Publications

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Journal Articles

• Parallel Greedy Algorithms for Steiner Forest
  L. Ghalami and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025 (accepted for publication).
• Algorithms for Data Sharing-Aware Task Allocation in Edge Computing System
  S. Rabinia, N. Didar, M. Brocanelli, and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 15-28, January 2025.
• Parallel Shifting Bottleneck Algorithms for Flow Shop Scheduling
  H. Badri, T. Bahreini, and D. Grosu
  Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 343, No. 1, pp. 39-65, December 2024.
• PPB-MCTS: A Novel Distributed-Memory Parallel Partial-Backpropagation Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm
  Y. Naderzadeh, D. Grosu, and R. B. Chinnam
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 193, 104944, November 2024.
• A Maintenance-Aware Approach for Sustainable Autonomous Mobile Robot Fleet Management
  S. T. Atik, A. S. Chavan, D. Grosu, and M. Brocanelli
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 7394 - 7407, June 2024.
• Are Turn-by-Turn Navigation Systems of Regular Vehicles Ready for Edge-Assisted Autonomous Vehicles?
  S. T. Atik, M. Brocanelli, and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 11146-11156, October 2023.
• VECMAN: A Framework for Energy-Aware Resource Management in Vehicular Edge Computing Systems
  T. Bahreini, M. Brocanelli, and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 1231-1245, February 2023.
• Efficient Algorithms for Multi-Component Application Placement in Mobile Edge Computing
  T. Bahreini and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 2550-2563, October-December 2022.
• Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Forest: An Experimental Study
  L. Ghalami and D. Grosu
  Networks, Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 164 - 188, March 2022.
• Mechanisms for Resource Allocation and Pricing in Mobile Edge Computing Systems
  T. Bahreini, H. Badri, and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 667-682, March 2022.
• A Trust-Aware Mechanism for Cloud Federation Formation
  L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1278 - 1292, October-December 2021.
• A Parallel Randomized Approximation Algorithm for Non-Preemptive Single Machine Scheduling with Release Dates and Delivery Times
  H. Badri, T. Bahreini, and D. Grosu
  Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 130, Art. 105238, June 2021.
• An Approximation Algorithm for Sharing-Aware Virtual Machine Revenue Maximization
  S. Rampersaud and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-15, January-February 2021.
• Energy-Aware Application Placement in Mobile Edge Computing: A Stochastic Optimization Approach
  H. Badri, T. Bahreini, D. Grosu, and K. Yang
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 909-922, April 2020.
• Scheduling Parallel Identical Machines to Minimize Makespan: A Parallel Approximation Algorithm
  L. Ghalami and D. Grosu
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 133, pp. 221 - 231, November 2019.
• Sharing-Aware Online Virtual Machine Packing in Heterogeneous Resource Clouds
  S. Rampersaud and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 2046 - 2059, July 2017.
  

  (Selected as the Featured Article for the IEEE TPDS July 2017 Issue)

• Optimal Routing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, D. Grosu, and R. Chinnam
  Transportation Science, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 1304 - 1325, November 2017.
  

  (Best Student Paper Award - 2014 INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section (ENRE))
  (Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award - 2014 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), College of Sustainable Operations)

• Online Scheduling and Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging
  M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, R. Chinnam, and D. Grosu
  IISE Transactions, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 178-193, February 2017.
  

  (IBM Research Service Science Best Student Paper Award Finalist (INFORMS 2015)

• Truthful Mechanisms for Competitive Reward-Based Scheduling
  L. Mashayekhy, N. Fisher and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 7, pp. 2299-2312, July 2016.
• An Online Mechanism for Resource Allocation and Pricing in Clouds
  L. Mashayekhy, M. M. Nejad, D. Grosu and A. V. Vasilakos
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 1172 - 1184, April 2016.
• Energy-Aware Scheduling of MapReduce Jobs for Big Data Applications
  L. Mashayekhy, M. M. Nejad, D. Grosu, Q. Zhang, and W.Shi
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 26, No. 10, pp. 2720 - 2733, October 2015.
• A PTAS Mechanism for Provisioning and Allocation of Heterogeneous Cloud Resources
  L. Mashayekhy, M. M. Nejad and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 2386 - 2399, September 2015.
• Physical Machine Resource Management in Clouds: A Mechanism Design Approach
  L. Mashayekhy, M. M. Nejad and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 247 - 260, July-September 2015.
  
