Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda

• PhD candidate, under the supervision of Prof. Assaf Schuster.
• Research topic: Non-Cooperative Strategies for Efficient Usage of Shared Computing Resources.
• Email: ladypine at cs (you know the rest: technion, ac, il).
• Office: 327
• Office phone number: 04-8294309
• Private homepage: LADYPINE

Conference Papers

• "ExPERT: Pareto-Efficient Task Replication on Grids and Clouds", Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Artyom Sharov, Mark Silberstein, Alexandru Iosup. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2012. (accepted; acceptance ratio 21%=118/569).
  Keywords: Scheduling; Cloud computing; Provisioning policies; Pareto scheduling; bags of tasks; Empirical performance analysis; Simulation-based scheduling.
• Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing", Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Dan Tsafrir. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2011), Athens, Greece. Acceptance ratio: 24%. bibtex.
• A 3D Collision Scheme for Compressible Media in a General Connectivity Lagrangian Formulation, Nir Bar-Gill, Orna Agmon, Nadav Har'el and Jonathan Nemirovski, Eighth International Conference on Structures Under Shock and Impact, 2004. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems, Albuquerque NM, November 2003.

Posters

• "ExPERT: Pareto-Efficient Task Replication on Grids and Clouds", Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Artyom Sharov, Mark Silberstein, Alexandru Iosup. SYSTOR 2011 and 1st Technion Computer Engineering (TCE) Conference. Won the best poster award (tied) in SYSTOR 2011.

Tech Reports

• "Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing", Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Dan Tsafrir. Technion CS Technical report CS-2011-09.
• "ExPERT: Pareto-Efficient Task Replication on Grids and Clouds", Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Artyom Sharov, Mark Silberstein, Alexandru Iosup. Technion CS Technical report CS-2011-03.
• Incentives and General Welfare Functions in the Off-Line Cluster Scheduling Problem, Masters thesis in applied methematics, under the supervision of Prof. Rann Smorodinsky.

Presentations

• List of Haifux presentations
• "Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing", Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Dan Tsafrir. Haifux, 26/09/2011. slides in pdf. HaifaU, 16/11/2011. CSL Lunch, Technion, 17/11/2011. CloudCom, Athens, 30/11/2011, slides in pdf.
• "Anonymity and Privacy", at Kiryat-Haim high school, 25/09/2011. Slides in pdf and sources in odp.
• "Sharing the Burden: Energy Incentives for Users", at the 4th Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing, June 2009. Video and slides.
• Incentives and General Welfare Functions in the Off-Line Cluster Scheduling Problem, MSc seminar.
• Lagrange Sliding Colliding Interfaces at Domain Decomposition 18.

Seminar Presentations

• Erez Petrank's seminar - odp (the only format which captures the presentation without bugs), pdf, and ppt - Syncronization Coverage.
• Assaf Schuster's seminar - communication efficient online detection_of network wide anomalies - pdf, odp.
• Dan Tsafrir's seminar - Difference Engine - pdf.

Community Service

• One of the managers of Haifux, the Haifa Linux Club.
• PC Chair of August Penguin 4, 2005.
• PC member of SPSN 2011.