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Dr. Shikharesh Majumdar: List of Publications

Papers in Preparation

Majumdar, S. Nadimpalli, S., “Exploiting Structural Parallelism in Web Documents for Performance”

Papers Published in Journals

Majumdar, S., Shen, E.-K., “High Performance Adaptive CORBA Middleware”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems (accepted for publication).
Chan,Y.-N., Dandamudi, S.P., Majumdar, S., "Processor Scheduling in a Multiprogrammed Transputer Systems", Journal of Computers and Their Applications (accepted for publication).
Abdul Fatah, I., Majumdar, S., ``Performance of CORBA-Based Client‑Server Architectures'', IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, February 2002, pp. 111-127.
Abhari, A., Dandamudi, S.P., Majumdar, S., “Structural Characterization of Popular Web Documents”, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 9, No. 1, Vol. 9, No.: 1, March 2002, pp. 15-24.
Liu, M., Majumdar, S., Streibel, D., Carroll, B. “Scheduling on a Multiprocessor-Based Telephone Switch”, Journal of South African Computer Society (selected papers from SAICSIT Conference), No. 26, November 2000, pp. 154-163.
Kwong, P., Majumdar, S. ``Scheduling I/O in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems'', Journal of Informatica (Special Issue on High performance Computing on Clusters), 1999.
Graham. W.C., Majumdar, S., Performance of Scheduling Strategies for Client Server Systems'', Journal of Parallel & Distributed Computing, Vol. 58, 1999, pp. 389-424.
Majumdar, S., Woodside, C.M., "Robust Bounds and Throughput Guarantees for General Closed Multiclass Queuing Networks", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 32, 1998, pp. 101-136.
Majumdar, S., "Application of Relational Interval Arithmetic to Computer Performance Analysis", Constraints (Special Issue: Interval Constraints), Vol.2, No.2, October 1997, pp. 215-235.
Luethi, J., Majumdar, S., Kotsis, G., Haring, G., "Performance Bounds for Distributed Systems with Workload Variabilities and Uncertainties", Parallel Computing (Special Issue: Distributed and Parallel Systems: Environments and Tools), North Holland, Vol. 22, No. 13, March 1997.
Neilson, J.E., Woodside, C.M., Petriu, D.C., Majumdar, S., "Software Bottlenecking in Client-Server Systems and Rendezvous Networks", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, September 1995.
Franks, G., Hubbard, A., Majumdar, S., Neilson, J., Petriu, D., Rolia, J., Woodside, C.M., "A Toolset for Performance Engineering and Software Design of Client Server Systems'', Performance Evaluation June 1995.
Woodside, C.M., Neilson, J.E., Petriu, D.C., and Majumdar, S., "The Stochastic Rendezvous Network Model for Performance of Synchronous Client-Server-Like Distributed Software", IEEE Transactions on Computers, January 1995.
Majumdar, S., Eager, D.L. and Bunt, R.B., "Characterization of Programs for Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 13, 1991, pp. 109 -130.
Majumdar, S., Woodside, C.M., Neilson, J.E., and Petriu, D.C., "Performance Bounds for Concurrent Software with Rendezvous", Performance Evaluation, Vol. 13, 1991, pp. 207 - 236.

Papers Published In Magazines (Refereed)

Majumdar, S., Kumar, K. and Raghunathan, K.S., "Interface Unites Z8000 with Other Families of Peripheral Devices", Electronics, McGraw-Hill, July 28, 1981.

