\/a>. The people I collaborate with can be classified as experimental computer scientists<\/strong>. We validate our ideas through prototypes. Our systems act as instruments to understand, model, and validate observations. I am not a theoretician, although I sometimes truly enjoy collaborating with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Extreme distributed systems For more than 25 years, I have been looking into large-scale distributed systems. A recurring theme is that I have always been looking into simple solutions, knowing Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.distributed-systems.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A final note<\/h2>\n