List of Publications

Refereed International Journals

1. Ali Reza Zamani, Mengsong Zou, Javier Diaz-Montes, Ioan Petri, Omer F. Rana and Manish Parashar, A Computational Model to Support In-Network Data Analysis in Federated Ecosystems, Future Generation Computing Systems Journal, Elsevier, North-Holland, Volume 80, pp. 342-354, 2018.

2. Moustafa AbdelBaky, Javier Diaz-Montes, and Manish Parashar, Software-Defined Environments for Science & Engineering, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publishing, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342017710706, June 2017.

3. Luiz F. Bittencourt, Javier Diaz-Montes, Rajkumar Buyya, Omer F. Rana, and Manish Parashar, "Mobility-aware Application Scheduling in Fog Computing," IEEE Cloud Computing,Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 26 – 35, March/April 2017.

4. Ali Reza Zamani, Mengsong Zou, Javier Diaz-Montes, Ioan Petri, Omer Rana, Ashiq Anjum, and Manish Parashar, "Deadline Constrained Video Analysis via In-Transit Computational Environments," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2017.

5. Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Javier Diaz-Montes, Omer F. Rana, Manish Parashar, Erotokritos Xydas, Charalampos Marmaras, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, and Liana Cipcigan “Computational Resource Management for Data-Driven Applications with Deadline Constraints,” Concurrency Computation: Practice and Experience, 2016.

6. Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Javier Diaz-Montes, Omer F. Rana, and Manish Parashar, “Feedback-Control & Queueing Theory-based Resource Management for Streaming Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2016.

7. Javier Diaz-Montes, Manuel Diaz-Granados, Mengsong Zou, Shu Tao, and Manish Parashar, “Supporting Data-intensive Workflows in Software-defined Federated Multi-Clouds,” IEEE Transactions in Cloud Computing, 2015.

8. I. Petri, J. Diaz-Montes, O. Rana, M. Punceva, I. Rodero, and M. Parashar, “Modelling and Implementing Social Community Clouds,” IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2015.

9. I. Petri, J. Diaz-Montes, M. Zou, T. Beach, O. Rana, M. Parashar, "Market models for federated clouds," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp. 398-410, 2015.

10. J. Diaz-Montes, M. AbdelBaky, M. Zou, and M. Parashar. "CometCloud: Enabling Software-Defined Federations for End-to-End Application Workflows." IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 69-73, 2015.

11. N. Clauvelin, P. Lo, O. I. Kulaeva, E. V. Nizovtseva, J. Diaz-Montes, J .Zola, M. Parashar, V. M. Studitsky, W. K. Olson, “Nucleosome positioning and composition modulate in silico chromatin flexibility,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 27, Issue 6, pp. 1-12, 2015.

12. X. Qi, D. Wang, I. Rodero, J. Diaz-Montes, R.H. Gensure, F. Xing, H. Zhong, L.A. Goodell, M. Parashar, D.J. Foran, L. Yang, "Content-based histopathology image retrieval using CometCloud," BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 15, Issue 287, 2014

13. J. Diaz-Montes, Y. Xie, I. Rodero, J. Zola, Ganapathysubramanian, M. Parashar, "Federated Computing for the Masses - Aggregating Resources to Tackle Large-scale Engineering Problems", IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE) Magazine, Vol. 16, Issue 4, 2014.

14. J. Diaz, C. Muñoz-Caro, and A. Niño, "A Survey of Parallel Programming Models and Tools in the Multi and Many-core Era," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 532-546, 2012.

15. M.E. Castro, J. Díaz, C. Muñoz-Caro, A. Niño, "A Uniform Object-Oriented Solution to the Eigenvalue Problem for Symmetric and Hermitian Matrices," Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 182, Issue 9, pp. 2059-2064, 2010.

16. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, A. Niño, C. Muñoz-Caro, "A Heuristic Approach to the Allocation of Different Workloads in Computational Grid Environments," International Journal on Advances in Software. Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 1-10, 2009.

17. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, A. Niño, C. Muñoz-Caro, "Derivation of Self-Scheduling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems: Application to Internet-based Grids of Computers," Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Publishers. Vol. 25, Issue 6, pp. 617-626, 2009.

