Research Activity and Publications

In theory, theory equals practice.
In practice, they differ

Paper-count-based ranking schemes are often defended as "objective." They are also less time-consuming and less expensive than procedures that involve careful reading. Unfortunately, an objective measure of contribution is frequently contribution-independent.

David Lorge Parnas, Stop the numbers game, Comm. ACM, 50(11), 2007 pp. 19–21

[The current model of scientific publications] is incredibly inefficient under every perspective, and results in a colossal waste of public funding [...] It is a system deeply rooted in the past, oblivious to the advent of the Web and related new forms of communication, information sharing, social networking and reputation.

F. Casati, F. Giunghiglia, M. Marchese, Publish or perish: why the current publication and review model is killing research and wasting your money, ACM Ubiquity

[...] if it can not be guaranteed that the fraction of "rational" and "random" referees is confined to a very small number, the peer review system will not perform much better than by accepting papers by throwing (an unbiased!) coin.

Stefan Thurner and Rudolf Hanel, Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average

Simone Santini, We are sorry to inform you..., IEEE Computer, 38(12). Dec 2005

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Papers and Talks

Journal papers

2011

M. Marzolla, S. Ferretti, G. D'Angelo, Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Cloud-based Gaming Infrastructures, to appear in ACM Computers in Entertainment, ACM, Oct. 2011
© 2011 ACM
M. Marzolla, Fast Training of Support Vector Machines on the Cell Processor, Neurocomputing, Volume 74, Issue 17, October 2011, pp. 3700–3707, ISSN 0925-2312.
doi> [Draft A4.pdf] © 2011 Elsevier (final version available from Elsevier ScienceDirect)
M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, PARSY: Performance-Aware Reconfiguration of Software Systems, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Volume 7, Number 5, September 2011, pp. 479–492, ISSN 0973-1318.
[Draft A4.pdf] [Online] © 2011 RAMS Consultants

2010

P. Andreetto, S. Andreozzi, A. Ghiselli, M. Marzolla, V. Venturi, L. Zangrando, Standards-Based Job Management in Grid Systems, Journal of Grid Computing, Volume 8, number 1, march 2010, pp. 19–45, Springer-Verlag, ISSN: 1570-7873 (Print) 1572-9814 (Online)
doi> [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2010 Springer-Verlag
C. Aiftimiei, P. Andreetto, S. Bertocco, S. Dalla Fina, A. Dorigo, E. Frizziero, A. Gianelle, M. Marzolla, M. Mazzucato, M. Sgaravatto, S. Traldi, L. Zangrando, P. Mendez Lorenzo, V. Miccio, Using CREAM and CEMonitor for job submission and management in the gLite middleware, Journal of Physics, Conference Series, Vol. 219, issue 6, pp. 062001, 2010, ISSN: 1742-6588 (Print) ISSN: 1742-6596 (Online).
doi> [A4.pdf] [BibTeX] © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.

2009

C. Aiftimiei, P. Andreetto, S. Bertocco, S. Dalla Fina, A. Dorigo, E. Frizziero, A. Gianelle, M. Marzolla, M. Mazzucato, M. Sgaravatto, S. Traldi, L. Zangrando, Design and Implementation of the gLite CREAM Job Management Service, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 26, Issue 4, April 2010, pp. 654–667, Elsevier, ISSN: 0167-739X
doi> [Draft A4.pdf] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2009 Elsevier (final version available from Elsevier ScienceDirect)
Additional resources: CREAM home page, CEMonitor home page
M. Riedel et al., Interoperation of World-Wide Production e-Science Infrastructures, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 21, Issue 8, pages 961–990, 2009, ISSN: 1532-0634, John Wiley & Sons
doi> [Draft A4.pdf] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

2008

P. Andreetto, S. Andreozzi, G. Avellino, S. Beco, A. Cavallini, M. Cecchi, V. Ciaschini, A. Dorigo, F. Giacomini, A. Gianelle, U. Grandinetti, A. Guarise, A. Krop, R. Lops, A. Maraschini, V. Martelli, M. Marzolla, M. Mezzadri, E. Molinari, S. Monforte, F. Pacini, M. Pappalardo, A. Parrini, G. Patania, L. Petronzio, R. Piro, M. Porciani, F. Prelz, D. Rebatto, E. Ronchieri, M. Sgaravatto, V. Venturi and L. Zangrando, The gLite Workload Management System, Journal of Physics, Conference Series, volume 119, Issue 6, 2008, pp. 062007, ISSN: 1742-6596
doi> [A4.pdf, 346K] [BibTeX] © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
C. Aiftimiei, P. Andreetto, S. Bertocco, S. Dalla Fina, S. Da Ronco, A. Dorigo, A. Gianelle, M. Marzolla, M. Mazzucato, M. Sgaravatto, M. Verlato, L. Zangrando, M. Corvo, V. Miccio, A. Sciaba', D. Cesini, D. Dongiovanni and C. Grandi, Job Submission and Management Through Web Services: the Experience with the CREAM Service, Journal of Physics, Conference Series, volume 119, Issue 6, 2008, pp. 062004, ISSN: 1742-6596
doi> [A4.pdf, 286K] [BibTeX] © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Additional resources: CREAM home page

