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Jesus Carretero

Professor of Computer Architecture

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 

Anibal R. Figueiras Vidal 
Director/Chairman
Dpto. Teoria de la Señal y Comunicaciones/
Dept. Signal Theory & Communications
Avda. de la Universidad, 30 
28911 Leganes-Madrid 
Spain

http://arcos.inf.uc3m.es/

Ph:  (+34)91.624.9923
Fax: (+34)91.624.8749
jcarrete@arcos.inf.uc3m.es

Description of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Universidad Carlos III is a public University , created on 1.989 and it is located in the southern metropolitan area of Madrid. It has three training and research centres: the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, the Faculty of Humanities, Documentation and Communication, situated in Getafe Campus, and the Engineering School/Faculty, located in Leganés Campus.

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UCIIIM) acts a scientific and technological partner in several FP5 Projects and FP6 proposal and can provide, by means of an interdisciplinary team, a wide expertise in cooperative projects and a technological strength in the field of information technologies, modelling and simulation, and evaluation of computer systems and networks. Besides that , UCIIIM has been a technological partner in different cooperative projects and has a wide experience on European R&TD projects along IV and V European FW Programmes.

In terms of R&D , UCIIIM has already carried out a notable number of R&D lines and projects, with an increasing trend, as well as R&D contracts and consultancy and monitoring activities with firms and other research centres. The university centres have the appropriate R&D infrastructure, laboratory tools and equipment, to perform its research activity.

On the topics related to the NoE proposal, the project team is composed by 10 researchers, leaded by Prof. Jesús Carretero, four doctors, 5 PhD students and one fellow. Its fields of expertise are the following: Computer Architecture, Communications and I/O Systems; Real-Time Systems design and programming; Reliability based systems and risk management systems. Prof. Carretero has been chairman of several international conferences as the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Systems) and he is also author of several books related to computer science. During several years he has been researching and working on risk management and safety systems related to transport and avionics. He is specialized on data acquisition and analysis by using data-mining techniques and high performance computing systems.  He is the leader of the computer architecture group (http://arcos.inf.uc3m.es). Contact address: jcarrete@arcos.inf.uc3m.es.

A list of all the grants for research and publications had in the last 5 years regarding the topic of the NoE, national and also international can be found in the former web-page.

 

 

Contributions to CARiMan

 

B.4 Degree of integration and the joint programme of activities.

 

UCIIIM may participate in several JPA.

For B.4.1 (Integration activities), but we are more specifically interested in RT  and Ta activities, both related to transport and traffic accidents.

UCIIIM group has experience in the development of information systems for railway traffic risk management and evaluation.

For B.4.2, we are specifically interested in KM, Ti and Sa activities, being our major experience in SA, where we could collaborate in EGERIS, LOCCATEC.

For B.4.3, we could participate in all of them. We have elaborated the Web portal of a former EU project and were responsible of Dissemination activities (workshops, publication of report, etc.)  We also elaborated a course to train people based on the results of the project.

 

Professor Carretero may actuate as a

scientific manager.

 

Related to the network of excellence, we are interested in proposal the WP described below.

 

WokPackage: Computer based systems risk management

Objectives

Risks associated to a computer based system must be evaluated and managed as a whole. It is nonsense to manage independently software and hardware as separate facets, when they are elements on a single system and a risk in one facet will undoubtedly affect the other. This is particularly important in the case of embedded systems where a network of computers is connected to different devices (sensors and actuators mainly). A reliability flaw is a main risk which must be kept in an acceptable level and, in the event that it occurs, it must be mitigated.

The main objective of this work will be to explore how risks associated to reliability flaws in a computer based system can be integrally managed in such a way that the system is able to go on providing the required functionality. To do so, a well known maintenance methodology named RCM (Reliability Centered Management) will be used a basis.

Work description

1.       T1: Study of the state of the art in risk management, reliability and systems modeling.

2.       T2: Produce a model which allows applying RCM (Reliability Centered Management) to a system composed of software and hardware elements.

3.       T3: Select a development process model in which RCM can be integrated so that system design is guided by the principles of a reliability centered management.

4.       T4: Integrate the computer based systems RCM model into the selected development process model.

5.       T5: Evaluate the application of the method to the development of systems with high reliability requirements.

Deliverables

6.       State of the art in risk management, reliability and systems modeling.

7.       RCM model for computer based systems.

8.       Development process model selection report.

9.       New development process model definition with RCM for computer based systems integrated in it.

10.   Evaluation report on the application of the new development process model.

Milestones

11.   T1: 3 months.

12.   T2: 7 months.

13.   T3: 2 months

14.   T4: 3 months

15.   T5: 3 months

 

Short Description of the Organization

Universidad Carlos III is a public University , created on 1.989 and it is located in the southern metropolitan area of Madrid. It has three training and research centres: the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, the Faculty of Humanities, Documentation and Communication, situated in Getafe Campus, and the Engineering School/Faculty, located in Leganés Campus.

