Dr Peter Popov
- Current Position: Reader in Systems Dependability
- Research Interests:
- 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 evaluation;
- Contact Details:
- Tel: 020 7040 8963 (from UK), or +44 20 7040 8963 (outside UK)
- Fax: 0207040 8585 (from UK), or +44 20 7040 8585 (outside UK)
- E-mail: ptp@csr.city.ac.uk
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