Special Journal Issues

• 1. Guest Editors (with Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana, and Ioan Petri), Cloud Computing, Special Issue on Autonomic Cloud Computing, IEEE Computer Society, estimated publication in 2016.

Refereed International Conferences

1. Ali Reza Zamani, Ioan Petri, Javier Diaz-Montes, Omer Rana, and Manish Parashar, “Edge-supported Approximate Analysis for Long Running Computations.” IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2017.

2. Mehmet F. Aktas, Javier Diaz-Montes, Ivan Rodero, Scott Klasky and Manish Parashar, “WA-Dataspaces: Exploring the Data Staging Abstractions for Wide-Area Distributed Scientific Workflows.” 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2017), Bristol, UK, pp. 251 – 260, August 2017.

3. Manish Parashar, Moustafa Abdelbaky, Mengsong Zou, Ali Reza Zamani, Eduard Renart, Javier Diaz-Montes. “Computing in the Continuum: Combining Pervasive Devices and Services to Support Data-driven Applications.” 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 1815-1824, June 2017.

4. Eduard Renart, Javier Diaz-Montes, Manish Parashar, "Data-driven Stream Processing at the Edge," IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC’2017), Madrid, Spain, May 2017. 

5. Moustafa AbdelBaky, Javier Diaz-Montes, Merve Unuvar, Melissa Romanus, Malgorzata Steinder, and Manish Parashar, 'Enabling Distributed Software-Defined Environments Using Dynamic Infrastructure Service Composition," ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2017, Madrid, Spain, May 2017.

6. Mengsong Zou, Javier Diaz-Montes, Kiran Nagaraja, Nimish Radia, Manish Parashar, “Towards Self-Management of Distributed Data-Driven Workflows (D3W)”, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD), San Francisco, CA, June 2016. (Acceptance Ratio ~15%).

7. Jianwu Wang, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Javier Diaz-Montes, Shweta Purawat, Manish Parashar and Ilkay Altintas, “Kepler + CometCloud: Dynamic Scientific Workflow Execution on Federated Cloud Resources.” 3rd Workshop on Advances in the Kepler Scientific Workflow System and Its Applications. In conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2016), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2016.

8. Mengsong Zou, Ali R. Zamani, Javier Diaz-Montes, Ioan Petri, Omer F. Rana, and Manish Parashar, “Leveraging In-transit Computational Capabilities in Federated Ecosystems,” IEEE International Symposium On Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), Oxford, UK, March 2016. (Best Student Paper Award)

9. Moustafa AbdelBaky, Merve Unuvar, Javier Diaz-Montes, Malgorzata Steinder, and Manish Parashar. “Docker Containers Across Multiple Clouds and Data Centers.” Short Paper. 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015), St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, December 2015. (Winner of the 2015 Cloud Challenge Award – Category 2)

10. M. Diaz-Granados, J. Diaz-Montes, and M. Parashar, “Investigating Insurance Fraud using Social Media,” IEEE BigData, Santa Clara, CA, 2015.

11. M. AbdelBaky, M. Zou, A.R. Zamani, J. Diaz-Montes, and M. Parashar, “Realizing the Potential of IoT Using Software-Defined Ecosystems,” IEEE CLOUD, New York, NY, 2015 (Invited)

12. M. Abdelbaky, J. Diaz-Montes, M. Zou, and M. Parashar, "Providing Software-Defined Dynamic Federation For Scientific Workflows," International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem). Co-located with ACM HPDC 2015, Portland, Oregon, 2015.

13. I. Petri, M. Zou, A.R. Zamani, J. Diaz-Montes, O. F. Rana and M. Parashar, "Integrating software defined networks within a cloud federation," ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2015,  Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, May 2015.

14. M. AbdelBaky, J. Diaz-Montes, M. Johnston, V. Sachdeva, R.L. Anderson, K.E. Jordan, M. Parashar, "Exploring HPC-based scientific software as a service using CometCloud," International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom),  Miami, Florida, October 2014.

