Copies of papers linked to this page are usually not the originals as they
appeared in publication and are provided only for convenience. Most publications
are available in the IEEE Computer Organziation Digital Library and the ACM Digital
Library. Any exceptions are provided only for the convenience of the reader, and
the copyright remains with the original copyright-holder.
Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Small Non-Associative Division Algebras up to Isotopy
Applied and Discrete Mathematics (Kiev), to appear
2008
Kevin Greenan, Darrell Long, Ethan Miller, Thomas Schwarz, and Jay Wylie:
Spin-Up Saved is Energy Earned:
Achieving Power-Efficient, Erasure-Coded Storage, HotDep08, Fourth Workshop
on Hot Topics in System Dependability, Dec. 7, 2008. (pdf)
Thomas Schwarz, Jehan-Francois Paris, Darrell Long, and Ahmed Amer: Increased
Reliability with SSPiRAL Data Layouts. Proceedings, 6th Annual Meeting of
the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of
Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Sept. 8 - 10, 2008 pdf
Kevin Greenan, Ethan Miller, and Thomas Schwarz: Optimizing Galois Field
Arithmetic for Diverse Processor Architectures and Applications, Proceedings,
6th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis,
and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Sept.
8 - 10, 2008.
Witold Litwin, Hanafi Yakouben, Thomas Schwarz: LH*RSP2P
: A Scalable Distributed Data Structure for P2P Environment. 8th annual
international conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE'2008).
Lyon, FRANCE - June 23-27, 2008. Keynote address. pdf
Jehan-François Pâris, Darrell D. E. Long, Thomas J. E. Schwarz:
Ensuring Data Survival in Solid-State Storage Devices (Short Paper), 1st International
Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation
and Dependability, Salt Like City, UT (SPEED2008), Feb. 2008 pdf
Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: On the Possibility
of Small, Service-Free Disk Based Storage Systems, Third International Conference
on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES 2008 – The International
Dependability Conference”), Barcelona, March 2008. pdf
2007
Kevin Greenan, Ethan Miller, Thomas Schwarz and Darrell Long: Disaster Recovery
Codes: Increasing Reliability with Large-Stripe Error Correction Codes, 3rd
International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007),
Alexandria, Virginia, October 29, 2007 pdf
Damian Cieslicki, Thomas Schwarz: State Estimator (SE) Implementation on
a Distributed Computer System. Proceedings, 39th North American Power Symposium,
NMSU, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Sept. – Oct 2007
Ahmed Amer, Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas Schwarz, Vincent Ciotola,
James Larkby-Lahet, OutshiningMirrors: MTTDL of Fixed-Order SSPiRAL Layouts,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture
and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI’07), San Diego, CA: September 2007 pdf
Witold Litwin, Riad Mokadem, Philippe Rigaux, and Thomas Schwarz:Fast nGramBased
String Search Over Data Encoded Using Algebraic Signatures, 33rd International
Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 23-28 2007, University
of Vienna, Austria.pdf
Chris Williams, Philippe Huibonhoa, JoAnne Holliday, Andy Hospodor, Thomas
Schwarz : Redundancy Management for P2P Storage, Seventh IEEE International
Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid — CCGrid 2007, Rio de Janeiro
- Brazil / May 2007. pdf
Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long:
Self-Adaptive Two-Dimensional RAID Arrays, 26th IEEE International Performance
Computing and Communications Conference, April 11-13, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana,
USA. prelim. pdf
Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas J. Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long:
Protecting Data against Early Disk Failures. Fifth Intl. Information and Telecommunication
Technologies Symposium (I2TS'2006), Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
subm. pdf
2006
Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas J. Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long:
Protecting Data against Early Disk Failures. Fifth Intl. Information and Telecommunication
Technologies Symposium (I2TS'2006), Cuiabá, MT, Brazil. submission
Damian Cieslicki, Stefan Schäckler, Thomas Schwarz: Highly Available
Distributed RAM (HADRAM) for Data Exchange between Power Utilities, Proceedings
of the 38th North American Power Symposium, September, 2006 (NAPS 2006).
Jehan-François Pâris, Thomas J. Schwarz, Darrell D. E. Long:
Self-Adaptive Disk Arrays. Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization,
Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Dallas, 2006. pdf
Witold Litwin, Riad Mokadem, Philippe Rigaux, and Thomas Schwarz: Pattern
Matching Using n-gram Sampling Of Cumulative Algebraic Signatures : Preliminary
Results. Invited paper at the 3rd International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer
Computing Impacts on Large Scale Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems
(GLOBE’06) in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on
Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2006. Krakow, September 2006.
To appear in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag. pdf .
Deepavali. Bhagwat, Kristal Pollack, Darrell Long, Ethan Miller Jehan-François.
