Carlos A. Varela

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Founding Director, Worldwide Computing Laboratory
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA


Ph: +1 (518) 276-6912, Fax: +1 (518) 276-4033, Office: Lally 308.

Selected Publications

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  1. Carlos A. Varela. Programming Distributed Computing Systems: A Foundational Approach. MIT Press, May 2013. [bibtex-entry]
  2. Rajkumar Buyya, Satish Narayana Srirama, Giuliano Casale, Rodrigo Calheiros, Yogesh Simmhan, Blesson Varghese, Erol Gelenbe, Bahman Javadi, Luis Miguel Vaquero, Marco A. S. Netto, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Maria Alejandra Rodriguez, Ignacio M. Llorente, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, Dejan Milojicic, Carlos Varela, Rami Bahsoon, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Omer Rana, Wanlei Zhou, Hai Jin, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Albert Zomaya, and Haiying Shen. A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade. ACM Computing Surveys, 51:1 - 38, November 2018. [bibtex-entry]
  3. Shigeru Imai, Stacy Patterson, and Carlos A. Varela. Uncertainty-Aware Elastic Virtual Machine Scheduling for Stream Processing Systems. In 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2018), Washington, DC, May 2018. [bibtex-entry]
  4. Shigeru Imai, Erik Blasch, Alessandro Galli, Wennan Zhu, Frederick Lee, and Carlos A. Varela. Airplane Flight Safety Using Error-Tolerant Data Stream Processing. IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Magazine, 32(4):4-17, 2017. [bibtex-entry]
  5. Shigeru Imai, Sida Chen, Wennan Zhu, and Carlos A. Varela. Dynamic Data-Driven Learning for Self-Healing Avionics. Cluster Computing, November 2017. ISSN: 1573-7543. [bibtex-entry]
  6. Saswata Paul, Frederick Hole, Alexandra Zytek, and Carlos A. Varela. Flight Trajectory Planning for Fixed Wing Aircraft in Loss of Thrust Emergencies. Technical Report, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2017. Note: Initial Results presented in The Second International Conference on InfoSymbiotics/DDDAS (Dynamic Data-Driven Applications Systems), Aug. 2017. [bibtex-entry]
  7. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. The Internet Operating System: Middleware for Adaptive Distributed Computing. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), Special Issue on Scheduling Techniques for Large-Scale Distributed Platforms, 20(4):467-480, 2006. [bibtex-entry]
  8. J. Field and C. Varela. Transactors: A Programming Model for Maintaining Globally Consistent Distributed State in Unreliable Environments. In ACM Conference on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2005), Long Beach, CA, pages 195-208, January 2005. [bibtex-entry]
  9. Carlos Varela and Gul Agha. Programming Dynamically Reconfigurable Open Systems with SALSA. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. OOPSLA'2001 Intriguing Technology Track Proceedings, 36(12):20-34, December 2001. [bibtex-entry]