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Javier Alonso


Personal Information

Name: Javier Alonso López

Affiliation: Postal Address: Contact:

Education

Ph. D. in Computer Science at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
MSc. in Computer Science at Barcelona School of Informatics at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
    1996/09 - 2004/01
    Master Thesis: "Intelligent Redirection requests Domain Name Server (DNS)"


Teaching Experience

2006/11 - currently
    Computer Structure I (EC1) - 7,2 ECTS,
    Barcelona School of Informatics(FIB) at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) .
      Main Objective: Upon finishing this subject, students should have an understanding of the correspondence that exists between the typical elements in high-level language (type of data, expressions, instructions, etc.), and the elements of machine code that support them.


MSc Thesis and BSc Thesis Advised or Co-Advised:
    2007/07 - Capacity planning and performance tool to MQSeries
    Main-Advisor: Jordi Torres Viñals.
    Former Student: Oscar Domenech Roig
    Msc. with Honours.
    2007/07 - Grip Adaptation - Heuristic Search Algorithms.
    Main-Advisor: Ramon Sangüesa i Sole
    Former Student: Sergio Alvarez Napagao
    Msc.
    2006/07 - Application to help the vaccination program in The western Sahara(Algeria)
    Main-Advisor: David López Álvarez.
    Former Student: Caterina Canyelles Gamundi
    BSc.
    2005/02 - Design and Implementation of TxT Association Intranet.
    Main-Advisor: David López Álvarez.
    Former Student: Verónica Biel Calvo.
    BSc with Honours.
    2005/05 - Pharmacy application to the Pharmacy warehouse in Rabuni (Algeria)
    Main-Advisor: Javier Larrosa Bondia.
    Former Student: Sara Timon Fernandez.
    BSc with Honours.
Selected Education Papers:
    •Javier Alonso, David López and Javier Larrosa. "Final Projects Experience frames on Cooperation programs with Developing Countries". XIII Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática, Teruel, Spain, July 16-18, 2007.

Research and Professional Experience

2008/06 - currently
2005/01 - currently
    Researcher of High Performance Computing Group at Computer Architecture Department
    I am working on Autonomic Computing, focus on Self-healing area.
    More information: High Performance Computing Group webpage
2006/11 - 2008/08
    Researcher of The CoreGrid Network of Excellence
    I am involved on Institute on Architectural Issues, focus on Self-healing SOA and Grid Architectures.
    More information: CoreGrid webpage

2007/11 - 2008/06
    Collaboration with openTrends Company.
    I am working with J2EE Architecture team to help the company to improve the performance of the openFrame Framework.
    More information: openTrends webpage

2006/08 - 2006/11
    Software Engineer at Cognos Ltd.
    Staines, London, UK. I was involved on Performance Group based on Cognos Development Center on Staines.

2002/07 - 2006/08
    System Administration Support
    at Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB) Computing Lab.

Selected Research Papers:
    •Javier Alonso, Luis Silva, Artur Andrzejak, Paulo Silva and Jordi Torres. "High-Available Grid Services Through the Use of Virtualized Clustering". Procs. 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID 2007), Austin (TX), USA. September 19-21, 2007.
    •Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Luis Silva and Paulo Silva. "Dependable Grid Services: A case Study with OGSA-DAI". Towards Next Generation Grids, pp. 292-300, Springer. Procs. First CoreGrid Symposium, Rennes, France. August 27-31, 2007. In Conjunction with Euro-Par 2007.
    •Luis Silva, Javier Alonso, Paulo Silva, Jordi Torres and Artur Andrzejak. "Using Virtualization to Improve Software Rejuvenation". Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2007), Cambridge (MA), USA. July 12-14, 2007. Best Application Paper Award.
    •Javier Alonso, Jordi Guitart and Jordi Torres. "Differentiated Quality of Service for e-Commerce Applications through Connection Scheduling based on System-Level Thread Priorities". Procs. 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Napoli, Italy, February 7-9, 2007.

Last update: 13/02/2008