Pâris, Thomas Schwarz: Providing high reliability in a minimum redundancy
archival storage system, 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium
on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
(MASCOTS), Monterey, CA, September 2006.pdf
Witold Litwin, Soror Sahri, Thomas Schwarz: An Overview of a Scalable Distributed
Database System SD-SQL Server. In: Flexible and Efficient Information Handling:
23d British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 23, Belfast, Northern
Ireland, UK, July 2006 Proceedings, David Bell and Jun Hong (Eds.), Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 4942, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New
York, 2006, p. 16-35. rtf
Thomas Schwarz and Ethan Miller: Store, Forget, and Check: Using Algebraic
Signatures to Check Remotely Administered Storage. International Conference
on Distributed Computer Systems 2006 (ICDCS 2006). pdf.
Damian Cieslicki , Stefan Schäckeler, Thomas Schwarz: Efficient Updates
in Highly Available Distributed Random Access Memory. The Twelfth International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2006. (Copy of submission:
pdf)
Thomas Schwarz, Mark Manasse: Report on the 7th Workshop on Distributed
Data and Structures (WDAS 2006), submitted to SIGMOD Record. (Proposed for
June 2006 issue.) pdf (Reviewed, not
refereed).
Witold Litwin, Soror Sahri, Thomas Schwarz: Architecture and interface
of the scalable distributed database system SD-SQL server. The IASTED International
Conference on Databases and Applications (DBA 2006) as part of the 24th IASTED
International Multi-Conference on APPLIED INFORMATICS, February 14 - 16, 2006,
Innsbruck, Austria. pdfacm
Thomas Schwarz, Peter Tsui, Witold Litwin: An encrypted, content searchable
scalable distributed data structure. In Proceedings of the International Workshop
on Security and Trust in Decentralized / Distributed Data Structures (STD3S),
Atlanta, GA, April 8, 2006. Proceedings published by ICDE. pdf
Thomas Schwarz, Mary Baker, Steven Bassi, Bruce Baumgart, Wayne Flagg, Catherine
van Ingen, Kobus Jooste, Mark Manasse, Mehul Shah: Disk Failure Investigations
at the Internet Archive. Work in Progress Report, 14th NASA Goddard - 23rd
IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2006), College
Park, Maryland. pdf (Reviewed,
not refereed).
Bo Hong, Feng Wang, Scott Brandt, Darrell Long, Thomas Schwarz: Using MEMS-based
storage in computer systems - MEMS storage architectures, ACM Transactions
on Storage (TOS), February 2006, Vol. 2(1), p. 1-21.
Damian Cieslicki, Stefan Schäckeler, Thomas Schwarz, S.J : Highly Available
Distributed RAM (HADRAM): Scalable Availability for Scalable Distributed Data
Structures, Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Structures, Santa Clara,
CA 2006.pdf
Witold Litwin, Soror Sahri, Thomas Schwarz: Overview of Scalable Distributed
Database System SD-SQL Server. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Structures,
Santa Clara, CA 2006. pdf
2005
Witold Litwin, Rim Moussa, Thomas Schwarz: LH*RS - A Highly-Available Scalable
Distributed Data Structure, Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), September
2005. (Preprint, original accessible
through ACM Digital Library.
Qin Xin, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, S.J., Ethan L. Miller: Disk Infant Mortality
in Large Storage Systems, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis
and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS) 2005.
(IEEE Computer Org. Digital Library)
Witold Litwin, Riad Mokadem, Thomas Schwarz: Pre-computed Algebraic Signatures
for Fast String Search, Proceedings, Third VLDB International Workshop on
Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2005).
Conference Version
pdf
Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Teaching Ethics and Computer Forensics: The Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics Approach. 2005 Information Security Curriculum Development
Conference, Kennesaw State University. pdf
Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Thomas J. E. Schwarz*, Darrell D. E. Long: Impact
of Failure on Interconnection Networks for Large Storage Systems, 22nd Symposium
on Mass Storage Systems and Technology, Monterey, CA, 2005. ( Presentation.)
2004
Damian Cieslicki, Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Power Control Center Applications
Using Highly Available Distributed RAM (HADRAM), Carnegie Mellon Transmissions
Conference, Dec. 15-16, Pittsburg, USA. (Preprint.)
B. Hong, T. J. E. Schwarz, S. A. Brandt, D. D. E. Long: Reliability of MEMS-Based
Storage Enclosures. 12th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis
and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS 2004),
October 4 - 8 2004, Volendam, The Netherlands. (Presentation.)
T. J. E. Schwarz, Q. Xin, E. L. Miller, D. D. E. Long, A. Hospodor, S. Ng:
Disk Scrubbing in Large Archival Storage Systems. 12th IEEE International
Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications
Systems (MASCOTS), October 4 - 8, 2004, Volendam, The Netherlands. pdfppt
Rim Moussa, Witold Litwin, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, S.J.: LH*RS, A highly available
distributed data storage system. Proc. of the 30th VLDB Conference, Toronto,
Canada, 2004. pdf (Preliminary version.)
A demonstration of the LH*RS prototype implemented by Rim Moussa.
