Research - Distributed Systems

Selected Publications

Haofan Liang: A Survey for Cyber Foraging
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya) , November, 2004.
Sean Norman: Grid Computing: A Survey of Technologies Technologies
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya and Michael Katchabaw) , November, 2004.
Heather Keep: H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer
A Framework for the Efficient Management of Distributed Systems
Accepted to appear in Journal of Computer Communications
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: A Model for Efficient Configuration of Management Agents in Distributed Systems
Appeared in Performance Evaluation Journal , volume 54, number 4, December 2003, pp. 285-309.
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: Optimising Management Functions in Distributed Systems
Appeared in Journal of Network and Systems Management , 2002, volume 10, number 4, pp. 505-530.
H. Akhand and M. Bauer: Managing Quality of Service in Internet Applications Using Differentiated Services
Accepted to Appear in Journal of Network and Systems Management.
Brad Simmons: Evolution in the Approach to Congestion Management in IP-Based Networking
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya) , September, 2002.
Heather Keep: A Survey of Approaches to User-Centered Quality of Service
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Michael Bauer) , April, 2002.
M. Gittens, H. Lutfiyya, D. Godwin, M. Bauer, Y. Kim and P. Gupta: An Empirical Evaluation of System and Regression Testing
To Appear in the 12th Annual IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON2002) , October 2002.
William Kulju and Hanan Lutfiyya: Design and Implementation of an Application Layer Protocol for Reducing User-Hints and Policies
To Appear in the IEEE/IFIP Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS2002), October 2002.
W. Song and H. Lutfiyya: An Architecture for Policy-Based RSVP using Differentiated Services
Accepted to appear in IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2002 (Globecom).
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: A Framework for the Efficient Management of Distributed Systems
Being revised for acceptance
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: A Model for Efficient Configuration of Management Agents in Distributed Systems
Being revised for acceptance
G. Molenkamp and M. Katchabaw and H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: Diagnosing Quality of Service Faults in Distributed Applications
Accepted to Appear in End-to-End Service Differentation Workshop (EESD2002) (held as part of IPCCC2002)
G. Molenkamp and M. Katchabaw and H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: Resource Management to Support Application-Specific Quality of Service
Appeared in the IEEE/IFIP Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS2001), October 2001, pp. 142-159.
Nikolaos Vasiliou and H. Lutfiyya: Managing a Differentiated Quality of Service in a World Wide Web Server
Integrated Network Management Volume VII, May 2001, pp. 309-312.
A. Choi and H. Lutfiyya: Delivering Adaptive Web Content Based on Client Computing Resources
Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI2001), May 2001, pp. 112-132.
H. Abdu and H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: Towards Efficient Resource Allocation in Distributed Systems Management
International Workshop on Scheduling and Telecommunications , 2001.
G. Bochmann and B. Keherve and H. Lutfiyya and M. Salem and H. Ye: Introducing QoS to Electronic Commerce Applications
International Symposium on Electronic Commerce(ISEC2001), May 2001, pp. 138-147.
K. Edwards and M. Bauer and H. Lutfiyya et al,: Determining Factors that Influence Electronic Commerce Performance for Dynamic Content Generation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Computing, June 2001, pp. 1041-1047.
K. Edwards and M. Bauer and H. Lutfiyya et al,: A Method and Implementation for Analytic Performance Modelling in Electronic Commerce Applications
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Commerce(ISEC2001) , pp. 148-157.
Hanan Lutfiyya and Gary Molenkamp and Michael Katchabaw and Michael Bauer: Issues in Managing Soft QoS Requirements in Distributed Systems Using a Policy-Based Framework
The International Workshop on Policies, January, 2001.
Hadee Akhand: Quality of Service (QoS) in IP-based Network: Issues and Mechanisms
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Mike Bauer) , Septeber, 2000.
Andy Choi: "Techniques to Improve Upon a User's WWW Experience"
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya) , August, 2000.
