Conferences & Workshops
2013
- Amos Brocco. “Fully Distributed Power Routing for an Ad hoc Nanogrid”. The IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems (IWIES) , Vienna, Austria. November 2013. {Accepted}
- Amos Brocco. “Ad-hoc Self-Organized Microgrid for Rural Electrification and Post-Disaster Response”. Fifth Annual Green Technologies Conference, IEEE Greentech 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA. April 2013.
2012
- Ingmar Baumgart, Bernhard Heep, Christian Hübsch, and Amos Brocco, “OverArch: A common architecture for structured and unstructured overlay networks”, in: Global Internet Symposium 2012, IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, USA, March, 2012.
- Amos Brocco, Ingmar Baumgart, “A Framework for a Comprehensive Evaluation of Ant-Inspired Peer-to-Peer Protocols”, in: MSOP2P 2012 : 6th International Workshop on Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Peer-to-peer Environments, 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing PDP 2012, Garching, Germany, February, 2012. {Accepted}
2011
- Amos Brocco, “ozmos: Bio-Inspired Load Balancing in a Chord-based P2P Grid”, in: Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems, ACM, ICAC 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, June, 2011.
2010
- Fulvio Frapolli, Amos Brocco, Apostolos Malatras, and Béat Hirsbrunner, “FLEXIBLERULES: A Player Oriented Board Game Development Framework”, in: The Third International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, ACHI, IEEE, 2010. PDF
- Amos Brocco, Apostolos Malatras, Ye Huang, and Béat Hirsbrunner, “ARiA: A Protocol for Dynamic Fully Distributed Grid Meta-Scheduling”, in: Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE, ICDCS 2010, Genoa, Italy, June, 2010. PDF
- Ye Huang, Amos Brocco, Nik Bessis, Pierre Kuonen, and Béat Hirsbrunner, “Community-Aware Scheduling Protocol for Grids”, in: 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, IEEE, IEEE, April, 2010. PDF
2009
- Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli, and Béat Hirsbrunner, “Bounded Diameter Overlay Construction: A Self Organized Approach”, in: IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, IEEE, SIS 2009, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April, 2009. PDF
- Amos Brocco, Apostolos Malatras, and Béat Hirsbrunner, “Proactive Information Caching for Efficient Resource Discovery in a Self-Structured Grid”, in: Workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems, ACM, ICAC 2009, Barcelona, Spain, June, 2009. PDF
- Amos Brocco, Béat Hirsbrunner, “Service Provisioning Framework for a Self-Organized Grid”, IEEE, ICCCN 09 Workshop on Grid and P2P Systems and Applications (GridPeer 2009), San Francisco, CA USA, August, 2009. PDF
- Ye Huang, Nik Bessis, Amos Brocco, Pierre Kuonen, Michèle Courant, and Béat Hirsbrunner, “Using Metadata Snapshots for Extending Ant-based Resource Discovery Service in Inter-cooperative Grid Communities”, in: The First International Conference on Evolving Internet (INTERNET 2009), IEEE, Cannes/La Bocca, French Riviera, France, August, 2009. PDF
- Ye Huang, Amos Brocco, Amos, Michèle Courant, Béat Hirsbrunner, and Pierre Kuonen. MaGate Simulator: a simulation environment for a decentralized grid scheduler, in: International Conference on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, Springer, APPT'09, Rapperswil, Switzerland, August, 2009. PDF
- Ye Huang, Nik Bessis, Amos Brocco, Stelios Sotiriadis, Michèle Courant, Pierre Kuonen and Béat Hirsbrunner. Towards an integrated vision across inter-cooperative grid virtual organization, in: International Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, Springer, GDC 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December, 2009. PDF
2008
- Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli, Béat Hirsbrunner. “BlatAnt: Bounding Networks' Diameter with a Collaborative Distributed Algorithm”. Sixth International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Springer, ANTS, Bruxelles, September, 2008. PDF
