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                Vatche Ishakian, Vinod Muthusamy, Aleksander Slominski
            Serving deep learning models in a serverless platform, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Orlando, FL, April, 2018
             
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                    Scott Boag, Parijat Dube, Benjamin Herta, Waldemar Hummer, Vatche Ishakian, K. R. Jayaram, Michael Kalantar, Vinod Muthusamy, Priya Nagpurkar
                Scalable Multi-Framework Multi-Tenant Lifecycle Management of Deep Learning Training Jobs, Workshop on ML Systems co-located with NIPS, Dec, 2017
                 
                 
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                Pezhman Nasirifard, Aleksander Slominski, Vinod Muthusamy, Vatche Ishakian, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
                Demo: a Serverless Topic-Based and Content-Based
              Pub/Sub Broker, Demo @ ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December, 2017
                 
                
               
            
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                Geoffrey C Fox, Vatche Ishakian, Vinod Muthusamy, Aleksander Slominski
                Status of Serverless Computing and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) in Industry and Research, Technical Report, August, 2017
                 
                
               
            
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                Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Azer Bestavros
                AngelCast: Cloud-based peer-assisted live streaming using optimized multi-tree construction, Computer Communications, July, 2017 
                 
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                B Bhattacharjee, S Boag, C Doshi, P Dube, B Herta, V Ishakian, KR Jayaram, R Khalaf, A Krishna, YB Li, V Muthusamy, R Puri, Y Ren, F Rosenberg, SR Seelam, Y Wang, J Ming Zhang, L Zhang.
                IBM deep learning service, IBM Journal of Research and Development, July, 2017
                 
                 
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                Ioana Baldini, Paul Castro, Kerry Chang, Perry Cheng, Stephen Fink, Vatche Ishakian, Nick Mitchell, Vinod Muthusamy, Rodric Rabbah, Aleksander Slominski, Philippe Suter.
                Serverless Computing: Current Trends and Open Problems, Book Chapter
                 
                 
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                Paul Castro, Vatche Ishakian, Vinod Muthusamy, Aleksander Slominski.
                Serverless Programming (Function as a Service), Tutorial @
                IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, GA, 2017
                 
                 
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                Mengting Yan, Perry Cheng, Paul Castro, and Vatche Ishakian
                Building a Chatbot with Serverless Computing, Workshop on Mashups of Things and APIs (MOTA) co-located with Middleware, Trento, Italy, 2016
                 
                 
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                Vinod Muthusamy, Alek Slominski,  Vatche Ishakian, Rania Khalaf, Jonathan Reason, Szabolcs Rozsnyai Lessons Learned Using a Process Mining Approach to
                Analyze Events from Distributed Applications, DEBS, Irvine, CA, June, 2016
                 
                 
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                Ioana Baldini, Paul Castro, Perry Cheng, Stephen Fink, Vatche Ishakian, Nick Mitchell,
                Vinod Muthusamy, Rodric Rabbah, Philippe Suter
                Cloud-Native, Event-Based Programming for Mobile Applications 
                , IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft), Austin, Texas,  May, 2016
                 
                 
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                Phuong Nguyen, Alek Slominski, Vinod Muthusamy, Vatche Ishakian, Klara Nahrstedt
                Process Trace Clustering: A Heterogeneous Information Network Approach
                , SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM), Miami, Florida, May, 2016
                 
                 
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                Yiqin Yu, Xiang Li, Haifeng Liu, Jing Mei, Nirmal Mukhi, Vatche Ishakian, Guotong Xie, Geetika Lakshmanan and Mike Marin
                Case Analytics Workbench: Platform for Hybrid Process Model Creation and Evolution
                , 13th International Conference on Business Process Management. September, 2015
                 
                 
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              Dóra Erdős, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, Evimaria Terzi
              A Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Betweenness Centrality
              , SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM),Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April, 2015
               
               
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              Partha Pal, Michael Atighetchi, Nathaniel Soule, Vatche Ishakian, Joseph Loyall, Robert Grant and Asher Sinclair.
              "Secure and QoS-Managed Information Exchange Between Enterprise and Constrained Environments", 7th IEEE Symposium on Object/Component/Service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, Reno, Nevada, USA, June 2014 
               
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              Michael Atighetchi, Vatche Ishakian, Joseph Loyall, Partha Pal, Asher Sinclair, Robert Grant.
              "Metrinome - Continuous Monitoring and Security Validation of Distributed Systems", Journal of Cyber Security & Information Systems, Volume 2 Number 1, pp.20-26, March 2014 
               
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              Dóra Erdős, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, Evimaria Terzi
              "Repetition-Aware Content Placement in Navigational Networks", ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Chicago, IL, USA, August, 2013 
               
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              Flavio Esposito, Ibrahim Matta, Vatche Ishakian
              "Slice Embedding Solutions for Distributed Service Architectures", ACM Computing Surveys Journal, Volume 46 Issue 1, Article No. 6, October, 2013
               