15. R. Tolosana-Calasanz, J. Diaz-Montes, O. Rana, and M. Parashar, "Extending CometCloud to Process Dynamic Data Streams on Heterogeneous Infrastructures," IEEE Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference  (CAC 2014), London, UK, September 2014.

16. J. Diaz-Montes, M. Zou, R. Singh, S. Tao, and M. Parashar, "Data-driven Workflows in Multi-Cloud Marketplaces," IEEE Cloud 2014, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2104.

17. J. Diaz-Montes, M. Abdelbaky, M. Zou, and M. Parashar, "Software-Defined Federated Cyber-Infrastructure for Science and Engineering," International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem). Co-located with ACM HPDC 2014, Vancouver, Canada, June 2014. (Position Paper)

18. I. Petri, O. Rana, J. Diaz-Montes, M. Zou, M. Parashar, T. Beach, Y. Rezqui, and H. Li, "In-transit Data Analysis and Distribution in a Multi-Cloud Environment using CometCloud," The International Workshop on Energy Management for Sustainable Internet-of-Things and Cloud Computing. Co-located with International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2014), Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.

19. I. Petri, O. Rana, Y. Rezgui, H. Li,T. Beach, M. Zou, J. Diaz-Montes, and M. Parashar, "Cloud Supported Building Data Analytics," 3rd International Workshop on Data-intensive Process Management in Large-Scale Sensor Systems (DPMSS): From Sensor Networks to Sensor Clouds. Co-located with CCGrid 2014, Chicago, Illinois, May 2014

20. M. Zou, J. Diaz-Montes, I. Rodero, M. Parashar, I. Petri, O. Rana, X. Qi, D. J. Foran, “Collaborative Marketplaces for eScience: A Medical Imaging Use Case,” International Conference on  Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), May 2014.

21. I. Petri, T. Beach, M. Zou, J. Diaz-Montes, O. Rana and M. Parashar, "Exploring Models and Mechanisms for Exchanging Resources in a Federated Cloud", IEEE international conference on cloud engineering (IC2E 2014), Boston, Massachusetts, March 2014.

22. J. Diaz-Montes, Y. Xie, I. Rodero, J. Zola, B. Ganapathysubramanian, and M. Parashar, "Exploring the Use of Elastic Resource Federations for Enabling Large-scale Scientific Workflows", In Proc. of Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS). Co-located with Supercomputing/SC 2013, Denver, Colorado, November 2013. (Best Paper Award Finalist)

23. H. Gadre, I. Rodero, J. Diaz-Montes, M. Parashar, "A Case for MapReduce over the Internet", ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC 2013), Miami, FL, August 2013.

24. G. von Laszewski, H. Lee, J. Diaz, F. Wang, K. Tanaka, S. Karavinkoppa, G. C. Fox, and T. Furlani, "Design of an Accounting and Metric-based Cloud-shifting and Cloud-seeding framework for Federated Clouds and Bare-metal Environments", Workshop on Cloud Services, Federation, and the 8th Open Cirrus Summit.Co-located with ACM ICAC 2012, San Jose, CA, September 2012.

25. J. Diaz, G.v. Laszewski, F. Wang, and G. Fox. "Abstract Image Management and Universal Image Registration for Cloud and HPC Infrastructures", IEEE Cloud 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2012.

26. G.v. Laszewski, J. Diaz, F. Wang, and G. Fox. "Comparison of Multiple Cloud Frameworks", IEEE Cloud 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2012.

27. J. Diaz, G.v. Laszewski, F. Wang, A.J. Younge, and G. Fox. "FutureGrid Image Repository: A Generic Catalog and Storage System for Heterogeneous Virtual Machine Images," 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2011), Athens, Greece, November 2011.

28. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, R.M. Badía, A. Niño, and C. Muñoz-Caro, "A General Model for the Generation and Scheduling of Parameter Sweep Experiments in Computational Grid Environments," International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010), Amsterdam, Netherlands, May-June 2010, pp. 565-572.

29. J. Diaz, C. Muñoz-Caro, and A. Niño, "A Fault Tolerant Adaptive Method for the Scheduling of Tasks in Dynamic Grids," The Third International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP), Sliema, Malta, October 2009.

