Publications

Conference Papers

• Scaling and Continuous Availability in Database Server Clusters through Multiversion Replication.
  Authors : Kaloian Manassiev and Cristiana Amza. Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Edinburgh, UK, June 2007.
  

• Adaptive Learning of Metric Correlations for Temperature-Aware Database Provisioning.
  Authors : Saeed Ghanbari, Gokul Soundararajan, Jin Chen, Madalin Mihailescu and Cristiana Amza. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007). Jacksonville, Florida, June 2007
  

• Outlier Detection for Fine-grained Load Balancing in Database Clusters.
  Authors : Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu and Cristiana Amza. Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2007
  

• Autonomic Provisioning of Backend Databases in Dynamic Content Web Servers.
  Authors : Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan and Cristiana Amza. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2006). Dublin, Ireland, June 2006
  

• Database Replication Policies for Dynamic Content Applications.
  Authors : Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel. First ACM SIGOPS EuroSys, April 2006
  

• Efficient and Transparent Dynamic Content Updates for Mobile Clients.
  Authors : Trevor Armstrong, Olivier Trescases, Cristiana Amza and Eyal de Lara.
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2006). Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.
  Presentation slides

• Exploiting Distributed Version Concurrency in a Transactional Memory Cluster.
  Authors : Kaloian Manassiev, Madalin Mihailescu and Cristiana Amza.
  SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2006). New York, NY, USA, March 2006.
  Presentation slides

• Fast and Transparent Recovery for Continuous Availability of Cluster-based Servers.
  Authors : Rosalia Christodoulopoulou, Kaloian Manassiev, Angelos Bilas and Cristiana Amza.
  SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2006). New York, NY, USA, March 2006
  

• Feedback-based Scheduling for Back-end Databases in Shared Dynamic Content Server Clusters.
  Authors : Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, Ashvin Goel, and Cristiana Amza.
  short paper and poster, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2005). Seattle, WA, USA, June 2005
  

• Locality Aware Dynamic Load Management for Massively Multiplayer Games.
  Authors : Jin Chen, Baohua Wu, Margaret Delap, Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu and Cristiana Amza.
  ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2005). Chicago, IL, USA, June, 2005
  

• Transparent Caching with Strong Consistency in Dynamic Content Web Sites.
  Authors : C. Amza, G. Soundararajan and E. Cecchet.
  Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2005
  

• Using Semantic Information to Improve Transparent Query Caching for Dynamic Content Web Sites.
  Authors : G. Soundararajan and C. Amza.
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce (DEEC), in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2005
  

• A Comparative Evaluation of Transparent Scaling Techniques for Dynamic Content Servers
  Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2005
  

• Distributed Versioning: Consistent Replication for Scaling Back-end Databases of Dynamic Content Web Sites
  Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference, June 2003
  

• Conflict-Aware Scheduling for Dynamic Content Applications
  Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS), March 2003
  

• Specification and Implementation of Dynamic Content Benchmarks
  Authors : C. Amza, E. Cecchet, A. Chanda, A. Cox, S. Elnikety, R. Gil, J. Marguerite, K. Rajamani, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-5), November 2002
  

• Data Replication Strategies for Fault Tolerance and Availability on Commodity Clusters
  Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2000
  

• Tradeoffs between False Sharing and Aggregation in Software Distributed Shared Memory
  Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, K. Rajamany, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), June 1997.
  

• Software DSM Protocols that Adapt between Single Writer and Multiple Writer
  Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, S. Dwarkadas, W. Zwaenepoel.
  Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) , February 1997.
  

  Journal Papers

  • Adaptive Energy Conserving Algorithms for Neighbor Discovery in Opportunistic Bluetooth Networks
    Authors : Catalin Drula, Cristiana Amza, Franck Rousseau, and Andrzej Duda.
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas In Communications, Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2007
    

  • Reactive Provisioning of Back-end Databases in Shared Dynamic Content Server Clusters
    Authors : Gokul Soundararajan and Cristiana Amza.
    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2006
    

  • Adaptive Protocols for Software Distributed Shared Memory
    Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, K. Rajamany, S. Dwarkadas, L.J. Lin, W. Zwaenepoel.
    Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Distributed Shared Memory, pp 467-475, March 1999
    

  • TreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of Workstations
    Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, S. Dwarkadas, P. Keleher, H. Lu, R. Rajamony, W. Yu, and W. Zwaenepoel, in IEEE Computer, vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 18-28, February 1996.
  
  

  Theses

  • Conflict-Aware Replication for Dynamic Content Web Sites.
    Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University, December 2002

  • Software DSM Protocols that Adapt between Single Writer and Multiple Writer.
    Master's Thesis, Rice University, May 1997

  
  

  Technical Reports

  • Scaling and Availability for Dynamic Content Web Sites
    Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel.
    Rice University TR-02-395, June 2002
    

  • Scaling e-Commerce Sites
    Authors : C. Amza, A. Cox, W. Zwaenepoel.
    Rice University TR-02-390, February 2002
    

  • Bottleneck Characterization of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks
    Authors : C. Amza, E. Cecchet, A. Chanda, A. Cox, S. Elnikety, R. Gil, J. Marguerite, K. Rajamani, W. Zwaenepoel.
    Rice University TR-02-391, February 2002 (also in IBM 3rd CAS Conference)