Paul Townend

72 papers B 5C 11Misc 3Journal 21Unranked 30
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Efficient retraining of machine learning algorithms in cloud management systems.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Lidia Kidane, Paul Townend, Thijs Metsch, Erik Elmroth
2026 J jnl
GraphOpticon: A Global proactive horizontal autoscaler for improved service performance & resource consumption.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Theodoros Theodoropoulos, Yashwant Singh Patel, Uwe Zdun, Paul Townend, Ioannis Korontanis, Antonios Makris, Konstantinos Tserpes
2025 J jnl
A Decentralized Microservice Scheduling Approach Using Service Mesh in Cloud-Edge Systems.
CoRR
Yangyang Wen, Paul Townend, Per-Olov Östberg, Abel Souza, Clément Courageux-Sudan
2025 C conf
Balancing Compression and Prediction: A Hybrid Autoencoder-LSTM Framework for Cloud Workloads.
BDCAT
Lidia Kidane, Paul Townend, Thijs Metsch, Erik Elmroth
2025 — conf
Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for the Green Serverless Cloud-Edge Continuum.
SOSE
Yashwant Singh Patel, Anurag Choubey, Anil Singh, Paul Townend
2025 — conf
Executing Mobile Edge Functions in the Cloud-Edge Continuum: Analyzing Threats to Location Integrity.
FiCloud
Philippe Massonet, Christophe Ponsard, Malik Bouhou, Xavier Lessage, Marco Mancini, Rubén S. Montero, Alberto P. Martí, Monowar Bhuyan, Paul Townend
2025 C conf
GreenContinuum: A Formal Model of a Smart Grid-Aware Edge-Cloud Continuum for Carbon and Energy Management.
CloudCom
Rohail Gulbaz, Paul Townend, Per-Olov Östberg
2025 Misc conf
Power Aware Cluster Orchestration: Taxonomy, Initial Results, and Challenges.
UCC
Ileet Malla, Thijs Metsch, Paul Townend
2025 Misc conf
Targeted and Fully Automated Updates Over LoRaWAN for Energy-Efficient Edge AI.
UCC
Clément Courageux-Sudan, Paul Townend, Atakan Aral
2025 B conf
Towards Adaptive Rule Replacement for Mitigating Inference Attacks in Serverless SDN Framework.
NOMS
Ankur Mudgal, Munesh Singh, Abhishek Verma, Kshira Sagar Sahoo, Paul Townend, Monowar Bhuyan
2024 — conf
A Stable Matching Approach to Energy Efficient and Sustainable Serverless Scheduling for the Green Cloud Continuum.
SOSE
Yashwant Singh Patel, Paul Townend
2024 J jnl
Modeling the Green Cloud Continuum: integrating energy considerations into Cloud-Edge models.
Clust. Comput.
Yashwant Singh Patel, Paul Townend, Anil Singh, Per-Olov Östberg
2023 Misc conf
Automated Hyperparameter Tuning for Adaptive Cloud Workload Prediction.
UCC
Lidia Kidane, Paul Townend, Thijs Metsch, Erik Elmroth
2023 — conf
COGNIT: Challenges and Vision for a Serverless and Multi-Provider Cognitive Cloud-Edge Continuum.
EDGE
Paul Townend, Alberto P. Martí, Idoia De-la-Iglesia, Nikolaos Matskanis, Thomas Ohlson Timoudas, Torsten Hallmann, Antonio Lalaguna, Kaja Swat, Francesco Renzi, Dominik Bochenski, Marco Mancini, Monowar Bhuyan, Marco González-Hierro, Sébastien Dupont, Johan Kristiansson, Rubén S. Montero, Erik Elmroth, Ivá Valdés, Philippe Massonet, Daniel Olsson, Ignacio Martín Llorente, Per-Olov Östberg, Michael Abdou
2023 — conf
Formal Models for the Energy-Aware Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum: Analysis and Challenges.
SOSE
Yashwant Singh Patel, Paul Townend, Per-Olov Östberg
2022 — conf
Service Mesh and eBPF-Powered Microservices: A Survey and Future Directions.
SOSE
Mohammad Reza Saleh Sedghpour, Paul Townend
2022 — conf
The 6G Computing Continuum (6GCC): Meeting the 6G computing challenges.
6GNet
William Tärneberg, Emma Fitzgerald, Monowar Bhuyan, Paul Townend, Karl-Erik Årzén, Per-Olov Östberg, Erik Elmroth, Johan Eker, Fredrik Tufvesson, Maria Kihl
2022 — conf
When and How to Retrain Machine Learning-based Cloud Management Systems.
