Giuliano Casale

Current Position: Research staff member, SAP Research, UK

Curriculum Vitae

Full List of Publications

Research Interests

• Quantitative evaluation of computer systems and networks
• Performance modeling: capacity planning, queueing, burstiness, demand estimation
• Simulation tools, workload characterization, cost-performance optimization
  

Software

• Java Modelling Tools, free open-source queueing network simulator, MVA algorithms, and capacity planning tools
• MAP Queueing Networks. Analytical models for capacity planning with bursty workloads
• KPC-Toolbox. Automatic fitting of time series into Markovan Arrival Processes (MAPs)
• Method of Moments (MAPLE script). Exact analysis of multiclass queueing networks with large populazion sizes
• MAP(2)/MMPP(2) fitting (MATLAB script). Simple MATLAB script to generate a MAP(2)/MMPP(2) with given moments and lag-1 autocorrelation

Education and Research Positions

• 2009: Research Staff Member, SAP Research, CEC Belfast, UK.
• 2007: Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of William & Mary, Virginia, US. Group: Evgenia Smirni
• 2006: Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Group: Giuseppe Serazzi
• 2004: Visiting Research Scholar, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, US. Group: Richard R. Muntz
• 2002: M.E.E., Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
• 2000: Visiting Master Student, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Awards

• Middleware 2008, Best Paper Award
• QEST 2008, Best Student Paper Award 
• MASCOTS 2004, Best Student Paper Award

• G.Casale, N.Mi, E.Smirni. Model-Driven System Capacity Planning Under Workload Burstiness, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 14 pages, to appear in 2009.
• G.Casale. CoMoM: Efficient Class-Oriented Evaluation of Multiclass Performance Models, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 14 pages, 2009.
• G.Casale, R.R.Muntz, G.Serazzi. Geometric Bounds: a Non-Iterative Analysis Technique for Closed Queueing Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 57(6):780-794, June 2008. [ieeexplore]
• G.Casale, N.Mi, E.Smirni. Bound Analysis of Closed Queueing Networks with Workload Burstiness, in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS 2008, 13-24, Annapolis, MD, ACM Press, June 2008. [ppt][acm portal][techrep][MATLAB tool]
• G.Casale. An Efficient Algorithm for the Exact Analysis of Multiclass Queueing Networks with Large Population Sizes, in Proc.  ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006, 169 -- 180, 2006, ACM Press. [acm portal] [ppt] [MAPLE tool]