Olivia Das

Associate Professor

Olivia Das received her B. Sc. (with Honours) in Mathematics in 1993 and M. Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 1995 from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India. She further obtained a M.Sc. in Information and System Sciences in 1998 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2004 from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in the area of dependability evaluation of software architectures.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Das's core research interests are in the area of dependability and performance evaluation of distributed systems; software performance engineering; mathematical modeling using fault-trees, Markov models, Petri nets and layered queueing theory.

SELECTED PAPERS

• G. Franks, T. Al-Omari, M. Woodside, O. Das, and S. Derisavi: "Enhanced modeling and solution of layered queueing networks", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35(2), 2009, pp.148-161.
• O. Das and C. M. Woodside: "Analyzing the Effectiveness of Fault-Management Architectures in Layered Distributed Systems," Performance Evaluation, 56, 2004, pp. 93-120.
• O. Das and C. M. Woodside: "Evaluating layered distributed software systems with fault-tolerant features," Performance Evaluation, 45 (1), 2001, pp. 57-76.