Publications

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PhD thesis

Deployment efficiency and data security for the cloud Emad Heydari Beni, supervisors: Wouter Joosen, Bert Lagaisse, Jury: Nigel Smart, Yves Moreau, Filip De Turck, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Yolande Berbers. [pdf]

Journals

BeauForT: Robust Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Client-centric Mobile Web Applications Jannes, K., Heydari Beni, E., Lagaisse, B., Joosen, W. 2023. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) [pdf]

CryptDICE: Distributed Data Protection System for Secure Cloud Data Storage and Computation Rafique, Ansar, Van Landuyt, Dimitri, Heydari Beni, E., Lagaisse, Bert, and Joosen, Wouter. 2021. Journal of Information Systems.[pdf]

Infracomposer: Policy-Driven Adaptive and Reflective Middleware for the Cloudification of Simulation & Optimization Workflows Heydari Beni, E., B. Lagaisse, W. Joosen. 2019. International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture 95: 36–46. [pdf, slides]

Conferences

MPC With Delayed Parties Over Star-Like Networks (under review) Mariana Gama, Emad Heydari Beni, Emmanuela Orsini, Nigel Smart, Oliver Zajonc. 2023. Asiacrypt conference by International Association for Cryptologic Research (Asiacrypt’23). [pdf]

ThunQ: A Distributed and Deep Authorization Middleware for Early and Lazy Policy Enforcement in Microservice Applications Martijn Sauwens, Emad Heydari Beni, Kristof Jannes, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joosen. 2021. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC’21). [pdf]

Reducing Cold Starts during Elastic Scaling of Containers in Kubernetes Heydari Beni, Emad, Jordy Dieltjes, Eddy Truyen, Bert Lagaisse, and Wouter Joosen. 2021. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’21). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. [pdf, video]

Feasibility of Container Orchestration for Adaptive Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications Truyen, Eddy, André Jacobs, Stef Verreydt, Heydari Beni, Emad, Bert Lagaisse, and Wouter Joosen. 2020. Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ‘20). [pdf]

DataBlinder: A Distributed Data Protection Middleware Supporting Search and Computation on Encrypted Data Heydari Beni, E., B. Lagaisse, W. Joosen, and A. Aly. 2019. Proceedings of the 20th International Middleware Conference Industrial Track (Middleware Industry ’19). [pdf, slides]

A voucher-based security middleware for secure Business Process Outsourcing Heydari Beni, E., Lagaisse, B., Zhang, R., De Cock, D., Beato, F., Joosen, W. (2017). In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (19-35). Published at the ESSoS ‘17 [pdf, slides]

Workshops

DeFIRED: decentralized authorization with receiver-revocable and refutable delegations Vrielynck, P.J., E. Heydari Beni, K. Jannes, B. Lagaisse., and W. Joosen. 2022. Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec ‘22). [pdf]

Leveraging Kubernetes for Adaptive and Cost-Efficient Resource Management Verreydt, S., E. Heydari Beni, E. Truyen, and B. Lagaisse. 2019. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds (WOC ‘19). [pdf]

A framework for black-box SLO tuning of multi-tenant applications in Kubernetes Kaminski, M., Truyen, E., Heydari Beni, E., Lagaisse, B., Joosen, W. (2019). In: WOC ‘19 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds Pages 7-12. Presented at the Middleware Conference, Davis, CA, USA, 09 Dec 2019-13 Dec 2019. [pdf]

Adaptive and Reflective Middleware for the Cloudification of Simulation & Optimization Workflows Heydari Beni, E., B. Lagaisse, W. Joosen. 2017. Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM ‘17). [pdf, slides]

WF-Interop: Adaptive and Reflective Rest Interfaces for Interoperability between Workflow Engines Heydari Beni, E., B. Lagaisse, and W. Joosen. 2015. Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM ‘15). [pdf, slides]

Engineering conferences and scientific outreach

Supporting Interoperability and Scalable Customization for Business-Process-as-a-Service Makki, M., E. Heydari Beni, D. Van Landuyt, and B. Lagaisse. 2017. KU Leuven: Scientific Outreach. [pdf].

Smart Deployment and Execution of Engineering Simulation Workflows on Cloud Architectures Panzeri, Marco, Roberto d’Ippolito, Emad Heydari Beni, Bert Lagaisse, Martin Motzer, and Franz Stöckl. 2018. In NAFEMS European Conference - Simulation Process and Data Management. NAFEMS ‘18. [pdf]