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QW2001 Plenary Talk 10P1 Dr. Dalibor Vrsalovic Issues in Design and Validation of Modern eBusiness Systems |
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Silicon economics helps in reducing cost of building modern eBusiness systems. However, year after year, the ongoing operations and software maintenance cost is killing many of the Internet based business models. This is due to two major facts: high complexity of new eBusiness systems, and low level of design, verification and management tools involved. In other words there is too little automation, and too much manual labor involved.This talk will discuss modern trends in Internet systems architecture. It shows how higher level system abstractions could save both time and cost during the design, building, validation and operations of eBusiness systems. Author will also discuss a concrete example of a high level system model and its benefits.
Dalibor F. Vrsalovic is a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Intel's New Business Group. In this position, Dr. Vrsalovic has responsibility for the long-range development of the architecture for Internet services and systems and for working with internal and external technology vendors to ensure a continuing stream of innovation for Intel's Internet platforms and services.
Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Vrsalovic was Vice President of Internet Technology at AT&T, where he and his team developed Internet service platforms and additional technologies and components supporting Internet telephony and messaging. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Vrsalovic was the Advanced Technology Vice President, AT&T Labs. Before joining AT&T, he was Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems/ SunSoft, where he managed the Advanced Technology Group. He was also the Vice President of Engineering at Ready Systems, where he directed worldwide R&D, product engineering, quality assurance, customer support, and manufacturing.
Dr. Vrsalovic was a member of the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Zagreb, has consulted to various governments and companies worldwide, and helped design several formative data networks. He is a member of various boards, including the Purdue University Advisory Board, Carnegie-Mellon University EDRC, Tripwire Security Inc. Board, and the Board of Manufacturing and Engineering Design of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Vrsalovic holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Computer Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, all from the University of Zagreb. During his studies, Dr. Vrsalovic was also an accomplished athlete as a member of the national water polo team and the European Water Polo Cup winning club.