DCU Postgraduate wins awards at ACM grand finals
27 june 2003

Adrian Mos

Adrian Mos, a postgraduate in Electronic Engineering, reached the grand finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Awards. The ACM is the world's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society. Since 1947 ACM has provided a vital forum for the exchange of information, ideas, and discoveries. These prestigious awards are highly respected within the field of Computer Science/Engineering and all the major conferences in this area have an ACM or IEEE Computer Society endorsement.

Adrian reached the grand final by entering the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at graduate level where he advanced through all stages and was invited to the ACM Awards Ceremony in San Diego. During this ceremony the Turing Award winner, which is the Nobel equivalent in Computer Science, is announced.

Adrian was awarded second place for his research into Performance Engineering Lab (PEL). Adrian's work involves investigating methods for managing the performance of large-scale component-based software applications. For example, applications used by major banks to provide financial information or other complex computer systems could have ongoing assessment to improve the application.

More specifically, Adrian is working on the design of the COMPAS framework that provides a reusable solution for analysing large-scale enterprise applications during and after development. COMPAS provides insight into an application's functionality and design, without requiring source code. This can be useful especially in large enterprise projects where understanding the exact performance implications of the adopted design solutions is a challenging task.