Papers Published In Refereed Conference Proceedings

Farooq, U., Parsons, E., Majumdar, S., "Performance of Publish/Subscribe Middleware in Mobile Wireless Networks", Proc. International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP’02), San Francisco, January 2004 (accepted for publication).
Huo, M., Majumdar, S., "Performance of Parallel Architectures for CORBA-Based Systems", Proc. International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP’02), San Francisco, January 2004 (accepted for publication).
Chen, Y., Majumdar, S., "Web Page Characteristics-Based Scheduling", IEEE High Performance Computing Conference, Hyderabad (India), December 2003 (to appear).
Krishnamurthy, D., Rolia, J., Majumdar^,S., ``SWAT: A Tool for Load Testing Session-based Web Applications", Proc. CMG Conference, December 2003 (accepted for publication).
Abhari, A., Dandamudi, S., Majumdar, S. "Exploiting Web Document Structure to Improve Storage Management in Proxy Caches", IEEE High Performance Computing Conference, Bangalore (India), December 2002.
Wu, W.-K., Majumdar, S. “Engineering CORBA-Based Systems for High Performance”, International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’02), August 2002 Vancouver.
Tao W., Majumdar, S. “Application Level Performance Optimizations for CORBA-Based Systems”, Proc. International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP’02), Rome, July 2002, pp. 95-103.
Krishnamurthy, D., Rolia, J., Arlitt, M., Majumdar, S. “A Systematic Method for Creating Tests for E-Commerce Systems, Proc. Multiconference on Measurement, Modeling, and Evaluation of Computer Communication Systems, Aachen, Germany, September 2001, pp. 225-240.
Chen F., Majumdar, S. “Performance of Parallel I/O Scheduling Strategies on a Network of Workstations”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2001), Kyongju City, Korea, June 2001, pp. 157-164.
Abhari A., Dandamudi, S., Majumdar, S., “Using Web Object to Improve the Performance of Proxy Caching”, Proc. Fourth WWW 10 Workshop on Web Engineering, Honkong, May 2001.
Ahmad, I., Majumdar, S., “Achieving High Performance on CORBA-Based Systems with Limited Heterogeneity”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Object Oriented Real-Time Computing (ISORC 2001), Magdeburg, Germany, April 2001, pp. 350-359.
Petriu, D.C., Amer, ., Majumdar, S., Abdul-Fatah, I., “Analytic Modeling of Middleware”, Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2000), Ottawa, September 2000, pp. 189-194.
Nadimpalli, S., Majumdar, S., "Performance Enhancement Techniques for Parallel Web Servers", International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Toronto, August 2000, pp. 233-242 .
Abhari, A., Dandamudi, D., Majumdar, S., "Characterization of Popular Web Documents", IEEE Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Conference (PDCS '2000) , Baltimore, March 2000.
Shen, E.-K., Majumdar, S., Abdul-Fatah, I. "The Performance of Adaptive Middleware Systems", ACM Principles of Distributed Computing Conference (PODC), Portland July 2000, pp. 233-241.
Majumdar, S., Ahmad, I., Shen, E.-K., Abdul-Fatah, I., “Attaining High Performance in CORBA-Based Middleware Systems”, in Systems and Control: Theory and Applications (eds. N. Mastorakis), World Scientific and Engineering Society Press, 2000, pp. 219-225.
Majumdar, S., Ahmad, I., Shen, E.-K., Abdul-Fatah, I., “Attaining High Performance in CORBA-Based Middleware Systems”, in Systems and Control: Theory and Applications (eds. N. Mastorakis), World Scientific and Engineering Society Press, 2000, pp. 219-225.
Diaconescu, L., Majumdar S., "Effect of Average Parallelism and CPU-I/O Overlap on the Performance of Parallel Applications", Workshop on Industrial Application of Network Computing (held in Conjunction with IEEE ICPADS Conference), Iwate, Japan, July 2000.
Majumdar, S., "Scheduling Strategies for Controlling Resource Contention on Multiprocessor Systems", IEEE High Performance Computing Conference, Calcutta (India), December 1999, pp. 151-157.
Majumdar, S., Beninger, B., Streibel, D., Carroll, B. ``Controlling Shared Memory Contention on a Multiprocessor-Based Telephone Switch (Extended Abstract)'', Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Atlanta, May 1999, pp. 228-229.
Diaconescu, L., Majumdar, S. ``The Performance of Parallel I/O on a Multiprogrammed Network of Workstations'', Proc. International Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN), December 1998, pp. 439-448.
Abdul-Fatah, I., Majumdar, S., "Performance Comparison of Architectures for Client-Server Interactions in CORBA", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 98) , May 1998, pp. 2-11 [shorter version of journal paper in preparation].
Etemadi, R., Karam, G.K., Majumdar, S., "Heuristic Algorithms for Priority Assignment in Flow shops", Proc. IEEE Performance Computer and Communications (IPCCC '98), February 1998, pp. 15-22.
Abdul-Fatah, I., Majumdar, S. "The Effect of Object-Agent Interactions on the performance of CORBA Systems" , Proc. IEEE Performance Computer and Communications (IPCCC '98), February 1998, pp. 67-74.
