Publications 2012

Books/Chapter in books

• D. Petcu, Research Challenges of Cloud Computing, chapter 6, Calin Enachescu, Florin Gheorghe Filip, Barna Iantovics (Eds.), Advanced computational technologies, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2012, Bucharest , ISBN 978-973-27-2256-5, 89-98
• M. Rak, M. Ficco, J. Luna, H. Ghani, N. Suri, S. Panica, D. Petcu Security Issues in Cloud Federation, In Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice, eds. Massimo Villari, Ivona Brandic, Francesco Tusa, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 176-194, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1631-8.ch010, ISBN: 978-1-4666-16318
• D. Petcu, Invitation to a Journey in the ERA of Cloud Computing, in D.Petcu, J.L. Vazquez-Poletti (eds), European Research Activities in Cloud Computing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, January 2012, 1-18

Journal papers

• D. Petcu, S. Panica, M. Frincu, M. Neagul, D. Zaharie, G. Macariu, Dorian Gorgan, T. Stefanut, Experiences in building a Grid-based platform to serve Earth observation training activities, Computers Standards & Interfaces 34 (2012), 493-508, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2011.10.010 (Impact factor: 0.978, Citations: 1)

• N.M. Calcavecchia, B.A.Caprarescu, E. Di Nitto, D. J. Dubois, D. Petcu, DEPAS: A Decentralized Probabilistic Algorithm for Auto-Scaling, Computing, Springer, 0010-485X (Print), 1436-5057 (Online), DOI: 10.1007/s00607-012-0198-8, vol. 94, issue 8-10, 701-730, (preliminary: Technical Report 2012.5, Politecnico di Milano arXiv:1202. 2509v1 [cs.DC], http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2509; http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.2509v1) (Impact factor: 0.807, Citations: 2)

• D. Petcu, A Panorama of Cloud Services, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, vol 13, no. 4, 2012, 303-314
• A. Bessani, R. Kapitza, D. Petcu, P. Romano, S.V. Gogouvitis, D. Kyriazis, R.G. Cascella, A look to the old-world sky: EUfunded dependability cloud computing research, SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 46, 2 2012, 43-56, doi: 10.1145/2331576.2331584
• Dana Petcu, Daniela Zaharie, Experience in Running a Computer Science Masters Programme in English. First Steps towards Internationalization. Quality Assurance Review for Higher Education, Vol. 4, Nr. 1, 2012, pp. 5 - 13
• L. Donath, D. Petcu, D. Zaharie, M. Boldea, P. Craciun, E. Feker, The internal evaluation of international master. The case of West University of Timisoara, Quality Assurance Review for Higher Education, Vol. 4, Nr. 2, 2012, pp. 41 - 51

Conference papers

• D. Petcu, How to build a reliable mOSAIC of multiple cloud services. In Proceedings of the 1st EuropeanWorkshop on Dependable Cloud Computing (EWDCC '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 4 , 2012. doi: 10.1145/2365316.2365320

• D. Petcu, C. Sandru, Towards Component-based Software Engineering of Cloud applications, Procs. WICSA/ECSA 2012 Companion Volume, ICPS - published by ACM, 80-81, 2012, doi: 10.1145/2361999.2362013
• D. Petcu, S. Panica, C. Sandru, C. Craciun, M. Neagul, Experiences in Building an Event-Driven and Deployable Platform as a Service, In X.S. Wang et al. (Eds.): WISE 2012, LNCS 7651, pp. 666-672, 2012.
• K. Wasielewska, M.Drozdowicz, P. Szmeja, M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, I. Lirkov, D. Petcu, C. Badica, Agents in Grid System Design and Implementation, LSSC 2011, I. Lirkov, S. Margenov, and J. Wansiewski (Eds.): LNCS 7116, 2012, Springer, pp. 662-669
• D. Petcu, Challenges of Future e-Infrastructure Governance, M. Alexander et al. (Eds.): Euro-Par 2011 Workshops, Part II, LNCS 7156, pp. 86-95, 2012.
• C. Sandru, D. Petcu, V. Munteanu, Building an Open-source Platform-as-a-Service with Intelligent Management of Multiple Cloud Resources, Procs. UCC 2012, 333-338. doi: 10.1109/UCC.2012.54 (citations: 2)
• V. Stankovski, J. Juzna, D. Petcu, Enabling Legacy Engineering Applications for Cloud computing: Experience with the mOSAIC API and Platform, Procs. EIDWT 2012, 2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies, 281-286 doi: 10.1109/EIDWT.2012.49
• D. Petcu, M.E. Frincu, S. Panica, M. Neagul Towards Programmatic Management of Services from Multiple Clouds, Procs. InCoS 2012, 2012 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, 487-488, doi:10.1109/iNCoS.2012.77 (citations: 1)
• S. Panica, D. Petcu, I. Lazkanotegi Larrate, T. Mahr, Sky Computing Platform for Legacy Distributed Application, Procs 2012 11th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'12), 293-300, doi: 10.1109/ISPDC.2012.47
• D. Petcu, V. Stankovski, Towards Cloud-enabled Business Process Management based on Patterns, Rules and Multiple Models, Procs. ISPA 2012, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 454-459, doi: 10.1109/ISPA.2012.66
• D. Ardagna, E. Di Nitto, G. Casale, D. Petcu, P. Mohagheghi, S. Mosser, P.Matthews, A. Gericke, C. Ballagny, F.D'Andria, C.S. Nechifor, C. Sheridan, MODACLOUDS: A Model-Driven Approach for the Design and Execution of Applications on Multiple Clouds, Procs. MISE/ICSE 2012, 50-56. (citations: 12)

• D. Petcu, Cloudware Support for Scientic Applications, Procs. RO-LCG 2012, ISBN 978-973-662-701-1, Cluj-Napoca, Oct. 2012, pp. 70-73, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6528249&isnumber=6528224

• A. Toma, S. Panica, D. Zaharie, D. Petcu, Computational Challenges in Processing Large Hyperspectral Images, Procs. RO-LCG 2012, ISBN 978-973-662-701-1, Cluj-Napoca, Oct. 2012, pp. 111-114, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber =6528260&isnumber=6528224

• D. Petcu, Towards Programmable Infrastructures: the Steps made by Cloud Computing and their Technical Support, Procs.WoSS-4, CLASS Conference, Slovenia, Oct 2012, pp. 19-21

• B. A. Caprarescu, D. Petcu. Decentralized Probabilistic Auto-Scaling for Heterogeneous Systems, Procs. ADAPTIVE 2012, ISBN: 978-1-61208-219-6, 7-12 (preliminary version at arXiv:1203.3885v1 [cs.DC], available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3885) (citations: 1)