 | Godmar BackAssociate Professor
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Research Interests
Godmar Back is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, having joined in August 2004. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and instructor at Stanford University. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 2002.
Systems Software LaboratoryContact: Godmar Back |
2013
Bailey, A., and G. Back,
Robots in Academic LibrariesStreamlining Access to Library Resources with LibX,
: IGI Global, pp. 62 - 89, 2013.
2012
McDaniel, B., and G. Back,
"The CloudBrowser web application framework",
the 3rd annual conferenceProceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity - SPLASH '12, Tucson, Arizona, USANew York, New York, USA, ACM Press, pp. 141, 2012.
2011
Belgin, M., G. Back, and C. J. Ribbens,
"A library for pattern-based sparse matrix vector multiply",
Intl. Jnl. of Parallel Programming, vol. 39, pp. 62-87, 2011.
Edwards, S. H., and G. Back,
"Bringing creative web 2.0 programming into CS1: Conference workshop",
J. Comput. Small Coll., vol. 26: Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, pp. 54–55, January, 2011.
Nikolaev, R., and G. Back,
"Perfctr-Xen: a Framework for Performance Counter Virtualization",
7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'11), Newport Beach, CA, ACM, pp. 15-26, 2011.
Edwards, S. H., G. Back, and M. Woods,
"Experiences evaluating student attitudes in an introductory programming course",
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, CSREA Press, pp. pp. 477-482, 2011.
2010
Belgin, M., G. Back, and C. J. Ribbens,
"Operation stacking for ensemble computations with variable convergence",
Intl. Jnl. of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 24, pp. 194-212, 2010.
Belgin, M., G. Back, and C. J. Ribbens,
"Applicability of pattern-based sparse matrix representation for real applications",
International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2010), Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 203-211, 2010.
Maxwell, E. K., G. Back, and N. Ramakrishnan,
"Diagnosing memory leaks using graph mining on heap dumps",
16th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining - KDD '10, Washington, DC, USANew York, New York, USA, ACM Press, pp. 115, 06/2010.
2009
Belgin, M., G. Back, and C. J. Ribbens,
"A Pattern-based Sparse Matrix Representation for Memory-efficient SMVM Kernels",
ICS '09: Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Supercomputing: ACM, New York, pp. 100-109, 2009.
Bailey, A., and G. Back,
"Rating ILS Interoperability: A Proposal",
Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 21, issue 4, 2009.
Pfaff, B., A. Romano, and G. Back,
"The pintos instructional operating system kernel",
the 40th ACM technical symposiumProceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '09, Chattanooga, TN, USANew York, New York, USA, ACM Press, pp. 453, 2009.
2008
Nikolopoulos, D. S., G. Back, J. Tripathi, and M. Curtis-Maury,
"VT-ASOS: Holistic System Software Customization for Many Cores",
Proceedings of the Workshop on the NSF Next Generation Software Program, held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Miami, FL, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 5pp, 2008.
C.N., G., J. Sundararaman, A. R. Butt, and G. Back,
ReplayCache: Exploiting Similarities for Predicting the Future,
, San Jose, CA, 2008.
Back, G., and A. Bailey,
"Increasing the visibility of web-based information retrieval systems via client-side mash-ups",
JCDL '08: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA, ACM Press, June, 2008.
Tilevich, E., and G. Back,
"Program, Enhance Thyself! Demand-Driven Pattern-Oriented Program Enhancement",
AOSD '08: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Brussels, Belgium, ACM Press, April, 2008.
Varma, K., H. B. Damecharla, A. E. Bell, J. E. Carletta, and G. V. Back,
"A Fast JPEG2000 Encoder That Preserves Coding Efficiency: The Split Arithmetic Encoder",
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, issue 11, pp. 3711 - 3722, 12/2008.
Sundararaman, J., and G. Back,
"HDPV: interactive, faithful, in-vivo runtime state visualization for C/C++ and Java",
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis'08), Ammersee, Germany, pp. 47-56, 09/2008.
2007
Back, G., and D. S. Nikolopoulos,
"Application-Specific System Customization on Many-Core Platforms: The VT-ASOS Framework",
STMCS: Second Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems, San Jose, CA, March, 2007.
Feizabadi, S., and G. Back,
"Garbage collection-aware utility accrual scheduling",
Real-Time Systems, vol. 36, no. 1-2, Norwell, MA, USA, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 3–22, 2007.
Bailey, A., and G. Back,
"Retrieving Known Items with LibX",
The Serials Librarian, vol. 53, no. 4: Haworth Press, Inc., pp. 125–140, 2007.