Majumdar, S., Hubbard, A., "Computation of Bounds and Performance Guarantees for Client-Server Systems Using a Queueing Network Model", Proc. 31th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (Engineering Client-Server Systems Minitrack), January 1998.
Chan, Y.-N., Dandamudi, S.P., Majumdar, S., "Comparison of Processor Scheduling Strategies in Distributed Memory Multicomputer Systems", Proc. Eleventh International Parallel Processing Symp. (IPPS'97) - IEEE & ACM, Geneva, April 1997.
Graham, W.C., Majumdar, S., "The Performance of Multithreading and Scheduling in Client-Server Systems", Proc. IEEE Performance Computer and Communications (IPCCC '97), February 1997 [shorter version of journal paper].
Franks, G., Majumdar, S., Petriu, D., Rolia, J., Neilson, J., Woodside, C.M., "Performance Analysis of Distributed Server Systems", Proc. 6th International Conf. on Software Quality, Ottawa, October 1996, pp. 15-26.
Luethi, J., Kotsis, G., Majumdar, S., Haring, G., "Bounds-Based Performance Analysis for Distributed Systems with Variabilities and Uncertainties in Workload", Proc. Hungarian Workshop on Parallel & Distributed Systems (DAPSYS'96) (Environments & Tools), September 1996 [shorter version of journal paper].
Kwong, P., Majumdar, S., "Study of Data Distribution Strategies in Parallel I/O Management", Third International Conf. of the Austrian Committee on Parallel Computing (ACPC'96), September 1996, pp. 12-23.
Luethi, J., Majumdar, S., Haring, G., "Mean Value Analysis for Computer Systems with Variabilities and in Workload", Proc. Second International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium (IPDS'96), Urbana Champaign (Illinois), Sept. 1996, pp. 32-41.
Majumdar, S., Phillips, T. "Performance of Server Scheduling in Client-Server Systems", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'96), Tokyo, Japan June 1996. pp. 448-455.
Majumdar, S., "Application of Relational Interval Arithmetic in Performance Analysis of Computing Systems", Proc. Post Conference Workshop on Interval Constraints (International Logic Programming Symp.), Portland (OR) December 1995 [shorter version of journal paper].
Majumdar, S., Shad, F. "Characterization and Management of I/O in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems", Proc. Seventh IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, San Antonio (TX), October 1995.
Majumdar, S., Phillips, T., "Scheduling in Client-Server Systems" (Extended Abstract), Proc. ACM Principles of Distributed Computing, Ottawa (ON), August 1995.
Majumdar, S. Ramadoss, R., "Interval-Based Performance Analysis of Computing Systems", International Workshop on Modeling And Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'95), January 1995.
Majumdar, S., Leung, Y.M., "Characterizing Applications with I/O for Processor Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems", Proc. Sixth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas (TX), October 1994.
Petriu, D.C., Majumdar, S., Lin, J., Hrischuck, C. "Analytic Performance Estimation of Client Server Systems with Multi-threaded Clients", Proc. International Workshop on Modeling And Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'94), Durham (NC), January 1994, pp. 96-100.
Majumdar, S., Woodside, C.M., Bailey, D.L., "Measurement of Parallelism in Data Communications Protocol Software", Proc. IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Tempe (Arizona), March 1993, pp. 56 - 65.
Majumdar S., Woodside, C.M., Neilson, J.E., Petriu, D.C., "Robust Box Bounds: Network Throughput Guarantees with Minimal Stochastic Assumptions", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM'92 Conference, Florence (Italy), May 1992, pp.2006 - 2015.
Majumdar S., "The Performance of Local and Global Scheduling Strategies in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems" Proc. IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix (Arizona), April 1992, pp. 55 - 62.
Majumdar, S., Woodside, C.M. and Bailey, D., "Characterization and Measurement of Parallelism in Communications Protocol Software", [Poster Session], Proc. International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles (Illinois), August 1991, pp. II.270-II.271.
Woodside, C.M., Majumdar, S. and Neilson, J.E., "Interval Arithmetic for Computing Performance Guarantees in Client-Server Software", Proc. International Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI '91), Ottawa (Ontario), May 1991, pp. 535-546.
Majumdar, S., Eager, D.L. and Bunt, R.B., "Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Santa Fe (New Mexico), May 1988, pp.104-113.
Majumdar, S. and Bunt, R.B., "Measurement and Analysis of Locality Phases in File Referencing Behaviour", Proc. PERFORMANCE `86 and ACM SIGMETRICS 1986 Conference, Raleigh (North Carolina), May 1986, pp.180-192.
Bunt, R.B., Murphy, J.M. and Majumdar, S., "A Measure of Program Locality and Its Application", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Cambridge, (Mass.), August 1984, pp.28-40.

