David Taylor
Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. David Taylor is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Research Interest
Professor Taylor's research concerns two major areas: distributed systems and fault tolerance. In the distributed-systems area, he has studied several issues, including replication and the debugging and monitoring of distributed applications. The work on replication produced several new replication-control protocols that appear to have very good performance relative to previous protocols. Recent work has concentrated on debugging and monitoring of distributed applications. A major theme of this work is that the fundamental “happened before” partial-order relationship should be used as a basis for understanding distributed executions rather than the real time of event occurrence.
Publications
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M. J. Nichols and D. J. Taylor. A faster closure algorithm for pattern matching in partial-order event data. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2007.
