Bruno Volckaert, PhD

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Department of Information Technology
Ghent University
Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201
9050 Gent, Belgium

Phone: +32 9 33 14900
Fax: +32 9 33 14899
Email: Bruno.Volckaert@intec.ugent.be

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I am a postdoctoral assistant in the INTEC Broadband Communications Networks group, which is a part of the Department of Information Technology at Ghent University. While doing research on Grid computing, I co-developed, together with Pieter Thysebaert, NSGrid, an advanced ns-2 based Grid simulator, detailed in full in my PhD: "Architectures and Algorithms for Network and Service Aware Grid Resource Management".

My research interests are distributed system design and architecture, Grid computing, service oriented architectures and software systems focussed on railway environments. Currently I am involved in multiple national and international research projects, and have been research lead of the now finalised TRACK ICON project (network, application and business solutions for railway environments) and the recently started RAILS project.

Journal articles

  1. F. De Turck, S. Vanhastel, B. Volckaert, P. Demeester
    Generic middleware-based platform for scalable cluster computing
    Elsevier Journal on Future Generation Computer Systems, 18:549-560, 2002.
  2. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Evaluation of Grid scheduling strategies through NSGrid: a network-aware Grid simulator
    Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Special Issue on Grid Computing, Dynamic Publishers Atlanta, Editors H.R. Arabnia, G.A. Gravvanis, M.P. Bekakos, 12:353-378, 2004.
  3. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Grid Computing: The Next Network Challenge!
    The Journal of The Communications Network, Proceedings of FITCE 2004, 43rd European Telecommunications Congress, 3:159-165, 2004.
  4. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Application-specific hints in reconfigurable Grid scheduling algortihms
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of ICCS 2004, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Krakow, LNCS 3038:149-157, 2004.
  5. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Resource Partitioning Algorithms in a Programmable Service Grid Architecture.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3516, pp. 250-258, May 2005.
  6. M. De Leenheer, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester, D. Simeonidou, R. Nejabati, G. Zervas, D. Klonidis, M.J. O'Mahony
    A View on Enabling Consumer Oriented Grids through Optical Burst Switching.
    published in IEEE Communications Magazine, Feature Topic, Optical Control Plane for Grid Networks: Opportunities, Challenges and the Vision, 44(3):124-131, 2006
  7. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Flexible Grid service management through resource partitioning
    Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 38, Issue 3:279-305, 2006.
  8. F. De Turck, J. Decruyenaere, P. Thysebaert, S. Van Hoecke, B. Volckaert, C. Danneels, K. Colpaert, G. De Moor
    Design of a flexible platform for execution of medical decision support agents in the Intensive Care Unit
    published in Journal of Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2007, Vol. 37, pp. 97-112
  9. P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Scalable dimensioning of Optical Transport Networks for Grid Excess Load Handling
    Photonic Network Communications (PNC), Vol. 12, Issue 2, 2006
  10. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Dimensioning and On-Line Scheduling in Lambda Grids using Divisible Load Concepts
    accepted for publication in the Journal of Supercomputing, 2006
  11. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Scalable dimensioning of resilient lambda Grids
    published in Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, June 2008, Vol. 24, pp. 549-560
  12. B. Volckaert, T. Wauters, M. De Leenheer, P. Thysebaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Gridification of collaborative audiovisual organizations through the MediaGrid framework
    published in Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, May 2008, Vol. 24, pp. 371-389
  13. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Scalable dimensioning of resilient lambda Grids
    published in Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, June 2008, Vol. 24, pp. 549-560
  14. G. Van Seghbroeck, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt and P. Demeester
    Web service choreography conformance verification through the piX-model
    published in International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (2010)
  15. S. Van Hoecke, B. Volckaert, B. Dhoedt and Filip De Turck
    Large-scale performance evaluation of e-homecare architectures using the WS-NS simulator
    published in Methods of Information in Medicine (2011)
  16. S. Verstichel, B. Volckaert, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester, F. De Turck
    Context-aware scheduling of distributed DL-reasoning tasks in wireless sensor networks
    International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2011)
  17. S. Verstichel, F. Ongenae, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, T. Dhaene, P. Demeester
    An autonomous service-platform to support distributed ontology-based context-aware agents
    Expert Systems 2011

Chapters in international publications

  1. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Network and Service Aware Grid Resource Assignment
    published as a chapter in Grid Technologies: Emerging from Distributed Architectures to Virtual Organizations, Editors: M.P. Bekakos, G.A. Gravvanis and H.R. Arabnia, WIT Pres, 2006s.

