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Paul Townend

Scientific Coordinator: COGNIT. Scientific advisor: WARA-Ops. Member: WASP GSM. Leader: Green Distributed Systems. Interests: Energy Efficiency, Cloud & Edge, Data Centres, Dependability.

Contact

E-mail
paul.townend@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 61 38

Works at

Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Computing Science
Location
MIT-huset, Umeå universitet, MIT.C.229 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
  • Scientific Coordinator: EU COGNIT (sovereignedge.eu)
  • Scientific Advisor + Co-Manager: WARA-Ops (wara-ops.org)
  • Head of Research: Umeå Green Distributed Computing Group
  • Senior member: ADS Lab (cloudresearch.org)
  • Member: WASP GSM (wasp-sweden.org/about-us/management)
  • 70+ peer-reviewed articles (1800+ citations, h-index of 23)
  • Interests include Energy-efficient Computing, Data Centres, Cloud & Edge Computing, Dependability
Formal models for the energy-aware cloud-edge computing continuum: analysis and challenges
2023 IEEE international conference on service-oriented system engineering (SOSE): proceedings, IEEE 2023 : 48-59
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul; Östberg, Per-Olov
COGNIT: challenges and vision for a serverless and multi-provider cognitive cloud-edge continuum
2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE), IEEE 2023 : 12-22
Townend, Paul; Martí, Alberto P.; De La Iglesia, Idoia; et al.
When and How to Retrain Machine Learning-based Cloud Management Systems
2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), IEEE 2022 : 688-698
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
Service mesh and eBPF-powered microservices: a survey and future directions
2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), IEEE 2022 : 176-184
Saleh Sedghpour, Mohammad Reza; Townend, Paul
The 6G Computing Continuum (6GCC): Meeting the 6G computing challenges
2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking, 6GNet 2022
Tarneberg, William; Fitzgerald, Emma; Bhuyan, Monowar H.; et al.
Welcome message from the general chairs of IEEE JCC 2022
Proceedings: 2022 IEEE 13th International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing, IEEE Computer Society 2022 : VIII-VIII
Townend, Paul; Wo, Tianyu
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Research groups

Research leaders
Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab
Head of research
Green Distributed Systems Group

Research projects

1 September 2021 until 1 September 2022
WARA Common Information Bridge -Enabling Research on Data-Driven Cloud Operations

I am course leader of:
Advanced Distributed Systems (5DV205)
Cloud Computing (5DV192)
Distributed Systems (5DV186).

I also supervise Masters student projects, typically related to Distributed Systems in some way.