30. J. Diaz, C. Muñoz-Caro, and A. Niño, "An Adaptive Approach to Task Scheduling Optimization in Dynamic Grid Environments," The 2009 International Conf. on Grid Computing and Applications, Las Vegas, USA, July 2009.

31. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, A. Niño, C. Muñoz-Caro, "A Survey of New Scheduling Strategies for Internet-Based Grids of Computers," 3rd. Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID), Valencia, Spain, May 2009, pp. 75-84..

32. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, C. Muñoz-Caro, and A. Niño, "A Heuristic Approach to Task Scheduling in Internet-based Grids of Computers," The Second International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP), Valencia, Spain, September 2008, pp. 110-116. (Best Paper Award)

33. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, C. Muñoz-Caro, and A. Niño, "MSSML: A Molecular Spectroscopic Simulations Markup Language for Rovibrational Studies," The 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2008), Springer-Verlag LNCS 5072, Perugia, Italy, 30 June - 3 July, 2008, pp. 997-1010.

34. G. Smith, M. Baker and J. Diaz Montes, "A Web 2.0 User Interface for Wide-area Resource Monitoring," Mardi Gras Conference 2008, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, January-February 2008, pp. 1-8.

35. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, A. Niño, C. Muñoz-Caro, "New Self-Scheduling Schemes for Internet-Based Grids of Computers," 1st Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 2007, pp. 184-195.

36. S. Reyes, J. Diaz, S. Diaz, A. Niño, C. Muñoz-Caro, "Organization of, and Experiences with, an Spain-Mexico Internet-Based Grid of Computers," 1st Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, May 2007, pp. 259-267.

37. J. Diaz, S. Reyes, A. Niño and C. Muñoz-Caro "A Quadratic Self-Scheduling Algorithm for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems," The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2006), Vols. 1-2, Barcelona, Spain, September 2006, pp. 683-690.

Book Chapters

• 1. J. Diaz-Montes, I. Rodero, M. Zou, M. Parashar, "Federating advanced CyberInfrastructures with Autonomic Capabilities," in Cloud Computing for Data Intensive Applications, Springer New York, pp. 201-227, 2014

  2. Fox, G., G. von Laszewski, J. Diaz, K. Keahey, J. Fortes, R. Figueiredo, S. Smallen, W. Smith, and A. Grimshaw, "FutureGrid - A Reconfigurable Testbed for Cloud, HPC and Grid Computing", in Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale, CRC press, 2013.

Refereed Posters

1. I. Petri, T. Beach, M. Zou, J. Diaz-Montes, O. Rana and M. Parashar, "A Federated CometCloud Infrastructure to Support Resource Sharing", 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dresden, Germany, 2013.

2. J. Diaz-Montes, B. Ganapathysubramanian, M. Parashar, I. Rodero, Y. Xie, J. Zola, "Federated Computing for the Masses - Aggregating Resources to Tackle Large-scale Engineering Problems", SuperComputing/SC13, Denver, CO, 2013.

3. J. Diaz-Montes, M. Zou, I. Rodero, M. Parashar, "Autonomic Computing on Federated Advanced CyberInfrastructures", ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC 2013), Miami, FL, August 2013. (Best Poster Award)

4. J. Diaz, A. J. Younge, F. Wang, G. v. Laszewski, and G. Fox, "Grappling Cloud Infrastructure Services with a Generic Image Repository," The Third workshop on Cloud Computing and Its Applications (CCA11), 2011.

5. G. v. Laszewski, J. Diaz, F. Wang, A. J. Younge, A. Kulshrestha, and G. Fox, "Towards Generic FutureGrid Image Management," TeraGrid '11: Extreme Digital Discovery, 2011.

Technical Reports

• 1. J. Diaz-Montes, B. Ganapathysubramanian, M. Parashar, I. Rodero, Y. Xie, J. Zola, "Federated Computing for the Masses - Aggregating Resources to Tackle Large-scale Engineering Problems", RDI2 Technical Report: TR-RDI2-20130515-0 May 15, 2013.