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Ph.D. Thesis

Book Chapters
  • Enforcing Service Level Agreements using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager
    M. Macías, G. Smith, O. Rana, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems
    Autonomic Systems Series
    Part I, Chapter 6, pp. XX-XX
    Birkhäuser-Springer, February 2009 (To Appear)
    ISBN: 978-3-7643-8896-6


    SLA-based Resource Management and Allocation
    J. Guitart, M. Macías, O. Rana, P. Wieder, R. Yahyapour, W. Ziegler
    Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing
    Part III: Policies and Agreements, Chapter 12, pp. XX-XX
    John Wiley & Sons, February 2009 (To Appear)
    ISBN: 978-0-470-28768-2
  • Performance Impact of the Grid Middleware
    D. Carrera, J. Guitart, V. Beltran, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    Engineering the Grid: Status and Perspective
    Section 5: Performance Aspects, Chapter 15, pp. 235-249
    American Scientific Publishers, January 2006
    ISBN: 1-58883-038-1

Journals

  • Maximizing Revenue in Grid Markets using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager
    M. Macías, O. Rana, G. Smith, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. XX (XX), pp. XX-XX, XX 2008
    ISSN: 1532-0634
    Impact Factor (SCI 2006): 0.704

  • Dynamic CPU Provisioning for Self-Managed Secure Web Applications in SMP Hosting Platforms
    J. Guitart, D. Carrera, V. Beltran, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    Computer Networks, Vol. 52 (7), pp. 1390-1409, May 2008
    ISSN: 1389-1286
    Impact Factor (SCI 2006): 0.631

  • Designing an Overload Control Strategy for Secure e-Commerce Applications
    J. Guitart, D. Carrera, V. Beltran, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    Computer Networks, Vol. 51 (15), pp. 4492-4510, October 2007
    ISSN: 1389-1286
    Impact Factor (SCI 2006): 0.631

  • Strategies for the Efficient Exploitation of Loop-level Parallelism in Java
    J. Oliver, J. Guitart, E. Ayguadé, N. Navarro, and J. Torres
    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 13 (8-9), pp. 663-680, July 2001
    Special Issue: ACM 2000 Java Grande Conference
    ISSN: 1532-0634
    Impact Factor (SCI 2006): 0.704
    (Also as Research Report number: UPC-DAC-2000-55 / UPC-CEPBA-2000-24, September 2000)

International Conference Proceedings published as Journals/Books

  • Economically Enhanced Resource Management for Internet Service Utilities
    T. Püschel, N. Borissov, M. Macías, D. Neumann, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4831, pp. 335-348
    ISBN: 978-3-540-76992-7, ISSN: 0302-9743
    8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'07)
    Nancy, France, December 3-7, 2007
    40 Accepted of 200 Submissions: 20%
    Conference Conference ranking at CORE list: A
    (Also as Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2007-51, September 2007)

  • Extended Resource Management Using Client Classification and Economic Enhancements
    T. Püschel, N. Borissov, D. Neumann, M. Macías, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    Information and Communication Technologies and the Knowledge Economy, Volume 4
    Expanding the Knowledge Economy; Issues, Applications, Case Studies; Part 1
    ICT for Networked Enterprise, Applications, pp. 65-72
    ISBN: 978-1-58603-801-4, ISSN: 1574-1230
    17th eChallenges e-2007 Conference & Exhibition (e-2007)
    The Hague, The Netherlands, October 24-26, 2007
    (Also as Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2007-50, September 2007)

  • Simulating and Modeling Secure Web Applications
    R. Nou, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3991, pp. 84-91
    ISBN: 3-540-34379-2, ISSN: 0302-9743
    6th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'06)
    University of Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006
    98 Accepted of 300 Submissions: 32.6%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: A
  • A Hybrid Web Server Architecture for Secure e-Business Web Applications
    V. Beltran, D. Carrera, J. Guitart, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3726, pp. 366-377
    ISBN: 3-540-29031-1, ISSN: 0302-9743
    1st International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC'05)
    Sorrento, Italy, September 21-23, 2005
    76 Accepted of 263 Submissions: 28.9%