Back, G., and D. S. Nikolopoulos,
"Application-Specific Customization on Many-Core Platforms: The VT-ASOS Framework",
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Software and Tools for Multi-Core Systems, held in conjunction with the 2007 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, San Jose, CA, pp. 6pp, March, 2007.
Belgin, M., C. J. Ribbens, and G. Back,
"An operation stacking framework for large ensemble computations",
Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS07), New York, B. Smith (ed.), 2007, ACM, pp. 83–92, 2007.
2006
Feizabadi, S., and G. Back,
"Automatic Memory Management in Utility Accrual Scheduling Environments",
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Object and component-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC 2006), Gyeongju, South Korea, IEEE, pp. 11–19, 2006.
Kremenek, T., P. Twohey, G. Back, D. Engler, and A. Ng,
"From Uncertainty to Belief: Inferring the Specification Within",
accepted to Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06), Seattle, WA, USENIXASSOC, pp. 161–176, 2006.
Bergstrom, C., S. Varadarajan, and G. Back,
"The Distributed Open Network Emulator: Using Relativistic Time for Distributed Scalable Simulation",
Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, Singapore, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 19–28, may, 2006.
Bailey, A., and G. Back,
"LibX - A Firefox Extension for Enhanced Library Access",
Library Hi Tech, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 290–304, 2006.
2005
Feizabadi, S., and G. Back,
"Java Garbage Collection Scheduling in Utility Accrual Scheduling Environments",
3rd Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES) colocated with OOPSLA 2005: ACM, October, 2005.
Back, G., and W. C. Hsieh,
"The KaffeOS Java Runtime System",
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 27, no. 4, New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, pp. 583–630, 2005.
2002
Back, G.,
"DataScript - A Specification and Scripting Language for Binary Data",
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering Proceedings (GPCE 2002), published as LNCS 2487, Pittsburgh, {PA}, ACM, pp. 66-77, oct, 2002.
Back, G.,
Isolation, Resource Management and Sharing in the KaffeOS Java Runtime System,
: University of Utah, 2002.
2001
Hsieh, W. C., D. R. Engler, and G. Back,
Reverse-Engineering Instruction Encodings,
, Boston, {MA}, pp. 133–146, jun, 2001.
2000
Back, G., W. C. Hsieh, and J. Lepreau,
Processes in KaffeOS: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in {Java},
, San Diego, CA, USENIXASSOC, pp. 333–346, 2000.
Farkas, K., J. Flinn, G. Back, D. Grunwald, and J. Anderson,
"Quantifying the Energy Consumption of a Pocket Computer and a Java Virtual Machine",
Proceedings of SIGMETRICS '00, Santa Clara, CA, pp. 252–263, 2000.
Back, G., P. Tullmann, L. Stoller, W. C. Hsieh, and J. Lepreau,
Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems,
, San Diego, {CA}, USENIXASSOC, pp. 197–210, jun, 2000.
1999
Back, G., and W. C. Hsieh,
Drawing the Red Line in Java,
, Rio Rico, Arizona, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 116–121, 1999.
1997
Tullmann, P., J. Turner, J. McCorquodale, J. Lepreau, A. Chitturi, and G. Back,
Formal Methods: A Practical Tool for OS Implementors,
, Cape Cod, {MA}, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 20–25, may, 1997.
Ford, B., G. Back, G. Benson, J. Lepreau, A. Lin, and O. Shivers,
The Flux OSKit: A Substrate for OS and Language Research,
, St. Malo, France, pp. 38–51, oct, 1997.
1996
Ford, B., M. Hibler, J. Lepreau, P. Tullmann, G. Back, and S. Clawson,
Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines,
, Seattle, WA, USENIXASSOC, pp. 137–151, oct, 1996.
Please see projects at: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gback/
Career: Advanced Execution Environment For Next-Generation Cloud Applications
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $419,439
CSR--AES: VT-ASOS: Virtualization Technologies for Application-Specific Operating Systems on Many-Core HPC Systems
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:
Direct Access to Library Resources with LibX
Granting Institution: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $148,913
Libx 2.0: A community Platform for Developing and Delivering Library Services
Granting Institution: Institute of Museum and Library Services
Amount: $250,000
Reinvigorating CS1 by Enabling Creative Web 2.0 Programming
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $160,500
REU CAREER: Advanced Execution Environments for Next Generation Cloud Applications
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount:
VTASOS: Virtualization Technologies For Applied-Specific Operating Systems On Many-Core HPC Platforms
Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $170,000