2007

M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando Peer-to-Peer Systems for Discovering Resources in a Dynamic Grid, Parallel Computing, Volume 33, Issues 4–5, Large Scale Grids, May 2007, pages 339–358, Elsevier, ISSN: 0167-8191
doi> [Draft A4.pdf] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2007 Elsevier (final version available from Elsevier ScienceDirect)

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Book Chapters

2011

F. Panzieri, O. Babaoglu, V. Ghini, S. Ferretti, M. Marzolla, Distributed Computing in the 21st Century: Some Aspects of Cloud Computing, to appear in Dependable and Historic Computing—Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, Jones, Cliff B.; Lloyd, John L. (Eds.), Volume 6875 of LNCS, October 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-24540-4
doi> [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2011 Springer

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Conference papers

2012

M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, A Framework for QoS-aware Execution of Workflows over the Cloud, to appear in proc. 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER 2012), 18–21 April 2012, Porto, Portugal
O. Babaoglu, M. Marzolla, M. Tamburini, Design and Implementation of a P2P Cloud System, to appear in proc. ACM SAC
Additional resources: P2PCS project at Google code

2011

M. Marzolla, O. Babaoglu, F. Panzieri, Server Consolidation in Clouds through Gossiping, proc. First International Workshop on Sustainable Internet and Internet for Sustainability (SUSTAINET 2011), June 20, 2011, Lucca, Italy, pp. 1–6, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 978-1-4577-0350-8
doi> [Draft A4.pdf] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] [Slides, odp] [Slides, pdf] [V-MAN implementation to be used with peersim] © 2011 IEEE
G. D'Angelo, S. Ferretti, M. Marzolla, Adaptive Event Dissemination for Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Online Games, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming (DISIO 2011) - ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), Barcelona (Spain), ICST, March 21, 2011
[A4.pdf]
M. Marzolla, S. Ferretti, G. D'Angelo, Dynamic Scalability for Next Generation Gaming Infrastructures, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming (DISIO 2011) - ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), Barcelona (Spain), ICST, March 21, 2011
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2010

M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, Performance-Aware Reconfiguration of Software Systems, Computer Performance Engineering, 7th European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2010, Bertinoro, Italy, September 23-24, 2010. Proceedings, volume 6342/2010 of LNCS, pp. 51–66, ISBN 978-3-642-15783-7
doi> [A4.pdf] [Slides, pdf] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2010 Springer-Verlag (the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
Additional resources: Octave script used to produce the plots included in the paper (to run this script you need GNU Octave and the queueing toolbox)
M. Marzolla, The qnetworks Toolbox: A Software Package for Queueing Networks Analysis, proc. 17th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA '10), june 14–16 2010, Cardiff, UK, volume 6148/2010 of LNCS, pp. 102–116, ISBN 978-3-642-13567-5
doi> [A4.pdf] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2010 Springer-Verlag (the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
Additional resources: source code of the queueing toolbox (which superseded the qnetworks toolbox)
M. Riedel, M.S. Memon, A.S. Memon, A. Streit, F. Wolf, Th. Lippert, A. Konstaninov, M. Marzolla, B. Kónya, O. Smirnova, L. Zangrando, J. Watzl, D. Kranzlmüller, Improvements of Common Open Grid Standards to Increase High Throughput and High Performance Computing Effectiveness on Large-scale Grid and e-Science Infrastructures, Proc. Seventh High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop (HPGC 2010), April 19, 2010, Atlanta, USA, in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing, Workshops and PhD Forum (IPDPSW), April 19–23, 2010, Atlanta, USA, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 978-1-4244-6533-0
doi> [Draft A4.pdf] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2010 IEEE

2009

M. Cecchi, F. Capannini, A. Dorigo, A. Ghiselli, F. Giacomini, A. Maraschini, M. Marzolla, S. Monforte, F. Pacini, L. Petronzio, F. Prelz, The gLite Workload Management System, Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing, proc. 4th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2009), Geneva, 4–8 May 2009, Volume 5529 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 256–268, ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print), 1611-3349 (Online)
doi> [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2009 Springer-Verlag (the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
M. Cecchi, F. Capannini, A. Dorigo, A. Ghiselli, F. Giacomini, A. Maraschini, M. Marzolla, S. Monforte, F. Pacini, L. Petronzio, M. Sgaravatto, The gLite Workload Management System, Il Nuovo Cimento, 32(2), March-April 2009, pp. 209–212, ISSN: 2037-4909 (print edition), 1826-9885 (electronic edition)
doi> [A4.pdf] © Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF)
S. Andreozzi and M. Marzolla, A RESTful Approach to the OGSA Basic Execution Service Specification, Proc. Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2009), May 24–28, 2009, Mestre, Italy, pp. 131–136, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 978-0-7695-3613-2
doi> [A4.pdf] [Slides, odp] [Slides, pdf] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2009 IEEE