Invited Papers

Majumdar, S., Nadimpali, S., Abhari, A., Chen, Y, Dandamudi, S., "Utilizing Page Structure for Achieving High Performance", Proc. IPSI-2003 Conference-VIP Forum, Sveti Stefan (Montenegro), October 2003.
Chan Y.-N., Dandamudi, S., Majumdar, S., "An Experimental Investigation of Processor Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Transputer Systems", Performance Evaluation Review, ACM SIGMETRICS, January 1999.
Majumdar S., Shen, E.-K., Ahmad I., "Achieving High Performance Through Adaptive Middleware in CORBA-Based Systems" (position paper), Reflective Middleware Workshop (RM-2000) (to be held in conjunction with Middleware 2000), New york, April 2000.
Woodside, C.M., Ellis, R., Neilson, J.E., Majumdar, S., and Petriu, D.C., "Object-Oriented Performance Modeling of Synchronous Client Server Systems by Rendezvous Networks" (invited paper) Proc. Bell Canada Quality Engineering Workshop, Ottawa, October 1991.
Woodside, C.M., Buhr, R.J.A., Karam, G.M., Pagurek, B., Majumdar, S. and Petriu, D.C., "Communications Software CAD with Performance Analysis", (invited paper) Proc. Bell Canada Quality Engineering Workshop, Montreal, October 1990.

Contribution to Books

Majumdar, S., "High Performance Middleware-Based Systems", in Middleware for Communications (ed. Q. Mahmoud), John Wiley and Sons, 2004 (to appear).
Majumdar, S., Luthi, J., Haring, G., Ramadoss, R., “Characterization and Analysis of Software and Systems with Uncertainties and Variabilities”, in Performance Engineering – State of the Art and Current Trends (eds. Dumke, R., Rautenstrauch, C., Schmietendorf, A., Scholz, A.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS 2047), Springer, pp. 202-221.
Majumdar S. et al. Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology (eds: P. Laplante, E. Veklerov) Academic Press 2001.
Majumdar, S., Parsons, E., "Parallel Job Scheduling: a Performance Perspective", Performance Evaluation: Origins and Directions, (eds: G. Haring, C. Lindemann, M. Reiser), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag 2000.
Majumdar, S., Danadmudi, S.P., editors of Proceedings of the IEEE MASCOTS'98 Workshops, Montreal, July 1999.

Tutorial

Majumdar, S. “High Performance CORBA”, IEEE High Performance Computing Conference (tutorial), Hyderabad, India, December 2001, (4 hours).

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

Graham, W.C., Majumdar, S., "Scheduling in RPC-Based Client-Server Systems", Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario Retreat Workbook, May 1995.
Leung, Y.M., Majumdar, S., "The Effect of Inter-Process Communication on Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Distributed Memory Systems", Proc. First International Workshop on Parallel Processing, Bangalore (India), December 1994, 6 pages (accepted for publication August 94).
Majumdar, S., "Interval Arithmetic for Performance Analysis of Distributed Computing Systems", Proc. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Quebec City, September 1991, pp. 32.3.1-32.3.4.
Petriu, D.C., Woodside, C.M., Neilson, J.E. and Majumdar, S., "On Analytical Performance Modeling of Software for Distributed Systems", Proc. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 1990, pp. 35.1.1 - 35.1.4

Conference Papers (Only Abstracts Published)

Somashekhar, H.S., Raghunathan, K.S. and Majumdar, S., "Message Switching: A Microprocessor-Based Implementation", International Conference on Communication Circuits and Systems, Calcutta, India, December 1981.
Somashekhar, H.S., Raghunathan, K.S., Ashok Kumar, K. and Majumdar, S., "Mu Bus: A Bus Standard for Microprocessors", International Conference on Communication Circuits and Systems, Calcutta, India, December 1981.