IPDPS Workshops
Lidia Kidane, Paul Townend, Thijs Metsch, Erik Elmroth
2019 J jnl
Errata to "Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Section on Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems".
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.
Yiming Zhang, Rong N. Chang, Paul Townend
2019 J jnl
Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Section on Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems.
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.
Yiming Zhang, Rong N. Chang, Paul Townend
2019 — conf
Invited Paper: Improving Data Center Efficiency Through Holistic Scheduling In Kubernetes.
SOSE
Paul Townend, Stephen J. Clement, Dan Burdett, Renyu Yang, Joe Shaw, Brad Slater, Jie Xu
2018 J jnl
Adaptive Speculation for Efficient Internetware Application Execution in Clouds.
ACM Trans. Internet Techn.
Xue Ouyang, Peter Garraghan, Bernhard Primas, David McKee, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2018 J jnl
Improving content-based image retrieval for heterogeneous datasets using histogram-based descriptors.
Multim. Tools Appl.
Carolina Reta, Ismael Solís Moreno, Jose Antonio Cantoral-Ceballos, Rogelio Alvarez-Vargas, Paul Townend
2018 — conf
Intelligent Resource Scheduling at Scale: A Machine Learning Perspective.
SOSE
Renyu Yang, Xue Ouyang, Yaofeng Chen, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2017 B conf
ML-NA: A Machine Learning Based Node Performance Analyzer Utilizing Straggler Statistics.
ICPADS
Xue Ouyang, Changjian Wang, Renyu Yang, Guogui Yang, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2017 C conf
Mitigate data skew caused stragglers through ImKP partition in MapReduce.
IPCCC
Xue Ouyang, Huan Zhou, Stephen J. Clement, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2017 — conf
PROV-TE: A Provenance-Driven Diagnostic Framework for Task Eviction in Data Centers.
BigDataService
Abdulaziz Albatli, David McKee, Paul Townend, Lydia Lau, Jie Xu
2016 — conf
An Approach for Modeling and Ranking Node-Level Stragglers in Cloud Datacenters.
SCC
Xue Ouyang, Peter Garraghan, Changjian Wang, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2016 C conf
Holistic data centres: Next generation data and thermal energy infrastructures.
IPCCC
Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Jon Summers, Daniel Ruprecht, Harvey Thompson
2016 B conf
Straggler Detection in Parallel Computing Systems through Dynamic Threshold Calculation.
AINA
Xue Ouyang, Peter Garraghan, David McKee, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2015 C conf
Timely Long Tail Identification through Agent Based Monitoring and Analytics.
ISORC
Peter Garraghan, Xue Ouyang, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2014 J jnl
An Analysis of Failure-Related Energy Waste in a Large-Scale Cloud Environment.
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput.
Peter Garraghan, Ismael Solís Moreno, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2014 — conf
An Empirical Failure-Analysis of a Large-Scale Cloud Computing Environment.
HASE
Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2014 J jnl
Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Workload Patterns in a Large-Scale Utility Cloud.
IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput.
Ismael Solís Moreno, Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2014 — conf
Dynamic Data Deduplication in Cloud Storage.
SOSE
Waraporn Leesakul, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2014 C conf
Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Deduplication for Utility Computing.
ISORC
Waraporn Leesakul, Paul Townend, Peter Garraghan, Jie Xu
2014 C conf
M-VCR: Multi-View Consensus Recognition for Real-Time Experimentation.
ISORC
David McKee, Paul Townend, David Webster, Jie Xu
2014 — conf
Multi-tenancy in Cloud Computing.
SOSE
Hussain Aljahdali, Abdulaziz Albatli, Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Lydia Lau, Jie Xu
2014 — conf
Restructuring Web Service Interfaces to Support Evolution.
SOSE
David Webster, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2014 C conf
Towards a Virtual Integration Design and Analysis Enviroment for Automotive Engineering.
ISORC
David McKee, David Webster, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, David Battersby
2013 — conf
A Graph-Based Approach to Address Trust and Reputation in Ubiquitous Networks.
SOSE
Valentina Viduto, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Karim Djemame, Alexey Bochenkov
2013 J jnl
A novel intrusion severity analysis approach for Clouds.
Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2013 B conf
An Analysis of the Server Characteristics and Resource Utilization in Google Cloud.
IC2E
Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2013 — conf
An Approach for Characterizing Workloads in Google Cloud to Derive Realistic Resource Utilization Models.
SOSE
Ismael Solís Moreno, Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2013 C conf
An evaluation framework for assessing the dependability of Dynamic Binding in Service-Oriented Computing.
