Journal publications

• VioLinn: Proximity-aware Edge Placement with Dynamic and Elastic Resource Provisioning. Klervie Toczé, Ali Jawad Fahs, Guillaume Pierre, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, In press.
• A systematic approach towards security in Fog computing: assets, vulnerabilities, possible countermeasures. Mozhdeh Farhadi, Jean-Louis Lanet, Guillaume Pierre and Daniele Miorandi. Software: Practice and Experience 50(6), Wiley, June 2020.
• Docker-pi: Docker Container Deployment in Fog Computing Infrastructures. Arif Ahmed and Guillaume Pierre. International Journal of Cloud Computing 9(1), Inderscience, 2019.
• An experiment-driven energy consumption model for virtual machine management systems. Mar Callau-Zori et al. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems vol 18, Elsevier, June 2018.
• 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. In 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.
• A Survey of DHT security techniques, Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In ACM Computing Surveys 43(2), January 2011.
• Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting, Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Elsevier Computer Networks 53(11), July 2009.
• Practical Large-Scale Latency Estimation. Michal Szymaniak, David Presotto, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Elsevier Computer Networks 52(7), May 2008.
• Enabling Service Adaptability with Versatile Anycast. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre, Mariana Simons-Nikolova and Maarten van Steen. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 19:13, September 2007.
• Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen and Gustavo Alonso. In IEEE Internet Computing 11(1), January-February 2007.
• Globule: a Collaborative Content Delivery Network. Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In IEEE Communications Magazine 44(8), August 2006.
• Latency-Driven Replica Placement. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In IPSJ Journal 47(8), August 2006.
• Replication for Web Hosting Systems. Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In ACM Computing Surveys 36(3), September 2004, pp. 291-334.
• Dynamically Selecting Optimal Distribution Strategies for Web Documents. Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. In IEEE Transactions on Computers vol. 51(6), June 2002, pp. 637-651.
• Differentiated Strategies for Replicating Web documents. Guillaume Pierre, Ihor Kuz, Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. In Computer Communications 24(2), February 2001, pp. 232-240.

Book chapters

• The HARNESS Platform: A Hardware-and Network-Enhanced Software System for Cloud Computing. Jose G.F. Coutinho, Mark Stillwell, Katerina Argyraki, George Ioannidis, Anca Iordache, Christoph Kleineweber, Alexandros Koliousis, John Mcglone, Guillaume Pierre, Carmelo Ragusa, Peter Sanders, Thorsten Schütt, Teng Yu and Alexander Wolf. In Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud, edited by Ivan Mistrik, Rami Bahsoon, Nour Ali, Maritta Heisel and Bruce Maxim. Elsevier, 2017.
• Enforcing Fairness in Asynchronous Collaborative Environments. Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. 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.
• Replicating for Performance: Case Studies. Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre. In Replication — Theory and Practice, edited by Bernadette Charron-Bost, Fernando Pedone and André Schiper. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5959, February 2010.
• From Web Servers to Ubiquitous Content Delivery. Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen, Michal Szymaniak and Swaminathan Sivasubramanian. In Global Data Management, edited by R. Baldoni, G. Cortese, F. Davide and A. Melpignano. IOS Press, ISBN 1-58603-629-7, July 2006.

