Dara Kusic
E-mail: kusic at drexel dot edu
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dmk25

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Journal Publications:

  1. D. Kusic, J. Kephart, J. Hanson, N. Kandasamy and G. Jiang, "Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments via Lookahead Control," Cluster Computing: Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, v. 12, n. 1, Springer Netherlands Publishers, Mar. 2009, pp. 1-15.
  2. D. Kusic, N. Kandasamy and G. Jiang, "Approximation Modeling for the Online Performance Management of Distributed Computing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, v. 38, n. 5, Oct. 2008, pp. 1221-1233.
  3. D. Kusic and N. Kandasamy, "Risk-Aware Limited Lookahead Control for Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Enterprise Computing Systems," Cluster Computing: Special Issue on Autonomic Computing, v. 10, n. 7, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dec. 2007, pp. 395-408.
  4. A.K. Jones, R. Hoare, D. Kusic, J. Stander, G. Mehta, and J. Fazekas, "A VLIW Processor with Hardware Functions: Increasing Performance while Reducing Power," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Sys., v. 53, n. 11, Nov. 2006, pp. 1250-4.
  5. A.K. Jones, R. Hoare, D. Kusic, G. Mehta, J. Fazekas and J. Foster, "Reducing Power while Increasing Performance with SuperCISC," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing (TECS), v. 5, n. 3, Sept. 2006, pp. 658-86.
  6. R. Hoare, A.K. Jones, D. Kusic, J. Fazekas, J. Foster, S. Tung and M. McCloud, "Rapid VLIW Processor Customization for Signal Processing Applications Using Combinational Hardware Functions," EURASIP J. of Applied Sig. Proc., 2006.

Conference Proceeding Publications:

  1. J.C.B. Leite, Daniel Mossé, D. Kusic, "Stochastic Approximation Control of a Three-tier Web-Hosting Cluster," accepted to the IEEE Int'l Conference on Autonomic Computing, Jun. 2010. (26% acceptance)
  2. R. Wang, D. Kusic, N. Kandasamy, "A Distributed Control Framework for Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments," accepted to the IEEE Int'l Conference on Autonomic Computing, Jun. 2010. (26% acceptance)
  3. D. Kusic, J. Kephart, J. Hanson, N. Kandasamy and G. Jiang, "Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments via Lookahead Control," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'08), Chicago, IL, Jun. 2008, pp 3-12. (25% acceptance, Best Student Paper award)
  4. Q. Brown, W. Mongan, E. Gabarine, D. Kusic, E. Fromm and A. Fontecchio, "Computer-Aided Instruction as a Vehicle for Problem Solving: Scratch in the Middle Years Classroom," Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Jun. 2008.
  5. D. Kusic, N. Kandasamy and G. Jiang, "Approximation Modeling for the Online Performance Management of Distributed Computing Systems," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'07), Jacksonville, FL, Jun. 2007. (17% acceptance)
  6. D. Kusic and N. Kandasamy, "Risk-Aware Limited Lookahead Control for Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Enterprise Computing Systems," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'06), Dublin, Ireland, Jun. 2006, pp. 74-83. (21% acceptance, Best Student Paper award)
  7. A.K. Jones, R. Hoare, I.S. Kourtev, J. Fazekas, D. Kusic, J. Foster, S. Boddie and A. Muaydh, "A 64-way VLIW/SIMD FPGA Architecture and Design Flow," 11th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICSCS), Tel-Aviv, Israel, Dec. 2004, pp. 499-502.
  8. D. Kusic, B. Tozer, A. Ridilla, R. Hoare, "Interactive Streaming Videoconferencing Using the Java Media Framework," Proc. of the 7th IASTED Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA), Marina del Rey, CA, Nov. 2003, pp. 106-10.
  9. R. Hoare, M. Besterfield-Sacre, D. Kusic, J. Beckwith, L. Shuman, D. Ertman and R. Shields, "An On-line Cross-institutional Survey System: Experience and Migration from an Applet-based System to a Java Server Page System," Proc. of the 7th IASTED Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA), Marina del Rey, CA, Nov. 2003, pp. 5-11.

Workshop and Symposium Publications:

  1. D. Kusic, N. Kandasamy, S. Abdelwahed, and G. Jiang, "Towards Fault-Adaptive Control of Enterprise Computing Systems - A Position Paper," Proc. of ACM Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FEBID'08), Annapolis, MD, Jun. 2008.
  2. R. Hoare, A.K. Jones, D. Kusic, J. Fazekas, G. Mehta and J. Foster, " A VLIW Processor with Hardware Functions: Increasing Performance While Reducing Power," Proc. of the 9th Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC'05), Boston, MA, Sept. 2005, pp. 5-6.
  3. D. Kusic, R. Hoare, A.K. Jones, J. Fazekas and J. Foster, "Extracting Speedup From C-code With Poor Instruction-level Parallelism," Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Sym. (IPDPS), Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing (WMPP), Denver, CO, Apr. 2005.
  4. A.K. Jones, R. Hoare, D. Kusic, J. Fazekas and J. Foster, "Computation Techniques for FPGAs: An FPGA-based VLIW Processor with Custom Hardware Execution," 13th ACM Intl. Sym. on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA'05), Monterey, CA, Feb. 2005, pp. 107-17.
  5. B. Tozer, D. Kusic, A. Ridilla, R. Hoare, "EMMA: The Extensible Multimedia Applications Framework for Developing Collaborative, Streaming Multimedia Applications," Proc. of the 2004 Intl. Sym. on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS'04), San Diego, CA, Jan. 2004.

Papers Under Review:

  1. D. Kusic, N. Kandasamy, and G. Jiang, "Combined Power and Performance Management of Virtualized Computing Environments Serving Session-based Workloads," Under review by IEEE Transactions on Computers, resubmitted with major revisions Mar. 2010.

Guest Editorships

  1. D. Mossé, J.C. B. Leite, and D. Kusic, "Special Issue on Temperature/Energy Aware Real-Time Systems," Journal of Real-time Systems, to be published late 2010 or early 2011.

Grants Awarded

  1. W. Regli, D. Kusic, and G. Naik, authors. "NEER-IP: A Network Emulation Environment for Research In-the-looP," Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), awarded April 2010.