Vladimir Shestak's PhD Thesis Publications

Serial Journal Articles:

  • PDF P. Sugavanam, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, M. Oltikar, A. Mehta, R. Pichel, A. Horiuchi, V. Shestak, M. Al-Otaibi, Y. Krishnamurthy, S. Ali,J. Zhang, M. Aydin, P. Lee, K. Guru, M. Raskey, and A. Pippin, "Robust Static Allocation of Resources for Independent Tasks under Makespan and Dollar Cost Constraints," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 400-416, April 2007.

  • PDF V. Shestak, E. K. P. Chong, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, L. Benmohamed, I-J. Wang, and R. Daley, "A Two-Stage Approach to Resource Allocation for Periodic Strings of Applications in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 410-426, April 2008.

  • PDF V. Shestak, J. Smith, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, "Stochastic Robustness Metric and its Use for Static Resource Allocations," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Vol. 68, No. 8, pp. 1157-1173, August 2008.

  • PDF V. Shestak, E. K. P. Chong, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, "Probabilistic Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems with Random Failures," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 72, No. 10, pp. 1186-1194, Oct. 2012.

    Conference Proceedings and Presentations:

  • PDF P. V. Sugavanam, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, S. A. Ali, M. Al-Otaibi, M. Aydin, K. Guru, A. Horiuchi, Y. G. Krishnamurthy, P. Lee, A. Mehta, M. Oltikar, R. Pichel, A. J. Pippin, M. Raskey, V. Shestak, and J. Zhang, "Processor Allocation for Tasks that is Robust Against Errors in Computation Time Estimates," 14th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2005), in the CD-ROM proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO, April 4-8, 2005.

  • PDF V. Shestak, E. K. P. Chong, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, L. Benmohamed, I-J. Wang, and R. Daley, "Resource Allocation for Periodic Applications in a Shipboard Environment," 14th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2005), in the CD-ROM proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO, April 4-8, 2005.

  • PDF P. Sugavanam, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, J. Zhang, V. Shestak, M. Raskey, A. Pippin, R. Pichel, M. Oltikar, A. Mehta, P. Lee, Y. Krishnamurthy, A. Horiuchi, K. Guru, M. Aydin, M. Al-Otaibi, and S. Ali, "Robust Mapping of Independent Tasks when Dollar Cost for Processors is a Constraint," 4th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models, and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks (HeteroPar-05), in the proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005), Boston, MA, Sept. 2005.

  • PDF V. Shestak, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and S. Ali, "Robust Resource Allocations in Parallel Computing Systems: Model and Heuristics", 8th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2005), Las Vegas, NV, Dec. 2005. (Note: This item is a keynote paper/presentation presented by H. J. Siegel by invitation.)

  • PDF V. Shestak, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and S. Ali, "The Robustness of Resource Allocations in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems: Method and Examples", 19th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems: System Aspects in Organic Computing (ARCS '06), pp. 17-30, Frankfurt, Germany, Mar. 2006. (Note: This item is a keynote paper/presentation presented by H. J. Siegel by invitation.)

  • PDF V. Shestak, J. Smith, R. Umland, J. Hale, P. Moranville, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, "Greedy Approaches to Stochastic Robust Resource Allocation for Periodic Sensor Driven Distributed Systems," 2006 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'06), pp. 3-9, Las Vegas, NV, June 26-29, 2006.

  • PDF V. Shestak, J. Smith, H. J. Siegel, and A. A. Maciejewski, "A Stochastic Approach to Measuring the Robustness of Resource Allocations in Distributed Systems," 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP06), pp. 459-467, Columbus, OH, Aug. 14-18, 2006.

  • PDF V. Shestak, J. Smith, H. J. Siegel, and A. A. Maciejewski, "Iterative Algorithms for Stochastically Robust Static Resource Allocation in Periodic Sensor Driven Clusters," 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2006), pp. 166-174, Dallas, TX, Nov. 13-15, 2006.

  • PDF J. Smith, L. Briceno, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, T. Renner, V. Shestak, J. Ladd, A. Sutton, D. Janovy, S. Govindasamy, A. Alqudah, R. Dewri, P. Prakash, "Measuring the Robustness of Resource Allocations in a Stochastic Dynamic Environment," 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), Long Beach, CA, March 26-30, 2007.

  • PDF V. Shestak, E. K. P. Chong, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, ``Robust Sequential Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems with Random Compute Node Failures,'' 18th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2009), in the CD-ROM proceedings of the 23rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), Rome, Italy, May 25, 2009.