Eleni Karatza   Title Professor   Lab Director Telephone/Fax (+30) 2310 997974 Email karatza at domain csd.auth.gr Address Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54124 Thessaloniki, GREECE
Studies - Research Interests - Awards - Publications - Courses coordinator - PDSG Research Coordinator -Alumni- Scientific Activities - Visiting Researcher - Membership of Professional Societies

Studies

Bachelor Degree in Mathematics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Ph.D. Degree in Modelling and Simulation of Parallel Processing Systems (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Research Interests

Computer Systems Modelling and Simulation, Performance Evaluation of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Multiprocessor Scheduling, Cluster Computing, Mobile Computing, Scheduling in Distributed Systems, Grid Computing, Distributed Ubiquitous Computing, High performance computing, Energy-efficient scheduling in large distributed systems and the grid, Cloud computing.
 

Best paper Awards

• The Best Student Paper Award (local) of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications, June 28-July 1, 2011, Corfu, Greece.
  I. Moschakis and H.D. Karatza
  "Performance and Cost evaluation of Gang Scheduling in a Cloud Computing System with Job Migrations and Starvation Handling".
• The Best Paper Award of the 10th International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2007), San Diego, California, 2007.
  Helen Karatza
  "Performance of Gang Scheduling Policies in the Presence of Critical Sporadic Jobs in Distributed Systems".
• The Best Paper Award of 39th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS 2006), Huntsville, Alabama, 2006.
  Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis and Helen D. Karatza
  "Swarm-based Active Tunable Routing for Overhead Reduction in Multiservice networks".

Other Awards

• Distinguished Service Award in Recognition of Significant Contributions to and Distinguished Service in Support of the Society Resulting in the Growth, Prestige and Success of SCS Journals and the Overall Organization (Helen Karatza, Former Editor-in-Chief for SCS Journals), 2009.
• Award for leadership and contributions for the success of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, April 14-17, Ottawa, Canada, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Publications

Courses coordinator

• Undergraduate

• Parallel and Distributed Processing
• Modelling and Simulation of Computer Systems
• Computer Systems Performance Evaluation
• Diploma thesis topics for year 2011/2012

• Postgraduate

• Modelling, Simulation and Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Advanced Topics in Distributed Processing

PDSG (Parallel and Distributed Systems Group) Research Coordinator

Parallel and Distributed Systems Group members:

• Karatza Eleni, research supervisor.

• Zikos Stylianos, BSc, MSc, PhD, Research collaborator.

• Papazachos Zafeirios, BSc, Msc, PhD, Research collaborator.

• Loukos Fotis, BSc, MSc (PhD student).

• Karaoglanoglou Konstantinos, BSc, MSc (PhD student).

• Stavrinides Georgios, BSc, MSc (PhD student).

• Kyriaki Gkoutioudi, BSc, MSc (PhD student).

• Yiannis Moschakis, BSc, MSc (PhD student).

• Georgios Terzopoulos, BSc, MSc (PhD student).

PDSG's topics:

• Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Performance Modelling/Evaluation - Queueing Network Models
• Load-Balancing and Load-Sharing
• Distributed Real-Time Systems
• Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Scheduling in Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Coscheduling of Applications on Multiple Processors
• Scheduling in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems
• Scheduling of Parallel Applications within Distributed Systems (e.g. Clusters)
• Scheduling Methods for Networks of Workstations
• Scheduling of Heterogeneous Processors
• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Grid/Cluster Computing
• Scheduling algorithms for Grid systems
• High performance computing
• Energy-efficient scheduling in large distributed systems and the grid
• Resource discovery in Grids
• Resource allocation strategies in Grid systems
• Distributed Ubiquitous Computing

Alumni Students