Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

• H.E. Bal, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, N. Drost, R. Kemp, T. van Kessel, N. Palmer, G. Wrzesinska,
  T. Kielmann, K. van Reeuwijk, F.J. Seinstra, C. Jacobs, and K. Verstoep
  Real-World Distributed Computing with Ibis
  IEEE Computer, accepted for publication.
  Copyright © 2010 IEEE.
  
  
• R. Yang, S. Bhulai, R. van der Mei, and F.J. Seinstra
  Optimal Resource Allocation for Time-Reservation Systems
  Submitted for publication.
  
  
• R. Yang, R.E. Kooij, and R.D. van der Mei
  TCP Performance Modeling in the Case of Bi-Directional Packet Loss
  In: D. Kouvatsos ed., Traffic and Performance Engineering for Heterogenous Networks, River Publishers, pp. 1-18, 2009.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra, J.M. Geusebroek, D. Koelma, C.G.M. Snoek, M. Worring, and A.W.M. Smeulders
  High-Performance Distributed Video Content Analysis with Parallel-Horus
  IEEE Multimedia, 14(4):64-75, October-December 2007. Copyright © 2007 IEEE.
  
  

Refereed Conference Papers (international)

• F. Liu and F.J. Seinstra
  GPU-based Parallel Householder Bidiagonalization
  Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC),
  Chicago, IL, USA, June 20-25, 2010. Copyright © 2010 ACM.
  
  
• F. Liu and F.J. Seinstra
  Adaptive Parallel Householder Bidiagonalization
  Proceedings of the 15th International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par 2009), LNCS Vol. 5704, pp. 821-833,
  Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009. Copyright © 2009 Springer-Verlag.
  
  
• H.E. Bal, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, C. van Reeuwijk, and F.J. Seinstra
  Ibis: Real-World Problem Solving using Real-World Grids
  Proceedings of the 23rd International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009) - Sixth
  High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop (HPGC 2009),
  Rome, Italy, May 25-29, 2009. Copyright © 2009 IEEE.
  
  
• F. Liu and F.J. Seinstra
  A Comparison of Distributed Data Parallel Multimedia Computing over Conventional and Optical Wide-Area Networks
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2008), pp. 9-14,
  Boston, MA, USA, September 4-6, 2008. Copyright © 2008 Knowledge Systems Institute.
  
  
• R. Yang, R.D. van der Mei, D. Roubos, F.J. Seinstra, G.M. Koole, and H.E. Bal
  Modeling "Just-in-Time" Communication in Distributed Real-Time Multimedia Applications
  Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008),
  Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008. Copyright © 2008 IEEE.
  
  
• R. Yang, R.D. van der Mei, D. Roubos, F.J. Seinstra, and G.M. Koole
  On the Optimization of Resource Utilization in Distributed Multimedia Applications
  Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008),
  Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008. Copyright © 2008 IEEE.
  
  

Refereed Conference Papers (local)

• F. Liu and F.J. Seinstra
  Adaptive Parallel Householder Bidiagonalization
  Proc. 15th Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI 2009),
  Zeewolde, The Netherlands, June 3-5, 2009. Copyright © 2009 F. Liu.
  
  
• F. Liu and F.J. Seinstra
  Fine-Grained Distributed Multimedia Analysis over a 10Gbit/s Optical Wide-Area Network
  Proc. 14th Annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI 2008), pp. 16-23,
  Heijen, The Netherlands, June 11-13, 2008. Copyright © 2008 F. Liu.
  
  

Refereed Book Chapters

• C.G.M. Snoek, M. Worring, J.M. Geusebroek, D. Koelma, F.J. Seinstra, and A.W.M. Smeulders
  Semantic Video Indexing
  In Henk M. Blanken, Arjen P. de Vries, Henk Ernst Blok, Ling Feng, editors,
  Multimedia Retrieval, 225-249, Springer-Verlag, August 2007.
  
  

Demonstrators and Videos

• G. Anadiotis, S. Kotoulas, E. Oren, R. Siebes, F. van Harmelen, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, F.J. Seinstra,
  and H.E. Bal
  MaRVIN: a distributed platform for massive RDF inference
  Semantic Web Challenge 2008, held in conjunction with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference
  (ISWC 2008), Third Prize Winner in the Billion Triples Track,
  Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008.
  