- Ye Huang, Amos Brocco, Pierre Kuonen, Michèle Courant, Béat Hirsbrunner. “SmartGRID: A fully decentralized Grid Scheduling Framework supported by Swarm Intelligence”. 7th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC2008), Shenzhen, China, 2008. PDF
2007
- Amos Brocco, Béat Hirsbrunner, Michèle Courant. “A Modular Middleware for High-level Dynamic Network Management”. The 1st Workshop on Middleware-Application Interaction (MAI'2007), Eurosys 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 March 2007. PDF
- Amos Brocco, Béat Hirsbrunner, Michèle Courant. “Solenopsis: A Framework for the Development of Ant Algorithms”. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1 - 5 April 2007. PDF
2006
- Vincenzo Pallotta, Amos Brocco, Dominique Guinard, Pascal Bruegger, Pedro de Almeida, “RoamBlog: Outdoor and Indoor Geo-blogging Enhanced with Contextual Service Provisioning for Mobile Internet Users.” In: Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp. 103-121, 2006. PDF
Journals
2012
- Amos Brocco, The Grid, the Load and the Gradient: A bio-inspired approach to load balancing, Natural Computing Journal, Springer, ISSN: 1567-7818 (print) 1572-9796 (electronic) {Accepted}
2010
- Fulvio Frapolli, Amos Brocco, Apostolos Malatras, and Béat Hirsbrunner, Decoupling Aspects in Board Games Modeling, in: International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS), volume II, number 2, 2010. PDF
- Amos Brocco and Bèat Hirsbrunner, “Service Provisioning For a Next-Generation Adaptive Grid”, in: International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1744-5760. PDF
- Amos Brocco, Apostolos Malatras, and Bèat Hirsbrunner, “Enabling Efficient Information Discovery in a Self-Structured Grid”, in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, ISSN 0167-739X, 2010. PDF
- Ye Huang, Amos Brocco, Pierre Kuonen, and Bèat Hirsbrunner, “MaGate: an interoperable, decentralized and modular high-level grid scheduler”, in: International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies. PDF
Technical Reports
2011
- Amos Brocco. “On the robustness of the BlatAnt-S protocol under churn”. Technical Report TM-2011-5, Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, August, 2011, ISSN 1613-849X PDF
- Amos Brocco. “OverSwarm: a simulation tool for biologically inspired peer-to-peer networks”. Technical Report TM-2011-4, Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, August, 2011, ISSN 1613-849X PDF
2008
- Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli, Béat Hirsbrunner. “Shrinking the Network: The BlatAnt Algorithm”. Technical Report 08-04, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, April, 2008. PDF
2006
- Béat Hirsbrunner, Michèle Courant, Pierre Kuonen, and Amos Brocco. “SmartGRID: Swarm Agent-Based Dynamic Scheduling for Robust, Reliable, and Reactive Grid Computing”. Working Paper 06-13, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, October 2006
Posters
2011
- Amos Brocco. “OverSwarm: A Framework for the Development and Evaluation of Distributed Swarm Intelligence Algorithms on the OverSim Simulation Platform”. Poster + Extended Abstract. IWSOS 2011 - Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, 23.-24. February 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany Abstract Poster
Demos
2009
- Fulvio Frapolli and Amos Brocco, “FlexibleRules: A Tool for Developing Board Games”, in: 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, FDG, April, 2009.
PhD Thesis
- Amos Brocco. “Exploiting self-organization for the autonomic management of distributed systems”. PhD Thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, October, 2010. PDF
Master Thesis
- Amos Brocco. “RoXanne Framework - x.core and x.click Components”. Master Thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, October, 2005.
Diploma of Advanced Studies
- Amos Brocco, Fulvio Frapolli. “Open Source in Higher Education: Case Study Computer Science at the University of Fribourg”. Diploma of Advanced Studies, Centre de Didactique Universitaire, University of Fribourg, February, 2011. PDF