Balasooriya

Janaka Balasooriya

  • Lecturer
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science and Engineering
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  • Education
  • Honors & Distinctions
  • Selected Publications
Janaka Balasooriya joined ASU in 2007. Prior to ASU, Janaka held a teaching/research position at University of Missouri-Rolla. Also, he carries several years of industry experience as a Software Engineer/Engineer IT.

Janaka's research interests are in the domains of Distributed Computing, Computational Science including Bioinformatics, and Mobile Computing. He has taught courses in Software Engineering, Programming Language Concepts/Translators, Data structures using C++.

Distributed, Internet and grid computing, Web service coordination primitives and system architectures, Biological data integration and interoperability, Middleware and embedded software
Ph.D.
Georgia State University 2006
Publication chair, 1st IEEE international workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007), Sault Lake City, July, 2007.

Nominated for the outstanding teaching by a graduate student award, Department of Com
Janaka Balasooriya, Sushil K. Prasad, Shamkant B. Navathe, "A Middleware Architecture for Enhancing Web Services Infrastructure for Distributed Coordination of Workflows," to appear in the Proc. of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), Research Track, July 8-11, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Janaka Balasooriya, Jaimini Joshi, Sushil K. Prasad, Shamkant B. Navathe, "Distributed Coordination of Workflows over Web Services and Their Handheld-Based Execution." ICDCN 2008, Kolkata, India, January 5-8,. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4904 Springer 2008 39-53.

Graciela Gonzalez, Janaka Balasooriya, "Web Service Orchestration for Bioinformatics Systems: Challenges and Current Workflow Definition Approaches." 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'07), 1226-1227

Robert J. Calin-Jageman, Akshaye Dhawan, Hong Yang , Hsiu-Chung Wang, Hao Tian, Piyaphol Phoungphol, Chad Frederick, Janaka Balasooriya, Yan Chen, Sushil K. Prasad, Raj Sunderraman, Ying Zhu, Paul S. Katz, "Development of NeuronBank: A Federation of Customizable Knowledge Bases of Neural Circuitry," In Proc. of IEEE Int'l workshop on Service Oriented Technologies for Biological Databases and Tools (SOBDAT 2007), Sault Lake City, July, 2007.

Janaka Balasooriya, Jaimini Joshi, Sushil K. Prasad, and Shamkant Navathe, "A Two-Layered Software Architecture for Distributed Workflow Coordination over Web Services," In Proc. of 4th Intl. Conf. on Web Services (ICWS'06), Chicago, September, 2006.

Janaka Balasooriya and Sushil K. Prasad, "Toward Fundamental Primitives and Infrastructure Enhancements for Distributed Web Object Coordination and Workflows," In Proc. of IEEE, 3rd Intl. Conf. on Web Services (ICWS'05), Orlando, July, 2005.

Janaka Balasooriya, Mohini Padye, Sushil Prasad, and Shamkanth B. Navathe, "BondFlow: A System for Distributed Coordination of Workflows over Web Services," In Proc. of IEEE, 14th Heterogeneous Computing Wor