Nikolaos Vasiliou: "Apache Web Server 1.3.x: Discussion of Internal Mechanisms"
UWO Technical Report
J. Andrews: "Broad-Spectrum Studies of Log File Analysis''
Accepted to Appear in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000) Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.
G. Molenkamp and M. Katchabaw and H. Lutfiyya, and M. Bauer: "Managing Soft QoS Requirements in Distributed Systems"
Appeared in Multimedia Systems Workshop (ICPP) ,August 2000, pp. 461-468.
Nikolaos Vasiliou and Hanan Lutfiyya: "Providing a Differentiated Quality of Service in a World Wide Web Server".
Appeared in Performance Evaluation Review (ACM Sigmetrics), Volume 28, Number 2, pp. 22-27.
Nikolaos Vasiliou: "Overview of Internet QoS and Web Server QoS".
UWO Reading Course Paper (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya) , April, 2000.
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: "Optimising the Management of Distributed Systems".
UWO Technical Report , December, 1999.
M. Katchabaw, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: "Using User Hints to Guide Resource Management for Quality of Service".
The 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications , July, 1999.
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: "A Model for Adaptive Management Configurations".
IFIP/IEEE 6th International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM99) , May, 1999.
H. Abdu, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: "A Testbed for Optimizing the Monitoring of Distributed Systems".
1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS '98), October, 1998.
R. Versteegh, H. Lutfiyya, A. Marshall and M. Bauer: "Support for Distributed Systems Management Application Development"
Ninth Annual IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems:Operations and Management (DSOM98), October 1998.
M. Katchabaw, H. Lutfiyya and M. Bauer: "Driving Resource Management with Application-Level Quality of Service Specifications".
Journal of Decision Support Systems, 2000 pp. 71-87
C.Turner and H.Lutfiyya.: "Automating Fault Location in Distributed Systems".
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks ,1999, 2(2): 88-99.
H. Lutfiyya, A. Marshall, M. Bauer, P. Martin and W. Powley.: "Configuration Maintenance for Distributed Application Management".
Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 8, No. 2 2000.
H. Lutfiyya, A. Marshall, M. Bauer, and D. Stokes.: "A Policy-Driven Approach to Availability and Performance Management in Distributed Systems".
Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 8, No. 4 2000.
M. Katchabaw, S. Howard, H. Lutfiyya, A. Marshall, and M. Bauer.: "Making Distributed Applications Manageable through Instrumentation".
The Journal of Systems and Software, 45 (1999) 81-97.
M. Bauer, R. Bunt, A. El Rayess, P. Finnigan, T. Kunz, H. Lutfiyya, A. Marshall, P. Martin, G. Oster, W. Powley, J. Rolia, D. Taylor, and M. Woodside.: "Managing Distributed Applications and Systems: An Architectural Experiment".
IBM Systems Journal, 36(4):508-526, 1997.
S. Howard, H. Lutfiyya, M. Katchabaw, and M. Bauer.: "Supporting Dynamic Policy Change in CORBA Management Facilities".
In Integrated Network Management Volume V Editor(s): AurelLazar, Roberto Saracco and Rolf Stadler (IM97), pages 527-538, May, 1997.
H. Abdu and H. Lutfiyya.: "Issues in Monitoring Optimisation".
In ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 366-373, February, 1996.
Crispin Cowan and Hanan Lutfiyya: "A Wait-Free Algorithm for Optimistic Programming: HOPE Realized".
In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDS96) May 27-30, 1996, Hong Kong.
Crispin Cowan and Hanan Lutfiyya: "Semantics for Expression Optimism: The Measure of Hope".
In Proceedings of 14th Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC95) pages 164-173, August 20-23, 1995, Ottawa, Ontario.
Crispin Cowan, Hanan Lutfiyya, and Mike Bauer: "Performance Benefits of Optimistic Programming: A Measure of Hope".
In Proceedings of Fourth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing pages 197-204, August 2-4, 1995, Pentagon City, Virginia.
Crispin Cowan, Hanan Lutfiyya, and Mike Bauer: ``Increasing Concurrency Through Optimism: A Reason for HOPE''.
In ACM Computer Science Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March 1994.