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Thesis

  1. Zarras. Configuration Systematique de Middleware. Ph.D. thesis (available in english and french), March 2000, University of Rennes 1, France.

  2. Zarras. Performance Analysis and Visualization of Parallel and Distributed Applications. M.Sc. thesis (available in english and greek), Computer Science Department. University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, 1996.

 Journals

  1. V. Issarny, N Georgantas, S Hachem, A. Zarras, P. Vassiliafis, M. Autili, M. Gerosa and A. Ben Hamida. Service-Oriented Middleware for the Future Internet: state of the art and research directions. Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), vol 2. no. 1, pp. 23-45, Springer.

  2. K. Stamkopoulos, E. Pitoura, P. Vassiliadis and A. Zarras. Accelerating Web Service Workflow Execution via Intelligent Allocation of Services to Servers. Journal of Database Management (JDM), vol 21, no. 4, pp. 47-78, 2010, IGI.

  3. V. Fotopoulos, A. V. Zarras and P. Vassiliadis. Schedule-Aware Transactions for Ambient Intelligence Environments. International  Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 71-86, 2010, IGI.

  4. A. V. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis and V. Issarny. Modeling and Analyzing Reliable Service-Oriented Processes. Int. Journal on Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 147-163, 2008, InderScience. 

  5. N. Folinas, P. Vassiliadis, E. Pitoura, E. Papapetrou and A. Zarras. Context-Aware Query Processing in Ad-Hoc Environments of Peers. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 38-62. 2008.

  6. D. Athanasopoulos, A. V. Zarras, V. Issarny, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. CoWSAMI: Interface-Aware Context Gathering in Ambient Intelligence Environments. Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMCJ). vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 360-389, 2008, Elsevier.

  7. D. Saougkos, G. Manis, K. Blekas and A. V. Zarras. Revisiting Java Bytecode Compression for Embedded and Mobile Computing Environments. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (IEEE TSE), vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 478-495, 2007.

  8. A. Zarras. Applying Model-Driven Architecture to achieve distribution transparencies. Information and Software Technology , vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 498-516. 2006.

  9. A. Zarras. Online Upgrade of Middleware. Journal of Object Technology , vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 121-140. 2004.

  10. A. Zarras. A Comparison Framework for Middleware Infrastructures. Journal of Object Technology , vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 103-123. 2004.

  11. V. Issarny, C. Kloukinas and A. Zarras. Systematic Aid for Developing Middleware Architectures. Communications of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 53-58. 2002.

Conferences (local copies of the submitted versions of the papers)

  1. D. Athanasopoulos, A. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis and V. Issarny. Mining Service Abstractions - NIER Track.  In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011.

  2. D. Athanasopoulos and A. Zarras. Fine-Grained Metrics of Cohesion Lack for Service Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2011.

  3. D. Athanasopoulos, A. Zarras and V. Issarny. Service Substitution Revisited. In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2009.

  4. D. Athanasopoulos, A. Zarras and V. Issarny. ForeverSOA: Towards the Maintenance of Service Oriented Software. In Proceedings of the 3rd CSMR Workshop on Software Quality and Maintenance (SQM), 2009.

  5. V. Fotopoulos, A. Zarras and P. Vassiliadis. User-Centric Transactions for Ambient Intelligence Environments. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ad hoc Ambient Computing (AdhocAmC), 2008.

  6. M. Fredj, N. Georgantas, V. Issarny, and A. Zarras. Dynamic Service Substitution in Service-Oriented Architectures. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC), pp. 3443-3448, 2008.

  7. E. Papapetrou, E. Rova, A. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis. Cross-layer Networking for Peer Databases over Wireless Ad-Hoc Communities. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 3443-3448, 2007.

  8. M. Fredj, A. Zarras, N. Georgantas and V. Issarny. Adaptation to Connectivity Loss in Pervasive Computing Environments. In Proceedings of the 4th MiNEMA Workshop. 2006.

  9. F. Papadopoulos, A. Zarras, E. Pitoura and P. Vassiliadis. Timely Provisioning of Mobile Services. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), pp. 864-881, LNCS vol.3760, 2005.

  10. Z.Plitsis, I. Fudos, E. Pitoura, A. Zarras. On Accessing GSM-enabled Mobile Sensors. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP'05), 2005.

  11. A. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis and E. Pitoura. Query Management over Ad-Hoc Communities of Web Services. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Systems (ICPS) 2005.

  12. T. Kontogiorgis, D. I. Fotiadis and A. Zarras. A Middleware Service for Managing Time and Quality Dependent Context. In Proceedings of the International WWW/Internet Conference (ICWI), pp. 503-510, 2004.

  13. S. K. Petsios, D. I. Fotiadis and A. Zarras. Model-Driven Renewal of LAN-Based Business Information Systems Towards Web-Based Systems. In Proceedings of the International WWW/Internet Conference (ICWI). pp. 740-747, 2004.

  14. A. Zarras, P. Vassiliadis and V. Issarny. Model-Driven Dependability Analysis of WebServices. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), pp. 1608-1625, LNCS vol. 3291, 2004. 

