Francisco in Umeå

Francisco Hernádez-Rodriguez

Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Umeå University
SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden

email: <firstname>@cs.umu.se
Voice: +46 (0)90 - 786 99 13
Fax: +46 (0)90 - 786 61 23
Office: MIT Building -- Room D438

2015

Control-based Load-balancing Technologies: Analysis and Performance Evaluation via a Randomized Optimization Approach. PDF
A.V. Papadopoulos, C. Klein, M. Maggio, J. Dürango, M. Dellkrantz, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, E. Elmroth, and K-E. Årzén. Under review, 2015.

Performance bottleneck and anomaly detection: An overview, research and technological trends.;PDF
O.E. Ibidunmoye, Hernández-Rodriguez F., and Elmroth E. Accepted for publication, ACM Computing Surveys, 2015.

Performance-based service differentiation in clouds.;PDF
E.B. Lakew, C. Klein, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, and E. Elmroth. To appear, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015, 2015.

2014

Divide the task, multiply the outcome: Cooperative vm consolidation. PDF publisher
M. Sedaghat, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, E. Elmroth, and S. Girdzijauskas. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2014), pages 300-305, 2014.

Towards faster response time models for vertical elasticity. PDF   publisher
E.B. Lakew, C. Klein, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, and E. Elmroth. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2014), pages 560-565, 2014.

Control-theoretical load-balancing for cloud applications with brownout. PDF publisher
J. Durango, M. Dellkrantz, M. Maggio, C. Klein, A.V. Papadopoulos, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, K-E. Årzén, and E. Elmroth. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC 2014), pages 5320-5327, 2014.

Improving cloud service resilience using brownout-aware load-balancing. PDF   publisher
C. Klein,A.V. Papadopoulos, M. Dellkrantz, J. Durango, M. Maggio, K-E. Årzén, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, and E. Elmroth. Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2014), pages 31-40, 2014.

The straw that broke the camel's back: Safe cloud overbooking with application brownout. PDF   publisher
L. Tomás, C. Klein, J. Tordsson, and F. Hernádez-Rodriguez. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (IEEE ICCAC 2014). Best paper award, pages 151-160, 2014.

A synchronization mechanism for cloud accounting systems. PDF publisher
E.B. Lakew, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, L. Xu, and E. Elmroth. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (IEEE ICCAC 2014). Runner-up for best paper award, pages 111-120, 2014.

Autonomic resource allocation for cloud data centers: A peer to peer approach. PDF publisher
M. Sedaghat, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, and E. Elmroth. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (IEEE ICCAC 2014), pages 131-140, 2014.

A tree-based protocol for enforcing quotas in clouds. PDF publisher
E.B. Lakew, L. Xu, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, E. Elmroth, and C. Pahl. Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2014), pages 279-286, 2014.

Brownout: Building more robust cloud applications. PDF   publisher
C. Klein, M. Maggio, K-E. Årzén, and F. Hernández-Rodriguez. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ACM ICSE 2014), pages 700-711, 2014.

2013

Resource management for service level aware cloud applications. PDF  
C. Klein, M. Maggio, F. Hern´ndez-Rodriguez, and K-E. Årzén. International Workshop on Real-time and Distributed Computing in Emerging Applications (Co-located with 34th IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium), 2013.

A virtual machine re-packing approach to the horizontal vs. vertical elasticity trade-off for cloud autoscaling. PDF publisher
M. Sedaghat, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, and E. Elmroth. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (ACM CAC 2013), pages 6:1-6:10, 2013.

2012

OPTIMIS: A Holistic Approach to Cloud Service ProvisioningPDF   publisher
A.J. Ferrer, F. Hernández, J. Tordsson, E. Elmroth, C. Zsigri, R. Sirvent, J. Guitart, R.M. Badia, K. Djemame, W. Ziegler, T. Dimitrakos, S.K. Nair, G. Kousiouris, K. Konstanteli, T. Varvarigou, B. Hudzia, A. Kipp, S. Wesner, M. Corrales, N. Forgó, T. Sharif, and C. Sheridan. Future Generation Computer Systems, 28(1):66–77, 2012.

Management of distributed resource allocation in multi-cluster environments. PDF publisher
E.B. Lakew, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, L. Xu, and E. Elmroth. The 31st International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IEEE IPCCC 2012), pages 275-284, 2012.

A scalable accounting solution for prepaid services in cloud systems. PDF publisher
L. Xu, E.B. Lakew, F. Hernández-Rodriguez, and E. Elmroth. The 9th International Conference on Service Computing (IEEE SCC 2012), pages 81-89, 2012.

2011

A cloud environment for data-intensive storage services. PDF publisher
H. Kolodner, S. Tal, D. Kyriazis, D. Naor, M. Allalouf, E. Bayuh, L. Bonelli, P. Brand, A. Eckert, E. Elmroth, S. Gogouvitis, D. Harnik, F. Hernández, M. Jaeger, M. Lorenz, J-M. Lopez, A. Messina, A. Shulman-Peleg, R. Talyansky, and A. Voulodimos. The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE Cloudcom 2011), pages 357-366, 2011.