2008

M. Riedel, A.S. Memon, M.S. Memon, D. Mallmann, A. Streit, V. Venturi, P. Andreetto, M. Marzolla, A. Ferraro, A. Ghiselli, F. Hedman, Zeeshan A. Shah, J. Salzemann, A. Da Costa, V. Breton, V. Kasam, M. Hofmann-Apitius, D. Snelling, S. van de Berghe, V. Li, S. Brewer, A. Dunlop, N. De Silva Improving e-Science with Interoperability of the e-Infrastructures EGEE and DEISA, Proceedings of the 31st International Convention MIPRO, Conference on Grid and Visualization Systems (GVS), May 2008, Opatija, Croatia, Croatian Society for Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics, ISBN 978-953-233-036-6, pages 225–231.
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]

2007

Z. Ali Shah, P. Andreetto, S. van de Berghe, A. Ferraro, F. Hedman, V. Li, M. Marzolla, Shabaz Memon, Shiraz Memon, M. Riedel, D. Snelling, K. Stamou, A. Streit, B. Twedell, V. Venturi, Open Standards-based Interoperability of Job Submission and Management Interfaces across the Grid Middleware Platforms gLite and UNICORE, Proceedings of International Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop (IGIIW) 2007 at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Bangalore, India, December, 2007, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-3064-8, pp. 592–599
doi> [A4.pdf, 1.0M] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2007 IEEE
M.S. Memon, A.S. Memon, M. Riedel, B. Schuller, D. Mallmann, B. Tweddell, A. Streit, S. van den Berghe, D. Snelling, V. Li, M. Marzolla, P. Andreetto, Enhanced Resource Management Capabilities using Standardized Job Management and Data Access Interfaces within UNICORE Grids, Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems SRMPDS 2007, ICPADS'07—The 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems Hsinchu, Taiwan, December, 2007, Volume 2, 5–7 dec 2007, pp. 1–6, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 978-1-4244-1890-9
doi> [A4.pdf, 501K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2007 IEEE
M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, Performance Prediction of Web Service Workflows, Proc. QoSA'07, Software Architectures, Components and Applications Third International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2007, Medford, MA, USA, July 11–13, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 4880 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Overhage, S.; Szyperski, C.A.; Reussner, R.; Stafford, J.A. (Eds.) 2008, pp. 127–144, ISBN: 978-3-540-77617-8, DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-77619-2_8
doi> [A4.pdf, 260K] [BibTeX] © 2008 Springer-Verlag (the original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
Additional resources: source code of the bpel2qnbound tool licensed under the GPLv2

2006

S. Balsamo, M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, Efficient Performance models in Component-Based Software Engineering, in Proc. 32nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Component-Based Software Engineering track, Cavtat/Dubrovnik (Croatia), Aug 28–Sep 1, 2006, pp. 64–71, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2594-6
doi> [US.pdf, 270K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2006 IEEE
Additional resources: Maxima script used in the examples (to run these script you need Maxima, a free Computer Algebra System)
M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, A P2P Resource Discovery System Based on a Forest of Trees, in Proc. Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing Impacts on Large Scale Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems (GLOBE'06), in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'06), Krakow, Poland, Sep 4–8 2006, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2641-1
doi> [A4.pdf, 145K] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2006 IEEE
G. Avellino, S. Beco, A. Cavallini, A. Maraschini, F. Pacini, A. Parrini, C. Scarcella, M. Sottilaro, A. Terracina, F. Dvořák, D. Kouřil, A. Křenek, l. Matyska, M. Mulač, J. Pospíšil, M. Ruda, Z. Salvet, J. Sitera, J. Škrabal, M. Voců, S. Monforte, M. Pappalardo, S. Andreozzi, M. Cecchi, V. Ciaschini, T. Ferrari, F. Giacomini, R. Lops, E. Ronchieri, V. Venturi, G. Fiorentino, V. Martellli, M. Mezzadri, E. Molinari, F. Prelz, D. Rebatto, P. Andreetto, A. S. Borgia, A. Dorigo, A. Giannelle, M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, M. Sgaravatto, L. Zangrando, A. Guarise, G. Patania, R. Piro, A. Werbrouck, Flexible Job Submission Using Web Services: the gLite WMProxy Experience, Proc. XV International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP'06), Feb 13–17, 2006, Mumbay, India, Macmillan, pp. 738–741, ISBN 10:0230-63017-0, ISBN 13:978-0230-63017-8
[A4.pdf, 174K] [BibTeX] © 2006 Macmillan
P. Andreetto, S. A. Borgia, A. Dorigo, A. Gianelle, M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, M. Sgaravatto, L. Zangrando, F. Dvořák, D. Kouřil, A. Křenek, l. Matyska, M. Mulač, J. Pospíšil, M. Ruda, Z. Salvet, J. Sitera, J. Škrabal, M. Voců, G. Avellino, S. Beco, A. Cavallini, A. Maraschini, F. Pacini, A. Parrini, C. Scarcella, M. Sottilaro, A. Terracina, S. Monforte, M. Pappalardo, S. Andreozzi, M. Cecchi, V. Ciaschini, T. Ferrari, F. Giacomini, R. Lops, E. Ronchieri, V. Venturi, G. Fiorentino, V. Martelli, M. Mezzadri, E. Molinari, F. Prelz, D. Rebatto, A. Guarise, G. Patania, R. Piro, A. Werbrouck, CREAM: A simple, Grid-accessible, Job Management System for local Computational Resources, Proc. XV International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP'06), Feb 13–17, 2006, Mumbay, India, Macmillan, pp. 831–835, ISBN 10:0230-63017-0, ISBN 13:978-0230-63017-8
[A4.pdf, 148K] [Poster A0.pdf, 614K] [BibTeX] © 2006 Macmillan
Additional resources: CREAM home page
M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando Tree Vector Indexes: Efficient Range Queries for Dynamic Content on Peer-to-Peer Networks, in Proc. 14th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'2006), Montbéliard-Sochaux, France, Feb 15–17, 2006, pp. 457–464, IEEE Computer Society, printed in the USA, ISBN 0-7695-2513-X
doi> [A4.pdf, 165K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2006 IEEE