               
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               Benjamin Lubin, Jesse Shore, Vatche Ishakian
              Communication Network Design: Balancing Modularity and Mixing via Optimal Graph Spectra Technical Report, August, 2013 
               
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              Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Azer Bestavros, Jonathan Appavoo
               "CloudPack: Exploiting Workload Flexibility Through Rational Pricing", 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Montreal, Canada, December, 2012  
               
               
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              Dóra Erdős, Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Evimaria Terzi, Azer Bestavros
               "The Filter Placement Problem and its Application to Minimizing Information Multiplicity", VLDB, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2012.  Download Code
               
               
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               Vatche Ishakian, Joseph Akinwumi, Flavio Esposito, Ibrahim Matta
              "On Supporting Mobility and Multihoming in Recursive Internet Architectures" Computer Communications, Volume 35 Issue 13, July, 2012
               
               
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               Vatche Ishakian and Azer Bestavros
              "MORPHOSYS: Efficient Colocation of QoS-Constrained Workloads in the Cloud", The 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Ottawa, Canada, May, 2012
               
               
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              Vatche Ishakian, Dóra Erdős,  Evimaria Terzi,  Azer Bestavros,
               "A Framework for the Evaluation and Management of Network Centrality", SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM), Anaheim, California, April, 2012.  Slides
               
              
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 Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros  "AngelCast: Cloud-based Peer-Assisted Live Streaming Using Optimized Multi-Tree Construction"
              ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys). Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 2012.  Download Code 
              
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               Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Azer Bestavros and Assaf Kfoury
              "Formal Verification of SLA Transformations", IEEE 2011 International Workshop on Performance Aspects of Cloud and Service Virtualization (CloudPerf). co-located with SERVICES 2011, Washington DC, July 2011.
               
               
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               Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian, and Azer Bestavros
              "Angels In the Cloud -- A Peer-Assisted Bulk-Synchronous Content Distribution Service", Fourth IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD). Washington DC, July 2011.
               
               
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              Nate Soule, Azer Bestavros, Vatche Ishakian, Assaf Kfoury, Andrei Lapets "Use Cases for Compositional Modeling and Analysis of Equation-based Constrained Flow Networks", Technical Report, BUCS-TR-2011-019, Boston University, July, 2011
               
               
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              Vatche Ishakian, Ibrahim Matta, and Joseph Akinwumi
              "On the Cost of Supporting Mobility and Multihoming", IEEE Globecom 2010 Workshop on Network of the Future (FutureNet-III), Miami, Florida, December, 2010
               
               
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              Vatche Ishakian, Azer Besatvros, and Assaf Kfrouy
              "A Type-Theoretic Framework for Efficient and Safe Colocation of Periodic Real-time Systems", Proceedings of The 16th International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), Macau, China, August, 2010
               
               
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              Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Jorge Londono, and Azer Bestavros
              "Collocation As a Service (CaaS): Strategic and Operational Services for Cloud Colocation", Proceedings of The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Networking Computing and Applications (NCA), Boston, MA, July, 2010.
               
               
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              Karim Mattar, Ibrahim Matta, John Day, Vatche Ishakian, and Gonca Gursun, "Declarative Transport: A Customizable Transport Service for the Future Internet", Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB), co-located with SOSP 2009, Big Sky, MT, Oct, 2009.
               
               
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              Nashat Mansour,  Vatche Isahakian, and Iman Ghalayini, "Scatter search technique for exam timetabling", Journal of Applied Intelligence, (online) Oct, 2009.
               
               
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              Nashat Mansour,  and Vatche Isahakian "Evolutionary Algorithm for Exam Scheduling", International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, Turkey, June, 2007
               
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              Nashat Mansour, Abbas Tarhini,  and Vatche Isahakian "Three-Phase Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Exam Scheduling", In Proceedings of the ACS/IEEE International Conference, Tunis, June, 2003.
               
               
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          Selected Posters 
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            Azer Bestavros, Dóra Erdős, Vatche Ishakian, Andrei Lapets, Evimaria Terzi  "The Filter-Placement Problem and its Application to Content De-Duplication",
            Presented at Research and Science Day, Boston University,
            Boston, MA, 2011  - Award winning poster, The Hariri Award for Innovative Computing Models, Algorithms, and Systems
  
             
             
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              Vatche Ishakian, Azer Bestavros, and Assaf Kfrouy,  "A Type-Theoretic Framework for Efficient and Safe Colocation of Periodic Real-time Systems",
              Presented at Research and Science Day, Boston University,
              Boston, MA, 2010  - Award winning poster, Center for Information and Systems Engineering
  
               
               
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              Raymond Sweha, Vatche Ishakian, and Azer Bestavros,  "Angels in the Cloud: On-Demand Peer-Assisted Content Distribution for Cloud Service",
              Presented at Research and Science Day, Boston University,
              Boston, MA, 2010  - Award winning poster, Applied Science
  
               
               
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