Abhishek Verma

Journal Publication

1. Abhishek Verma, Brian Cho, Nicolas Zea, Indranil Gupta and Roy H. Campbell, "Breaking the MapReduce Stage Barrier". Springer Journal of Cluster Computing, Special issue, 2011. [Springer] [pdf]

Book Chapter

1. Abhishek Verma, Shivaram Venkataraman, Matthew Caesar, and Roy H. Campell, Scalable Storage for Data-intensive Computing. Handbook of Data-intensive Computing, Springer Science, 2011. [Springer] [pdf]
2. Xavier Llorà Abhishek Verma, Roy H. Campbell, and David E. Goldberg, When Huge is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing. Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence, Natural Series of Computational Intelligence (SCI) 269, pp. 11-41, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2010. [Springer] [pdf] [BibTeX]
   @incollection{Llora:2010:meandre, author = {Llor\`{a}, Xavier and Verma, Abhishek and Campbell, Roy H. and Goldberg, David E. }, title = {{When Huge Is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing}}, booktitle = {{Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence}}, editor = "Fernandez de Vega, F. and Cantu-Paz, Erick", address = "Berlin Heidelberg", publisher = "Springer-Verlag", year = 2010, chapter = "1", pages = "11--41" }

Conference/Workshop Publications

1. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar and Roy H. Campbell, "Deadline-based Workload Management for MapReduce Environments: Pieces of the Performance Puzzle". IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Maui, Hawaii, April 2012. [IEEE] [pdf] [pptx]
2. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar and Roy H. Campbell, "Three Pieces of the MapReduce Workload Management Puzzle". Work-in-progress Report, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011. [ACM] [pdf] [pptx]
3. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell, "Resource Provisioning Framework for MapReduce Jobs with Performance Goals". ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Dec 2011. [LNCS] [pdf] [pptx]
4. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell, "Play it again, SimMR!". IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Austin, Texas, Sept 2011. [IEEE] [pdf] [pptx]
5. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell, "SLO-Driven Right-Sizing and Resource Provisioning of MapReduce Jobs". Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS) in conjunction with VLDB, Seattle, Washington, Sept 2011. [ACM] [pdf] [pptx]
6. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell, "ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for MapReduce Environments". International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2011. [ACM] [pdf] [pptx] [BibTeX]
   @inproceedings{Verma:2011:ARIA, author = {Verma, Abhishek and Cherkasova, Ludmila and Campbell, Roy H.}, title = {{ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for Mapreduce environments}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Autonomic computing}, series = {ICAC '11}, year = {2011}, isbn = {978-1-4503-0607-2}, location = {Karlsruhe, Germany}, pages = {235--244}, numpages = {10}, acmid = {1998637}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, }
7. Abhishek Verma, Nicolas Zea, Brian Cho, Indranil Gupta and Roy H. Campbell, "Breaking the MapReduce Stage Barrier". IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Heraklion, Greece, Sept, 2010. [IEEE] [pdf] [pptx] [BibTeX]
   @inproceedings{Verma:2010:Breaking, title={{Breaking the MapReduce Stage Barrier}}, author={Verma, A. and Zea, N. and Cho, B. and Gupta, I. and Campbell, R.H.}, booktitle={Proceeding of the International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2010) }, year={2010}, organization={IEEE} }
8. Abhishek Verma, Xavier Llorà Shivaram Venkataram, David E. Goldberg and Roy H. Campbell, "Scaling eCGA Model Building via Data-Intensive Computing". IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Barcelona, Spain, July 2010. [IEEE] [pdf] [pptx] [BibTeX]
   @inproceedings{Verma:2010:MReCGA, author = {Verma, Abhishek and Llor\`{a}, Xavier and Venkataraman, Shivaram and Goldberg, David E. and Campbell, Roy H.}, title = {Scaling eCGA Model Building via Data-Intensive Computing}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC '10)}, year = {2010}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, }
9. Abhishek Verma, Xavier Llorà David E. Goldberg and Roy H. Campbell, "Scaling Genetic Algorithms using MapReduce". Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), pp.13-18, Pisa, Italy, Nov, 2009. [IEEE] [pdf] [pptx] [BibTeX]
   @inproceedings{Verma:2009:MRGA, author = { Abhishek Verma and Xavier Llor\`a and David E. Goldberg and Roy H. Campbell}, title = {{Scaling Genetic Algorithms using MapReduce}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications}, address = {Pisa, Italy}, year = {2009}, }
10. Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan and Roy H. Campbell. "MITHRA: Multiple data Independent Tasks on a Heterogeneous Resource Architecture". IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing and Workshops (CLUSTER), pp.1-10, New Orleans, LA, Sept, 2009. [IEEE] [pdf] [pptx] [BibTeX]
    @inproceedings{Farivar:2009:MITHRA, title = {{MITHRA: Multiple data independent tasks on a heterogeneous resource architecture}}, author = {Farivar, R. and Verma, A. and Chan, E.M. and Campbell, R.H.}, booktitle = {Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing and Workshops (CLUSTER)}, year = {2009}, month = {September}, pages = {1-10}, doi = {10.1109/CLUSTR.2009.5289201}, ISSN = {1552-5244}, }

Patents

1. Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma, "Estimating performance parameter of a job having map and reduce tasks after a failure", Filed June 2011.
2. Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma, "Varying a characteristic of job profile relating to map and reduce tasks according to data size", Filed May 2011.
3. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, "Scheduling map and reduce tasks for jobs for execution according to performance goals", Filed April 2011.
4. Ludmila Cherkasova, Abhishek Verma, "Determining an allocation of resources for a job", Filed Feb 2011.
5. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, "Estimating a performance characteristic of a job using a performance model", Filed Feb 2011.

Posters

1. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vijay S. Kumar and Roy H. Campbell, "Three Pieces of the MapReduce Workload Management Puzzle". ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011. [pdf]
2. Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova and Roy H. Campbell, "ARIA: Automatic Resource Inference and Allocation for MapReduce Environments". Annual Hadoop Summit, Santa Clara, CA, June 2011. [pdf]