PhD thesis
I have obtained the PhD degree while working at the Institute of Informatics, University of Oslo and Simula research laboratory in the period from march 2005 to november 2009. My PhD thesis is titled "Implementation and performance aspects of Kahn process networks" and incorporates, in expanded form, the contents of the papers marked by asterisk below.
Peer-reviewed publications
The publications are listed in reverse chronological order. Publications marked by asterisk form the scientific contributions of my PhD thesis.
[TO APPEAR] Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C., "Program obfuscation by strong cryptography" The International Dependability Conference, 2010. ARES '10. International Conference on , 15-18 February, 2010.
[* TO APPEAR] Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C., "A simple improvement of the work-stealing scheduling algorithm," Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2010. CISIS '10. International Conference on , 15-18 February, 2010.
[*] THIS PAPER RECEIVED THE BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD. Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, Pal; Griwodz, Carsten; Beskow, Paul; Johansen, Dag, "The Nornir Run-time System for Parallel Programs Using Kahn Process Networks," Network and Parallel Computing, 2009. NPC '09. Sixth IFIP International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-8, 19-21 Oct. 2009. DOI: 10.1109/NPC.2009.19
[*] Vrba, Z.; Espeland, H.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C., "Limits of Work-Stealing Scheduling", Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, 2009. JSSPP '09. 15th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, 29 May 2009. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04633-9_15
[*] Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C.; Beskow, P., "Kahn Process Networks are a Flexible Alternative to MapReduce," High Performance Computing and Communications, 2009. HPCC '09. 11th IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.154-162, 25-27 June 2009. DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2009.46
[*] Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C., "Evaluating the Run-Time Performance of Kahn Process Network Implementation Techniques on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors," Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2009. CISIS '09. International Conference on , vol., no., pp.639-644, 16-19 March 2009. DOI: 10.1109/CISIS.2009.43
Vrba, Z.; Plagemann, T.; Goebel, V.; Paneda, X.G., "Study of Server Workload in Large Online Newspaper," Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2006. ICDCS Workshops 2006. 26th IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp. 52-52, 04-07 July 2006 DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2006.104