ISORC
Anthony Sargeant, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Karim Djemame
2013 — conf
Enhancing Multi-tenancy Security in the Cloud IaaS Model over Public Deployment.
SOSE
Hussain Aljahdali, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2013 J jnl
Intrusion damage assessment for multi-stage attacks for clouds.
IET Commun.
Junaid Arshad, Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Imran Ali Jokhio, Paul Townend
2013 — conf
Personalised Provenance Reasoning Models and Risk Assessment in Business Systems: A Case Study.
SOSE
Paul Townend, David Webster, Colin C. Venters, Vania Dimitrova, Karim Djemame, Lydia Lau, Jie Xu, Sarah Fores, Valentina Viduto, Charlie Dibsdale, Nick Taylor, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Stephen Hobson
2013 — conf
Risk Assessment and Trust in Services Computing: Applications and Experience.
IEEE SCC
Paul Townend, Valentina Viduto, David Webster, Karim Djemame, Lydia Lau, Vania Dimitrova, Jie Xu, Sarah Fores, Charlie Dibsdale, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Stephen Hobson
2013 J jnl
Using Byzantine Fault-Tolerance to Improve Dependability in Federated Cloud Computing.
Int. J. Softw. Informatics
Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Xiaoyu Yang, Peipei Sui
2012 — conf
A Framework for Improving Trust in Dynamic Service-Oriented Systems.
ISORC Workshops
Paul Townend, Colin C. Venters, Lydia Lau, Karim Djemame, Vania Dimitrova, Alison Marshall, Jie Xu, Charlie Dibsdale, Nick Taylor, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Martyn Fletcher, Stephen Hobson
2012 J jnl
Cloud Computing Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls.
Int. J. Grid High Perform. Comput.
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Wei Jie
2012 — conf
Evaluating the Dependability of Dynamic Binding in Web Services.
HASE
Anthony Sargeant, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Karim Djemame
2012 C conf
Interface Refactoring in Performance-Constrained Web Services.
ISORC
David Webster, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2012 — conf
Real-Time Fault-Tolerance in Federated Cloud Environments.
ISORC Workshops
Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2011 J jnl
A review of grid authentication and authorization technologies and support for federated access control.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad, Richard O. Sinnott, Paul Townend, Zhou Lei
2011 J jnl
An Abstract Model for Integrated Intrusion Detection and Severity Analysis for Clouds.
Int. J. Cloud Appl. Comput.
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2011 — ch.
An Intrusion Diagnosis Perspective on Cloud Computing.
Guide to e-Science
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2011 J jnl
An automatic intrusion diagnosis approach for clouds.
Int. J. Autom. Comput.
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2011 — conf
Byzantine fault-tolerance in federated cloud computing.
SOSE
Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2011 — conf
Provenance: Current directions and future challenges for service oriented computing.
SOSE
Colin C. Venters, Paul Townend, Lydia Lau, Karim Djemame, Vania Dimitrova, Alison Marshall, Jie Xu, Charlie Dibsdale, Nick Taylor, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Martyn Fletcher, Stephen Hobson
2009 J jnl
Efficient and scalable search on scale-free P2P networks.
Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl.
Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Paul Townend, David Webster
2009 B conf
Quantification of Security for Compute Intensive Workloads in Clouds.
ICPADS
Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2008 J jnl
CROWN-C: A High-Assurance Service-Oriented Grid Middleware System.
Computer
Paul Townend, Jinpeng Huai, Jie Xu, Nik Looker, Dacheng Zhang, Jianxin Li, Liang Zhong
2008 J jnl
FT-Grid: a system for achieving fault tolerance in grids.
Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp.
Jie Xu, Paul Townend, Nik Looker, Paul Groth
2007 — conf
CROWN-C: A High-Assurance Service-Oriented Grid Middleware System.
HASE
Paul Townend, Nik Looker, Dacheng Zhang, Jie Xu, Jianxin Li, Liang Zhong, Jinpeng Huai
2006 — —
Topology-aware fault tolerance in grids.
Paul Townend
2005 C conf
A Provenance-Aware Weighted Fault Tolerance Scheme for Service-Based Applications.
ISORC
Paul Townend, Paul Groth, Jie Xu
2005 J jnl
Dependability in Grids.
IEEE Distributed Syst. Online
Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2002 — conf
Assessing Multi-Version Systems Through Fault Injection.
WORDS
Paul Townend, Jie Xu
2002 — conf
Building Embedded Fault-Tolerant Systems for Critical Applications: An Experimental Study.
DIPES
Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Malcolm Munro
2001 — conf
Building Dependable Software for Critical Applications: Multi-Version Software versus One Good Version.
WORDS
Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Malcolm Munro