Peer-reviewed conferences and workshops

• Studying the Energy Consumption of Stream Processing Engines in the Cloud. Govind KP, Romain Rouvoy and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of IEEE IC2E, September 2023.
• TransScale: Combined-Approach Elasticity for Stream Processing in Fog Environments. Alessio Pagliari and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of IEEE Mobile Cloud, July 2023.
• AdapPF: Self-Adaptive Scrape Interval for Monitoring in Geo-Distributed Cluster Federations. Chih-Kai Huang and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE ISCC Symposium, July 2023.
• Acala: Aggregate Monitoring for Geo-Distributed Cluster Federations. Chih-Kai Huang and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the ACM SAC conference, March 2023.
• Good Shepherds Care For Their Cattle: Seamless Pod Migration in Geo-Distributed Kubernetes. Paulo Souza Junior, Daniele Miorandi and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the ICFEC conference, Aug 2021.
• LivingFog: Leveraging fog computing and LoRaWAN technologies for smart marina management (experience paper). Davaadorj Battulga, Mozhdeh Farhadi, Mulugeta Tamiru, Li Wu and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the ICIN Conference, March 2022.
• Towards automated privacy compliance checking of applications in Cloud and Fog environments. Mozhdeh Farhadi, Guillaume Pierre and Daniele Miorandi. In Proceedings of the FiCLOUD conference, Aug 2021.
• Model-based Stream Processing Auto-scaling in Geo-Distributed Environments. Hamidreza Arkian, Guillaume Pierre, Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth. In Proceedings of the ICCCN conference, Jul 2021.
• mck8s: An orchestration platform for geo-distributed multi-cluster environments. Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru, Guillaume Pierre, Johan Tordsson and Erik Elmroth. In Proceedings of the ICCCN conference, Jul 2021.
• Stateful Container Migration in Geo-Distributed Environments. Paulo Souza Junior, Daniele Miorandi and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE CloudCom conference, Dec 2020.
• An Experimental Evaluation of the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler in the Cloud. Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru, Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE CloudCom conference, Dec 2020.
• Instability in Geo-Distributed Kubernetes Federation: Causes and Mitigation. Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru, Guillaume Pierre, Johan Tordsson and Erik Elmroth. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Nov 2020.
• Voilà: Tail-Latency-Aware Fog Application Replicas Autoscaler. Ali Fahs, Guillaume Pierre and Erik Elmroth. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Nov 2020.
• Tail-Latency-Aware Fog Application Replica Placement. Ali Fahs and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), Dec 2020.
• Docker Container Deployment in Distributed Fog Infrastructures with Checkpoint/Restart. Arif Ahmed, Apoorve Mohan, Gene Cooperman and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE Mobile Cloud Computing conference, April 2020.
• An Experiment-Driven Performance Model of Stream Processing Operators in Fog Computing Environments. Hamidreza Arkian, Guillaume Pierre, Johan Tordsson and Erik Elmroth. In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), April 2020.
• FogDocker: Start Container Now, Fetch Image Later. Lorenzo Civolani, Guillaume Pierre and Paolo Bellavista. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM UCC Conference, December 2019.
• Docker Image Sharing in Distributed Fog Infrastructures. Arif Ahmed and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE CloudCom Conference, December 2019.
• Proximity-Aware Traffic Routing in Distributed Fog Computing Platforms. Ali Fahs and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid Conference, May 2019.
• Docker Container Deployment in Fog Computing Infrastructures. Arif Ahmed and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing, July 2018.
• MEC-ConPaaS: An experimental single-board based mobile edge cloud. Alexandre Van Kempen, Teodor Crivat, Benjamin Trubert, Debaditya Roy and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the IEEE Mobile Cloud conference, April 2017.
• 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.
• 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 Infrastructure. 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Resource Provisioning of Web Applications in Heterogeneous Clouds. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development, June 2011.
• 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 30th IEEE 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 19th International World-Wide Web conference, April 2010.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 17th International World Wide Web Conference, April 2008. Best student paper award
• 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.
• A Decentralized Wiki Engine for Collaborative Wikipedia Hosting. Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology, 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.
• Versatile Anycasting with Mobile IPv6. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the International AAA-IDEA Workshop, October 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, 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.
• 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, Gustavo Alonso, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. In Proceedings of the International AAA-IDEA Workshop, 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 IEEE International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, February 2005. Best paper award
• 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 Europan Workshop, September 2004.
• Scalable Cooperative Latency Estimation. Michal Szymaniak, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July 2004.
• 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.
• 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, pp. 1-11.
• Replicated Directory Service for Weakly Consistent Replicated Caches. Mesaac Makpangou, Guillaume Pierre, Christian Khoury and Neilze Dorta. In Proceedings of the ICDCS conference, may 1999.
• Conception d’un système de cache Web adapté aux spécificités des utilisateurs. Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the NoTeRe ’98 colloquium, October 1998.
• Saperlipopette!: a Distributed Web Caching Systems Evaluation Tool. Guillaume Pierre and Mesaac Makpangou. In Proceedings of the 1998 Middleware conference, september 1998, pp. 389-405.
• Oléron: Supporting Information Sharing in Large-Scale Mobile Environments. Aline Baggio and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the ERSADS Workshop, March 1997.
• A Flexible Hybrid Concurrency Control Model for Collaborative Editing in Large Scale Settings. Guillaume Pierre and Mesaac Makpangou. In Proceedings of the SIGOPS-96 Workshop. September 1996.

Technical reports and other non-reviewed papers

• Potable Water Management with integrated Fog computing and LoRaWAN technologies. Hamidreza Arkian, Dimitrios Giouroukis, Paulo Souza Junior and Guillaume Pierre. IEEE IoT Newsletter, March 2020.
• Fog Computing Applications: Taxonomy and Requirements. Arif Ahmed, HamidReza Arkian, Davaadorj Battulga, Ali J. Fahs, Mozhdeh Farhadi, Dimitrios Giouroukis, Adrien Gougeon, Felipe Oliveira Gutierrez, Guillaume Pierre, Paulo R. Souza Jr, Mulugeta Ayalew Tamiru and Li Wu. arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11621, July 2019.
• 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.
• Consistent Join Queries in Cloud Data Stores. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. Technical report IR-CS-68, Vrije Universiteit, January 2011.
• Coordinated Self-Adaptation in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Overlays. Corina Stratan, Jan Sacha, Jeff Napper, Guillaume Pierre. Technical report IR-CS-60, Vrije Universiteit, September 2010.
• CloudTPS: Scalable Transactions for Web Applications in the Cloud. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. Technical report IR-CS-53, Vrije Universiteit, February 2010.
• 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.
• 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.
• To those who think we are done already, Guillaume Pierre. Editor’s column, IEEE Distributed Systems Online 7(1), January 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.

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