Scientific papers


Publications/Talks/Conferences (for the annual report and general interest)

 2009

Conferences & Talks 

LinuxDays 2009
3-5 June 2009 Geneva, Switzerland
(Talks by J. White and H. Mikkonen)

Publications

Journals

M. Niinimäki and T. Niemi
An ETL Process for OLAP Using RDF/OWL Ontologies
LNCS Journal on Data Semantics XIII, Special Issue on ``Semantic Data Warehouses'', Vol 5530, 2009, pp. 97- 119.

T. Niemi, M. Tuisku, A.-P. Hameri, and T. Curtin
Server-Based Computing Solution Based on Open Source Software
Information Systems Managemen, Vol 26, No 1 (2009), pp. 77 - 86.

J. Hahkala, H. Mikkonen, M. Silander, and J. White
A Pseudonymity System for Grids
Journal of Computers, Vol 4, No 5 (2009), pp. 415-422.

Conference Publications

T. Niemi, J. Kommeri, K. Happonen, J. Klem, and A.-P. Hameri
Improving Energy-Efficiency of Grid Computing Clusters
Proceedings of Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing, 4th International Conference, GPC 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 5529 (2009), pp. 110 - 118 .

H. Mikkonen, K. Happonen, and J. Hahkala
Online Host Certificate Registration and Renewal System

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications, GCA 2009, July 13-16, Las Vegas, US, to Appear.

E. Edelmann, L.Field, J. Frey, M. Grønager, K. Happonen, D. Johansson, J. Kleist, J. Klem, J. Koivumäki, T. Lindén, A. Pirinen, D. Qing
Grid Interoperation with ARC middleware for CMS experiment
CHEP09 proceedings, Journal of Physics: Conference Series. To appear.

J. Klem in S.Belforte et al.
The commissioning of CMS sites: improving the site reliability
CHEP09 proceedings, Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
To appear.

J. Klem in M.Calloni et al.
CMS Analysis Operations
CHEP09 proceedings, Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
To appear.

J. Klem in S. Belforte et al.
Debugging Data Transfers in CMS
CHEP09 proceedings, Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
To appear.

J. Klem in  J. Hernandez et al.
The commissioning of CMS computing centres in the WLCG Grid
Acat 2008, XII International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Erice, Sicily , November 3-7, 2008.
To appear.

M. Pitkänen, T. Kärkkäinen, J. Greifenberg, and J. Ott
Searching for Content in Mobile DTNs
Proceedings of the 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive
Computing and Communications (PerCom), Galveston, Texas, March 2009
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Conference Posters

Reports

Theses

2008

Conferences & Talks

The 3rd Rutgers, Helsinki PhD Workshop
May 5-9, 2008, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA
(Talk by M. Pitkänen)

The 21TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS
June 17-19, 2008, Jyväskylä, Finland
(Talk by M. Pitkänen)

The IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2008)
June 23-26, 2008, Newport Beach, CA, USA
(Talk by M. Pitkänen)

The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing Systems Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2008)
September 29 - October 4, Valencia, Spain
(H. Mikkonen, talk by M. Pitkänen)

International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2008
April 7-11th Taipei, 2008.
(Invited talk by J. White)

EGEE 08 Conference
September 22-26th 2008 Istanbul, Turkey.
(J. White, J. Hahkala, talk by K. Happonen)

The 24th Open Grid Forum - OGF24
September 15-19th, Singapore
(J. Hahkala)

EGEE Security Middleware: Present and Future
Nordunet 2008, 9-11 April, Espoo, Finland
(Talks by M. Silander and J. White)

Grid Security
InfraHIP-II open seminar day, 23 April, Espoo, Finland
(Invited talk by M. Silander)

NORDUnet2008 Biosphere of Grids and Networks
9-11 April 2008 in Espoo (Helsinki), Finland.
(Talk by J. Klem)

LinuxDays 2008
21-22 May 2008 Geneva, Switzerland
(Talk by K. Happonen)

SuperComputing08, Austin, Texas
15-21 November 2008
(J. Klem)

NorduGrid 2008
27-31 October 2008 in Budapest, Hungary
(Talk by A. Pirinen on behalf of T. Lindén)

CMS Data and Workload Management Workshop
IN2P3/CNRS Computing Centre in Lyon, France
21-25 January 2008
(J. Klem)

The 23 Open Grid Forum OGF23
2-6 June, Barcelona, Spain
(M. Silander)

Smart Event '08
16-19 September, Sophia Antipolis, France
(H. Mikkonen)

The 2008 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2008)
3-6 June, Nicosia, Cyprus
(Talk by H. Mikkonen)

Publications

Journals

By CMS Collaboration (R. Adolphi et al.)
The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC
Journal of Instrumentation, Vol 3 (2008)

M. Pitkänen and J. Ott
Enabling Opportunistic Storage for Mobile DTNs
Pervasive and Mobile Computing,   Vol 4, No 5 (2008) pp. 579 - 594.

M. Niinimaki and T. Niemi
Processing Semantic Web Queries in Grid
International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications
Vol 3, No 4  (2008), pp. 366-377

Conference Publications

M. Pitkanen, X. Zhou, M. Tuisku, T. Niemi, V. Ryynänen, and H. Müller
How grids are perceived in healthcare and the public service sector
Global Healthgrid: e-Science Meets Biomedical Informatics -
Proceedings of HealthGrid 2008, Studies in Health Technology and
Informatics, Volume 138 (2008), pp. 61-69.

