Publications

2011

Integrated Monitoring of Infrastructures and Applications in Cloud Environments, R. Palmieri, P. Di Sanzo, F. Quaglia, P. Romano, S. Peluso, D. Didona, Workshop on Cloud Computing: Projects and Initiatives (CCPI 2011)

PolyCert: Polymorphic Self-Optimizing Replication for In-Memory Transactional Grids, M. Couceiro, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2011)

Exploiting Total Order Multicast in Weakly Consistent Transactional Caches, P. Ruivo, M. Couceiro, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues, Proc. IEEE 17th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC’11)

Tutorial on Distributed Transactional Memories, M. Couceiro, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues, 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation July 2011

Keynote Talk: Autonomic mechanisms for transactional replication in elastic cloud environments, P. Romano, 2nd Workshops on Software Services (WOSS), Timisoara, Romania, June 2011

Self-tuning Batching in Total Order Broadcast Protocols via Analytical Modelling and Reinforcement Learning , P. Romano and M. Leonetti, ACM Performance Evaluation Review, to appear (also presented as a Poster at IFIP Performance 2011 Symposium)

On the Analytical Modeling of Concurrency Control Algorithms for Software Transactional Memoriesthe Case of Commit-Time-Locking
P. Di Sanzo, B. Ciciani, F. Quaglia, R. Palmieri and Paolo Romano
Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal (to appear)

OSARE: Opportunistic Speculation in Actively REplicated Transactional Systems, 
R. Palmieri, F. Quaglia and Paolo Romano, 
The 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2011), Madrid, Spain, to appear.

A Generic Framework for Replicated Software Transactional Memories, N. Carvalho, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues, , Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, Massachussets, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, August 2011

Autonomic mechanisms for transactional replication in elastic cloud environments (Keynote Talk)Workshop on Software Services: Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services, Paolo Romano, Timisoara, June 2011

SCert: Speculative Certification in Replicated Software Transactional Memories. N. Carvalho, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues. 
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2011), Haifa, Israel, June 2011.

2010


Asynchronous Lease-based Replication of Software Transactional Memory. N. Carvalho, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues. Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th Middleware Conference (Middleware), Bangalore, India, ACM Press, November 2010.

Analytical Modeling of Commit-Time-Locking Algorithms for Software Transactional Memories. P. Di Sanzo, B. Ciciani, F. Quaglia, R. Palmieri and P. Romano. Proceedings of the 35th International Computer Measurement Group Conference (CMG), Orlando, Florida, Computer Measurement Group, December 2010 (also presented in the 1st Workshop on "Informatica Quantitative" (InfQ), Pisa, July 2010)

Do we really need parallel programming or should we strive for parallelizable programming instead? João Cachopo. SPLASH 2010 Workshop on Concurrency for the Application Programmer. October, 2010.

A Machine Learning Approach to Performance Prediction of Total Order Broadcast Protocols. M. Couceiro, P. Romano and L. Rodrigues. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Computer Society Press, September 2010

An Optimal Speculative Transactional Replication Protocol. P. Romano, R. Palmieri, F. Quaglia, N. Carvalho and L. Rodrigues. Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), Taiwan, Taipei, IEEE Computer Society Press, September 2010.

Tutorials


Tutorial on Distributed Transactional Memories. L. Rodrigues. Winter School: Hot Topics in Distributed Computing, 20-25 March 2011, Plagne, France.

Tutorial on Distributed Transactional Memories. P. Romano and L. Rodrigues. Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th Middleware Conference (Middleware), Bangalore, India, ACM Press, November 2010.