Publications

Journals and book chapters

• Vlassov, V., Al-Shishtawy, A., Brand, P., Parlavantzas, N., “Self-Management with Niche, a Platform for Self-Managing Distributed Applications”, book chapter in Formal and Practical Aspects of Autonomic Computing and Networking: Specification, Development and Verification (editor: Phan Cong-Vinh), IGI Global, Dec. 2011

• Parlavantzas, N., Coulson, G., "Designing and Constructing Modifiable Middleware using Component Frameworks", IET Software, Vol 1, Issue 4, pp 113-126, Aug 2007

• Caromel, D., Huet, F., Lanteri, S., Parlavantzas, N., "Distributed and Object-Oriented Computational Electromagnetics on the Grid", Advances in Information Technologies for Electromagnetics (editors: Tarricone, L., Esposito, A.), Springer, 2006.

• Coulson, G., Blair, G., Parlavantzas, N., Yeung, W.K., Cai, W., "Applying the Reflective Middleware Approach in Grid Computing", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol 16, No 5, pp 433-440, 25 April 2004

• Coulson, G., Blair, G.S., Clarke, M., Parlavantzas, N., "The Design of a Highly Configurable and Reconfigurable Middleware Platform", ACM Distributed Computing Journal, Vol 15, No 2, pp 109-126, April 2002

• Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Andersen, A., Blair, L., Clarke, M., Costa, F., Duran, H., Fitzpatrick, T., Johnston, L., Moreira, R., Parlavantzas, N., Saikoski, K., "The Design and Implementation of OpenORB v2", IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Special Issue on Reflective Middleware, 2001

Conference and workshop publications

• Costache, S., Parlavantzas, N., Morin, C., Kortas, S., "Themis: Economy-Based Automatic Resource Scaling for Cloud Systems", 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2012), Liverpool, UK, June 2012 (to appear)

• Freitas, A.L., Parlavantzas, N. and Pazat, J-L. "An Integrated Approach for Specifying and Enforcing SLAs for Cloud Services", The 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2012). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 2012 (to appear)

• Duran-Limon, H., Parlavantzas, N.,Zhao, M., Silva-Bañuelos, L., Tellez-Valdez, V., "Using Lightweight Virtual Machines to Run High Performance Computing Applications: The Case of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model", 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2011

• Costache, S.V., Parlavantzas, N., Morin, C., Kortas, S., "An Economic Approach for Application QoS Management in Clouds", 6th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC), Bordeaux, France, Aug 2011

• Lage, A., Parlavantzas, N., Pazat, J.-L., “Cost Reduction Through SLA-driven Self-Management”, 9th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2011), Lugano, Switzerland, September 2011

• Lage, A., Parlavantzas, N.,Pazat, J.-L., “A QoS Assurance Framework for Distributed Infrastructures”, In 3rd International Workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, Dec. 2010

• Lage, A., Pazat, J.-L., Parlavantzas, N., “Ensuring Resource-Level Quality for Services on Grids”, In Proc. of IEEE 6th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), 2010, Miami, FL, USA. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SERVICES.2010.75
  

• De Palma, N., Popov, K., Parlavantzas, N., Brand, P., Vlassov, V., “Tools for Architecture Based Autonomic Systems”, International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2009), Valencia, Spain, April 20-25, 2009

• Ahmad A., Höglund, J., Popov, K., Parlavantzas, N., Vlassov, V., Brand, P., "Distributed Control Loop Patterns for Managing Distributed Applications", Workshop on Decentralized Self Management for Grids, P2P, and User Communities, In: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, 2008, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 260-265, Oct. 2008.

• Al-Shishtawy, A., Höglund, J., Popov, K., Parlavantzas, N., Vlassov, V., Brand, P., "Enabling self-management of component based distributed applications", From Grids to Service and Pervasive Computing (editors: Priol, T., Vanneschi, M.), Springer, pp163-174, July 2008.

• De Palma, N., Popov, K., Vlassov, Höglund, J., Al-Shishtawy, A., Parlavantzas, N., "A Self-Management Framework for overlay-based applications", International Workshop on Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Information Systems (WETICE COPS 2008), Rome, Italy, June 2008.

• Popov, K., Höglund, J., Brand, P., Al-Shishtawy, A., Vlassov, V., Parlavantzas, N., "Design of a self-* application using a P2P-based management infrastructure", CoreGRID Integration Workshop 2008, Hersonissos-Crete, Greece, April 2008.

• Brand, P., Höglund, J., Popov, K., De Palma, N., Boyer F., Parlavantzas, N., Vlassov, V., Al-Shishtawy, A., "The Role of Overlay Services in a Self-managing Framework for Dynamic Virtual Organizations", CoreGRID Workshop on Grid programming model, Grid and P2P systems architecture and Grid systems, tools and environments, Crete, Greece, June 2007.

