Guillaume Pierre's home page



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

Research Projects
Globule: scalable content distribution for the World-Wide Web
XtreemOS: a Linux-based operating system to support virtual organizations for next generation Grids
Check our demonstration of distributed servers technology!
GlobeSoul: P2P technology as a mean to build large-scale distributed systems

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 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
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.
EC2 Performance Analysis for Resource Provisioning of Service-Oriented Applications. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing, November 2009.
A Survey of DHT security techniques, Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Accepted for publication, ACM Computing Surveys, 2009.
Scalable Transactions for Web Applications in the Cloud. Zhou Wei, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In Proceedings of the Euro-Par Conference, August 2009.
Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting, Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen. Elsevier Computer Networks 53(11), July 2009. New! The Wikipedia access trace is now freely available.
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)
Jeff Napper (Postdoc)
Jan Sacha (Postdoc)
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
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (PhD student, now at Amazon.com)
Michal Szymaniak (PhD student, now at Google.com)
Paolo Costa (Postdoc, now at Microsoft Research)

My illegal netsurfer activities
French expressions you won't learn at school... ("Expressions Françaises en Anglais")
Do you want to see my office?
Anthropology: to know more about the missing link, click here :-)
A few photos of my trips in Vietnam, Mauritania, Madeira, Turkey, Morocco, Barcelona, London, Pyrenees, Queyras, Greece, China, Japan, India, Italy, Scotland, Portugal.
I consider cinema mainly as a form of art rather than merely entertainment (with quite a few exceptions). This lead me to build a DVD collection containing virtually no blockbuster. Visit at your own risk!



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