2005

M. Marzolla, Reliable Distribution of Data using Replicated Web Servers, in Proceedings of Sixteenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (HADIS'05), Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 22–26, 2005, pp. 305–309, IEEE Computer Society, printed in the USA, ISBN 0-7695-2424-9
doi> [A4.pdf, 150K] [Slides A4.pdf, 2.3M] [Slides A4.sxi, 266K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2005 IEEE
M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, Resource Discovery in a Dynamic Grid Environment, in Proceedings of Sixteenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (GLOBE'05), Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 22–26, 2005, pp. 356–360, IEEE Computer Society, printed in the USA, ISBN 0-7695-2424-9
doi> [A4.pdf, 105K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2005 IEEE
S. Balsamo, M. Marzolla, Performance Evaluation of UML Software Architectures with Multiclass Queueing Network Models, in Proc. Fifth Int. Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP'05), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 12–14, 2005, pp. 37–42, ACM Press, printed in the USA. ISBN 1-59593-087-6
doi> [A4.pdf, 158K] [Slides A4.pdf, 1.6M] [Slides A4.sxi, 841K] [Poster A0.pdf, 1.6M] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2005 ACM

2004

S. Balsamo, R. Mamprin, M. Marzolla, Performance Evaluation of Software Architectures with Queueing Network models, in Carmen Bobenau (Editor), Proc. European Simulation and Modeling Conference 2004 (ESMc'04), UNESCO, Paris, France, October 25–27, 2004, pp. 206–213, printed in Belgium, ISBN 90-77381-14-7
[A4.pdf, 148K] [BibTeX] © 2004 EUROSIS
M. Marzolla, S. Balsamo, UML-PSI: The UML Performance SImulator, Proc. of the First International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2004), Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27–30, 2004, pp. 340–341, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2185-1
doi> [US.pdf, 21K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2004 IEEE
Additional resources: source code of the UML-PSI package
M. Marzolla, libcppsim: a Simula-like, Portable Process-Oriented simulation library in C++, Proceedings of ESM'04, the 18th European Simulation Multiconference (Graham Horton, editor), Magdeburg, DE, jun 13–16 2004, ISBN 3-936150-35-4, pp. 222–227
[A4.pdf, 348K] [Slides A4.sxi, 187K] [Slides A4.pdf, 824K] [BibTeX] © 2004 SCS
Additional resources: source code of the libcppsim library
S. Balsamo, A. Di Marco, P. Inverardi and M. Marzolla, Experimenting different Software Architectures Performance Techniques: A Case Study, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2004), Redwood Shores, CA, jan 14–16 2004, pp. 115–119, ISBN 1-58113-673-0
doi> [A4.pdf, 111K] [Poster A0.pdf, 787K] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2004 ACM

2003

S. Balsamo and M. Marzolla, Towards Performance Evaluation of Mobile Systems in UML, Proceedings of ESMc'03 (Beniamino Di Martino, Laurence Tianruo Yang and Carmen Bobenau, editors) Naples, Italy, oct 27–29, 2003, pp. 61–68, EUROSIS-ETI, ISBN 90-77381-04-X
[A4.pdf, 135K] [BibTeX] © 2003 EUROSIS
S. Balsamo and M. Marzolla, A Simulation-Based Approach to Software Performance Modeling, Proceedings of ESEC/FSE 2003 (Paola Inverardi, Editor), Helsinki - FI, Sep 1–5 2003, pp. 363–366, ACM Press, ISBN 1-58113-743-5
doi> [A4.pdf, 97K] [Slides A4.pdf, 344K] [Slides A4.sxi, 574K] [Poster A0.pdf, 1.4M] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2003 ACM
S. Balsamo and M. Marzolla, Simulation Modeling of UML Software Architectures, Proceedings of the European Simulation Multiconference, Nottingham - UK, Jun 9–11 2003, Edited by David Al-Dabass, SCS-European Publishing House, pp. 562–567, ISBN 3-936150-25-7
Best Paper Award in the "Complex Systems" Track
[A4.pdf, 100K] [Slides A4.pdf, 800K] [Slides A4.sxi, 229K] [BibTeX] © 2003 SCS
M. Marzolla and V. Melloni, A Monitoring System for the BaBar INFN Computing Cluster, Proceedings of CHEP03, La Jolla, CA, Mar 24–28 2003 (Electronic Proceedings)
[A4.pdf, 317K] [Slides A4.sxi, 958K] [Paper from arXiv] [Paper from SPIRES] [DBLP BibTeX Entry]
M. Marzolla, A Performance Monitoring System for Large Computing Clusters, Proceedings of the 11-th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing (PDP'03) (Andrea Clematis, Editor), Genova, Italy, February 5–7, 2003, pp. 393–400, IEEE Computer Society.
doi> [A4.pdf, 106K] [Slides A4.sxi, 1.0M] [Slides A4.pdf, 1.9M] [BibTeX] [DBLP BibTeX Entry] © 2003 IEEE

