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Books & Editorials

  • Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, and Francesco Tusa. Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice, Release Date: May, 2012. IGI Global, 2012, 374 pages. (to appear)

  • Ivona Brandic, Ioan Raicu: Special issue on Science-Driven Cloud Computing. Scientific Programming 19(2-3): 71-73 (2011)

  • Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya: Special section: Recent advances in utility and cloud computing. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 28(1): 36-38 (2012)

PhD Theses

  • Michael Maurer: Governance of Cloud Computing Infrastructures using Knowledge Management, finished June 1st 2012.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha: Managing Cloud Service Provisioning and SLA Enforcement via Holistic Monitoring Techniques; finished May 10th 2012.

Journal Publications, Conference and Workshop Proceedings

2012

  • Christoph Redl, Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, Schahram Dustdar. Automatic SLA Matching and Provider Selection in Grid and Cloud Computing Markets. The 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing, 20-23 September 2012, Beijing, China.

  • Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, and Rizos Sakellariou. Enacting SLAs in Clouds Using Knowledge Management. Future Generation Comp. Systems, accepted.

  • Ivan Breskovic, Ivona Brandic, Jorn Altmann. Creating Standardized Products for Electronic Markets, Future Generation Comp. Special Issue Editors: Pallickara/Fox (in press), 2012.

  • Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, and Rizos Sakellariou. Self-Adaptive and Resource-Efficient SLA Enactment for Cloud Computing Infrastructures. (Research Track) IEEE Cloud 2012. 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 24-29 2012, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

  • Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic. Economic Analysis of the SLA Mapping Approach for Cloud Computing Goods. Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, and Francesco Tusa. Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice Release Date: May, 2012. IGI Global, 2012, 374 pages.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Tiago C. Ferreto, Marco A. S. Netto, Ivona Brandic, Cesar A. F. De Rose. CASViD: Application Level Monitoring for SLA Violation Detection in Clouds. IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2012), July 16th-20th, 2012 in Izmir, Turkey. (accepted).

  • Drazen Lucanin, Michael Maurer, Toni Mastelic, and Ivona Brandic. Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. E2DC - 1st International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centers held in conjunction with e-Energy 2012 - Third International Conference on Future Energy Systems, May 9-11 2012, Madrid, Spain. (accepted).

  • Damien Borgetto, Michael Maurer, Georges Da Costa, Jean-Marc Pierson, I. Brandic. Energy-efficient and SLA-Aware Management of IaaS Clouds. e-Energy 2012 -Third International Conference on Future Energy Systems, May 9-11 2012, Madrid, Spain. (accepted).

  • I. Brandic. Cloud Computing - the Past, Present and Future. Government Gazette 09/03/2012.

  • A. Kertesz, G. Kecskemeti, I. Brandic. An Interoperable and Self-adaptive Approach for SLA-based Service Virtualization in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments, Special Issue on Management of Cloud Systems, Elsevier Future Generation Computing Systems, Editors. O. Rana, A. Corradi. (accepted).

  • Toni Mastelic, Vincent Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic. M4Cloud - Generic Application Level Monitoring for Resource-Shared Cloud Environments. CLOSER 2012, 2st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, April 18-21, 2012, in Porto, Portugal. Best paper award.

  • Gabor Kecskemeti, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Attila Kertesz, Zsolt Nemeth and Schahram Dustdar. Facilitating self-adaptable Inter-Cloud management. 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing PDP 2012. Munich, Germany, 15-17 February, 2012.

2011

  • Ivan Breskovic and Ivona Brandic. Increasing the Popularity of Cloud Computing by Improving Its Market Performance. Awareness Magazine: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems, 2011

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Pawel Labaj, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic and David P. Kreil. Optimizing Bioinformatics Workflows for Data Analysis Using Cloud Management Techniques. The 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS11), in conjunction with Supercomputing 2011, Seattle, November 12-18, 2011.

  • Ivan Breskovic, Christian Haas, Simon Caton, Ivona Brandic. Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology. 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC2011) to be held in Sydney, Australia Dec. 12-14, 2011. Best student paper award.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar. Cloud Resource Provisioning and SLA Enforcement Via LoM2HiS Framework, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2011.

  • Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Schahram Dustdar. Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets. 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), December 5-8, 2011, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Marco A. S. Netto, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Ivona Brandic, Rajkumar Buyya, Cesar A. F. De Rose. Towards Autonomic Detection of SLA Violations in Cloud Infrastructures, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2011.

  • Christoph Stoegerer, Ivona Brandic, Vincent Emeakaroha, Wolfgang Kastner, and Thomas Novak. Applying availability SLAs to Traffic Management Systems. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2011) Washington DC, USA - October 5-7, 2011.

  • Ivona Brandic, Schahram Dustdar. Grid vs. Cloud - A Technology Comparison. it - Information Technology Issue 4 / 2011 by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH.

  • Michael Maurer, Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Joern Altmann. Cost-Benefit Analysis of an SLA Mapping Approach for Defining Standardized Cloud Computing Goods. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2011.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic. SLA-Aware Application Deployment and Resource Allocation in Clouds. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Applications for Cloud Computing (CloudApp 2011), In conjunction with the 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Munich, Germany, July 18-21 2010.

  • Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, and Rizos Sakellariou. Enacting SLAs in Clouds Using Rules, Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux August 29th - September 2nd 2011, France.

  • Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, Vincent Emeakarohaa, Ivona Brandic. Revealing the MAPE Loop for the Autonomic Management of Cloud Infrastructures. Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011), in association with the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2011), 28 June 2011, Kerkyra (Corfu) Greece.

  • Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Jorn Altmann. Towards Autonomic Market Management in Cloud Computing Infrastructures, International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2011, 7-9 May, 2011 Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Ivan Breskovic, Schahram Dustdar. SOA and QoS Management for Cloud Computing. In: Cloud computing: methodology, system, and applications. Editors: Lizhe Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Jinjun Chen, Boualem Benatallah, CRC, Taylor & Francis group, 2011

  • Ivona Brandic, Mapping the SLA Landscape for High Performance Clouds. HPC in the Cloud, 7.Feb. 2011.

  • Attila Kertesz, Gabor Kecskemeti, Ivona Brandic. Autonomic SLA-aware Service Virtualization for Distributed Systems. The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, February, 2011.

2010

  • Michael Maurer, Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Joern Altmann. Cost and Benefit of the SLA Mapping Approach for Defining Standardized Goods in Cloud Computing Markets. International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010) in conjunction with the International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC 2010), December 14-16, 2010, Chennai, India.

  • Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic and Rizos Sakellariou. Simulating Autonomic SLA Enactment in Clouds using Case Based Reasoning. ServiceWave 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15 2010.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic and Schahram Dustdar. FoSII - Foundations of Self-Governing ICT Infrastructures. In ERCIM News 83, Special Theme: Cloud Computing Platforms, Software, and Applications. (October 2010).

  • Irfan Ul Haq, Erich Schikuta, Ivona Brandic, Adrian Paschke, and Harold Boley. SLA Validation of Service Value Chains. The 9th International Conference on Grid and Cloud Computing (GCC 2010), Nanjing, China.

  • Irfan Ul Haq, Ivona Brandic, Erich Schikuta. SLA Validation in Layered Cloud Infrastructures. The 7th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, in conjunction with Europar 2010, Ischia, Italy, 2010.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Marco A. S. Netto, Ivona Brandic, and César A.F. De Rose. DeSVi: An Architecture for Detecting SLA Violations in Cloud Computing Infrastructures. 2nd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2010) Barcelona, Spain October 25 - 28, 2010.

  • Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Schahram Dustdar. VieSLAF Framework: Facilitating Negotiations in Clouds by Applying Service Mediation and Negotiation Bootstrapping. Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences (SCPE), Special Issue of Scalabe Computing on Grid Applications and Middleware & Large Scale Computations in Grids. pages 189-204, Volume 11, no. 2, June 2010.

  • Ivona Brandic, Vincent Emeakaroha, Michael Maurer, Sandor Acs, Attila Kertész, Gábor Kecskeméti, Schahram Dustdar (2010). LAYSI: A Layered Approach for SLA-Violation Propagation in Self-manageable Cloud Infrastructures. The First IEEE International Workshop on Emerging Applications for Cloud Computing (CloudApp 2010), In conjunction with the 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Seoul, Korea, July 19-23 2010.

  • Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Vincent Emeakaroha, Schahram Dustdar. Towards Knowledge Management in Self-adaptable Clouds. IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop of Software Engineering for Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems (SEASS '10), in conjunction with ICWS 2010 and SCC 2010, Miami, Florida, USA, July 5-10, 2010.

  • Ivona Brandic, Tobias Anstett, David Schumm, Frank Leymann, Schahram Dustdar, Ralf Konrad. Compliant Cloud Computing (C3): Architecture and Language Support for User-driven Compliance Management in Clouds. The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2010), July 5-10 Miami, Florida, USA.

  • Vincent Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic, Michael Maurer, Schahram Dustdar. Low Level Metrics to High Level SLAs - LoM2HiS framework: Bridging the gap between monitored metrics and SLA parameters in Cloud environments. The 2010 High Performance Computing and Simulation Conference (HPCS 2010), in conjunction with The 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010), June 28- July 2, 2010, Caen, France. Nominated for the best student paper award.

2009

  • Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Philipp Leitner, Schahram Dustdar. VieSLAF Framework: Enabling Adaptive and Versatile SLA-Management. The 6th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models 2009 (Gecon09). In conjunction with Euro-Par 2009, 25-28 August 2009, Delft, The Netherlands.

  • Ivona Brandic. Towards Self-manageable Cloud Services. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOAA 2009). In conjunction with the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference. July 20 - 24, 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA.

  • Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Schahram Dustdar. Service Mediation and Negotiation Bootstrapping as First Achievements Towards Self-adaptable Grid and Cloud Services. Grids meet Autonomic Computing Workshop 2009 - GMAC09. In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. (DOI)

  • Attila Kertész, Gábor Kecskeméti,Ivona Brandic. An SLA-based Resource Virtualization Approach for On-demand Service Provision. VTDC 2009 - The 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing. In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009. (DOI)

Technical Reports

Master Theses

  • Toni Mastelić. Service Provisioning Management via Application Monitoring in Cloud Environment. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia. (co-advisor)

  • Mario Volf. Upravljanje znanjem u samoprilagodljivim cloud sustavima. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Croatia, finished Oct. 2010. (co-advisor)

  • Alexander Albl, Ein schlankes Workflow-Tool fuer Bioinformatik, TU Vienna, in collaboration with BOKU Wien, Sep. 2010.

  • Dejan Mušić, VieSLAF: Increasing the Versatility of Grid QoS by applying SLA-Mapping Techniques, TU Vienna, 2009.

EU's Expert group reports