• Parlavantzas, N., Getov, V., Morel, M., Baude, F., Caromel, D., "Design support for componentising and grid-enabling scientific applications", Proc. HPC-GECO/CompFrame Workshop (in conjuction with ooPSLA 2007), Montreal, Canada, October 2007.

• Parlavantzas, N., Morel, M., Getov, V., Baude, F., Caromel, D., "Performance and Scalability of a Component-Based Grid Application", Proc of 9th Int. Worshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing (in conjunction with the IEEE IPDPS conference), April 2007.

• Parlavantzas, N., Getov, V., Morel, M., Baude, F., Huet, F., Caromel, D., "Componentising a Scientific Application for the Grid", Proc. of Integrated Research in Grid Computing Workshop, Krakow, Poland, October 2006.

• Thiyagalingam, J., Parlavantzas, N., Isaiadis, S., Henrio, L., Caromel, D., Getov, V., "Proposal for a Lightweight Generic Grid Platform Architecture", Workshop on Component and Framework Technology in High-Performance and Scientific Computing (held in conjuction with the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing), Paris, France, June 2006

• Dünnweber, J., Gorlatch, S., Baude, F., Legrand, L., Parlavantzas N., "Towards Automatic Creation of Web Services for Grid Component Composition", CoreGRID Integration Workshop 2005, Pisa, Italy, November 2005

• Parlavantzas, N., Coulson, G., Blair, G.S., "An Extensible Binding Framework for Component-Based Middleware", Proceeding of the 7th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference EDOC 2003), Brisbane, Australia, September 16-19, 2003

• Okanda, P., Blair, G., Parlavantzas, N., "OpenPING: A Reflective Middleware Platform for construction of Adaptive Virtual Reality Applications", Workshop on Adaptive Distributed Systems (held in conjunction with The 17th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2003), Sorrento, Italy, October, 2003

• Parlavantzas, N., Coulson, G., Blair, G.S.,  "A Resource Adaptation Framework For Reflective Middleware", Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware (located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2003), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June, 2003

• Coulson, G., Blair, G.S., Parlavantzas, N., Yeung, W.K., Cai, W., "A Reflective Middleware Approach to the Provision of Grid Middleware", Proc. 1st Intl. Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2003), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June, 2003

• Blair, G.S., Coulson G., Blair, L., Duran, H., Grace, P., Moreira R., Parlavantzas, N., "Reflection, Self-Awareness and Self-Healing in OpenORB", ACM SIGSOFT Workshop on Self-Healing Systems (WOSS'02), November 18-19, 2002

• Parlavantzas, N., Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., "An approach to building reflective component-based middleware platforms", MSRC Summer Research Workshop, Cambridge, U.K., September  9-11, 2002.

• Clarke, M., Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Parlavantzas, N., "An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware", Proceedings of the IFIP / ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware'2001), Heidelberg, Germany, November 2001

• Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Clarke, M., Parlavantzas, N., "Performance and Integrity in the OpenORB Reflective Middleware", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns (Reflection'2001), Kyoto, Japan, September 2001

• Blair G.S., Coulson G., Andersen A., Blair L., Clarke M., Costa F., Duran H., Parlavantzas N., Saikoski K., "A Principled Approach to Supporting Adaptation in Distributed Mobile Environments", Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE'2000), Nixon P. & Ritchie I. (eds), Limerick, Ireland, June 10-11, IEEE, pp 3-12, 2000

• Parlavantzas, N., Coulson, G., Clarke, M., and Blair, G., "Towards a Reflective Component Based Middleware Architecture", Workshop on Reflection and Metalevel Architectures, June 13, 2000, Sophia Antipolis and Cannes, France

• Parlavantzas, N., Coulson, G., and Blair, G., "Applying Component Frameworks to Develop Flexible Middleware", Workshop on Reflective Middleware, April 7-8, 2000, New York, USA

• Costa, F., Duran, H., Parlavantzas, N., Saikoski, K., Blair, G., and Coulson, G>, "The Role of Reflective Middleware in Supporting the Engineering of Dynamic Applications". In W. Cazzola, R. J. Stroud and F. Tisato., editors, Reflection and Software Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1826, pages 79-99, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, June 2000

• Blair, G.S., Costa, F., Coulson, G., Duran, H., Parlavantzas, N., Delpiano, F., Dumant, B., Horn, F., and Stefani, J.B., "The Design of a Resource-Aware Reflective Middleware Architecture", Proc. 2nd International Conference on Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection (Reflection '99), St-Malo, France, Springer-Verlag, LNCS, Vol 1616, pp115-134, 1999