2001

M. Marzolla, Distributed Simulation of Large Computer Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP'01), 3–7 Sep 2001, Beijing, P. R. China.
[A4.pdf, 115K] [Slides A4.pdf, 530K] [BibTeX] © 2001 Science Press

1998

M. Marzolla, Maintaining dynamic graph properties deterministically, Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference of Theoretical Computer Science, Prato, Italy, 9–11 Nov 1998, World Scientific Publishing.
[A4.pdf, 173k] [BibTeX] © 1998 World Scientific

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Technical Reports

2012

M. Marzolla, Queueing Networks Analysis with the qnetworks Toolbox, Technical Report UBLCS-2012-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, february 2012
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2011

M. Marzolla, S. Ferretti, G. D'Angelo, Auction-Based Resource Allocation in Digital Ecosystems, Preprint arXiv:1109.0397, September 2011
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Additional resources: Script used to produce the plots included in the paper. To run this script you need GNU Octave and the GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK).
O. Babaoglu, M. Marzolla, M. Tamburini, Design and Implementation of a P2P Cloud System, Technical Report UBLCS-2011-10, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, September 2011
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
Additional resources: P2PCS project at Google code
M. Lambertini, M. Magnani, M. Marzolla, D. Montesi, C. Paolino, Large-Scale Social Network Analysis, Technical Report UBLCS-2011-05, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, July 2011
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, Dynamic Power Management for QoS-Aware Applications, Technical Report UBLCS-2011-04, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, June 2011
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
Additional resources: Scripts and data files used to produce the plots included in the paper. To run this scripts you need GNU Octave and the GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK)
F. Panzieri, O. Babaoglu, V. Ghini, S. Ferretti, M. Marzolla, Distributed Computing in the 21st Century: Some Aspects of Cloud Computing, Technical Report UBLCS-2011-03, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, May 2011
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, A Framework for QoS-aware Execution of Workflows over the Cloud, Preprint arXiv:1104.5392v1, April 2011
[A4.pdf] [DBLP BibTeX Entry]
Additional resources: Octave script used to produce the plots included in the paper (to run this script you need GNU Octave)
G. D'Angelo, S. Ferretti, M. Marzolla, Adaptive Approaches for Data Dissemination in Unstructured Networks, Technical Report UBLCS-2011-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, February 2011
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, O. Babaoglu, F. Panzieri, Server Consolidation in Clouds through Gossiping, Technical Report UBLCS-2011-01, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, January 2011
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]

2010

M. Marzolla, S. Ferretti, G. D'Angelo, Dynamic Scalability for Next Generation Gaming Infrastructures, Technical Report UBLCS-2010-12, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, December 2010
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
Additional resources: Octave script used to produce the plots included in the paper (to run this script you need GNU Octave)
M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, Performance-Aware Reconfiguration of Software Systems, Technical Report UBLCS-2010-11, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, May 2010
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
Additional resources: Octave script used to produce the plots included in the paper (to run this script you need GNU Octave and the queueing toolbox)
M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, QoS Analysis for Web Service Applications: a Survey of Performance-oriented Approaches from an Architectural Viewpoint, Technical Report UBLCS-2010-05, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, February 2010
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, The qnetworks Toolbox: A Software Package for Queueing Networks Analysis, Technical Report UBLCS-2010-04, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, February 2010
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
Additional resources: source code of the queueing toolbox (which superseded qnetworks)
M. Marzolla, Optimized Training of Support Vector Machines on the Cell Processor, Technical Report UBLCS-2010-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, February 2010
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
Additional resources: source code of libsvmcell

2009

C. Aiftimiei, P. Andreetto, S. Bertocco, S. Dalla Fina, A. Dorigo, E. Frizziero, A. Gianelle, M. Marzolla, M. Mazzucato, M. Sgaravatto, S. Traldi, L. Zangrando, Design and Implementation of the gLite CREAM Job Management Service, INFN Technical Note INFN/TC_09/3, may 5, 2009
[A4.pdf]

2008

P. Andreetto, S. Andreozzi, A. Ghiselli, M. Marzolla, V. Venturi, L. Zangrando, Standards-Based Job Management in Grid Systems, INFN Technical Note INFN/TC_08/6, october 9, 2008
[A4.pdf]
S. Andreozzi, M. Marzolla, A RESTful Approach to the OGSA Basic Execution Service Specification, INFN Technical Note INFN/TC_08/4, september 22, 2008
[A4.pdf]