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UCIIIM) acts a scientific and technological partner in several FP5 Projects and FP6 proposal and can provide, by means of an interdisciplinary team, a wide expertise in cooperative projects and a technological strength in the field of information technologies, modelling and simulation, and evaluation of computer systems and networks. Besides that , UCIIIM has been a technological partner in different cooperative projects and has a wide experience on European R&TD projects along IV and V European FW Programmes.

In terms of R&D , UCIIIM has already carried out a notable number of R&D lines and projects, with an increasing trend, as well as R&D contracts and consultancy and monitoring activities with firms and other research centres. The university centres have the appropriate R&D infrastructure, laboratory tools and equipment, to perform its research activity.

 

CV of Prof. Dr. Ing. Comp. Science Jesus Carretero

Prof. Jesus Carretero graduated from the Technic University of Madrid (UPM) in 1989, where he specialized in Computer architecture and Real-Time Systems. He got his PhD. in Computer Science in 1995. Since 1989 to 1997 he was teaching and researching at the Computer Architecture Department, developing works on high-performance storage systems and real-time scheduling systems. As part of his PhD thesis, he developed a Parallel File System, named ParFiSys. During 1997 and 1998 he was a visiting scholar at the Northwestern University (Chicago, USA), researching with Prof. Alok Choudhary on high-performance storage systems and high-performance computer systems. There he developed a library for parallel I/O that is being use at the Sandia labs (New Mexico, USA). In 1999 he moved to UCIIIM, where he got a Professor position in Computer Architecture. Since then, his group has been researching on computer architecture, communications and I/O systems,  real-time systems design and reliability and risk management systems. Prof. Carretero has been chairman of several international conferences as the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Systems) and he is also author of several books related to computer science. During several years he has been researching and working on risk management and safety systems related to transport and avionics. He is specialized on data acquisition and analysis by using data-mining techniques and high performance computing systems.  He is the leader of the computer architecture group (http://arcos.inf.uc3m.es). Contact address: jcarrete@arcos.inf.uc3m.es.

A list of all the grants for research and publications had in the last 5 years regarding the topic of the NoE, national and also international can be found in the former web-page.

Publications

  1. J. Carretero et al., “Applying RCM in large scale systems: a case study with
     railway networks”, To be published in Reliability and System Safety Journal, Elsevier.

  2. J. Carretero, J. Fernández, F. García, A. Choudhary. “A Hierarchical Disk Scheduler for Multimedia Systems”. Future Generation Computer System 913(2002) 1-13.

  3. J. Carretero,  J. Fernández, J.M. Pérez, F. Garcia. “Distributed Instrumentation Systems Using CORBA”.  Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Julio 14-18, 2002. Orlando, Florida, EEUU. Pp. 86-91. ISBN: 980-07-8150-1

  4. M. Perez, R. Pons, F. Garcia, J. Carretero and M. Cordoba. “An optimization of Apriori algorithm through the usage of parallel I/O and hints”. The Third International Conference on Rough Sets  and Current Trends in Computing.  October 14-16, 2002 . Penn State Great Valley.  Malvern, EEUU.

  5. F. García, A. Calderón, J. Carretero, J. Fernández, J. M. Pérez. “An Expandable Parallel File System Using NFS servers”. VECPAR 2002, 5th International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science. 26-28 junio 2002. Oporto, Portugal.

  6. F. García, A. Calderón, J. Carretero, J. Fernández, J.M. Pérez. “A New Approach to the Construction of Parallel File Systems for Clusters”. International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education Science, Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet (SSGRR 2002s).  L’ Aquila, Italia. 29 de julio 4 de agosto 2002.

  7. M. S. Pérez, F. García, J. Carretero. “A proposal for I/O access profiles in parallel datamining algorithms”. 3rd ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing, SNPD’02. 26-28 junio 2002. Madrid. España.

  8. J. Carretero, J.M. Pérez, F. García, A. Calderón, J. Fernández. “Planning Preventive Maintenance in Railway Networks Using RCM”. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Work with Display Units (WWDU-2002). Berchtesgaden, Alemania, 22-25 de mayo de 2002.

  9. M. S. Pérez, F. García, J. Carretero. “MAPFS_MAS: A Model of Interaction Among Information Retrieval Agents “. 2º IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing on the Grid. CCGrid2002. 21-24 mayo 2002. Munich, Alemania.

  10. J. Carretero, J.M. Pérez, F. García, A. Calderón, J. Fernández. “Planning Preventive Maintenance in Railway Networks Using RCM”. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific Conference on Work with Display Units (WWDU-2002). Berchtesgaden, Alemania, 22-25 de mayo de 2002.

  11.  M. S. Pérez, F. García, J. Carretero. “MAPFS_MAS: A Model of Interaction Among Information Retrieval Agents “. 2º IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing on the Grid. CCGrid2002. 21-24 mayo 2002. Munich, Alemania.

  12. J. Carretero, F. García, M. Pérez, J.M. Peña, J.M. Pérez, N. Cotaina, F. Matos, J. Chabrol, D. Djeapragache, P. Prete,  “Study of Existing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Aproaches Used in Different Industries”, Informe Técnico FIM/110.1/DATSI/00, Facultad de Informática, UPM, 2000.

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