Paolo Costa

Other

Committees

Organizer

I am co-chairing or I have co-chaired the following events:

• ACM SIGCOMM 2019 Workshop on Optical Systems Design (OptSys), co-located with SIGCOMM 2019
• OFC 2019 workshop on  “Opportunities and Challenges for Optical Switching in the Data Center”
• The 17^th ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference (Industrial track) 2016
• Second International Workshop on Rack Scale Computing (WRSC 2015), co-located with EuroSys’15
• First International Workshop on Rack Scale Computing (WRSC 2014), co-located with EuroSys’14
• Student Workshop for ACM CoNEXT 2012

Program Committee Membership

I am or have been on the Program Committee of the following events:

Conferences

• The 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2019)
• The 14^th ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2018)
• The 2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2018)
• The 14^th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2018)
• The 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2018)
• The 13^th ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2017)
• The 13^th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2017)
• The 13^th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2016)
• The 12^th ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2016)
• The 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2016)
• The 12^th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2016)
• The 16^th ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference (Middleware 2015)
• The 11^th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2015)
• The 24^th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC’15)
• The 10^th ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2014)
• The 10^th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS 2014)
• The 34^th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2014)
• The 23^rd ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC’14)
• The 11^th USENIX International Conference On Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2014)
• The 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2014)
• The 12^th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2014)
• The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’14) [Poster Track]
• The 17^th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2013)
• The 22^nd ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC’13)
• The 11^th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2013)
• The 1^st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2013)
• The 13^th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013)
• The 10^th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2012)
• The 21^st ACM International Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC’12)
• The 12^th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware (Middleware 2011)
• The 9^th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2011)
• The 30^th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’10)
• The 8^th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom 2010)
• The 25^th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Special Track on Cloud Computing
• The 10^th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Int. Conference on Middleware (Middleware 2009)
• The 11^th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009)
• The 9^th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Int. Conference on Middleware (Middleware 2008)
• 68^th IEEE Int. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2008-Fall)
• 8^th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Int. Conference on Middleware (Middleware 2007)

Workshops

• The 1st P4 European Workshop (P4EU)
• The 7^th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2015)
• The ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC 2014), co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2014
• The International Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC 2013), co-located with IEEE/ACM UCC 2013
• The International Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds (DIHC), co-located with EuroPar 2013
• The International Workshop on Optimization techniques for Resources Management in Clouds (ORMaCloud), co-located with ACM HPDC 2013
• The 6^th International Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet (WASA-NGI-VI), co-located with IEEE LCN 2013.
• The 7^th Int. Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens’12), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2012.
• The 5^th International Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet (WASA-NGI-V), co-located with IEEE LCN 2012.
• The 2^nd International International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP 2012), co-located with ACM EuroSys 2012.
• The 2^nd IEEE Int. Workshop on on Complex and Communication Networks (CCNet 2011), co-located with IEEE Globecom 2011.
• The 6^th Int. Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens’11), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2011.
• The 4^th International Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet (WASA-NGI-IV), co-located with IEEE LCN 2011.
• The IEEE International Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud (FoSEC), co-located with IEEE Services 2011
• The International Workshop on Resource Discovery Mechanisms for P2P Systems (P2P-RDM), co-located with IEEE CIT 2011
• The 1^st International International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP 2011), co-located with ACM EuroSys 2011.
• The 5^th Int. Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens’10), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2010.
• The 1^st IEEE Int. Workshop on on Complex and Communication Networks (CCNet 2010), co-located with IEEE Globecom 2010.
• The 2^nd IEEE Int. Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer 2010), co-located with IEEE ICCCN 2010.
• The 4^th Int. Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens’09), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2009.
• IEEE Int. Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer 2009), co-located with IEEE ICCCN 2009.
• 69^th IEEE Int. Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Spring)
• The IEEE International Workshop on Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks (IRSN’09), co-located with IEEE CCNC 2009.
• 3^rd Int. Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens’08), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2008.
• 6^th Int. Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2008), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2008.
• Int. Workshop on Mobile Middleware: Embracing the Personal Communication Device (MobMid’08), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2008.
• 3^rd Int. Workshop On Reliability in Decentralized Distributed Systems (RDDS 2008), co-located with DOA 2008.
• 6^th Int. Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (Minema’08), co-located with ACM EuroSys 2008.
• 2^nd Int. Workshop on Advanced Data Processing in Ubiquitous Computing (ADPUC 2007), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2007.
• 5^th Int. Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2007), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2007.
• 2^ndInt. Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens’07), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2007.
• 2nd Int. Workshop On Reliability in Decentralized Distributed Systems (RDDS 2007), co-located with DOA 2007.
• First Int. Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens’06), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2006.
• 4^th Int. Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (Minema’06)

Journal Reviewing

I have been a reviewer for the following scientific journals:

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
• IEEE Journal On Selected Areas In Communications (JSAC)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
• IEEE Internet Computing (IC)
• IEEE Network
• IEEE Systems Journal
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Distributed Systems Online (DSOnline)
• Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks (ComNet)
• Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
• Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
• Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
• Springer Computing
• Wiley Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)
• The Oxford Computer Journal
• International Journal on Wireless & Optical Communications (IJWOC)

Past Research Projects

In the past, I had been involved in the following projects:

• Rack-scale Computing
• NaaS (Network-as-a-Service)
• CamCube (Rethinking Next-generation Datacenters)
• Predicatable Datacenters
• HARNESS (Hardware- and Network-Enhanced Software Systems for Cloud Computing)
• XtreemOS Building and Promoting a Linux-based Operating System to Support Virtual Organizations for Next Generation Grids
• RUNES Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems
• VICOM Virtual Immersive COMmunications