2006

M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando Peer-to-Peer Systems for Discovering Resources in a Dynamic Grid, Technical Report CS-2006-6, Jul 2006, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf]
S. Balsamo, M. Marzolla, R. Mirandola, Efficient Performance models in Component-Based Software Engineering, Technical Report CS-2006-2, Mar 2006, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf]

2005

M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, Tree Vector Indexes: Efficient Range Queries for Dynamic Content on Peer-to-Peer Networks, Technical Report CS-2005-6, Apr 2005, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, M. Mordacchini, S. Orlando, Resource Discovery in a Dynamic Grid Environment, Technical Report CS-2005-3, Mar 2005, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]

2004

S. Balsamo, M. Marzolla, Performance Evaluation of UML Software Architectures with Multiclass Queueing Network Models, Technical Report CS-2004-13, Dec 2004, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, S. Balsamo, UML-PSI: the UML Performance SImulator, Technical Report CS-2004-2, Apr 2004, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]
M. Marzolla, libcppsim: a Simula-like, Portable Process-Oriented Simulation Library in C++, Technical Report CS-2004-1, Feb 2004, Dipartimento di Informatica Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]

2003

S. Balsamo, A. Di Marco, P. Inverardi and M. Marzolla, Experimenting different software architectures performance techniques: a case study, Technical Report TR SAH/46, MIUR Sahara Project, Sep 18, 2003
[A4.pdf, 162K] [BibTeX]
S. Balsamo and M. Marzolla, Towards Performance Evaluation of Mobile Systems in UML, Technical Report TR SAH/45, MIUR Sahara Project, Jul 30, 2003
[A4.pdf, 136K] [BibTeX]
S. Balsamo and M. Marzolla, A Simulation-Based Approach to Software Performance Modeling, Technical Report TR SAH/44, MIUR Sahara Project, Mar 26, 2003
[A4.pdf, 115K] [BibTeX]
S. Balsamo, M. Marzolla, Simulation Modeling of UML Software Architectures, Technical Report TR SAH/43, MIUR Sahara Project, Feb 26, 2003
[A4.pdf, 97K] [BibTeX]
S. Balsamo, M. Grosso and M. Marzolla, Towards Simulation-Based Performance Modeling of UML specifications, Technical Report CS-2003-2, January 2003, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf, 260k] [BibTeX]

2002

M. Marzolla, Design and Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Web Retrieval Algorithm, Technical Report CS-2002-5, April 2002, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
[A4.pdf, 364k] [BibTeX]

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Tesi di Laurea

Moreno Marzolla, Algoritmi Deterministici per il Mantenimento di Proprietà su Grafi Dinamici (in italian), Tesi di laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Anno Accademico 1997/98. Advisor: prof. Giuseppe F. Italiano
[A4.pdf] [BibTeX]

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PhD Thesis

Moreno Marzolla, Simulation-Based Performance Modeling of UML Software Architectures, PhD Thesis TD-2004-1, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, february 2004. Advisor: prof. Simonetta Balsamo
[A4.pdf, 1.5M] [Presentation.sxi, 1.2M] [Presentation.A4.pdf, 1.5M] [BibTeX]

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Other Technical Papers

2009

S. Andreozzi, L. Magnoni, M. Marzolla. R. Zappi, Design of Gluon: an Atom-oriented approach for publishing GLUE 2.0 information, Poster paper, Proc. CHEP'09, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-27 March 2009
[Poster A0.pdf, 193K]

2008

M. Cecchi, A. Dorigo, F. Giacomini, A. Ghiselli, A. Giannelle, A. Maraschini, M. Marzolla, E. Molinari, S. Monforte, F. Pacini, L. Petronzio, M. Sgaravatto, The gLite Workload Management System, Calcolo Scientifico nella Fisica Italiana (CSFI 2008), Rimini, 24–30 maggio 2008
[Poster .pdf]
M. Marzolla et al., OMII-Europe supports BES plus the required extensions, OMII-Europe project Milestone M:JRA1.10, apr 2008, the OMII-Europe project
[A4.pdf]
M. Marzolla et al., The second yearly report on the job submission and job monitoring task, OMII-EU project deliverable D:JRA1.10, apr 2008, the OMII-Europe project
[A4.pdf]

2007

M. Marzolla et al., Implementation of JSDL into OMII-Europe middleware together with the identified extensions, OMII-EU project Milestone M:JRA1.9, nov 2007, the OMII-Europe project
[A4.pdf]
M. Marzolla et al., Evaluation of OGSA-BES with respect to its adoption in the middleware of the OMII-Europe partners, OMII-EU project Milestone M:JRA1.17, apr 2007, the OMII-Europe project
[A4.pdf]
M. Marzolla et al., The first yearly report on the job submission and job monitoring task, OMII-Europe project deliverable D:JRA1.9, apr 2007, the OMII-Europe project
[A4.pdf]

2006

M. Marzolla et al., Definition of JSDL extensions, OMII-EU project Milestone M:JRA1.7, oct 2006, the OMII-Europe project
[A4.pdf]
E. Molinari et al., A local batch system abstraction layer for global use, Poster paper, Proc. CHEP'06, Mumbay, India, 13-17 February 2006
[Poster A0.pdf, 1.2M]