  15. Zarras and V. Issarny. Automating the Performance and Reliability Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pp.350-355, 2001.

  16. A. Zarras, V. Issarny, C. Kloukinas and K. Nguyen. Towards a Base UML Profile for Architecture Description. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE-ACM-SIGSOFT ICSE Workshop on Describing Software Architecture with UML, pp. 22-26, 2001.

  17. A. Zarras and V. Issarny. UML-Based Modeling of Software Reliability. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE-ACM-SIGSOFT ICSE Workshop on Describing Software Architecture with UML, pp. 36-40, 2001.

  18. Zarras and V. Issarny. Assessing Software Reliability at the Architectural Level. In  Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT International Software Architecture Workshop, pages 11-16. ACM, 2000.

  19. G. Blair, L. Blair, V. Issarny, P. Tuma, and A. Zarras. The Role of Software Architecture in Constraining Adaptation in Middleware Platforms. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM-IFIP-USENIX Middleare Conference (MIDDLEWARE), pp. 164-184, LNCS vol. 1795, 2000.

  20. P. Tuma, V. Issarny, and A. Zarras. Towards Systematic Synthesis of Reflective Middleware. In Proceedings of the 2ndACM-SIGPLAN International Conference on Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection (REFLECTION), pp. 144-147, LNCS vol. 1616, 1999.

  21. V. Issarny, T. Saridakis, and A. Zarras. Multi-View Description of Software Architectures. In  Proceedings of the 3rd ACM-SIGSOFT International Software Architecture Workshop (ISAW), pp. 81-84, 1998.

  22. A. Zarras and V. Issarny. Imposing Transactional Properties on Distributed Software Architectures. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, pp. 25-32. ACM, 1998.

  23. A. Zarras and V. Issarny. A Framework for Systematic Synthesis of Transactional Middleware. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM-IFIP-USENIX Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE), pp. 257-272, 1998.

  24. C. Bidan, V. Issarny, T. Saridakis, and A. Zarras. A Dynamic Reconfiguration Service for CORBA. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems (ICCDS), pp. 35-42, 1998.

 Chapters in Books - Post Proceedings (local copies of the submitted versions of the papers)

  1. A. Zarras, M. Fredj, N. Georgantas and V. Issarny. Engineering Reconfigurable Distributed Software Systems: Issues Arising for Pervasive Computing. In Rigorous engineering of fault tolerant systems, LNCS vol 4157, pp 364-386. 2006.

  2. A. Zarras, C. Kloukinas and V. Issarny. Quality Analysis of Dependable Systems – A Developer Oriented Approach. In Architecting Dependable Systems, pp. 197-218, LNCS vol. 2677, 2003.

  3. V. Issarny and A. Zarras. Software Architecture and Dependability. In Formal Methods for Software Architectures, pp. 259-285, LNCS vol. 2804, 2003.

  4. A. Zarras and V. Issarny. Quality Analysis of Dependable Information Systems. In Concurrency in Dependable Computing, pp. 127-146, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

  5. V. Issarny, L. Bellisard, M. Riveill, and A. Zarras. Component-Based Programming of Distributed Appilications. In Advances in Distributed Systems, pp. 327-354, LNCS vol. 1752, 2000.

Technical Reports

  1. Zarras and V. Issarny. Workflow-Based Quality Assessment of Complex Services. Technical Report C3DS/WPA/T2.5, INRIA, 2001.

  2. Zarras and V. Issarny. Quality Assessment of Complex Services. Technical Report C3DS/WPA/T1.5, INRIA, 2001.

  3. V. Issarny, E. Demairy, A. Zarras, and C. Kloukinas. QoS Analysis. Technical Report C3DS/WPB/T1.3, INRIA, 2000.

  4. Zarras and V. Issarny. Reliability Analysis Tool Detailed Specification. Technical Report CALIM/WP3/T3.6, INRIA, 2000. A. Zarras and V. Issarny. Performance Analysis Tool Detailed Specification. Technical Report CALIM/WP3/T3.5, INRIA, 2000.

  5. Zarras and V. Issarny. A Non-Functional Properties Modeling Method. Technical Report CALIM/WP2/T2.4, INRIA, 2000. A. Zarras and V. Issarny. Phase 2 - Annexe 2. Int'egration automatique de services pour la sp'ecialisation de DPE. Technical Report FranceTelecom/971B366, IRISA-INRIA, 1998.

  6. Zarras. ArrayTracer: User's Guide. ICS-FORTH, LYDIA/WP2/T.2.2/D4(c), 1996.

  7. Zarras. ArrayTracer: a Parallel Performance Analysis Tool. Technical Report LYDIA/WP2/T.2.2/D4(b), ICS-FORTH, 1996.

  8. Houstis and A. Zarras. Parallel Workload Characterization for Scientific Computing Applications. Technical Report LYDIA/WP2/T.2.2/D4(a), ICS-FORTH, 1996.