Conference proceedings

  1. S. Vanhastel, P. Thysebaert, F. De Turck, B. Volckaert, P. Demeester, B. Dhoedt
    Service brokering in an enhanced grid environment
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'02), Las Vegas, 2:712-718, 2002.
  2. F. De Turck, S. Vanhastel, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, P. Demeester, B. Dhoedt
    Design of a middleware-based cluster management platform with task management and migration
    IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Chicago, pages 484-487, 2002.
  3. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, S. Vanhastel, P. Demeester
    Management of Network Resources in a Grid-Computing Environment
    2nd FTW PHD Symposium, Interactive poster session, Ghent, paper nr. 72, 2001.
  4. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    A generic grid simulator for evaluating network-aware grid scheduling algorithms
    3rd FTW PHD Symposium, Interactive poster session, Ghent, paper nr. 21, 2002.
  5. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, F. De Turck, P. Demeester, B. Dhoedt
    Evaluation of grid scheduling strategies through a network-aware grid simulator [paper]
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications PDPTA'03, Las Vegas, 1:31-35, 2003.
  6. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Grid scheduling and dimensioning using divisible load theory [paper]
    5th FTW PHD Symposium, Interactive poster session, Ghent, paper nr. 123, 2004.
  7. M. De Leenheer, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Evaluation of a Job Admission Algorithm for Bandwidth Constrained Grids. [paper]
    Proc. of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jun 2004.
  8. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    On The Use of NSGrid For Accurate Grid Schedule Evaluation. [paper]
    Proc. of the 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jun 2004.
  9. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Network Aware Scheduling in Grids. [paper]
    Proc. of the 9th European Conference on Networks & Optical Communications (NOC 2004), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Jun 2004.
  10. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, M. De Leenheer, E. Van Breusegem, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, D. Simeonidou, M.J. O'Mahoney, R. Nejabati, A. Tzanakaki, I. Tomkos
    Towards consumer-oriented photonic Grids. [paper]
    Proc. of the Workshop on Optical Networking for Grid Services (ECOC 2004), Stockholm, Sweden, Sep 2004.
  11. S. De Smet, D. De Winter, M. De Leenheer, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    A Performance Oriented Grid Monitoring Architecture. [paper]
    Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON), San Diego, CA, USA, Oct 2004.
  12. M. De Leenheer, E. Van Breusegem, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester, D. Simeonidou, M.J. O'Mahoney, R. Nejabati, A. Tzanakaki, I. Tomkos
    An OBS-based Grid Architecture. [paper]
    Proc. of the Globecom 2004 Workshop on High-Performance Global Grid Networks, Dallas, TX, USA, Nov 2004.
  13. M. De Leenheer, E. Van Breusegem, J. Cheyns, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Optical Burst Switching for Consumer Grids. [paper]
    Proc. of the 5th FTW PhD Symposium, Ghent, Belgium, Dec 2004.
  14. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    A Distributed Resource and Network Partitioning Architecture for Service Grids. [paper]
    Proc. of the The Third Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks, Cardiff, UK, May 2005.
  15. P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Resource Partitioning Algorithms in a Programmable Service Grid Architecture. [paper]
    Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Active and Programmable Grids Architectures and Components (APGAC), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2005.
  16. B. Volckaert, P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    A Scalable and Performant Grid Monitoring and Information Framework [paper]
    Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jun 2005.
  17. M. De Leenheer, F. Farahmand, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester, J. Jue
    Anycast Routing in Optical Burst Switched Grid Networks. [paper]
    Proc. of the 31st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Glasgow, Scotland, Sep 2005.
  18. F. Farahmand, M. De Leenheer, P. Thysebaert, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester, J.P. Jue
    A Multi-Layered Approach to Optical Burst-Switched Based Grids.
    Proc. of the Fifth International Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS), Boston, MA, USA, Oct 2005.