2003

D. Andreotti, A. Crescente, A. Dorigo, F. Galeazzi, M. Marzolla, M. Morandin, F. Safai Tehrani, R. Stroili, G. Tiozzo, G. Vedovato, A facility for large scale reprocessing of BaBar raw data (Poster), Proc. of CHEP03, La Jolla, CA, Mar 24-28 2003 (Electronic Proceedings)
[Poster A0.pdf, 1.8M]

2002

THE BABAR DETECTOR, By BABAR Collaboration (B. Aubert et al.). SLAC-PUB-8569, BABAR-PUB-01-08, Apr 2001. 119pp. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A479:1-116,2002, e-Print Archive: hep-ex/0105044
Abstract and PDF from arXiv. [BibTeX]

2001

MEASUREMENT OF CP VIOLATING ASYMMETRIES IN B0 DECAYS TO CP EIGENSTATES. By BABAR Collaboration (B. Aubert et al.). SLAC-PUB-8777, BABAR-PUB-01-01, Feb 2001. 8pp., Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.86:2515-2522,2001 e-Print Archive: hep-ex/0102030
Abstract and PDF from arXiv. [BibTeX]

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Talks and presentations

2012

Cloud Computing: Architectures and Design Issues, seminario DISI, feb 1, 2012, Bologna, Italy
[Slides, pdf]

2010

Performance-aware Reconfiguration of Software Systems (PARSY), Primo Workshop del gruppo di informatica quantitativa (infQ) july 7–9 2010, Pisa, Italy
[Slides, pdf]
The qnetworks Toolbox: A Software Package for Queueing Networks Analysis, presentation given at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Venezia, apr 28, 2010
[Screen.pdf] [Print.pdf]
Simulating storage system performance: a useful approach for SuperB?, SuperB Computing R&D Workshop, 9–12 March 2010, Ferrara, Italy (Agenda)
[Screen.pdf] [Screen.odp]

2009

Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: from Large Software Architectures to the Cell Processor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy, may 19, 2009
[Screen.pdf, 1.2M] [Screen.odp, 639K]

2008

Introduzione ai Web Services
Tutorial all'Incontro di lavoro della Commissione Calcolo e Reti INFN, 10–11 dicembre 2008, Legnaro (Padova), Italy
[Screen.pdf, 487K] [Screen.sxi, 79K]

2007

JSDL/BES Tutorial, OMII-EU all-hands meeting, Stockholm, jul 31–aug 2 2007
[Screen.odp, 267K]

2006

JRA1/Job Submission
OMII Kickoff Meeting, London, 3–4 may 2006
[Screen.pdf, 130K] [Screen.sxi, 54K]

2005

CREAM-WMS Integration
JRA1 IT-CZ Cluster Meeting, Rome, oct 2005
[Screen.pdf, 1.3M] [Screen.sxi, 44K]

2004

Valutazione delle prestazioni di Architetture Software con specifica UML mediante QN multiclasse (Performance Evaluation of UML Software Architectures with multiclass QN)
FIRB/PERF project meeting, Venezia, 1–2 dec 2004
[Screen.pdf, 342K] [Screen.sxi, 196K]
Valutazione delle prestazioni di Architetture Software con specifica UML tramite modelli di simulazione (Performance Evaluation of UML Software Architectures with simulation models)
Sahara project meeting, Bologna, 29–30 jan 2004
[Screen.pdf, 378K] [Screen.sxi, 266K]

2003

Simulation Modeling of UML Software Architectures
Presented at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Mestre, 19 Nov 2003
[Screen.pdf, 1.1M] [Screen.sxi, 1.3M] [A4.pdf, 1.4M]
Performance Evaluation of UML Software Systems
FIRB Project Perf meeting, Torino (Italy), 7–9 nov 2003
[A4.pdf, 275K] [A4.sxi, 148K]
Valutare le Prestazioni di Sistemi Mobili in UML
Sahara Project meeting, Pisa, 16–17 Jun 2003
[A4.pdf, 1M] [A4.sxi, 156K]
Simulation Modeling of UML Software Architectures
FIRB Project Perf WP5 meeting, Bologna (Italy), 22 May 2003
FIRB Project Perf WP3 meeting, Roma (Italy), 20–21 Mar 2003
Sahara Project meeting, Benevento, 24 Mar 2003
[A4.pdf, 484K] [A4.sxi, 99K]

2002

PMC: A Performance Monitoring System for Clusters
Meeting with BaBar's Computing Management, Padova, 14 Sep 2002
[[A4.pdf, 1.3M] [A4.sxi, 921K]
(Towards) A Scalable Monitoring System for Large Computing Clusters
10 May 2002, Talk given at CNR Pisa
[A4.pdf, 1.5M] [A4.sdd, 1.2M]
SNMP-Based Monitoring of a Computing Cluster
Workshop sulle problematiche di calcolo e reti nell'INFN, 6–9 May 2002, La Biodola - Isola d'Elba
[A4.pdf, 803K]