Other Technical Papers and Reports

Majumdar, S. Wu, W.-K., “CORBA Middleware: a Performance Perspective”, in Contract Report for Department of National Defense, October 2000.
Ahmad, I., Majumdar, S. “Achieving High Performance in CORBA-Based Systems with Limited Heterogeneity”, Tech. Report SCE-99-06, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, December 1999.
Shen, E.-K., Majumdar, S., “Performance of Adaptive Middleware for CORBA-Based Systems”, Tech. Report SCE-99-07, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, December 1999 [longer version of conference paper].
Majumdar, S., Hubbard, A., "Performance Bounds for Client-Server Systems Using a Queueing Network Model", Tech. Report SCE-97-16, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, September 1997 [longer version of conference paper].
Kwong, P., Majumdar, S., "Scheduling of I/O in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems" Tech. Report SCE-96-12, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, 1996 [longer version of paper submitted for publication].
Luethi, J., Majumdar, S., Haring, G. "Mean Value Analysis for Computer Systems with Variabilities and in Workload" Technical Report TR-96101, Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Vienna, 1996 [longer version of conference paper].
Majumdar, S., Luethi, J., Haring, G., "Histogram-Based Performance Analysis for Computer Systems with Variabilities or Uncertainties in Workload", Tech. Report SCE-95-22, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, November 1995.
Majumdar,S., Ramadoss,R., "Interval-Based Performance Analysis of Computing Systems", Tech. Report SCE-94-22, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, July 1994 [longer version of conference paper].
Woodside, C.M., Neilson, J.E., Petriu, D.C., Majumdar, S., "Supertask: A Flexible Abstraction for Visualizing Performance Models of Distributed Software Task Systems", Report SCE-91-24, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, June 1991.
Woodside, C.M., Majumdar, S., Neilson, J.E., and Petriu, D.C., "A Guide to Rendezvous Network Modeling of Distributed Client-Server Software Systems", Report SCE-91-22, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, April 1991.
Majumdar, S., Woodside, C.M., Neilson, J.E. and Petriu, D.C., "Analytic Performance Models for Distributed Processing Systems: A Survey (Part II)", Report CSM-10, Real-Time and Distributed Systems Group, Carleton University, Ottawa, November 1988.
Majumdar, S., "Processor Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 1988 (available as Research Report 88-6).
Majumdar, S., "Locality and File Referencing Behavior: Principles and Applications", M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computational Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 1984 (available as Research Report 84-14).

Conference Presentations (without formal papers)

“High Performance Adaptive CORBA Middleware”, CITO Research Review, Toronto, September 2000.
"High Performance Parallel and Distributed Systems", CITO Research Forum'99, Ottawa, May 1999.
"Resource Management in Parallel & Distributed Systems", OCRI Workshop on Software Performance Engineering, Ottawa, May 1997.
"Interval-Based Performance Analysis", OCRI Workshop on Software Performance Engineering, Ottawa, May 1997 (with A. Hubbard).
"Interval-Based Performance Analysis of Client-Server Systems", Application of Relational Interval Arithmetic Workshop (ARIA-93), Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa (Ontario), August 1993.

TALKS AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES

"Achieving High Performance in CORBA-Based Systems", University of Quebec (Hull), February 2000 (invited talk).
"Achieving High Performance in CORBA-Based Systems", IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Lecture,
- Quebec City November 1999
- Calcutta (India) December 1999
- Ottawa January 2000
- New York (Long Island) November 2001
- Costa Rica May 2001

"Performance of CORBA-Based Middleware Systems", University Autonoma of Guadalajara, Guadalajara (Mexico), October 1999 (invited talk).
"Performance Analysis of Systems with Variabilities and Uncertainties in Workload", Dagstuhl Workshop, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, September 1997 (invited talk).
"Resource Management in Parallel & Distributed Systems", Nortel Technologies, Ottawa, June 1997 (invited talk).
"Scheduling in Client-Server Systems", University of Vienna, September 1996 (invited talk).
"Resource Management in Parallel & Distributed Systems", OCRI Workshop on Software Performance Engineering, Ottawa, May 1997.
"Distributed Processing Systems (6 day ConGESE course given at Nortel Tech. with a colleague), March-June 1996.
"Management of Parallel I/O" (invited talk), IFIP Working Group 7.3 Workshop, Ottawa, May 1995. "Processor Scheduling in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems", T.J. Watson Research Center (IBM), Yorktown Heights, USA, November 1987.

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA, November 1987.

University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA, November 1987.

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, December 1987.

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, November 1988.

University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, November 1988.

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Dr. Shikharesh Majumdar: List of Publications