Publications

• Decision-Making Approaches for Performance QoS in Distributed Storage Systems: A Survey
  Flora Karniavoura and Kostas Magoutis
  in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), January 17, 2019. (pdf)

• Replica-group leadership change as a performance enhancing mechanism in NoSQL data stores
  Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis
  in 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2018), Vienna, Austria, July 2-5, 2018. short paper track. (pdf)

• Incremental elasticity for NoSQL data stores
  Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis
  in 36th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2017), Hong Kong, China, September 26-29, 2017. (pdf)

• A measurement-based approach to performance prediction in NoSQL systems
  Flora Karniavoura and Kostas Magoutis
  in 25th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2017), Banff, Canada, September 20-22, 2017. (pdf)

• A General-Purpose Architecture for Replicated Metadata Services in Distributed File Systems
  Dimokritos Stamatakis, Nikos Tsikoudis, Eirini Micheli and Kostas Magoutis
  in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 28, Issue 10, pp 2747-2759, October 1, 2017. (pdf)

• Incremental elasticity for NoSQL data stores
  Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis
  in 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA, June 5-8, 2017. poster paper (pdf)

• Cross-layer management of a containerized NoSQL data store
  Eudoxos Bekas and Kostas Magoutis
  in 15th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2017), Special Track on Autonomic Management, Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-12, 2017. (pdf)

• Towards Knowledge-based Assisted Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Selection
  Kyriakos Kritikos, Kostas Magoutis and Dimitris Plexousakis
  in 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Luxemburg, December 12-15, 2016 (link)

• Design and implementation of a social networking platform for cloud deployment specialists
  Kostas Magoutis, Christos Papoulas, Antonis Papaioannou, Flora Karniavoura, Dimitrios-Georgios Akestoridis, Nikos Parotsidis, Maria Korozi, Asterios Leonidis, Stavroula Ntoa and Constantine Stephanidis
  in SpringerOpen Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), Volume 6, Issue 19, pp. 1-27, September 2015 (pdf)
  

• Rethinking HBase: Design and Implementation of an Elastic Key-Value Store over Log-Structured Local Volumes
  Giorgos Saloustros and Kostas Magoutis
  in 14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2015), Limassol, Cyprus, June 29 - July 1, 2015 (pdf)
  

• C2C: An Automated Deployment Framework for Distributed Applications on Multi-Clouds
  Flora Karniavoura, Antonis Papaioannou, and Kostas Magoutis
  in 9th Symposium and Summer School on Service-Oriented Computing (SummerSOC'15), Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, June 2-July 3, 2015; appears as IBM Technical Report RC25564, 2015. short paper (pdf)

• Cross-layer Management of Distributed Applications on Multi-Clouds
  Antonis Papaioannou, Damianos Metallidis and Kostas Magoutis
  in IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2015), Mini-Conference Track, Ottawa, Canada, May 11-15, 2015 (pdf)
  

• ACaZoo: A Distributed Key-Value Store based on Replicated LSM-Trees Awarded Best Student Paper
  Panagiotis Garefalakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos and Kostas Magoutis
  in 33rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2014), Nara, Japan, October 6-9, 2014 (pdf).

• Scalable entity-based summarization of web search results using MapReduce
  Ioannis Kitsos, Kostas Magoutis, and Yannis Tzitzikas
  In Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Volume 32, Issue 3, pp 405- 446, September 2014 (pdf).

• Managing Service Performance in the Cassandra Distributed Storage System
  Maria Chalkiadaki and Kostas Magoutis
  in Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2013), Bristol, UK, December 2-5, 2013 (pdf).

• An Architecture for Evaluating Distributed Application Deployments in Multi-Clouds
  Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis
  in Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2013), Bristol, UK, December 2-5, 2013 (pdf).

• Towards Cross-layer Monitoring of Multi-Cloud Service-based Applications
  Chrysostomos Zeginis, Kyriakos Kritikos, Panagiotis Garefalakis, Konstantina Konsolaki, Kostas Magoutis, and Dimitris Plexousakis
  in Proceedings of European Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (ESOCC'13), Malaga, Spain, September 11-13, 2013 (pdf).

