Victoria Ungureanu

Main Research Interests

• Security in distributed systems
• Electronic Commerce
• Internet technologies
• Scheduling
• Coordination in distributed systems

Selected Recent Papers

• Deferred Assignment Scheduling in Cluster-based Servers.
  Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed, Michael Katehakis and Phillip G. Bradford.
  Cluster Computing, January 2006. PDF
  

• Using Certified Policies to Regulate E-Commerce Transactions.
  Victoria Ungureanu.
  ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, February 2005. PDF
  

• The LC* Assignment Policy for Cluster-Based Servers.
  Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed and Michael Katehakis.
  Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA04), Cambridge, MA, August 2004. PDF
  

• Formal Support for Certificate Management Policies.
  Victoria Ungureanu.
  Computers & Security, June 2004. PDF
  

• Class-Dependent Assignment in Cluster-based Servers.
  Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed, Philip Bradford and Michael Katehakis.
  Proc. of the 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Special Track on Parallel and Distributed Systems, March 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus. PostScript, PDF
  

• Performance Comparison of Size-based Scheduling Policies in Clustered Web Servers.
  Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed and Michael Katehakis.
  Proc. of International Conference on Applied Computing, March 2004, Lisbon, Portugal. PostScript, PDF
  

• Towards an Efficient Cluster-based E-Commerce Server.
  Victoria Ungureanu, Benjamin Melamed and Michael Katehakis.
  Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing, December 2003, Hong Kong, China. PostScript, PDF
  

• Regulating E-Commerce through Certified Contracts
  Victoria Ungureanu
  In Proc. of the 18th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2002), December 2002, New Orleans. PostScript, PDF
  

• An Agreement Centric Access Control Mechanism for Business to Business E-Commerce.
  Victoria Ungureanu
  In Proceedings of the the 16th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing; Special Track on Web and E-Business Applications, Madrid, Spain, March 2002. PostScript, PDF
  

• A Regulated Approach to Certificate Management
  Victoria Ungureanu
  In Proc. of the 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2001), December 2001, New Orleans. PostScript, PDF
  

• Scalable Regulation of Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce.
  Naftaly H. Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu.
  In Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2001. PostScript, PDF
  

• Formal Treatment of Certificate Revocation Under Communal Access Control
  Xuhui Ao, Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  In Proc. of the 22nd IEEE Symposium on Securiy and Privacy, May 2001, Oakland PostScript, PDF
  

• Safe Tuplespace-Based Coordination in Multi Agent Systems
  Naftaly Minsky, Yaron Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  in the Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence , vol 15, no 1, January 2001
  PostScript, PDF
  

• A Policy-Based Access Control Mechanism for Corporate Web
  Victoria Ungureanu, Farokh Vesuna and Naftaly Minsky
  In Proc. of the 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2000), December 2000, New Orleans PostScript, PDF
  

• Establishing Business Rules for Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
  Victoria Ungureanu and Naftaly Minsky
  In Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC 2000), LNCS 1914, October 2000, Toledo, Spain
  PostScript, PDF
  

• Law-Governed Communities Over the Internet
  Xuhui Ao, Naftaly Minsky, Thu Nguyen, Victoria Ungureanu
  In Proc. of Coordination' 2000: Fourth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages,
  LNCS 1906, September 2000, Limassol, Cyprus.
  PostScript, PDF
  

• Law-Governed Interaction: A Coordination & Control Mechanism for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems.
  Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  PostScript , PDF
  
  

• Making Tuple Spaces Safe for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
  Naftaly Minsky, Yaron Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  in ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2000) March 2000 Como, Italy
  Postscript, PDF
  

• Regulating Agent Involvement in Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
  Avi Gal, Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  in The 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Workshop on Electronic Commerce; June 1999.
  PostScript, PDF
  

• A Mechanism for Establishing Policies for Electronic Commerce.
  Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  In the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). May 1998.
  PostScript, PDF
  

• Unified Support for Heterogeneous Security Policies in Distributed Systems.
  Naftaly Minsky and Victoria Ungureanu
  In 7th USENIX Security Symposium, January 1998,San Antonio, Texas.
  PostScript, PDF
  

• Regulated Coordination in Open Distributed Systems
  with Naftaly Minsky. In Proc. of Coordination'97: Second International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, LNCS 1282, September 1997.
  Full Paper (Postscript,322K)
  

• Building Reconfiguration Primitives into the Law of a System
  Naftaly Minsky, Victoria Ungureanu, Wenhui Wang and Junbiao Zhang;
  the International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, May 6-8 1996 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA
  Full Paper (Postscript,286K)