Volume 46, Number 1, January 2012

Best papers from LADIS 2011: fifth workshop on large-scale distributed systems and middleware

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  Luis Rodrigues, Divyakant Agrawal, Ymir Vigfusson, Gregory Chockler: Summary of the 5th workshop on large-scale distributed systems and middleware (LADIS 2011). 1-3
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  Jun'ichi Tatemura, Oliver Po, Hakan Hacigümüs: Microsharding: a declarative approach to support elastic OLTP workloads. 4-11
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  Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra: GLADE: a scalable framework for efficient analytics. 12-18
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  Viet-Trung Tran, Bogdan Nicolae, Gabriel Antoniu: Towards scalable array-oriented active storage: the pyramid approach. 19-25
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  Joel L. Wolf, Andrey Balmin, Deepak Rajan, Kirsten Hildrum, Rohit Khandekar, Sujay Parekh, Kun-Lung Wu, Rares Vernica: CIRCUMFLEX: a scheduling optimizer for MapReduce workloads with shared scans. 26-32
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  Siddhartha Sen, Michael J. Freedman: Commensal cuckoo: secure group partitioning for large-scale services. 33-39
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  Guy Laden, Roie Melamed, Ymir Vigfusson: Adaptive and dynamic funnel replication in clouds. 40-46
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  Dahlia Malkhi, Mahesh Balakrishnan, John D. Davis, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber: From paxos to CORFU: a flash-speed shared log. 47-51

Best papers from SBESC 2011: Brazilian symposium on computing system engineering

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  Antonio Augusto Fröhlich, Leandro Buss Becker, George Lima, Stefan Petters, Dilma M. da Silva, Edna Natividade Silva Barros: Brazilian symposium on computing system engineering. 52
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  Elder Vicente, Rivalino Matias, Lucio Borges de Araujo, Autran Macedo: Evaluation of compound system calls in the Linux kernel. 53-63
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  Tiago Rogério Mück, Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Michael Gernoth, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat: Implementing OS components in hardware using AOP. 64-72
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  Marco A. Wehrmeister, Joao G. Packer, Luis M. Ceron: Support for early verification of embedded real-time systems through UML models simulation. 73-81
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  Ríad Nassiffe, Eduardo Camponogara, George Lima: Optimizing quality of service in real-time systems under energy constraints. 82-92

Individual submission

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  Christopher M. Hayden, Iulian Neamtiu: Report on the third workshop on hot topics in software upgrades (HotSWUp'11). 93-99

Volume 46, Number 2, July 2012

Extended papers from GCM 2011: second international workshop on green computing middleware

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  Manuel F. Dolz, Juan Carlos Fernández, Sergio Iserte, Rafael Mayo, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí: A simulator to assess energy saving strategies and policies in HPC workloads. 2-9
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  Frederico Alvares de Oliveira Jr., Thomas Ledoux: Self-management of cloud applications and infrastructure for energy optimization. 10-18
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  Ibrahim Takouna, Wesam Dawoud, Christoph Meinel: Energy efficient scheduling of HPC-jobs on virtualize clusters using host and VM dynamic configuration. 19-27
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  Christine Mayap Kamga, Giang Son Tran, Laurent Broto: Extended scheduler for efficient frequency scaling in virtualized systems. 28-35

Best paper and research projects from EWDCC 2012: first european workshop on dependable cloud computing

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  Adil Bouti, Jörg Keller: Securing cloud-based computations against malicious providers. 38-42
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  Alysson Neves Bessani, Rüdiger Kapitza, Dana Petcu, Paolo Romano, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Roberto G. Cascella: A look to the old-world_sky: EU-funded dependability cloud computing research. 43-56

Individual submissions

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  Salman Abdul Baset: Cloud SLAs: present and future. 57-66
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  Augusto Born de Oliveira, Ahmad Saif Ur Rehman, Sebastian Fischmeister: mTags: augmenting microkernel messages with lightweight metadata. 67-79
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  Adam J. Aviv, Vin Mannino, Thanat Owlarn, Seth Shannin, Kevin Xu, Boon Thau Loo: Experiences in teaching an educational user-level operating systems implementation project. 80-86
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  Maria Couceiro, Paolo Romano: Where does transactional memory research stand and what challenges lie ahead?: WTM 2012, EuroTM workshop on transactional memory. 87-92

Volume 46, Number 3, December 2012

Special topic: systems work at NetApp

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  Scott Dawkins, Kaladhar Voruganti, John D. Strunk: Systems research and innovation in data ONTAP. 1-3
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  Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Theresa Raj: Glitz: cross-vendor federated file systems. 4-10
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  Timothy Bisson, Yuvraj Patel, Shankar Pasupathy: Designing a fast file system crawler with incremental differencing. 11-19
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  Jayanta Basak, Kushal Wadhwani, Kaladhar Voruganti, Srinivasan Narayanamurthy, Vipul Mathur, Siddhartha Nandi: Model building for dynamic multi-tenant provider environments. 20-31
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  Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Gokul Soundararajan, Vipul Mathur, Kaladhar Voruganti, Kiran Srinivasan: Responding rapidly to service level violations using virtual appliances. 32-40
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  Atul Goel, Peter F. Corbett: RAID triple parity. 41-49
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  John D. Strunk: Hybrid aggregates: combining SSDs and HDDs in a single storage pool. 50-56
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  Giridhar Appaji Nag Yasa, P. C. Nagesh: Space savings and design considerations in variable length deduplication. 57-64

Individual submissions

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  Mathieu Desnoyers, Michel R. Dagenais: Lockless multi-core high-throughput buffering scheme for kernel tracing. 65-81