Publications

Published in 2016

• High performance in the cloud with FPGA groups. Anca Iordache, Guillaume Pierre, Peter Sanders, Jose Gabriel de F. Coutinho and Mark Stillwell. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016), December 2016.
• An experiment-driven energy consumption model for virtual machine management system. Mar Callau-Zori, Lavinia Samoila, Anne-Cécile Orgerie and Guillaume Pierre. INRIA Research report 8844, January 2016.

Published in 2015

• Heterogeneous Resource Selection for Arbitrary HPC Applications in the Cloud. Anca Iordache, Eliya Buyukkaya and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques (DAIS 2015), Grenoble, France, June 2015
• Kangaroo: A Tenant-Centric Software-Defined Cloud Architecture. Kaveh Razavi, Ana Ion, Genc Tato, Kyuho Jeong, Renato Figueiredo, Guillaume Pierre and Thilo Kielmann. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Tempe, AZ, USA, March 2015.

Published in 2014

• Robust Performance Control for Web Applications in the Cloud. Hector Fernandez, Corina Stratan and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), Barcelona (Spain), April 2014. Best paper award!
• Autoscaling Web Applications in Heterogeneous Cloud Infrastructures. Hector Fernandez, Guillaume Pierre and Thilo Kielmann. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Boston, MA (USA), March 2014.

Published in 2013

• Failure Analysis and Modeling in Large Multi-Site Infrastructures. Tran Ngoc Minh and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 13th International IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Florence, Italy, June 2013.

Published in 2012

• The XtreemOS Resource Selection Service. Corina Stratan, Jan Sacha, Jeff Napper, Paolo Costa and Guillaume Pierre. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems 7(4), December 2012.
• CloudTPS: Scalable Transactions for Web Applications in the Cloud. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 5(4), October-December 2012.
• ConPaaS: a Platform for Hosting Elastic Cloud Applications. Guillaume Pierre and Corina Stratan. IEEE Internet Computing 16(5), September-October 2012.
• Scalable Join Queries in Cloud Data Stores. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), May 2012.
• Towards Robust and Scalable Peer-to-Peer Social Networks. Alexandra Olteanu and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS) , Bern, Switzerland, April 2012.

Published in 2011

• ConPaaS: an Integrated Runtime Environment for Elastic Cloud Applications. Guillaume Pierre, Ismail el Helw, Corina Stratan, Ana Oprescu, Thilo Kielmann, Thorsten Schütt, Jan Stender, Matej Artač, Aleš Cernivec. Poster at the Middleware conference, December 2011.
• A Survey of DHT Security Techniques. Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. ACM Computing Surveys 43(2), June 2011.
• Resource Provisioning of Web Applications in Heterogeneous Clouds. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the WebApps Conference, June 2011.

Published in 2010

• Coordinated Self-Adaptation in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Overlays. Corina Stratan, Jan Sacha, Jeff Napper and Guillaume Pierre. Technical report IR-CS-60, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 2010.
• Secure Data Aggregation Through Proactive Defense. Shuo Chen, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer), August 2010.
• Decentralized As-Soon-As-Possible Grid Scheduling: a Feasibility Study. Xenofon Vasilakos, Jan Sacha and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer), August 2010.
• Adam2: Reliable Distribution Estimation in Decentralised Environments. Jan Sacha, Jeff Napper, Corina Stratan and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2010.
• Autonomous Resource Provisioning for Multi-Service Web Applications. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the International WWW conference, April 2010.
• Replicating for Performance: Case Studies. Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre. Book chapter, in Replication — Theory and Practice, LNCS 5959. February 2010.
• Enforcing Fairness in Asynchronous Collaborative Environments. Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Book chapter, in Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications, edited by Nick Antonopoulosa, Georgios Exarchakosa, Maozhen Lib and Antonio Liottac. IGI Global publisher, 2010.

Published in 2009

• EC2 Performance Analysis for Resource Provisioning of Service-Oriented Applications. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing, November 2009.
• Scalable Transactions for Web Applications in the Cloud. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the Euro-Par conference, August 2009.
• Zero-Day Reconciliation of BitTorrent Users With Their ISPs. Marco Slot, Paolo Costa, Guillaume Pierre and Vivek Rai. In Proceedings of the Euro-Par conference, August 2009.
• Wikipedia Workload Analysis for decentralized Hosting. Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Elsevier Computer Networks 53(11), July 2009.
• Autonomous Resource Selection for Decentralized Utility Computing. Paolo Costa, Jeff Napper, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2009.
• Highly Available and Scalable Grid Services. Guillaume Pierre, Thorsten Schütt, Jörg Domaschka and Massimo Coppola. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management, Nuremberg, Germany, March 2009.

Published in 2008

• Technical Challenges in Market-Driven Automated Service Provisioning. Anna Chmielowic, Guillaume Pierre, Jaap Gordijn and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing, December 2008.
• On the Feasibility of Decentralized Grid Scheduling. Marco Fiscato, Paolo Costa and Guillaume Pierre. In proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralized Self Management for Grids, P2P, and User Communities (Selfman), October 2008.
• Sloppy Management of Structured P2P Services. Paolo Costa, Guillaume Pierre, Alexander Reinefeld, Thorsten Schütt and Maarten van Steen. At the Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing, June 2008.
• Service-Oriented Data Denormalization for Scalable Web Applications. Zhou Wei, Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre, Chi-Hung Chi and Maarten van Steen. In proceedings of the WWW2008 Conference, April 2008. Best student paper award
• Practical Large-Scale Latency Estimation. Michal Szymaniak, David Presotto, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Elsevier Computer Networks 52(7), May 2008.

