Publications of Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Ph.D.

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Academic Publications

International Journal and Conference Papers (conference papers later published in journals are only listed once)

• L.F.G. Sarmenta, M. van Dijk, J. Rhodes and S. Devadas. "Offline Count-Limited Certificates", ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) Security Track, Fortaleza, Brazil, March 2008.
• M. van Dijk, J. Rhodes, L.F.G. Sarmenta, and S. Devadas. "Offline Untrusted Storage with Immediate Detection of Forking and Replay Attacks", The 2nd ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (ACM STC'07).  Held at CCS '07, Alexandria, VA, Nov. 2007.
• Luis F.G. Sarmenta, Marten van Dijk, Charles W. O'Donnell, Jonathan Rhodes, and Srinivas Devadas, "Virtual Monotonic Counters and Count-Limited Objects using a TPM without a Trusted OS", The First ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing (STC'06), November 2006. (Also available in extended form as MIT CSAIL Technical Report 2006-064.)
• E. Bagarinao, K. Matsuo, Y. Tanaka, L.F.G. Sarmenta, and T. Nakai. "Enabling On-Demand Real-Time Functional MRI Analysis Using Grid Technology." Methods of Information in Medicine, Vol. 44, No. 5. Schattauer GMBH (Publisher). Stuttgart, Germany, 2005.
• E. Bagarinao, L.F.G. Sarmenta, Y. Tanaka, K. Matsuo, and T. Nakai. "The Application of Grid Computing to Real-Time Functional MRI Analysis." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2004.  (Also presented at ISPA-2004 Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Hong Kong, December 2004.)
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Sandra Jean V. Chua, Paul Echevarria, Jose Mari Mendoza, Rene-Russelle Santos, Stanley Tan, and Richard Lozada. "Bayanihan Computing .NET: Grid Computing with XML Web Services." Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems Workshop (GP2PC), 2nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid '02), Berlin, Germany, May 2002.
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms for Volunteer Computing Systems." Future Generation Computer Systems: Special Issue on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Volume 18,Issue 4, March 2002. (Expanded version of Best Paper Finalist paper presented at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2001), Brisbane, Australia, May 15-18, 2001.)
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Studying Sabotage-Tolerance Mechanisms through Web-based Parallel Parametric Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation." 2nd International Conference on Internet Computing, (in conjuction with PDPTA 2001), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2001.
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "An Adaptive, Fault-tolerant Implementation of BSP for Java-based Volunteer Computing Systems." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1586, Springer-Verlag, 1999. pp. 763-780.  (Also presented at IPPS'99 Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 12-16, 1999.)
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Satoshi Hirano. "Bayanihan: Building and Studying Volunteer Computing Systems Using Java." Future Generation Computer Systems: Special Issue on Metacomputing, Vol. 15, No. 5/6. Elsevier Publ., 1999.
• Y. Yasu, H. Fujii, Y. Igarishi, E. Inoue, H. Kodama, A. Manabe, Y. Watase, Y. Nagasaka, M. Nomachi, S. Hirano, H. Takagi, K. Shudo, T. Arai, L.F.G. Sarmenta, C. Thomborson, R. Nicolescu, and M. Duc. "Evaluation of Gigabit Ethernet with Java/HORB." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing In High Energy Physics (CHEP '98), Chicago, Illinois, September 1998.
  
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Satoshi Hirano, Stephen A. Ward. "Towards Bayanihan: Building an Extensible Framework for Volunteer Computing Using Java." Concurrency: Practice and Experience,Vol. 10(11-13), 1015-1019 (1998).  (Also presented at ACM 1998 Workshop on Java for High-Performance Network Computing, Palo Alto, California, Feb. 1998.)
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta. Bayanihan: "Web-Based Volunteer Computing Using Java." Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1368, Springer-Verlag, 1998. pp. 444-461. (Also presented at the 2nd International Conference on World-Wide Computing and its Applications (WWCA'98), Tsukuba, Japan, March 1998.)
  
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Gill A. Pratt, and Stephen A. Ward. "Rational Clocking." IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '95), Austin, Texas, October, 1995.

International Conference Posters

• E. Bagarinao, L.F.G. Sarmenta, Y. Tanaka, K. Matsuo, and T. Nakai. "Real-Time Functional MRI Analysis Using Grid Computing." 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Grid in Asia Pacific Region (HPC Asia 2004). Tokyo, Japan, July 2004.
• Kai Huang, Charles E. Leiserson, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "A Media Player for Use in Distance Education." 4th Annual Singapore-MIT Alliance Symposium. Singapore, Jan. 2004.
• Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Bayanihan BSP: An Adaptively Parallel and Fault-tolerant Message-Passing API for Java-based Volunteer Computing Systems." ACM JavaGrande '99 Conference, San Francisco, CA, June, 1999.

Local Journal Papers (Philippines)

• Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Sandra Jean V. Chua, Paul Echevarria, Jose Mari Mendoza, Rene-Russelle Santos, Stanley Tan, and Richard Lozada. "Bayanihan Computing .NET: A Simple Framework for Grid Computing with Web Services." The Loyola Schools Review:  School of Science and Engineering, Volume II, Ateneo de Manila University, 2003.

Local Conference Posters (Japan)

• E. Bagarinao, K. Matsuo, L.F.G. Sarmenta, Y. Tanaka, and T. Nakai. "The Medical Grid Project: Bridging the Computational Gap in Functional MRI Analysis."  in Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, September, 2004.

Local Conference Papers (Philippines)

• Marco Dolcetto Mate, Darlene Mari Velasquez, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "An Enhanced Lecture Viewer for eLearning." Notable Paper Awardee. 3rd National Conference on eLearning. Philippine eLearning Society, Ateneo de Manila University, Aug. 2004.
  (Also presented as an invited paper at the AEN Award Session at the Asia e-Learning Network Conference, Singapore, Dec. 2004.)
• Marco Dolcetto Mate, Darlene Mari Velasquez, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Enhanced Viewer Experience System." 4th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2004), University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Feb. 2004.
• Matthew M. Sze, Aileen Lorraine C. Dy, and Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Inexpensive Camera-based Gestural Interfaces for PCs." 4th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2004), University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Feb. 2004.

Other Papers

• Luis F. G. Sarmenta. "Protecting Programs from Hostile Environments: Encrypted Computation, Obfuscation, and Other Techniques." Area Exam Paper, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, July 1999.  (Edited and published as Appendix B in MIT Ph.D. thesis, Volunteer Computing, p. 175-201.)

Theses

Ph.D. Dissertation

Volunteer Computing                                                                                                  March 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Committee: Stephen A. Ward (chair), Charles E. Leiserson, Lynn A. Stein

Master's Thesis

Synchronous Communication Techniques for Rationally Clocked Systems                          May 1995

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Advisor: Stephen A. Ward