Abhishek Srivastava

Ph.D. (University of Alberta, Canada)

Assistant Professor & Head

Discipline of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

My research is in the area of service-oriented systems. More specifically my group is working towards developing novel techniques of service composition in dynamic environments. Further, we are exploring means to effectively host web services using mobile devices as opposed to merely accessing them.

Previously ...

I was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for one academic year (September 2011 - May 2012). Prior to this, I was working for my Ph.D. in the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta. My Ph.D. supervisor is Dr. Paul G. Sorenson. I was into academics even before this while working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.

Ph.D. Students

As a researcher I feel the most valuable resources that I have are my students. I currently have two Ph.D. students:

Rohit Verma: Rohit’s project is geared towards developing effective means for hosting web-services using mobile devices. Until now such devices have mainly been used for accessing such services rather than hosting them.

Tanveer Ahmed: Tanveer is working towards developing novel techniques for improving the quality of service compositions formed in dynamic environments. His approach is inspired by the ‘physics of things’ in the real world.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Please note that in the field of Computer Science, unlike a lot of other disciplines, conference publications are peer reviewed. Several conferences have very low acceptance rates and are considered as significant if not more than most reputed journals in the field. An interesting article on this can be found here.

  1. ❖Tanveer Ahmed, Abhishek Srivastava. Minimizing waiting-time for service compositions: a frictional approach. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Web-Services, Santa Clara, California, June 27 -30, 2013. (Accepted).

  1. ❖Rohit Verma, Sushmita Ruj, Abhishek Srivastava. Virtualization Security: The Present State and Future Trends. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, IEEE Computer Society, 2013 (Under review).

  1. ❖Rohit Verma, Sushmita Ruj, Abhishek Srivastava. Security Verification using Crowd Sourcing. In Proceedings of the Security and Privacy Symposium, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, February 28-March 2, 2013.

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. Service Reliability Assessment in a Composition Environment. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer-Verlag, Volume 75, pp. 30-45,  2011.

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. Service Selection Using the Customer Preferences of Non-functional Attributes. Handbook of Research on Non-functional Properties for Service Oriented Systems: Future Directions, IGI Global, pp. 279-296, 2011.

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. The Validation of a Dynamic Service Composition Model using a Simple Game. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS), Valencia, Spain, pp. 260-266, October 25-28, 2010. [Acceptance rate = 23%].

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. Service Selection based on Customer Rating of Quality of Service Attributes. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Miami, Florida, pp. 1-8, July 5-10, 2010. [Acceptance rate = 17.6%]

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. Utilizing the Waiting-time Criterion for Selecting Services in a Composition Scenario. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Miami, Florida, pp. 258-264, July 5-10, 2010. [Acceptance rate = 18%]

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. The Influence of Service Interactions on Individual Service Reliability in a Composition Scenario. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Valencia, Spain, pp. 30-39, April 7-10, 2010. [Acceptance rate = 12%].

  1. ❖Xian Chen, Abhishek Srivastava, Paul G. Sorenson. Towards a QoS-focused SaaS Evaluation Model. Cloud Computing and Software Services, CRC Press, 2009.

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, Osmar R. Zaiane, Maria-Luiza Antony. Feature Space Enrichment by Incorporation of Implicit Features for Effective Classification. In Proceedings of the 11th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), Banff, Canada, pp. 141-148, September 5-8, 2007.

  1. ❖Abhishek Srivastava, S. C. Goel. A Refinement of the Category-Partition Method of Testing. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Software Engineering Principles and Practices (SEPP), Patiala, India, March 3-5, 2004.

Teaching

The list of courses that I have had a chance to teach are as follows:

IIT Indore

  1. ❖ CS 103 Computer Programming

  2. ❖ CS 208 Software Engineering

  3. ❖ CS 305 Computer Architecture

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  1. ❖ CSSE  220 Object-Oriented Software Development

  2. ❖ CSSE 372 Software Project Management

  3. ❖ CSSE 578 Software Construction

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

  1. ❖ CP 2101 Data Structures in C++

  2. ❖ CP 4107 Operating Systems

  3. ❖ CP 6109 Software Engineering

  4. ❖ MSE 1003 Object Oriented Modelling and Design

Contact

Discipline of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

PS 02 (C), PACL Campus, Hernia Khedi

MHOW, Indore, M.P., India

Phone: 91-7324-240769

Email: asrivastava[AT]iiti.ac.in