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Address  : Guillaume PIERRE
           Room R4.29 (photos, directions, more directions)
           Dept. of Computer Science
           Vrije Universiteit
           de Boelelaan 1081
           1081 HV Amsterdam
           The Netherlands
Email    : gpierre@cs.vu.nl
Tel      : +31 20 598 7707
Fax      : +31 20 598 7653
See also : my personal page
 www.globule.org   My photo


Abstract
I am an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Teaching
Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems (fall)
Computer Systems (spring)
Systems Programming (fall)

New! Research-Related Downloads
XtreemOS-2.1: an open-source Linux-based operating system for Grid computing
CloudTPS: an experimental system to support transactional consistency over NoSQL databases
Wikipedia access trace: three months of Wikipedia's HTTP traffic (and a full statistical analysis of it)

Professional Activities
I am the treasurer of Eurosys, the european chapter of ACM SIGOPS.
I maintain the DSonline Event Calendar
I am (or have been) serving in the program commitees of MobiCloud 2010, CloudComp 2010, SRDS 2010, ICCCN 2010, DAIS 2010, EuroSys 2010 shadow PC (co-chair), WWW 2010, FeBID 2010, CoEMTA 2010, AAA-IDEA 2009, WWW 2009 (vice-chair of the 'Performance and Scalability' track), ICCCN 2009, DAMAP 2009, GreenMetrics 2009, USETIM 2009, Euro-Par 2009 (local chair of Topic 8: Distributed Systems and Algorithms), WWW 2008, ASCI 2007, UPGRADE-CN 2007 (pc co-chair), AAA-IDEA 2006, UPGRADE-CDN 2006, GI 2006, WWW 2006 (poster session), ICPADS 2006, WCW 2005, WWW 2005 (poster session), WWW 2004 (poster session), MediaNet 2004, ICDCS 2004 and WCW 2003.

Selected recent publications
Secure Data Aggregation Through Proactive Defense. Shuo Chen, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer), August 2010.
Decentralized As-Soon-As-Possible Grid Scheduling: a Feasibility Study. Xenofon Vasilakos, Jan Sacha and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer), August 2010.
Adam2: Reliable Distribution Estimation in Decentralised Environments. Jan Sacha, Jeff Napper, Corina Stratan and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2010.
CloudTPS: Scalable Transactions for Web Applications in the Cloud. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. Technical report IR-CS-53, Vrije Universiteit, February 2010. The CloudTPS prototype is now available for download.
Autonomous Resource Provisioning for Multi-Service Web Applications. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 19th International World-Wide Web conference, Raleigh, NC, USA, April 2010.
See also my complete publication list...

Co-researchers
Guido Urdaneta (PhD student, in collaboration with Maarten van Steen)
Zhou Wei (PhD student, in collaboration with Maarten van Steen and Chi-Hung Chi)
Jiang Dejun (PhD student, in collaboration with Maarten van Steen and Chi-Hung Chi)
Shuo (Leo) Chen (PhD student, in collaboration with Maarten van Steen and Chi-Hung Chi)
Corina Stratan (Postdoc)
I also supervise bachelor and master projects. If you would like to do your master project with me, please check my open project proposals.

Former co-researchers
Paolo Costa (Postdoc, now Researcher at Microsoft Research)
Jeff Napper (Postdoc, now System Engineer at Hyves)
Jan Sacha (Postdoc, now Systems Researcher at Bell Labs)
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (PhD student, now Senior Manager/Architect at Amazon.com)
Michal Szymaniak (PhD student, now Staff Software Engineer at Google.com)



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