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Silviu S. Craciunas

Dipl.Ing. (M.Sc.) "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania
Ph.D. Student of Prof. Christoph Kirsch

Computational Systems Group
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Salzburg, Austria

Office: Room 0.26, Jakob-Haringer-Str. 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Contact: scraciunascs.uni-salzburg.at or scraciunasgmail

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Research interests

Operating Systems, Dynamic Scheduling Algorithms
Embedded and Real-time Systems
Physically Based Modeling and Interactive Simulation, Computational Algorithms for Physical Simulations

Current projects

Tiptoe - Real-time operating system, hard real-time scheduling of processes
Threading by Appointment - Linux kernel patch implementing system call scheduling
JAviator UAV - High-level real-time and concurrent programming abstractions tested on UAVs

Teaching

Travel schedule

Old projects

Personal

Photography, currently on hold due to lack of time/equipment/inspiration.
Whenever I can I travel and receive guests via CouchSurfing.
Music I recommend : Negura Bunget | Gogol Bordello | Dresden Dolls | Rage Against The Machine | Amon Amarth

Links

ZMag | The UNIX System | The GNU Operating System | PhD comics | Mathematics Genealogy Project

Work

2010

Reviewer for HSCC10, ASPLOS10, EuroSys10.

2009

Participation at the ARTIST Summer School in Europe 2009. Autrans, France. 7-11 September 2009.
Talk at the Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems. Lausanne, Switzerland. 09 July 2009.
Programmable Temporal Isolation through Variable-Bandwidth Servers (25 min talk).
Poster overview at Ptolemy Miniconference. Berkeley, USA. 16 April 2009.
Poster at RTAS. San Francisco, USA. 13-15 April 2009.
Participation at EuroSys. Nuremberg, Germany. 31 March-03 April 2009.
Reviewer for DATE09, EMSOFT09, ICCAD09, RTSS09.

2008

Talk at 2nd Artist Workshop on Models of Computation and Communication, Eindhoven, Netherlands. 3-4 July 2008.
Workload-oriented Programming Model (30 min talk).
Participation at 4th Graduate school on Embedded Control Systems. Stockholm, Sweden. 26-30 May 2008.
Reviewer for AIAA08, LCTES08, RTAS08, EMSOFT08, and DATE08.

2007

Student volunteer at EMSOFT07. Salzburg, Austria.
Participation at Laser Summer School for Applied Software Verification. Elba, Italy.
Teaching assistant for Operating Systems Course.
Reviewer for Coordination07, DATE07, and EuroSys07.

Publications | Silviu S. Craciunas | [ACM | DBLP]

S.S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, and A. Sokolova - Response Time versus Utilization in Scheduler Overhead Accounting
In Proc. 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2010.
S.S. Craciunas, C. M. Kirsch, A. Sokolova - A Workload-oriented Programming Model for Temporal Isolation with VBS
In Online Proc. Workshop on Reconciling Performance with Predictability (RePP), 6pp, 2009.
S.S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, H. Payer, H. Röck, and A. Sokolova - Programmable Temporal Isolation through Variable-Bandwidth Servers
In Proc. IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES), pp. 171-180, IEEE, 2009.
S.S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, H. Payer, H. Röck, and A. Sokolova - Everyone Virtualizes Everything But Time
Poster at 15th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2009.
S.S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, H. Payer, H. Röck, and A. Sokolova - Programmable Temporal Isolation in Real-Time and Embedded Execution Environments
In Proc. Workshop on Isolation and Integration in Embedded Systems (IIES), pp. 19-24, ACM, 2009.
S.S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, and H. Röck - I/O Resource Management through System Call Scheduling
ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), Special Issue on Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel, Volume 42, Number 5, pp. 44-54, July, ACM, 2008.
S.S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, H. Röck, and R. Trummer - The JAviator: A High-Payload Quadrotor UAV with High-Level Programming Capabilities
In Proc. AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit (GNC), 2008.
S. S. Craciunas, C.M. Kirsch, H. Payer, A. Sokolova, H. Stadler, and R. Staudinger - A Compacting Real-Time Memory Management System
In Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), pp. 349-362, USENIX Association, 2008.
S. Craciunas, S. S. Craciunas, and S. Herisanu - Interactive Videoconferencing Application using Flash Communication Server on Linux Systems
In Proc. of the 2nd National Virtual Learning Conference, pp. 49-57, Bucharest, Romania, 2004. Bucharest University Press, ISBN 973-575-947-0.
S. Craciunas and S. S. Craciunas - MySeLF, my system for e-learning and formation
In Proc. of the 1st National Virtual Learning Conference, pp. 81-89, Bucharest, Romania, 2003. Bucharest University Press, ISBN 973-575-947-0.

Technical Reports

Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Ana Sokolova - Response Time versus Utilization in Scheduler Overhead Accounting, Technical Report, 2009-03, September 2009, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes Payer, Harald Röck, Ana Sokolova - Concurrency and Scalability versus Fragmentation and Compaction with Compact-fit, Technical Report, 2009-02, April 2009, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald Röck, Ana Sokolova - Real-Time Scheduling for Workload-oriented Programming, Technical Report, 2008-02, September 2008, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald Röck - Shaping Process Semantics, Technical Report, 2007-01, April 2007, University of Salzburg, Austria.

Talks

Programmable Temporal Isolation through Variable-Bandwidth Servers, talk at the Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland. 09 July 2009. (25 min talk)
Everyone Virtualizes Everything But Time, poster overview at Ptolemy Miniconference, Berkeley, USA. 16 April 2009.
Workload-oriented Programming, talk at 2nd Artist Workshop on Models of Computation and Communication, Eindhoven, Netherlands. 4 July 2008. (30 min talk).

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