Publications

• PhD Thesis
• Teaching materials
• Papers

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. The thesis is titled "Implementation and performance aspects of Kahn process networks" and is available for download .

Teaching materials

I wrote these materials during my academic years as a student and a TA.

English

• Crash course in C and assembly

  This is a text that I wrote to help the students which are taking the operating systems course (INF 3151/4151) at the Universty of Oslo. It contains a set of programming guidelines, small C and X86 assembler tutorial and some code.

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• Lecture notes in linear temporal logic (LTL)

  These notes consist a summary of the material covered in lectures for the INF5140 course given by prof. Gerardo Schneider in 2006 at Institute of Informatics, University of Oslo. I sketched those notes while studying for the exam and scanned them later. I hope that you will manage to decode my handwriting :-)

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Croatian

• Uvod u prolog

  Ovaj dokument je kratak uvod u programski jezik PROLOG, nastao na temelju auditornih vježbi koje je na FER-u tijekom 2000. godine održavao dr. sc. Siniša Šegvić.

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• Strukture podataka i algoritmi

  Ovo su materijali za predavanja i vježbe iz istoimenog predmeta koji sam održavao ak. god. 200{3,4,5} na Sveučilištu u Splitu, Odjel za stručne studije (bivši VEST - Splitsko veleučilište), smjer računarstvo/programiranje. Materijali su u konstantnoj izradi (neki naslovi iz sadržaja fale), a i u kodu ima još grešaka. Bit ću zahvalan na svim uočenim i dojavljenim pogreškama.

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• Zadaci iz C-a

  Zbirka nestandardnih zadataka za rješavanje u C-u.

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Journal and conference papers

The list is in a reverse chronological order. DOI links lead to the abstract and download links on the publisher's site.

• A correction to Andersson's fusion tree construction Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C. Theoretical Computer Science (2013).
  DOI 10.1016/j.tcs.2013.09.028 PDF
• The Nornir run-time system for parallel programs using Kahn process networks on multi-core machines - A flexible alternative to MapReduce Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C.; Beskow, P.; Espeland, H.; Johansen, D. The Journal of Supercomputing, January 2013, Volume 63, Issue 1, pp 191-217.
  DOI 10.1007/s11227-010-0503-2 PDF
• Program obfuscation by strong cryptography Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C. The International Dependability Conference, 2010. ARES '10. International Conference on, 15-18 February, 2010.
  DOI 10.1109/ARES.2010.47
• A simple improvement of the work-stealing scheduling algorithm Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C. Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2010. CISIS '10. International Conference on , 15-18 February, 2010.
  DOI 10.1109/CISIS.2010.67
• The Nornir Run-time System for Parallel Programs Using Kahn Process Networks Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, Pal; Griwodz, Carsten; Beskow, Paul; Johansen, Dag Network and Parallel Computing, 2009. NPC '09. Sixth IFIP International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-8, 19-21 Oct. 2009.
  This paper received the best student paper award.
  DOI 10.1109/NPC.2009.19
• Limits of Work-Stealing Scheduling Vrba, Z.; Espeland, H.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C. 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
• Kahn Process Networks are a Flexible Alternative to MapReduce Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C.; Beskow, P. 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
• Evaluating the Run-Time Performance of Kahn Process Network Implementation Techniques on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Vrba, Z.; Halvorsen, P.; Griwodz, C. 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
• Study of Server Workload in Large Online Newspaper Vrba, Z.; Plagemann, T.; Goebel, V.; Paneda, X.G. 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