Rim Moussa, Thomas Schwarz: Design and Implementation of LH*RS: a Highly
Available Distributed Data Storage System. Workshop on Distributed Data and
Structures, WDAS'04, Lausanne, 2004. pdf
Thomas Schwarz, JoAnne Holliday: A Signature Based Concurrency Scheme for
Scalable Distributed Data Structures. Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures,
WDAS'04, Lausanne, 2004. ps
Thomas Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller: Availability in Global Peer-To-Peer
Storage Systems. Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures, WDAS'04, Lausanne,
2004.pdf
T. Schwarz. Verification of Parity Data in Large Scale Storage Systems.
Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, PDPTA'04,
Las Vegas, June 21-24, 2004. pdf
Q. Xin, E. Miller, T. Schwarz. Evaluation of Distributed Recovery in Large-Scale
Storage Systems. Thirteenth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance
Distributed Computing, Honolulu, HI, June 4-6, 2004. pdf
Witold Litwin, Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Algebraic Signatures for Scalable
Distributed Data Structures. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference
on Data Engineering (ICDE), Boston, March 30 - April 2, 2004 pdf
2003
Qin Xin, E. Miller, T. Schwarz, D. Long, S. Brandt, W. Litwin: Selecting
Reliability Mechanism for a Large Object-Based Storage System. 20th Symposium
on Mass Storage Systems and Technology, San Diego 2003. pdf
Witold Litwin, Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Algebraic Signatures. Proceedings of
the Fifth Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures, Thessaloniki, June
2003 (WDAS 2003). (Also in Distributed Data and Structures 5, Carleton Scientific.)
pdfps
Witold Litwin, Riad Mokadem, Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Disk Backup Through Algebraic
Signatures in Scalable and Distributed Data Structures. Proceedings of the
Fifth Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures, Thessaloniki, June 2003
(WDAS 2003). (Also in Distributed Data and Structures 5, Carleton Scientific.)
(CERIA-Report pdf)
2002
Witold Litwin, Tore Risch, Thomas Schwarz: An Architecture for a Scalable
Distributed DBS:Application to SQL Server 2000. 2nd International Workshop
on Cooperative Internet Computing, Hong Kong 2002.
pdf
Thomas Schwarz: Generalized Reed Solomon Codes For Fault Tolerance in Scalable
Distributed Data Structures. Proceedings of 4-th Workshop on Distributed Data
& Structures (WDAS-2002). Paris 2002. Also in Distributed Data and Structures,
Records of the 4th meeting, Carleton Scientific, Waterloo, Ontario, CA. 2003.)
pdf
Before 2000
Witold Litwin, Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: LH*RS: A High Availability Scalable
Distributed Data Structure using Reed Solomon Codes. Proceedings of the 2000
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 16-18, 2000,
Dallas, Texas, also SIGMOD Records, vol. 29 (2), June 2000, p. 237-248. pdf
Tech. Report
Thomas Schwarz, Jesse Steinberg and Walter A. Burkhard: Permutation Development
Data Layout (PDDL). Fifth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer
Architecture, Orlando, Florida, 1999, HPCA-5 Proceedings, p. 214-217.
pdf
Witold Litwin, Jai Menon, Tore Risch, Thomas Schwarz: Design Issues for
Scalable Availability LH* Schemes with Record Grouping. In: Yuri Breitbart
et al., Distributed Data and Structures 2: Records of the 2nd International
Meeting, Waterloo: Carleton Scientific, 1999, pp. 38-55. ISBN 1-894145-05-4.
Thomas Schwarz and Walter A. Burkhard: Almost Complete Address Translation
(ACATS) Disk Array Declustering. Proc. Eight IEEE Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Processing, New Orleans, 1996. p. 324-331.pdf
Thomas Schwarz and Walter A. Burkhard: Reliability and Performance of RAIDs.
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (T-MAG), vol. 31(2), March 1995, p. 1161-1166.
Thomas J. E. Schwarz and Walter A. Burkhard: "RAID Organization and Performance",
ICDCS '92, p.318-325. pdf
Walter A. Burkhard, Kimberly C. Claffy, Thomas Schwarz: Balanced Disk Array
Schemes. Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. Monterey, CA, 1991,
p. 45-50.
T. Schwarz, R. W. Bowdidge, W. A. Burkhard: "Low Cost Comparisons of File
Copies", ICDCS '90. pdf
Thomas Schwarz: Tangeability of Homogenous Convex Cones. Algebra, Groups,
and Geometries (4), No. 4, 1987, p. 451-457.
Thomas Schwarz: Triple Systems with Composition Forms. Communications in
Algebra, vol. 16, no. 12, 1988, p. 2569-2577.
Thomas Schwarz: Simple Exceptional Jordan Triple Systems in Characteristic
2. Communications in Algebra, vol. 16, no. 11, 1988, p. 2247-2257.
Thomas Schwarz: Simple Exceptional 16-dimensional Jordan Triple Systems.
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, (100), no. 4, 1987, p. 623-626.
Thomas Schwarz and Tudor Zamfirescu: Typical Sets of Convex Sets. Journal
of the Australian Mathematical Society, Series A, vol. 43, 1987, p.287-290.
Thomas Schwarz: Special Simple Jordan Triple Systems. Algebras, Groups,
and Geometries (2), 1985, 117-128.
Thomas Schwarz: Automorphism Groups of Simple Jordan Pairs. Algebras, Groups,
and Geometries (1), 1984, 490-509.
2008