Thomas Schwarz, S.J. Publications

• Thomas Schwarz, S.J.: Small Non-Associative Division Algebras up to Isotopy Applied and Discrete Mathematics (Kiev), to appear

2008

• Witold Litwin, Hanafi Yakouben, Thomas Schwarz: LH*_RS^P2P : 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.
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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.
  

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.
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• 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. pdf acm
  
• 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. pdf ppt
  
• 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.) pdf ps
  
• 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.
  
• Ph. D. Thesis, UCSD, 1994 pdf
  
• 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.