Published in 2007

• Enabling Service Adaptability with Versatile Anycast. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre, Mariana Simons-Nikolova and Maarten van Steen. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, September 2007.
• GlobeTP: Template-Based Database Replication for Scalable Web Applications. Tobias Groothuyse, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2007.
• Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre, Gustavo Alonso and Maarten van Steen. IEEE Internet Computing, January-february 2007.
• A Decentralized Wiki Engine for Collaborative Wikipedia Hosting. Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the WEBIST Conference, March 2007.
• High Availability and Scalability Support for Web Applications. Louis Rilling, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, January 2007.

Published in 2006

• Versatile Anycasting with Mobile IPv6. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications (AAA-IDEA), October 2006.
• Globule: a Collaborative Content Delivery Network. Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. IEEE Communications Magazine 44(8), August 2006.
• Latency-Driven Replica Placement. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, IPSJ Journal 47(8), August 2006.
• From Web Servers to Ubiquitous Content Delivery. Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen, Michal Szymaniak and Swaminathan Sivasubramanian. Book chapter, in Global Data Management, IOS Press, July 2006.
• Towards Autonomic Hosting of Multi-Tier Internet Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Autonomic Computing (HotAC), June 2006.
• Grid Services for Adaptive Content Delivery. Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Use of P2P, GRID and Agents for the Development of Content Distribution Networks (UPGRADE-CDN), June 2006.
• To those who think we are done already. Guillaume Pierre. Editor’s column, IEEE Distributed Systems Online 7(1), January 2006.

Published in 2005

• Predictability of Web-Server Traffic Congestion. Yuliy Baryshnikov, Ed G. Coffman, Guillaume Pierre, Dan Rubenstein, Mark Squillante and Teddy Yimwadsana. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, September 2005.
• Autonomic Data Placement Strategies for Update-intensive Web Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications (AAA-IDEA), June 2005.
• GlobeDB: Autonomic Data Replication for Web Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Gustavo Alonso, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the 14th International World-Wide Web Conference, May 2005.
• Latency-Driven Replica Placement. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, February 2005 (best paper award).

Published in 2004

• Web Replica Hosting Systems. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In ACM Computing Surveys 36(3), September 2004.
• Replicating Web Applications On-Demand. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, September 2004.
• Scalable Strong Consistency for Web Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, in Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, September 2004.
• Scalable Cooperative Latency Estimation. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, in Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July 2004.
• Globule: a User-Centric Content Delivery Network. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Berry van Halderen and Guillaume Pierre, poster presented at the 4th International System Administration and Network Engineering Conference, September 2004.

Published in 2003

• A Case for Dynamic Selection of Replication and Caching Strategies. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution, September-October 2003.
• Netairt: A Flexible Redirection System for Apache. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet, Algarve, Portugal, November 2003.
• Design and Implementation of a User-Centered Content Delivery Network. Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications, June 2003.

Published in 2002

• Dynamically Selecting Optimal Distribution Strategies for Web Documents. Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. In IEEE Transactions on Computers 51(6), pp. 637-651, June 2002.

Published in 2001

• Globule: a Platform for Self-Replicating Web Documents. Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems, October 2001.
• Differentiated Strategies for Replicating Web documents. Guillaume Pierre, Ihor Kuz, Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. In Computer Communications (Elsevier Editor), 24(2), February 2001.

Technical Reports

• CloudTPS: Scalable Transactions for Web Applications in the Cloud. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. Technical report IR-CS-053, Vrije Universiteit, February 2010.
• Towards Autonomic Hosting of Multi-Tier Internet Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Technical report IR-CS-021, Vrije Universiteit, May 2006.
• GlobeCBC: Content-blind Result Caching for Dynamic Web Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen and Gustavo Alonso. Technical report IR-CS-022, Vrije Universiteit, June 2006.
• A Single-Homed Ad Hoc Distributed Server. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre, Mariana Simons-Nikolova and Maarten van Steen. Technical report IR-CS-013, Vrije Universiteit, March 2005.

Master’s Theses

• A DNS-based Client Redirector for the Apache HTTP Server. Michal Szymaniak, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, July 2002.
• Data Clustering for Autonomic Application Replication. Jie Yang, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2005.
• Monitoring in Globule. Maarten Sander, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, July 2006.
• Flash Crowd Prediction. Urszula Herman-Izycka, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, July 2006.
• Scalability of Web Applications in CDN Environments. Tobias Groothuyse, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, July 2006.
• Performance Analysis of a Flash-Crowd Management System. Reinoud Esser, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2006.
• Decrepol: a Decentralized Replication Policy for Web Documents. Paul Zijlmans, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2006.
• Enforcing Collaboration in a Collaborative Content Distribution Network. Namita Lal, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2007.
• FlashCBC: Flash-Crowd Mitigation for Dynamic Web Sites. Rob Been, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, December 2007.
• A Versatile Anycast Framework for Distributed Servers. Willem van Duijn, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, February 2008.
• Border Gateway Protocol Modeling and Simulation. Maciej Wojciechowski, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, July 2008.
• Gossiptron: Efficient Sharing on the Grid Without Central Coordination. Jaap Weel, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2008.
• Latency-Driven BitTorrent. Marco Slot, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2008.
• Local View Modeling for ETA in BitTorrent. Piotr Powalowski, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, August 2008.
• Scalable Job Scheduling in a Distributed Environment. Marco Fiscato, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, October 2008.
• WikiBench: A distributed, Wikipedia based web application benchmark. Erik-Jan van Baaren, Master’s thesis, Vrije Universiteit, May 2009.