• Lifecycle Management of Service-based Applications on Multi-Clouds: A Research Roadmap
  George Baryannis, Panagiotis Garefalakis, Kyriakos Kritikos, Kostas Magoutis, Antonis Papaioannou, Dimitris Plexousakis and Chrysostomos Zeginis
  In Proceedings of International Workshop on Multi-Cloud Applications and Federated Clouds (MultiCloud 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, April 21-24, 2013 (pdf).

• Managing Service Performance in NoSQL Distributed Storage Systems
  Maria Chalkiadaki and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of the 7th Middleware for Next-Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG) Workshop of the 13th International Middleware Conference 2012, Montreal, Canada, December 3-7, 2012 (pdf).

• Improving Datacenter Operations Management Using Wireless Sensor Networks
  Panagiotis Garefalakis and Kostas Magoutis
  In IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2012), Besancon, France, November 20-23, 2012 (pdf).

• Scalability of Replicated Metadata Services in Distributed File Systems
  Dimokritos Stamatakis, Nikos Tsikoudis, Ourania Smyrnaki, and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 12th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2012), Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-15, 2012 (pdf).

• Adapting Data-Intensive Workloads to Generic Allocation Policies in Cloud Infrastructures
  Giannis Kitsos, Antonis Papaioannou, Nikos Tsikoudis, and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), Maui, Hawaii, April 16-20, 2012 (pdf).

• Real-time Analysis of Localization Data Streams for Ambient Intelligence Environments
  Dimokritos Stamatakis, Dimitris Grammenos, and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AMI-11), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 16-18, 2011 (pdf).

• CEC: Continuous Eventual Checkpointing for Data Stream Processing Operators
  Zoe Sebepou and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011), Hong Kong, China, June 27-30, 2011 (pdf).

• CassMail: A Scalable, Highly-Available, and Rapidly Prototyped Email Service
  Lazaros Koromilas and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 11th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2011), Reykjavik, Iceland, June 6-9, 2011 (pdf).

• Scalable Storage Support for Data Stream Processing
  Zoe Sebepou and Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2010): Research Track, Incline Village Lake Tahoe, Nevada, May 2010. short paper (pdf).

• Towards 100 Gbit/s Ethernet: Multicore-based Parallel Communication Protocol Design
  Stavros Passas, Kostas Magoutis, Angelos Bilas
  In Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Supercomputing 2009 (ICS'09), IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, June 2009 (pdf).

• A Comparative Experimental Study of Parallel File Systems for Large-Scale Data Processing
  Zoe Sebepou, Kostas Magoutis, Manolis Marazakis, Angelos Bilas
  In Proceedings of First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing (LaSCo 2008), Boston, MA, June 2008 (pdf).

• Built-to-Order Service Engineering for Enterprise IT Discovery
  Nikolai Joukov, Murthy Devarakonda, Kostas Magoutis, Norbert Vogl
  In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), Hawaii, vol. 2, pages 91-98, July 2008 (pdf).

• Galapagos: Model-Driven Discovery of End-to-End Application-Storage Relationships in Distributed Systems
  Kostas Magoutis, Murthy Devarakonda, Nikolai Joukov, Norbert Vogl
  In IBM Systems Journal, vol. 52, no. 4/5, pages 367-378, 2008 (pdf).

• Evolution of Storage Management: Transforming Raw Data into Information
  S. Gopisetty, S. Agarwala, E. Butler, D. Jadav, S. Jaquet, M. Korupolu, R. Routray, P. Sarkar, A. Singh, M. Sivan-Zimet, C.-H. Tan, S. Uttamchandani, D. Merbach, S. Padbidri, A. Dieberger, E. M. Haber, E. Kandogan, C. A. Kieliszewski, D. Agrawal, M. Devarakonda, K.-W. Lee, K. Magoutis, D. C. Verma, and N. G. Vogl
  In IBM Systems Journal, vol. 52, no. 4/5, pages 341-352, 2008 (pdf).

• Using Automated Discovery for End-to-End Availability Assessment
  H. V. Ramasamy, M. V. Devarakonda, N. Joukov, K. Magoutis, B. Pfitzmann, and N. G. Vogl
  In Industry forum of the 38th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), July 2008.

• Galapagos: Automatically Discovering Application-Data Relationships in Distributed Middleware Systems
  Kostas Magoutis, Murthy Devarakonda, Kiran Reddy
  In Proceedings of Tenth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM 2007), May 2007, Munich, Germany. short paper (pdf).