International Conference Proceedings

  • SLA-Driven Semantically-Enhanced Dynamic Resource Allocator for Virtualized Service Providers
    J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Julià, J. Guitart, R. Badia, and J. Torres
    4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008)
    Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008, pp. XX-XX
    ISBN:
    XX Accepted of XX Submissions: XX%
    Conference Conference ranking at CORE list: A
    Using Semantic Technologies for Resource Allocation in Computing Service Providers
    J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Julià, J. Guitart, J. Torres, and R. Badia
    5th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008) (Work-in-Progress Paper)
    Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 8-11, 2008, pp. 583-587
    ISBN: 978-0-7695-3283-7
    Full Papers: 52 Accepted of 268 Submissions: 19.4%
    Conference Conference ranking at CORE list: A
    (Extended version as Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2008-16, April 2008)
  • Tailoring Resources: The Energy Efficient Consolidation Strategy Goes Beyond Virtualization
    J. Torres, D. Carrera, V. Beltran, N. Poggi, K. Hogan, J.L. Berral, R. Gavaldà, E. Ayguadé, T. Moreno, and J. Guitart
    5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2008) (Poster Paper)
    Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 2-6, 2008, pp. 197-198
    ISBN: 978-0-7695-3175-5
    Full Papers: XX Accepted of XX Submissions: XX%
    Poster Papers: XX Accepted of XX Submissions: XX%
  • Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Self-Adaptive Heterogeneous Workloads in SMP Hosting Platforms
    R. Nou, F. Julià, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    2nd International Conference on eBusiness (ICE-B 2007) (Short Paper)
    Barcelona, Spain, July 28-31, 2007, pp. 39-44
    ISBN: 978-989-8111-11-1
    Full Papers: 62 Accepted of 418 Submissions: 14.8%
    Short Papers: 113 Accepted of 418 Submissions: 27%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: C
  • Differentiated Quality of Service for e-Commerce Applications through
    Connection Scheduling based on System-Level Thread Priorities

    J. Alonso, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP'07)
    Naples, Italy, February 7-9, 2007, pp. 72-76
    ISBN: 0-7695-2784-1, ISSN: 1066-6192
    56 Accepted of 105 Submissions: 53.3%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: B
  • Experiences with Simulations - a Light and Fast Model for Secure Web Applications
    R. Nou, J. Guitart, D. Carrera, and J. Torres
    12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'06)
    Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 12-15, 2006, pp. 177-184
    ISBN: 0-7695-2612-8, ISSN: 1521-9097
    69 Accepted of 183 Submissions: 37.7%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: B
  • Session-Based Adaptive Overload Control for Secure Dynamic Web Applications
    J. Guitart, D. Carrera, V. Beltran, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    34th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'05)
    Oslo, Norway, June 14-17, 2005, pp. 341-349
    ISBN: 0-7695-2380-3, ISSN: 0190-3918
    69 Accepted of 241 Submissions: 28.6%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: A
  • Characterizing Secure Dynamic Web Applications Scalability
    J. Guitart, V. Beltran, D. Carrera, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05)
    Denver, Colorado, USA, April 4-8, 2005
    ISBN: 0-7695-2312-9, ISSN: 1530-2075
    115 Accepted of 343 Submissions: 33.5%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: A
    (Also as Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2005-13, March 2005)
  • Tuning Dynamic Web Applications using Fine-Grain Analysis
    J. Guitart, D. Carrera, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, and J. Labarta
    13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP'05)
    Lugano, Switzerland, February 9-11, 2005, pp. 84-91
    ISBN: 0-7695-2280-7, ISSN: 1066-6192
    42 Accepted of 88 Submissions: 47.7%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: B
  • Application/Kernel Cooperation Towards the Efficient Execution of Shared-memory Parallel Java Codes
    J. Guitart, X. Martorell, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    17th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03)
    Nice, France, April 22-26, 2003
    ISBN: 0-7695-1926-1, ISSN: 1530-2075
    119 Accepted of 407 Submissions: 29.2%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: A
  • Complete Instrumentation Requirements for Performance Analysis of Web based Technologies
    D. Carrera, J. Guitart, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, and J. Labarta
    2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS'03)
    Austin, Texas, USA, March 6-8, 2003, pp. 166-175
    ISBN: 0-7803-7756-7
    22 Accepted of 62 Submissions: 35.4%
  • Performance Analysis Tools for Parallel Java Applications on Shared-memory Systems
    J. Guitart, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, and J. M. Bull
    30th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'01)
    Valencia, Spain, September 3-7, 2001, pp. 357-364
    ISBN: 0-7695-1257-7, ISSN: 0190-3918
    65 Accepted of 139 Submissions: 46.7%
    Conference ranking at CORE list: A

International Workshop Proceedings

  • Influence of Reputation in Revenue of Grid Service Providers
    M. Macías and J. Guitart
    2nd International Workshop on High Performance Grid Middleware (HiPerGRID 2008)
    Bucharest, Romania, November 21-22, 2008, pp. XX-XX
    ISBN:


    Enforcing Service Level Agreements using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager
    M. Macías, G. Smith, O. Rana, J. Guitart, and J. Torres
    1st Workshop on Economic Models and Algorithms for Grid Systems (EMAGS 2007)
    In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007)
    Austin, Texas, USA, September 19, 2007
    (Also as Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2007-49, September 2007)


  • Efficient Execution of Parallel Java Applications
    J. Guitart, X. Martorell, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé
    3rd Workshop on Java for High Performance Computing
    In conjunction with the 15th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'01)
    Sorrento, Italy, June 17, 2001, pp. 31-35
    Workshop ranking at CORE list: C
  • Java Instrumentation Suite: Accurate Analysis of Java Threaded Applications
    J. Guitart, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, J. Oliver, and J. Labarta
    2nd Workshop on Java for High Performance Computing
    In conjunction with the 14th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'00)
    Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, May 7, 2000, pp. 15-25
    Workshop ranking at CORE list: C

National Conference Proceedings

Technical Reports

Last update: 06/10/2008

Jordi Guitart's Publications