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Justin Cappos

Publications

Conference Papers

J. Cappos, I. Beschastnikh, A. Krishnamurthy, T. Anderson. "Seattle: The Internet as a Testbed." To appear in The 40th Technical Symposium of the ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '09), Chattanooga, TN USA, March 2009

J. Cappos, J. Samuel, S. Baker, J. Hartman. "A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers." The 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '08), Alexandria, VA, 2008.

J. Cappos, J. Hartman. "San Fermin: Aggregating Large Data Sets using Dynamic Binomial Trees." The 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI '08) (superceeding University of Arizona Tech Report 07-01), San Francisco, CA, 2008. Awarded the Graduate Research Excellence Award by the University of Arizona Computer Science Department

J. Cappos, S. Baker, J. Plichta, D. Nyugen, J. Hardies, M. Borgard, J. Johnston, J. Hartman. "Stork: Package Management for Distributed VM Environments." The 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA 2007) (superceeding University of Arizona Tech Report 07-02), Dallas, TX, 2007.

S. Muir, L. Peterson, M. Fiuczynski, J. Cappos, J. Hartman. "Proper: Privileged Operations in a Virtualised System Environment." USENIX '05 Annual Technical Conference. Anaheim, CA, 2005.

S. Kobourov, K. Pavlou, J. Cappos, M. Stepp, M. Miles, A. Wixted, "Collaboration with DiamondTouch." The Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Rome, Italy, 2005

J. Cappos, A. Estrella-Balderrama, J. Fowler, S. Kobourov. "Simultaneous Graph Embedding with Bends and Circular Arcs." 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing. Karlsruhe, Germany, 2006

Workshop Papers

P. Rao, J. Cappos, V. Khare, B. Moon, B. Zhang, "Net-X: Unified Data-Centric Internet Services." NetDB: Workshop On Networking Meets Databases (2007), Cambridge, MA, April 2007

J. Cappos, J. Hartman, "Why It Is Hard to Build a Long Running Service on Planetlab." Workshop on Real Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS 2005), San Francisco, CA, December 2005.

J. Cappos, S. Kobourov. "Trees on Tracks." 14th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2004.

Other Papers

J. Cappos, A. Estrella-Balderrama, J. Fowler, S. Kobourov. "Simultaneous Graph Embedding with Bends and Circular Arcs." To appear in Computational Geometry, Volume 42, Issue 2, February 2009, pages 173-182.

J. Cappos. "Stork: Secure Package Management for VM Environments." Dissertation (also University of Arizona Tech Report 08-04), supervised by John H. Hartman, May, 2008.

J. Samuel, J. Plichta, J. Cappos. "Centralized Package Management Using Stork." ;login: pages 25-31, February, 2008. Awarded the Graduate Research Excellence Award by the University of Arizona Computer Science Department

S. Muir, L. Peterson, M. Fiuczynski, J. Cappos, J. Hartman. "Privileged Operations in a Virtualised System Environment." Operating Systems Review Volume 40, Issue 1, pages 75-88, 2006.

J. Cappos, J. Samuel, S. Baker, J. Hartman. "Package Management Security." University of Arizona Tech Report 08-02 (Under submission), 2008.

J. Cappos, A. Donnelly, R. Mortier, D. Narayanan, A. Rowstron. "Cost-aware view materialization for highly distributed datasets." University of Arizona Tech Report 07-05, 2007.

J. Cappos, J. Hartman. "A Resource Allocation Framework for Global Service-Oriented Networks." University of Arizona Tech Report 05-02, 2005.

J. Cappos, P. Homer, "Animating Data Structures for CS 2 and CS 3 Courses." University of Arizona Tech Report 01-02, 2001

Talks

This is a selected list of talks I have given.

Research

San Fermin: Aggregating Large Data Sets using Dynamic Binomial Trees -- Columbia University, Cambridge University, University of Washington, NSDI 2008

Partial Replication of Highly Distributed Data -- Microsoft Research Cambridge

Rapid Data Aggregation Using Binomial Trees -- Eurosys Authoring Workshop 2006

Why It Is Hard To Build A Long Running Service On PlanetLab -- WORLDS 2005

Stork and the Benefits of Research on PlanetLab -- IBM UA Forum

Stork -- PlanetLab Spring 2005 Workshop

Trees on Tracks -- 14th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry

Other

Things To Consider As We Move Forward -- Graduation Ceremony Speech 2002

Why You Should Do Undergraduate Research -- New CS Majors and CS Classes

How To Survive (and Flourish) As a Graduate Student -- Graduate Student Orientation