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Tevfik Kosar

kosar (at) lsu.edu

Publications:

Book Chapters:
  1. Data-aware Distributed Batch Scheduling
    Tevfik Kosar
    To appear in The Encyclopedia of Grid Computing Technologies and Applications, Editor: E.Udoh, IGI Publishing USA, 2008.

  2. Workflow Management in Condor
    Peter Couvares, Tevfik Kosar, Alain Roy, Jeff Weber, and Kent Wegner
    In Workflows for e-Science, Editors: I.Taylor, E.Deelman, D.Gannon, M.Shields, Springer Press, January 2007 (ISBN: 1-84628-519-4)

  3. Data Placement in Widely Distributed Environments
    Tevfik Kosar, Se-chang Son, George Kola, and Miron Livny
    In Grid Computing: The New Frontier of High Performance Computing, Editor: L.Grandinetti, Elsevier Press, November 2005 (ISBN: 0-444-51999-8)

Journal Papers:
  1. Cyberinfrastructure for Coastal Hazard Prediction
    G. Allen, P. Bogden, T. Kosar, A. Kulshrestha, G. Namala, S. Tummala, and E. Seidel
    In CTWatch Quarterly, Vol.4 No.1 (2008) pp.17-26

  2. Conditional Workflow Management: A Survey and Analysis
    Emir M. Bahsi, Emrah Ceyhan, and Tevfik Kosar
    In Scientific Programming Journal, Vol.15 No.4 (2007) pp.283-297

  3. Data Management Challenges in Coastal Applications
    Sirish Tummala, and Tevfik Kosar
    In Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No.50 (2007), pp.1188-1193

  4. Towards a Faster and Improved ADCIRC (ADvanced Multi-Dimensional CIRCulation) Model
    Emrah Ceyhan, Partha Basuchowdhuri, Thair Judeh, Shangli Ou, Brett Estrade, and Tevfik Kosar
    In Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No.50 (2007), pp.949-954

  5. What Makes Workflows Work in an Opportunistic Environment?
    Ewa Deelman, Tevfik Kosar, Carl Kesselman, and Miron Livny
    In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol.18 No.10 (2006) pp.1187-1199

  6. Building Reliable and Efficient Data Transfer and Processing Pipelines
    Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, and Miron Livny
    In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol.18 No.6 (2006) pp.609-620

  7. A Framework for Reliable and Efficient Data Placement in Distributed Computing Systems
    Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol.65 No.10 (2005) pp.1146-1157

  8. Run-time Adaptation of Grid Data-placement Jobs
    George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Vol.6 No.3 (2005) pp.33-43

  9. Playing inside the Black Box: Using Dynamic Instrumentation to create Security Holes
    B.P. Miller, M. Christodorescu, R. Iverson, T. Kosar, A. Mirgorodskii, and F. Popovici
    In Parallel Processing Letters,Vol. 11 Nos. 2 & 3 (2001) pp.267-280

Conference Papers:
  1. Which Network Measurement Tool is Right for You? A Multidimensional Comparison Study
    Esma Yildirim, Ibrahim Suslu, and Tevfik Kosar
    To appear in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), Tsukuba, Japan, September 2008

  2. Dynamically Tuning Level of Parallelism in Wide Area Data Transfers
    Esma Yildirim, Mehmet Balman, and Tevfik Kosar
    To appear in Proceedings of DADC'08 (in conjunction with HPDC'08), Boston, MA, June 2008

  3. A Grid-enabled Workflow System for Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis
    Emrah Ceyhan, Gabrielle Allen, Christopher White, and Tevfik Kosar
    To appear in Proceedings of CLADE'08 (in conjunction with HPDC'08), Boston, MA, June 2008

  4. Semantic Enabled Metadata Framework for Data Grids
    Dayong Huang, Xinqi Wang, Gabrielle Allen, and Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid and Internet Computing (3PGIC-2008), Barcelona, Spain, March 2008

  5. Large Scale Data Management in Sensor Networking Applications
    Emrah Ceyhan and Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of Cyberspace Research Workshop, Shreveport, LA, November 2007

  6. Merge of Two Emerging Technologies - Sensor Networks and Grids: A Survey on Sensor Grids
    Ismail Akturk and Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of Cyberspace Research Workshop, Shreveport, LA, November 2007