Self-Management Challenges for Multi-Cloud Architectures. PDF publisher
E. Elmroth, J. Tordsson, F. Hernández, A. Ali-Eldin, P. Svärd, M. Sedaghat, and W. Li. Towards a Service-based Internet. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6994, pages 38-49, 2011.

Unifying Cloud Management: Towards Overall Governance of Business Level Objectives. PDF publisher
M. Sedaghat, F. Hernández, and E. Elmroth. The 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011), pages 591-597, 2011.

2010

Three Fundamental Dimensions of Scientific Workflow Interoperability: Model of Computation, Language, and Execution EnvironmentPDF   publisher
E. Elmroth, F. Hernández, and J. Tordsson. Future Generation Computer Systems, 26(2):245–256, 2010.

2009

Cloud Computing and RESERVOIR ProjectPDF   publisher
M. Ben Yehuda, O. Biran, D. Breitgand, K. Meth, B. Rochwerger, E. Salant, E. Silvera, S. Tal, Y. Wolfsthal, J. Cáceres, J. Hierro, W. Emmerich, A. Galis, L. Edblom, E. Elmroth, D. Henriksson, F. Hernández, J. Tordsson, A. Hohl, E. Levy, A. Sampaio, B. Scheuermann, M. Wusthoff, J. Latanicki, G. Lopez, J. Marin-Frisonroche, A. Dörr, F. Ferstl, S. Beco, F. Pacini, I. Llorente, R. Montero, E. Huedo, P. Massonet, S. Naqvi, G. Dallons, M. Pezzé, A. Puliato, C. Ragusa, M. Scarpa, and S. Muscella. Il Nouvo Cimento, 32(2):99–103, 2009.

Combining local and grid resources in scientific workflows (for bioinformatics). PDF
A-C. Berglund, E. Elmroth, F. Hernández, B. Sandman, and J. Tordsson. The 9th International Workshop of State-of-the-Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (to appear), 2009.

Self-Management Challenges for Multi-Cloud Architectures. PDF publisher
E. Elmroth, J. Tordsson, F. Hernández, A. Ali-Eldin, P. Svärd, M. Sedaghat, and W. Li. Towards a Service-based Internet. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6994, pages 38-49, 2011.

2007

A Light-weight Grid Workflow Execution Engine Enabling Client and Middleware Independence. PDF publisher
E. Elmroth, F. Hernández, and J. Tordsson. The 7th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2007). Lecture notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4967, pages 754-761, 2007.

Designing Service-based Resource Management Tools for a Healthy Grid Ecosystem. PDF publisher
E. Elmroth, F. Hernández, J. Tordsson, and P-O. Östberg. The 7th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2007). Lecture notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4967, pages 259-270, 2007.

2006

GAUGE: Grid Automation and Generative EnvironmentPDF   publisher
F. Hernández, P. Bangalore, J. Gray, Z. Guan, and K. Reilly. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 18(10):1293–1316, 2006.

GRID-FLOW: A Grid-Enabled Scientific Workflow Ssystem with a Petri Net-based InterfacePDF   publisher
Z. Guan, F. Hernández, P. Bangalore, J. Gray, A. Skjellum, V. Velusamy, and J. Liu. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 18(10):1115–1140, 2006.

2005

A Graphical Modeling Environment for the Generation of Workflows for the Globus Toolkit. PDF publisher
F. Hernández, P. Bangalore, J. Gray, and K. Reilly. Chapter in: Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications, V. Getov and T. Kielmann editors, ISBN:0-387-23351-2, pages 79-96, 2005.

Expert Systems: Simplifying the use of the Grid. PDF
F. Herndández, K. Reilly, and P. Bangalore. Proceedings of the 2005 Huntsville Simulation Conference. The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, San Diego, CA, 2005.

Automating the Development of Scientific Applications Using Domain-specific Modeling. PDF publisher
F. Hernández, P.~Bangalore, and K. Reilly. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing System Applications (ACM SE-HPCS'05), pages 50-54, 2005.

End-user Tools for Grid Computing. PDF publisher
F. Hernández, P. Bangalore, and K. Reilly. Proceedings of the First Workshop on End-user Software Engineering (ACM WEUSE I), pages 1-5, 2005 (also appeared in publication as ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 30(4):1--5, 2005).

2004

A Graphical Modeling Environment for the Generation of Workflows for the Globus Toolkit. PDF
F. Hernández, P. Bangalore, J. Gray, and K. Reilly. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Component Models and Systems for Grid Applications, 2004.

2003

A Multi-level Technique for Modeling Agent-based Systems. PDF
F. Hernández, J. Gray, and K. Reilly. 2nd International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Methodologies (Proceedings of the OOPSLA 2003 Workshops), pages 33-42, 2003.

Language Patterns: Comparison and Prediction using Hidden Markov Models. PDF
J. Fisher, F. Hernández, and A. Sprague. Proceedings of the 41st Annual ACM Southeast Conference, pages 246-250, 2003.

2002

Monte Carlo, Statistics and Fuzzy Uncertain Probabilities. PDF
K. Reilly, J.J Buckley, X. Zheng, and F. Hernández. Proceedings of the 2002 Huntsville Simulation Conference, pages 278-283. The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, San Diego, CA, 2002.