Alma Riska

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2000-2016
Publications (10 Years): 4

Top Topics

Learning Models

Quality Guarantees

Dynamic Environments

Top Venues

J. Syst. Softw.

Publications

Cengiz Karakoyunlu, John A. Chandy, Alma Riska
Adding data analytics capabilities to scaled-out object store. J. Syst. Softw. 121 (2016)
Ji Xue, Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Scheduling data analytics work with performance guarantees: queuing and machine learning models in synergy. Clust. Comput. 19 (2) (2016)
Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
PREFiguRE: An Analytic Framework for HDD Management. ACM Trans. Model. Perform. Evaluation Comput. Syst. 1 (3) (2016)
Ji Xue, Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Proactive Management of Systems via Hybrid Analytic Techniques. ICCAC (2015)
Ji Xue, Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Storage Workload Isolation via Tier Warming: How Models Can Help. ICAC (2014)
Feng Yan, Shannon Hughes, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Agile middleware for scheduling: meeting competing performance requirements of diverse tasks. ICPE (2014)
Feng Yan, Shannon Hughes, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Overcoming Limitations of Off-the-Shelf Priority Schedulers in Dynamic Environments. MASCOTS (2013)
Malak Alshawabkeh, Alma Riska, Adnan Sahin, Motasem Awwad
Automated Storage Tiering Using Markov Chain Correlation Based Clustering. ICMLA (1) (2012)
Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Busy bee: how to use traffic information for better scheduling of background tasks. ICPE (2012)
Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Fast Eventual Consistency with Performance Guarantees for Distributed Storage. ICDCS Workshops (2012)
Feng Yan, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Toward fast eventual consistency with performance guarantees. ICAC (2012)
Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Adaptive workload shaping for power savings on disk drives (abstracts only). SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 39 (3) (2011)
Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Adaptive workload shaping for power savings on disk drives. ICPE (2011)
Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Toward Automating Work Consolidation with Performance Guarantees in Storage Clusters. MASCOTS (2011)
Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Saving power without compromising disk drive reliability. IGCC (2011)
Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Copy rate synchronization with performance guarantees for work consolidation in storage clusters. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 39 (3) (2011)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Autonomic exploration of trade-offs between power and performance in disk drives. ICAC (2010)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Evaluation of disk-level workloads at different time scales. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 37 (2) (2009)
Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Autocorrelation-driven load control in distributed systems. MASCOTS (2009)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Evaluation of disk-level workloads at different time-scales. IISWC (2009)
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel
Efficient management of idleness in storage systems. ACM Trans. Storage 5 (2) (2009)
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel
Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks. SIGMETRICS/Performance (2009)
Alma Riska, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Giuliano Casale
Feasibility regions: exploiting tradeoffs between power and performance in disk drives. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 37 (3) (2009)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Disk Drive Workload Captured in Logs Collected During the Field Return Incoming Test. WASL (2008)
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel
Enhancing data availability in disk drives through background activities. DSN (2008)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Idle Read After Write - IRAW. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2008)
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Performance-Guided Load (Un)balancing under Autocorrelated Flows. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 19 (5) (2008)
Xi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Characterization of the E-commerce Storage Subsystem Workload. QEST (2008)
Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel
Performance impacts of autocorrelated flows in multi-tiered systems. Perform. Evaluation 64 (9-12) (2007)
Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Giuliano Casale
New Results on the Performance Effects of Autocorrelated Flows in Systems. IPDPS (2007)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
ETAQA Solutions for Infinite Markov Processes with Repetitive Structure. INFORMS J. Comput. 19 (2) (2007)
Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel
Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2007)
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel
Efficient management of idleness in systems. SIGMETRICS (2007)
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Storage performance virtualization via throughput and latency control. ACM Trans. Storage 2 (3) (2006)
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Load Unbalancing to Improve Performance under Autocorrelated Traffic. ICDCS (2006)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Disk Drive Level Workload Characterization. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, General Track (2006)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Long-Range Dependence at the Disk Drive Level. QEST (2006)
Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs. DSN (2006)
Ningfang Mi, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Load Balancing for Performance Differentiation in Dual-Priority Clustered Servers. QEST (2006)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Guest editor's foreword: bigger and faster and smaller. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 33 (4) (2006)
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska, Qian Wang, Erik Riedel
An interposed 2-Level I/O scheduling framework for performance virtualization. SIGMETRICS (2005)
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Storage Performance Virtualization via Throughput and Latency Control. MASCOTS (2005)
Andreas Stathopoulos, Alma Riska, Zhili Hua, Evgenia Smirni
Bridging ETAQA and Ramaswami's formula for the solution of M/G/1-type processes. Perform. Evaluation 62 (1-4) (2005)
Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
Workload Propagation - Overload in Bursty Servers. QEST (2005)
Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
Workload-Aware Load Balancing for Clustered Web Servers. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst. 16 (3) (2005)
Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Evgenia Smirni
Bottlenecks and Their Performance Implications in E-commerce Systems. WCW (2004)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
Exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type performability models. IEEE Trans. Reliab. 53 (2) (2004)
Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Guangrui Fu, DeQing Chen, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Jeun Fung Lie, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, Dejan S. Milojicic
Susceptibility of Commodity Systems and Software to Memory Soft Errors. IEEE Trans. Computers 53 (12) (2004)
Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni
An EM-based technique for approximating long-tailed data sets with PH distributions. Perform. Evaluation 55 (1-2) (2004)
Gianfranco Ciardo, Weizhen Mao, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
ETAQA-MG1: an efficient technique for the analysis of a class of M/G/1-type processes by aggregation. Perform. Evaluation 57 (3) (2004)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel, Sami Iren
Adaptive Disk Scheduling for Overload Management. QEST (2004)
Alma Riska, Erik Riedel
It's not fair - evaluating efficient disk scheduling. MASCOTS (2003)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
An aggregation-based method for the exact analysis of a class of GI/G/1-type processes. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 31 (2) (2003)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
Exact aggregate solutions for M/G/1-type Markov processes. SIGMETRICS (2002)
Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni
Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into hyperexponential distributions. GLOBECOM (2002)
Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
ADAPTLOAD: Effective Balancing in Custered Web Servers Under Transient Load Conditions. ICDCS (2002)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
M/G/1-Type Markov Processes: A Tutorial. Performance (2002)
Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni
Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into phase-type distributions. SIGMETRICS Perform. Evaluation Rev. 30 (3) (2002)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
MAMSolver: A Matrix Analytic Methods Tool. Computer Performance Evaluation / TOOLS (2002)
Gianfranco Ciardo, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni
EQUILOAD: a load balancing policy for clustered web servers. Perform. Evaluation 46 (2-3) (2001)
DeQing Chen, Alan Messer, Philippe Bernadat, Guangrui Fu, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Jeun Fung Lie, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, Dejan S. Milojicic
JVM Susceptibility to Memory Errors. Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (2001)
Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo
Analytic modeling of load balancing policies for tasks with heavy-tailed distributions. Workshop on Software and Performance (2000)