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Roman Vitenberg

Ph.D. Student

Computer Science Department
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000
Israel

E-mail: romanv_nospam@cs.technion.ac.il

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Phone: +972-4-8294934
Fax: +972-4-8294353

Affiliation

Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department of Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). My supervisor is Dr. Roy Friedman. My thesis topic is Internet Wide Caching of Distributed Objects. My research project is CASCADE - Caching Service for CORBA Distributed Objects.

I received my M.Sc. from the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where I was a member of theTransis project. My supervisor was Prof. Danny Dolev.

Research Interests

Distributed Systems
Distributed Objects and Object-Oriented Platforms for Distributed Systems
Scalable Computing
Application Level Communication Protocols
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Fault-Tolerance and High-Availability
Web Caching and Infrastructure
Group Communication and Specifications of Group Communication Systems
Game Playing Computers, Programs, Algorithms etc. Here is the explanation of why I am interested in this seemingly unrelated field.

Publication List (Outdated)

Quantifying Rollback Propagation in Distributed Checkpointing, Adnan Agbaria, Hagit Attiya, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, To appear in proceeding of the 20th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'2001), October 2001
A Framework for Caching Multimedia Objects in the Internet, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, To appear in proceedings of the Internation Workshop on Multimedia Middleware (M3W), October 2001
Caching Support for CORBA Objects, Roman Vitenberg, In IEEE DS Online, March 2001.
Consistency Conditions for a CORBA Caching Service, Gregory V.Chockler, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, In proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'2000), October 2000.
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Implementing Caching Service for Distributed CORBA Objects, Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, In Proceedings of IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing (Middleware'2000), April 2000
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Group Communication Specifications: A Comprehensive Study, Roman Vitenberg, Idit Keidar, Gregory V. Chockler and Danny Dolev, Technical Report CS0964, Computer Science Department, the Technion, Haifa, Israel; Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-790, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science; Technical Report CS99-31, Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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This fat work (accepted for publication to ACM Computing Surveys) supersedes my M.Sc. thesis:
Properties of Group Communication and Their Utilization
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Symphony: Managing Virtual Servers in the Global Village
R. Friedman, Assaf Schuster, Ayal Itzkovitz, Eli Biham, Erez Hadad, V. Kalinovsky, S. Kleyman, and R. Vitenberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1685 (Proceedings of EuroPar'99), Toulouse, France, September 1999.
Efficient State Transfer in Partitionable Environemnts, Yair Amir, Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev and Roman Vitenberg, In Proceeding of the European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems (ERSADS'97), Zinal (Valais, Switzerland), March 1997, pages 183-191.
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The full version of this paper appears in:
Efficient State Transfer in Partitionable Environemnts, Yair Amir, Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev and Roman Vitenberg, Technical Report CS98-12, Institute of Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August 1998.
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Academic Duties

At Technion, I am a teaching assistant in
- Distributed Systems course for which I designed the exercises
- Introduction to Computer Networks (on Spring semesters)
- Distributed Systems Lab (includes a link to student projects)
In other academic institutions, I taught courses in Operating Systems, UNIX and Compilers, and I was involved in teaching Distributed Algorithms and Programming Languages.