2001

Il Progetto di Centro di Reprocessing di BaBar: Requisiti per il Monitoring e il Management (in italian)
6 December 2001, Workshop su Monitoring e Management di Cluster Linux, Padova
[A4.pdf, 698K] Presentation at Università di Ferrara, jan 24 2001
[A4.pdf, 762K]
Data Distribution Tools Status
18 May 2001, University of Rome La Sapienza
Data Distribution Tools: Stato e Prospettive (in italian)
11 May 2001, presented at the Italian BaBar Meeting, University of Rome La Sapienza
Una panoramica sul calcolo nell'esperimento BaBar (in italian)
14 Mar 2001, presented at the Department of Computer Science, University of Venice
[A4.pdf, 6.9M] [StarOffice Presentation, 3.8M]
Requirements for the Monitoring System of the Italian BaBar Reprocessing Farm, 14 Oct 2001
[A4.pdf]

2000

Advanced BdbDistTools
SLAC's BaBar Meeting, 25–29 Sep 2000

1999

Object-Oriented Design of the Ambient Database for the BaBar Experiment
14 Oct 1999, presented at the Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Conferences

[PC member] 38th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, MoCS: Model-based development, Components and Services Track, September 5—8, 2012, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
[PC member] 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER 2012), 18–21 April 2012, Porto, Portugal
[PC member] 25th European Simulation and Modelling Conference—ESM'2011, 24–26 October 2011, Hotel de Guimaraes, Guimaraes, Portugal
[Webmaster] CompArch 2012, June 25–28 2012, Bertinoro, Italy
[PC member] 3rd Int. Workshop on DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming (DISIO), March 19, 2012, Sirmione, Italy
[PC member] 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, MoCS: Model-based development, Components and Services Track, August 30 to September 2, 2011 Oulu, Finland
[Author] First International Workshop on Sustainable Internet and Internet for Sustainability, co-located with the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMom 2011, Lucca, Italy, june 20, 2011
[Author] 2nd international workshop on DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming (DISIO 2011), Barcelona, Spain, march 21, 2011
[PC Member] 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2011, 7–9 may 2011, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
[PC Member] 2nd International Workshop on the Quality of Service-Oriented Software Systems (QUASOSS), October 5, 2010, Oslo, Norway
[Author] EPEW 2010: 7th European Performance Engineering Workshop, Sep 23–24, 2010, Bertinoro (Italy)
[Author] Primo Workshop del Gruppo ING-INF/05 di Informatica Quantitativa (infQ), 7–9 july 2010, Pisa, Italy
[Author] 17th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA '10), 14–16 june 2010, Cardiff, UK
[Author] 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, 21–27 March 2009 Prague, Czech Republic
[Author] The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, May 24–28, 2009, Mestre, Italy
[Author] Third International Conference on the Quality of Software-Architectures "Software Architecture, Components, and Applications" (QOSA'07), July 12–July 13, 2007 Tufts University, Medford (Boston area), Massachusetts, USA
[Author] Special Issue of Parallel Computing Journal on Large Scale Grid
[Author] GLOBE'06 (Krakow, Poland, Sep 4–8 Sep 2006)
[Author] 32rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28 Aug–1 Sep 2006)
[Author] Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (T.I.F.R. Mumbai, India, February 13–17 2006)
[Author] PDP 2006 (Montbéliard-Sochaux, France, Feb 15-17, 2006)
[Author] GLOBE'05 (Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 22-26, 2005)
[Author] HADIS 2005 (Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 22-26, 2005)
[Organization Committee Member] FIRB/PERF Project Meeting (Venice, Italy, Dec 1-2, 2004)
[Author] ESMc'04 (Paris, France, October 25-27, 2004)
[Author] WOSP 2005 (Palma, Spain, July 11-15, 2005)
[Organization Committee Member] MSWiM 2004 (Venice, Italy, October 4-6, 2004)
[Author] QEST'04 (Enschede, the Netherlands, September 27-30, 2004)
[Author] ESM 2004 (Magdeburg, Germany, June 13-16, 2004)
[Author] WOSP 2004 (San Francisco, January 14-16, 2004)
[Author] ESMc'2003 (Naples, October 27-29 2003)
[Author] ESEC/FSE 2003 (Helsinki, September 1-5, 2003)
[Author] 17th European Simulation Multiconference (Nottingham, June 9-11, 2003)
[Author] Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2003 (San Diego, March 24-28, 2003)
[Author] 11-th Euromicro Conference on Parallel Distributed and Network based Processing (Genova - Italy February, 5-7, 2003)
[Organization Committee Member] Monterey Workshop 2002 (Venice, October 7-11, 2002)
[Author] Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2001 (Beijing, September 3-7, 2001)
[Organization Committee Member] I Workshop progetto Saladin (Venice, February 14-16, 2001)

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Research Projects I have been involved with

2008–2009: EU EGEE-III project.
2006–2008: OMII-EU project. I was coordinator of the JRA1/Job Submission task.
2005–2006: EU EGEE project.
2003–2005: Progetto FIRB: Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems: Techniques, Methodologies and Tools (there are also web pages describing the local research activity done at the Department of Computer Science, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia.
2001–2002: Progetto MURST cofinanziato Sahara.
1998–2001: BaBar collaboration.

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