  19. P. Thysebaert, M. De Leenheer, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Using Divisible Load Theory to Dimension Optical Transport Networks for Grid Excess Load Handling.
    Proc. of the International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS), Papeete, French Polynesia, Oct 2005.
  20. J. Baert, M. De Leenheer, B. Volckaert, T. Wauters, P. Thysebaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Hybrid optical switching for data-intensive media grid applications
    to be published in Proceedings of the workshop on Design of Next Generation Optical Networks: from the Physical up to the Network Level Perspective, Gent, 2006.
  21. S. Desmet, B. Volckaert, S. Van Assche, D. Van Der Weken, B. Dhoedt, F. De Turck
    Throughput Evaluation of different Enterprise Service Bus Approaches
    Proceedings of SERP2007, the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research & Practice (part of the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing), ISBN 1-60132-033-7, Las Vegas, Nevada, 25-28
  22. D. Van Der Weken, S. Desmet, B. Muylaert, S. Van Assche, B. Volckaert
    Automating media processes in a service oriented architecture
    published in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Marrakech, Morocco, 06-09 July 2008
  23. S. Van Assche, D. Van Der Weken, B. Muylaert, S. Desmet, B. Volckaert
    Automating workflows in media production
    published in International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), ISBN 978-989-8111-29-6, Funchal, Portugal, 04-07 May 2008, pp. 31-38
  24. M. Strobbe, O. Van Laere, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    Context based selection of user generated content
    published in International Conference on Semantic Web & Web Services (part of Worldcomp2008) (SWWS), ISBN 1-60132-089-2, Las Vegas, 14-17 July 2008, pp. 100-106
  25. B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester
    MediaGrid: Gridifying collaborative audiovisual organizations
    published in KEIO and Ghent University 3th G-COE Joint workshop for future network, Ghent, Belgium, 22-23 February 2009
  26. G. Van Seghbroeck, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt
    Framework managing the automated construction and runtime adaptation of service mashups conference
    published in International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), ISBN 978-0-7695-3613-2, Venice, Italy, 24-28 May 2009, pp. 455-461
  27. A. Hristoskova, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck
    Dynamic composition of semantically annotated web services through QoS-aware HTN planning algorithms
    published in International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), ISBN
  28. G. Van Seghbroeck, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck and Bart Dhoedt
    Message correlation in web services choreographies : a 4-phase validation method conference
    published in ECOWS '09 : proceedings of the 7th IEEE European conference on web services (2009)
  29. T. De Pauw, S. Verstichel, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck and V. Ongenae
    Resource-aware scheduling of distributed ontological reasoning tasks in wireless sensor networks conference
    published in Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, 3rd IEEE International conference, Proceedings (2010)
  30. A. Hristoskova, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, B. Dhoedt
    Design of a framework for automated service mashup creation and execution based on semantic reasoning
    published in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2010)
  31. S. Verstichel, E. De Poorter, T. De Pauw, P. Becue, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, I. Moerman and P. Demeester
    Distributed ontology-based monitoring on the IBBT WiLab.t infrastructure
    published in TridentCom 2010 : proceedings CD of the 6th International conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (2010)
  32. S. Desmet, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck
    Autonomous resource-aware scheduling of large-scale media workflows conference
    published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2010)
  33. A. Hristoskova, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck
    Automated instantiation and extraction of web service choreographies
    published in Proceedings of the international workshop on semantic interoperability IWSI 2011
  34. T. De Pauw, B. Volckaert, F. De Turck, V. Ongenae
    On the design of a flexible software platform for In-building OTT service provisioning conference
    12th IFIP/IEEE international symposium on integrated network management, Proceedings (2011) 
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