Faculty Profiles
Philip McKinley
Professor
Research Interests
- distributed systems
- evolution
Research Biography
Philip K. McKinley received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois from 1982-1990. Dr. McKinley has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and was co-chair of the program committee for the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. His current research interests include Distributed systems, self-adaptive software, autonomic computing, adaptive middleware, group communication services, digital evolution, artificial life, overlay networks, and service composition.
Selected Publications
- "Composing Adaptive Software," P. K. McKinley, S. M. Sadjadi, E. P. Kasten, and B. H. C. Cheng, IEEE Computer, 37(7):56-64, July 2004.
- P. K. McKinley, S. M. Sadjadi, E. P. Kasten, and B. H. C. Cheng, "Composing Adaptive Software," IEEE Computer, 37(7):56-64, 2004.
- Philip McKinley, Betty H.C. Cheng, Charles Ofria, David Knoester, Benjamin Beckmann, Heather Goldsby, "Harnessing Digital Evolution," IEEE Computer, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 54-63, Jan., 2008
- P. K. McKinley, F. A. Samimi, J. K. Shapiro, and C. Tang, "Service Clouds: A Distributed Infrastructure for Constructing Autonomic Communication Services," In Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), Indianapolis, Indiana, September 2006.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, 1997