Publications


2006

* S. Pleisch, T. Clouser, M. Nesterenko, and A. Schiper: Drift: Efficient message ordering in ad hoc networks using virtual flooding. Technical Report LSR-REPORT-2006-002, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), May 2006.

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S. Pleisch, M. Balakrishnan, K.B. Birman, and R. van Renesse: Mistral: Efficient Flooding in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.

In Proc. of the 7th Int. Symp. on Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc'06), Florence, Italy, May 2006.

2005

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S. Pleisch and K.B. Birman: Scalable Querying and Tracking of Sensor Networks from Mobile Platforms (Poster).

20th ACM Symp. on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). October 2005.

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F. Gärtner and S. Pleisch: Predicate detection in asynchronous systems with crash failures.

Book chapter in A.Y. Zomaya and H.B. Diab (eds): Dependable computing systems: Paradigms, performance issues, and applications, Wiley, Sept. 2005.

 

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M. Balakrishnan, S. Pleisch, and K. Birman: Slingshot: Time-Critical Multicast for Clustered Applications.

In Proc. of the 4th IEEE Int. Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'05). Boston, MA, USA. July 2005.

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K. Birman, R. Hillman, and S. Pleisch: Building net-centric military applications over service oriented architectures.

In Proc. of SPIE Conference on Defense Transformation and Network-Centric Systems, Orlando, FL, USA, March 2005.

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2004

F. Pedone, P. Felber, and S. Pleisch: Membership-Oblivious Protocols.
In Proc. of the Workshop on Dependable Distributed Data Management, pp. 37-44, Florianopolis, Brazil, October 2004.

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S. Pleisch, and A. Schiper: Approaches to Fault-Tolerant and Transactional Mobile Agent Execution -- An Algorithmic View.
ACM Computing Surveys, September 2004. Pages 219-262.
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abstract, pdf)
 

R. Ekwall, S. Mena, S. Pleisch, and A. Schiper: Towards flexible finite-state-machine-based protocol composition.
In Proc. of the 3rd Int. Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'04), Cambridge, MA, USA, August 2004.
 
(abstract, pdf)
 

A. Kupsys, S. Pleisch, A. Schiper, and M. Wiesmann: Towards JMS compliant group communication - a semantic mapping.

In Proc. of the 3rd Int. Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'04), Cambridge, MA, USA, August 2004.
 
(abstract, pdf)
 

R. Ekwall, S. Pleisch, and A. Schiper: Implementing group communication protocols using SDL.
In Proc. of the Int. IMS Forum 2004, pages 333-340, Cernobbio, Italy, May 2004.

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2003

S. Pleisch, and A. Schiper: Execution Atomicity for Non-Blocking Transactional Mobile Agents.
In Proc. of Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), pages 615-620, Marina del Rey, CA.
November 2003.

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S. Pleisch, A. Kupsys, and A. Schiper: Preventing Orphan Requests in the Context of Replicated Invocation.
In Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'03), pages 119-128, Florence, Italy.
October 2003.
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S. Pleisch and A. Schiper: Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution.
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 52, No. 2, pages 209-222, February 2003.
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2002

F. Gärtner and S. Pleisch: Failure Detection Sequencer: Necessary and Sufficient Information about Failures to Solve Predicate Detection.
In Proc. of 16th Int. Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Toulouse, France, October 2002.
 
(abstract, pdf)
 

S. Pleisch and A. Schiper: Non-Blocking Transactional Mobile Agent Execution.
In Proc. of the 22nd Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02), pages 443-444, Vienna, July 2002.

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2001

F. Gärtner and S. Pleisch: (Im)Possibilites of Predicate Detection in Crash-Affected Systems using Interrupt-Style Failure Detectors (Brief announcement).
In Proc. of 15th Int. Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), technical report
TR-01-7. Lisbon, Portugal, October 2001.
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F. Gärtner and S. Pleisch: (Im)Possibilites of Predicate Detection in Crash-Affected Systems.
In Proc. of 5th Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems, LNCS 2194, Springer.
Lisbon, Portugal, pages 98 - 113, October 2001.
  (abstract, pdf)
 

S. Pleisch and A. Schiper: FATOMAS - A Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent System Based on the Agent-Dependent Approach.
In Proc. of the Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).
IEEE. Goteborg, Sweden, pages 215-224, July 2001.
  (abstract, pdf)
 

2000

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S. Pleisch and A. Schiper: Modeling Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agents as a Sequence of Agreement Problems.
In Proc. of the 19th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS).
IEEE. Nuremberg, Germany, pages 11-20, October 2000.
  (abstract, pdf)
 

1999

T. Gschwind, M. Feridun, and S. Pleisch: ADK -- Building Mobile Agents for Network and Systems Management from Reusable Components.
In Proc. of the 1st Int. Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications and the 3rd Int.
Symposium on Mobile Agents (ASA/MA'99). IEEE. Palm Springs, CA, pages 13 - 21, October 1999.
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S. Pleisch: State of the Art in Mobile Computing -- Security, Fault Tolerance, and Transaction Support.
IBM Research Report Nb. rz3152, IBM Research, 1999.
  (abstract)
 


Thesis

PhD:
S. Pleisch: Fault-Tolerant and Transactional
Mobile Agent Execution.
PhD Thesis Nbr. 2654, EPFL,
Switzerland, October 2002.
 
(.ps.gz, .pdf)
 

Diploma:
S. Pleisch: Database Replication on Top of Group Communication - A Simulation Tool.
Diploma Thesis, EPFL, Switzerland, February 1997.
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