• Cloud Federations in the Sky: Formation Game and Mechanism
  L. Mashayekhy, M. M. Nejad and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 14 - 27, January-March 2015.
• Truthful Greedy Mechanisms for Dynamic Virtual Machine Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds
  M. M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 594 - 603, February 2015.
  

  (Best Paper Runner-Up Award - 2014 INFORMS Service Science)

• Computing Nash Equilibria in Bimatrix Games: GPU-based Parallel Support Enumeration
  S. Rampersaud, L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 3111-3123, December 2014.
  

  (Selected as the Featured Article for the IEEE TPDS December 2014 Issue)

• Truthful Mechanisms for Allocating a Single Processor to Sporadic Tasks in Competitive Real-Time Environments
  A. Mohammadi, N. Fisher and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 63, No. 8, pp. 2066-2079, August 2014.
• A Merge-and-Split Mechanism for Dynamic Virtual Organization Formation in Grids
  L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 541-549, March 2014.
• A Combinatorial Auction-Based Mechanism for Dynamic VM Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds
  S. Zaman and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 129-141, July-December 2013.
• Combinatorial Auction-Based Allocation of Virtual Machine Instances in Clouds
  S. Zaman and D. Grosu
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 495-508, April 2013.
  

  (Top 25 most cited Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing articles published since 2011 (as of Jan. 2016))

• An Incentive-Based Distributed Mechanism for Scheduling Divisible Loads in Tree Networks
  T. E. Carroll and D. Grosu
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 389-401, March 2012.
  
• A Game Theoretic Investigation of Deception in Network Security
  T. E. Carroll and D. Grosu
  Security and Communication Networks, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 1162-1172, October 2011.
• A Distributed Algorithm for the Replica Placement Problem
  S. Zaman and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1455-1468, September 2011.
• Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Scheduling on Unrelated Machines
  T. E. Carroll and D. Grosu
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 397-406, March 2011.
• Formation of Virtual Organizations in Grids: A Game-Theoretic Approach
  T. E. Carroll and D. Grosu
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 22, No. 14, pp. 1972-1989, September 2010.
• A Faithful Distributed Mechanism for Sharing the Cost of Multicast Transmissions
  N. Garg and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 1089-1101, August 2009.
• A Secure and Anonymous Voter-Controlled Election Scheme
  T. E. Carroll and D. Grosu
  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 599-606, May 2009.
• Cooperative Load Balancing in Distributed Systems
  D. Grosu, A. T. Chronopoulos, M. Y. Leung
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 20, No. 16, pp. 1953-1976, November 2008.
• Strategyproof Mechanisms for Scheduling Divisible Loads in Bus-Networked Distributed Systems
  T. E. Carroll and D. Grosu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 1124 - 1135, August 2008.
• Antisocial Behavior of Agents in Scheduling Mechanisms
  N. Garg, D. Grosu and V. Chaudhary
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 946-954, November 2007.
• Mercatus: A Toolkit for the Simulation of Market-Based Resource Allocation Protocols in Grids
  D. Grosu and U. Kant
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 928-940, September 2007.
• Auctioning Resources in Grids: Model and Protocols
  D. Grosu and A. Das
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 18, No. 15, pp. 1909-1927, December 2006.
• An Efficient Concurrent Implementation of a Neural Network Algorithm
  R. Andonie, A. T. Chronopoulos, D. Grosu and H. Galmeanu
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1559-1573, October 2006.
• A Truthful Load Balancing Mechanism with Verification
  D. Grosu and A. T. Chronopoulos
  Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-18, March 2006.
• Noncooperative Load Balancing in Distributed Systems
  D. Grosu and A.T. Chronopoulos
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 65, No. 9, pp. 1022-1034, September 2005.
• MPEG-2 Motion Estimation using a PC Cluster
  D. Grosu and H. Galmeanu
  International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 51-56, April 2005.
• Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Load Balancing in Distributed Systems
  D. Grosu and A.T. Chronopoulos
  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 77-84, February 2004.
• An Efficient 3-D Grid Based Scheduling for Heterogeneous Systems
  A. T. Chronopoulos, D. Grosu, A. M. Wissink, M. Benche and J. Liu
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 63, No. 9, pp. 827-837, September 2003.
• Simulation Results of an Associative Communication Protocol for Distributed Memory Parallel Systems
  D. Grigoras and D. Grosu
  The Scientific Bulletin of The Politechnic Institute of Iasi, Romania, Vol. 38(42), No. 1-4, Section 4, pp. 33-40, 1992.