  7. A Memetic Algorithm for Reliability-based Dynamic Scheduling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments
    Esma Yildirim, Haluk Topcuoglu and Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2007), Cambridge, MA, November 2007

  8. Collaborating Mechanical Design Phases Across a Grid
    M. Xie, F. Zhou, Z. Yun, G. Allen, T. Kosar, and G. Allen
    In Proceedings of International Multi-Symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences 2007 (IMSCCS 2007), Iowa City, IA, August 2007

  9. Balancing the Use of Remote I/O versus Staging in Distributed Environments
    Ibrahim H. Suslu and Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Doctoral Syposium (DCEIS 2007), Madeira, Portugal, June 2007

  10. Data Scheduling for Large Scale Distributed Applications
    Mehmet Balman and Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Doctoral Syposium (DCEIS 2007), Madeira, Portugal, June 2007

  11. A New Paradigm in Data Intensive Computing: Stork and the Data-Aware Schedulers
    Tevfik Kosar
    In Proceedings of Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environenments (CLADE 2006) Workshop, Paris, France, June 2006, in conjunction with HPDC 2006

  12. Faults in Large Distributed Systems and What We Can Do About Them
    George, Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2005), Lisbon, Portugal, August 2005

  13. DISC: A System for Distributed Data Intensive Scientific Computing
    George Kola, Tevfik Kosar, James Frey, Miron Livny, Robert J. Brunner, and Michael Remijan
    In Proceedings of First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS'04), San Francisco, CA, December 2004, in conjunction with OSDI'04

  14. Phoenix: Making Data-intensive Grid Applications Fault-tolerant
    George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2004), Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004, in conjunction with SuperComputing 2004

  15. Reliable, Automatic Transfer and Processing of Large Scale Astronomy Datasets
    Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, Robert J. Brunner, Miron Livny, and Michael Remijan
    In Proceedings of 14th Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems Conference (ADASS 2004), Pasadena, CA, October 2004

  16. Data-pipelines: Enabling Large Scale Multi-Protocol Data Transfers
    Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing (MGC 2004), Toronto, Canada, October 2004, in conjunction with Middleware 2004

  17. A Client-centric Grid Knowledgebase
    George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2004), San Diego, CA, September 2004

  18. Profiling Grid Data Transfer Protocols and Servers
    George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2004), Pisa, Italy, August 2004

  19. A Fully Automated Fault-tolerant System for Distributed Video Processing and Off-site Replication
    George Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 14th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (Nossdav 2004), Kinsale, Ireland, June 2004

  20. Stork: Making Data Placement a First Class Citizen in the Grid
    Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004

  21. Mining the Sky with Condor
    M Dillman, R. Brunner, T. Kosar, M. Livny, and Z. Miller
    In Proceedings of the American Astronomical Society Meeting, January 2004

  22. A Framework for Self-optimising, Fault-tolerant, High Performance Bulk Data Transfers in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment
    Tevfik Kosar, George Kola, and miron Livny
    In Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2003), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003

  23. Run-time Adaptation of Grid Data-placement Jobs
    George, Kola, Tevfik Kosar and Miron Livny
    In Proceedings of International Workshop on Adaptive Grid Middleware (AGridM 2003), New Orleans, LA , September 2003, in conjunction with PACT 2003

  24. Managing eBusiness on Demand SLA Contracts in Business Terms Using the Cross-SLA Execution Manager SAM
    M. Buco, R. Chang, T. Kosar, L. Luan, S.U. Shah, C. Ward, J. Wolf, and P. Yu
    In Proceedings of 6th International Symp. on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2003), Pisa, Italy, April 2003

  25. Playing inside the Black Box: Using Dynamic Instrumentation to create Security Holes
    B.P. Miller, M. Christodorescu, R. Iverson, T. Kosar, A. Mirgorodskii, and F. Popovici
    In Proceedings of Second Los Alamos Computer Science Institute Symposium, Santa Fe, NM, October 2001

Selected Technical Reports:
  • Intelligent Routing using Network Processors: Guiding Design Through Analysis
    Madhu Sudanan Seshadri, John Bent and Tevfik Kosar
    Technical Report CS-TR-2003-1480, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, April 200 3
    Available as: PDF
  • Using Binary Code Rewrite to Bypass Licence Checks
    Tevfik Kosar, Mihai Christodorescu and Robert Iverson
    Technical Report CS-TR-2003-1479, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, April 2003
    Available as: PDF