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Publications of the Globule Group





See also: all publications from the Vrije Universiteit's Distributed Systems Group


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Submitted for Publication

* On the Feasibility of Decentralized Grid Scheduling
* A Survey of DHT Security Techniques
* Wikipedia Workload Analysis
* Autonomous Resource Allocation for Large-Scale Grid Systems

Published in 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

* Wikipedia Workload Analysis. Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Technical report IR-CS-041, Vrije Universiteit, September 2007.
* 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.


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