Mihai Burcea, J. Gregory Steffan and Cristiana Amza, "The Potential for Variable-Granularity Dependence Tracking for Optimistic Parallelism" (ACM source here), Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness: held in conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '08) , Seattle, WA, March 2008.
Best Paper Award in Software Systems:
Mihai Burcea and Michael Voss, "Managing Compilation Overheads in a Runtime Specializer for OpenMP" (pdf), Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2005), Phoenix, AZ, November 2005.
Yun Zhang, Mihai Burcea, Victor Cheng, Ron Ho and Michael Voss, "An Adaptive Runtime Library for OpenMP on Hyperthreaded SMPs", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, August 2005.
Master's Thesis: "stOMP: A Specializing Threads Library for OpenMP" (pdf).
Yun Zhang, Mihai Burcea, Victor Cheng, Ron Ho and Michael Voss, "An Adaptive OpenMP Loop Scheduler for Hyperthreaded SMPs" (pdf). Proc. of PDCS-2004: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, San Francisco, CA, September 2004.
Mihai Burcea and Michael Voss, "Towards a Runtime Optimization System for OpenMP" (pdf), Proc. of WOMPAT'2003: Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 2003.
RoGrid - Towards a Romanian Computational Grid - Nicolae Tapus, Valentin Cristea, Mihai Burcea, et. al.- First RoEduNet International Conference "Networking for Education and Research", Cluj Napoca, Romania, 2002 - can be found here
"A Distributed Application for Monte Carlo Simulations" - Nicolae Tapus, Mihai Burcea, Vlad Staicu - International Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC) 2001, Mangalia, Romania. The paper can be found on Springer-Verlag's site, LNCS 2326, p. 216. A link to it: here