  
• J. Maassen and F.J. Seinstra
  The Ibis Stargazers Team
  First International Data Analysis Challenge for Finding Supernovae, held in conjunction with IEEE
  Cluster/Grid 2008, First Prize Winner in the BS (basic) category,
  Tsukuba, Japan, Sep 29-Oct 1, 2008.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep, and H.E. Bal
  Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing with Ibis
  Live demonstration at the International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008),
  Boston, Ma, USA, June 23-27, 2008.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep and H.E. Bal
  Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing
  First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2008), held in conjunction with the 8th
  IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), First Prize Winner,
  Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008. Copyright © 2008 IEEE.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra and J.M. Geusebroek
  Color-Based Object Recognition by a Grid-Connected Robot Dog
  Live Demonstration at Supercomputing 2007 (SC07),
  Reno, AZ, USA, November 10-16, 2007.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra and J.M. Geusebroek
  Color-Based Object Recognition by a Grid-Connected Robot Dog
  22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Most Innovative Research Award (video competition),
  Vancouver, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
  
  

Invited Presentations

• F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, C. Jacobs, R. Kemp, T. Kielmann, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort,
  N. Palmer, K. van Reeuwijk, K. Verstoep, and H.E. Bal
  Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing with Ibis (invited presentation)
  VL-e workshop 2008, Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 29, 2008.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra
  Towards 'Wall-Socket' Multimedia Grid Computing
  ISLA Colloquium Series - University of Amsterdam
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 12, 2008. Copyright © 2008 ISLA-TV / F.J. Seinstra.
  
  

Awards and Prizes

G. Anadiotis, S. Kotoulas, E. Oren, R. Siebes, F. van Harmelen, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, F.J. Seinstra,
and H.E. Bal
MaRVIN: a distributed platform for massive RDF inference
Semantic Web Challenge 2008, held in conjunction with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC 2008), Third Prize Winner in the Billion Triples Track,
Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008.


• J. Maassen and F.J. Seinstra
  The Ibis Stargazers Team
  First International Data Analysis Challenge for Finding Supernovae, held in conjunction with IEEE
  Cluster/Grid 2008, First Prize Winner in the BS (basic) category,
  Tsukuba, Japan, Sep 29-Oct 1, 2008.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep and H.E. Bal
  Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing
  First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2008), held in conjunction with the 8th
  IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), First Prize Winner,
  Lyon, France, May 19-22, 2008. Copyright © 2008 IEEE.
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra and J.M. Geusebroek
  Color-Based Object Recognition by a Grid-Connected Robot Dog
  22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Most Innovative Research Award (video competition),
  Vancouver, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
  
  

Editorials

• F. Seinstra, N. Guil, Z. Juhasz, and S. Wilson
  Topic 11: Distributed and High-Performance Multimedia
  Proceedings of the 14th International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par 2008), LN CS Vol. LNCS Vol. 5168, pp. 844-845,
  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, August 26-29, 2008. Copyright © 2008 Springer-Verlag.
  
  

Additional Grants

• F.J. Seinstra
  PROMM-GRID: Programming Models for Multimedia Grid Computing (2007)
  Principal Investigator: Dr. F.J. Seinstra (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).
  Total Amount: 1.067 K EUR (funded by Executive Board of Vrije Universiteit)
  
  
• F.J. Seinstra, H.E.Bal, and A. Bassi
  Data Management for High-Performance Distributed Multimedia Content Analysis (2007)
  Principal Investigators: Prof. dr. ir. H.E. Bal (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), and
  Alessandro Bassi (Hitachi Europe SAS, Sophia Antipolis Lab, Valbonne, France).
  Total Amount: 85 K EUR (see also: CoreGrid Fellowship Programme)
  
  

Publicity

• Twee maal winst Vrije Universiteit in Data Analysis Challenge
  Gridforum Nederland Nieuwsbrief, Nr. Augustus 2008.
  Copyright © 2008 Gridforum Nederland.
  
  
• Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing with Ibis
  CoreGrid Newsletter, "In the Spotlights", Nr. 9, July 2008.
  Copyright © 2008 CoreGrid.
  
  
• Supercomputeraars
  Ad Valvas - Weekblad van de Vrije Universiteit, Jaargang 55, pp. 3, 29 Mei 2008.
  Copyright © 2008 Ad Valvas.
  
  
• AAAI Award for Aibo Video
  MultimediaN Newsletter, November 2007. Copyright © 2007 MultimediaN.
  
  
• UvA-onderzoekers winnen prijs voor beste korte filmpje AI
  FNWI Newsletter, 27 November 2007. Copyright © 2007 University of Amsterdam.
  
  
• AIBO Learns New Tricks Using Grids
  International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), Link of the Week, 31 October 2007.
  Copyright © 2007 iSGTW.
  
  
• Betekenis geven aan beeld
  (interview with Prof. A.W.M. Smeulders and Dr. F.J. Seinstra)
  Computable, 40(9):6, 2 Maart 2007. Copyright © 2007 Computable.