KOLIOUSIS, Alexandros

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Publications

A. Koliousis, P. Watcharapichat, M. Weidlich, L. Mai, P. Costa, and P. Pietzuch. 2019. Crossbow: Scaling deep learning with small batch sizes on multi-GPU servers. arXiv:1901.02244

G. Theodorakis, A. Koliousis, P. Pietzuch, and H. Pirk. Hammer Slide: Work- and CPU-efficient streaming window aggregation. In 9th International Workshop on Accelerating Analytics and Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures (ADMS), 2018.

A. Koliousis, P. Watcharapichat, M. Weidlich, P. Costa, and P. Pietzuch. Crossbow: Scaling Deep Learning on Multi-GPU Servers. In 1st SysML Conference (SysML), 2018.

J. G. F. Coutinho, M. Stillwell, K. Argyraki, G. Ioannidis, A. Iordache, C. Kleineweber, A. Koliousis, J. McGlone, G. Pierre, C. Ragusa, P. Sanders, T. Schutt, T. Yu, and A. Wolf. 2017. The HARNESS platform: A hardware- and network-enhanced software system for cloud computing. In Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud, I. Mistrik, R. Bahsoon, N. Ali, M. Heisel, and B. Maxim (Eds.). Morgan Kaufmann, Boston, USA, 323-351. DOI

A. Koliousis, M. Weildich, R. C. Fernandez, A. Wolf, P. Costa, and P. Pietzuch. The Saber system for window-based hybrid stream processing with GPUs. In 10th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS), 2016. DOI

A. Koliousis, M. Weildich, R. C. Fernandez, A. Wolf, P. Costa, and P. Pietzuch. Saber: Window-based hybrid stream processing for heterogeneous architectures. In International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2016. DOI

Y. Tahir, S. Yang, A. Koliousis, and J. McCann. UDRF: Multi-resource fairness for complex jobs with placement constraints. In IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2015. DOI

M. Calder, A. Koliousis, M. Sevegnani, and J. Sventek. Real-time verification of wireless home networks using bigraphs with sharing. Sci. Comput. Program. 80, PB (February 2014), 288-310. DOI

J. Sventek and A. Koliousis. Unification of Publish/Subscribe Systems and Stream Databases: the Impact on Complex Event Processing. In ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Conference on Middleware (Middleware), 2012. Springer Link 

T. Rodden, R. Mortier, P. Tolmie, T. Lodge, J. Sventek, and A. Koliousis. Homework: Putting Interaction into the Infrastructure. In 25th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2012. ACM DL 

A. Koliousis and J. Sventek. DEBS Grand Challenge: Glasgow Automata Illustrated. In 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-based Systems (DEBS), 2012. ACM DL .bib

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title = {Glasgow automata illustrated: DEBS grand challenge},
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year = {2012},
isbn = {978-1-4503-1315-5},
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R. Mortier, T. Rodden, T. Lodge, D. McAuley, C. Rotsos, A. Moore, A. Koliousis, and J. Sventek. Control and Understanding: Owning Your Home Network. In 4th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2012. .pdf 

W. P. Cockshott and A. Koliousis. The SCC and SICSA Multi-core Challenge. In 4th Symposium of the Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC), 2011.

R. Mortier, B. Bedwell, K. Glover, T. Lodge, T. Rodden, C. Rotsos, A. Moore, A. Koliousis, J. Sventek. Supporting Novel Home Network Management Interfaces with Openflow and NOX. In ACM SIGCOMM 2011. .pdf .bib

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author = {Mortier, Richard and Bedwell, Ben and Glover, Kevin and Lodge, Tom and Rodden, Tom and Rotsos, Charalampos and Moore, Andrew W. and Koliousis, Alexandros and Sventek, Joseph},
title = {Supporting novel home network management interfaces with openflow and NOX},
journal = {SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev.},
issue_date = {August 2011},
volume = {41},
number = {4},
month = aug,
year = {2011},
issn = {0146-4833},
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J. Sventek, A. Koliousis, O. Sharma, N. Dulay, D. Pediaditakis, M. Sloman, T. Rodden, T. Lodge, B. Bedwell, K. Glover, and R. Mortier. An Information Plane Architecture Supporting Home Network Management. In 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), 2011. .pdf 

A. Koliousis and J. Sventek. A Trustworthy mobile agent infrastructure for network management. In 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM), 2007. .pdf 

   

Technical Reports

A. Koliousis, P. Costa, P. Pietzuch and A. Wolf. HetMR: Hybrid Deployment of MapReduce Jobs on Heterogeneous Hardware. Department of Computing Science, Imperial College London, 2014. .pdf

A. Koliousis and J. Sventek. Proactive vs reactive routing for wireless sensor networks. Technical report TR-2007-293, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2007. .pdf .bib

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author = {Koliousis, Alexandros and Joseph, Sventek},
title = {Proactive vs reactive routing for wireless sensor networks},
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A. Koliousis and J. Sventek. Management of networked sensor systems. Technical report TR-2007-231. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2007. .pdf .bib

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author = {Koliousis, Alexandros and Joseph, Sventek},
title = {Management of networked sensor systems},
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}

   

Dissertations

An elementary proposition on the dynamic routing problem in wireless networks of sensors. PhD thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 2010. A copy can be found here.

A trustworthy mobile agent infrastructure for network management. Master thesis submitted for the Masters in Advanced Computing Science, University of Glasgow. 2005. A copy can be found here.

Playing strategies in the game of Blackjack: An overall approach through mathematical analysis and simulation. Thesis submitted for the Degree in Computer Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (in Greek). September 2003. Presented at EURO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Istanbul, July 6-10 2003.