• OASIS: Self-Tuning Storage for Applications
  Kostas Magoutis, Prasenjit Sarkar, Gauri Shah
  In Proceedings of 23rd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), College Park, MD, May 2006 (pdf).

• Memory Management Support for Multi-programmed Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)Systems
  Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop for RDMA Applications, Implementations and Technologies (RAIT-2005); held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2005, Burlington, MA, October 2005 (pdf).

• RAIC: Scaling Storage Availability and Performance in On-Demand Data Centers
  Kostas Magoutis, M. Devarakonda, N. Vogl, K. Voruganti
  In Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Operating Systemand Architectural Support for the On-Demand IT Infrastructure (OASIS-2004); held in conjunction with ASPLOS-XI), Boston, MA, October 9, 2004 (pdf).

• The Case Against User-level Networking
  Kostas Magoutis, M. I. Seltzer, E. Gabber
  In Proceedings of Workshop on Novel Uses of System-Area Networks (SAN-3), held in conjunction with HPCA-10,Madrid, Spain, February 14, 2004 (pdf).

• Application Performance on the Direct Access File System
  A. Fedorova, M. Seltzer, Kostas Magoutis, S. Addetia
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP’08), Redwood Shores, CA, January 14-16, 2004 (pdf).

• Exploiting Direct Access Networking in Network-Attached Storage Systems
  Kostas Magoutis
  Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2003 (abstract, pdf)

• Making the Most out of Direct Access Network-Attached Storage
  Kostas Magoutis, S. Addetia, A.Fedorova, M. I. Seltzer
  In Proceedings of USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST’03), San Francisco, CA, March 31-April 2, 2003 (pdf).

• Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System (DAFS)
  Kostas Magoutis, S. Addetia, A. Fedorova, M. I. Seltzer, J. S. Chase, A. Gallatin, R. Kisley, R. Wickremesinghe, E. Gabber
  In Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 10-15, 2002. Awarded Best Paper.

• Design and Implementation of a Direct Access File System (DAFS) Kernel Server for FreeBSD
  Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of USENIX BSDCon 2002 Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 11-14, 2002. Awarded Best Paper

• Design and Implementation of a Direct Access File System (DAFS) Kernel Server for FreeBSD
  Kostas Magoutis
  In UNIX Magazine, ASCI Corporation, March 2003 (in Japanese).

• The Optimistic Direct Access File System: Design and Network Interface Support
  Kostas Magoutis
  In Proceedings of Workshop on Novel Uses of System-Area Networks (SAN-1) (Held inconjunction with HPCA-8), Cambridge, MA, February 2, 2002 (pdf).

• Research Issues in No-Futz Computing
  D. A. Holland, W. Josephson, A. Lim, Kostas Magoutis, M.I. Seltzer, and C. A. Stein
  In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Schloss Elmau, Germany, May 20-23, 2001, pp. 94-98 (pdf).

• Building Appliances out of Reusable Components using Pebble
  Kostas Magoutis, J. C. Brustoloni, E. Gabber, W. T. Ng and A. Silberschatz
  In Proceedings of 9th SIGOPS European Workshop, Kolding, Denmark, September 17-20, 2000, pp. 211-216 (pdf).

• Density of states, level-statistics and localization of fractons in 2- and 3-dimensional disordered systems
  P. Argyrakis, S. N. Evangelou, K. Magoutis
  In Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter Volume 87, Issue 2, pp 257-264, 1992 (pdf).

I have also co-authored a number of filed patent applications.

Other papers and reports that I have authored or edited over time.

• Short Papers from the 6th Advanced Summer School on Service Oriented Computing (SummerSOC'12)
  Rania Khalaf and Kostas Magoutis (Eds.)
  IBM Research Technical Report RC25348, 2013 (pdf)

• A Distributed Fault-Tolerant Multiplayer Board Game for the Internet
  Terry Angelos, Kostas Magoutis, Yannis Papaefstathiou
  Course project for CS-262 Introduction to Distributed Computing (Spring 1997), Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (ps)

• Economies of Scale in Partitioned Disk Caches with Self-Similar References
  Kostas Magoutis
  Masters Thesis, Boston Univ., Boston, MA, 1996

• Split-C Gaussian Elimination on the Connection Machine CM-5
  Kostas Magoutis
  Course project for CS-512 Parallel Algorithms and Programs (Fall 1993), Boston University Computer Science Department (ps)