M. Grønager, D. Johansson, J. Kleist, C. Søttrup, A. Wäänänen, L. Field, D. Qing, K. Happonen, T. Linden
Interoperability between ARC and gLite; understanding the grid-job life cycle
International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop 2008 (IGIIW 2008)
in conjunction with 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008)
December 7-12, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. (2008)

X. Zhou, M. Pitkanen, A. Depeursinge, H. Müller
A Medical Image Retrieval Application Using Grid Technologies To Speed Up Feature Extraction
ICT4Health, Manila, Phillipines, (2008).

M. Pitkänen and H. Mikkonen
Initializing Mobile User's Identity From Federated Security Infrastructure
Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing,
Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2008), Valencia, Spain, Sept. 29 - Oct. 4
(2008), pp. 390-394.

J. Hahkala, H. Mikkonen, M. Silander and J. White
Requirements and Initial Design of a Grid Pseudonymity System
in Proceedings of the 2008 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2008),
Nicosia, Cyprus (2008).

M. Pitkänen, X. Zhou, A. Hyvarinen, and H. Muller
Using the Grid for Enhancing the Performance of a Medical Image Search Engine
The 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems CBMS '08.
(2008) pp. 367-372.

M. Pitkänen, A. Keranen, and J. Ott
Message fragmentation in opportunistic DTNs
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks WoWMoM 2008 -
International Symposium, (2008), pp. 1-7. 

S. Belforte, A. Fanfani, I. Fisk, J. Flix, J. Hernandez, J. Klem, J. Letts, N. Magini, V. Miccio, S, Padhi, P. Saiz, A. Sciaba, F. Wũrthwein
The commissioning of CMS computing centres in the worldwide LHC computing Grid
IEEE 2008 Nuclear Science Symposium
9 - 25 October 2008, Dresden, Germany (2008)

Conference Posters

K. Happonen, E. Edelmann, L. Field, J. Frey, J. Klem, J. Koivumäki, T. Linden, A. Pirinen, and D. Qing
Grid Interoperation with ARC Middleware for CMS Experiment
EGEE 08 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey (2008)

M. Flix, A. Sciabà, J. Hernandez, S. Belforte, A. Fanfani, J. Fisk, N. Magini, V. Miccio, F. Whürthwein, J. Letts, and J. Klem
The commissioning of CMS computing centres in the WLCG Grid
EGEE 08 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey (2008)

Reports

J. White
EGEE-III MJRA1.2 - Activity Quality and Measurement Plan
https://edms.cern.ch/document/930919/1
Approved 21/07/08

J. White
EGEE-III MJRA1.3.1 - Functional Description of Grid Components and associated Work Plan
https://edms.cern.ch/document/945450/4
Approved 16/10/08

J. White
EGEE-II DJRA1.2 - Final report on progress of middleware reengineering
https://edms.cern.ch/document/888165/2
Approved 10/04/08)

Theses

K. Defée
A Prototype for a Grid Intrusion Detection System Incorporating Multi-level Data
MSc Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology (2008)

K. Lundahn
Design and Implementation of a Web-based User Interface for a Digital
Pen
MSc Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology (2008)

M. Bärlund
Usability Study of Shift Logbooks in Physics Experiments at CERN
MSc Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology (2008)

M. Pitkänen
Managing Data in the Grid and in Challenging Networking Environments
Lic. Tech Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology (2008)

2007

Conferences

Fall 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting
8-11 October, San Diego, California, USA (Henri Mikkonen)

3rd Pan-Galactic Workshop on BOINC
5-6 September, Geneva, Switzerland (Tapio Niemi)

The 20th Open Grid Forum - OGF20/EGEE 2nd User Forum
May 7 - 11, Manchester, UK, 2007 (Klem, Koivum�ki, Dahlblom, Happonen)

MobiArch Workshop at ACM SIGCOMM 2007
August 27, Kyoto, Japan (Mikko Pitkanen)

IEEE Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Commincations AOC 2007
June 18 , Espoo, Finland (Mikko Pitkanen)

IEEE Cluster 2007
September 17-20 Austin, Texas, 2007 (Antti Pirinen)

The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007)
September 19-21, Austin, Texas, 2007 (Antti Pirinen)

NDGF dCache Workshop
March 27-28, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 (Dahlblom)

The 2nd International Workshop on Real Overlays And Distributed Systems (ROADS)
July 11-12, Warsaw, Poland, 2007 (Dahlblom, Happonen)

Nordgrid Conference
September 24-28, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 (Koivum�ki, N�rj�nen)

Talks in conferences and workshops

IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Networks (PDCN) 2007
15th February, Innsbruck, Austria
Talk by Mika Silander

EGEE-II JRA1 All-Hands Meeting
7-9 March, Catania, Italy
Talks by Joni Hahkala, John White

EGEE-II JRA1 All-Hands Meeting
18-20 June, Helsinki, Finland
Talks by Joni Hahkala, Henri Mikkonen, John White

EGEE'07 Conference
1-5 October, Budapest, Hungary
Talk by Henri Mikkonen

EGEE-II JRA1 All-Hands Meeting
24-26 October, CERN, Switzerland
Talk by John White

14th Middleware Security Group Meeting
6-7 December, Berkeley, USA
Talks by Joni Hahkala, Henri Mikkonen

Publications

Niemi, Toivonen, Niinimäki, Nummenmaa
Ontologies with Semantic Web/Grid in Data Integration for OLAP
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Special Issue on Semantic Web and Data Warehousing, 3(4), Autumn 2007.

Mikko Pitkanen and Joerg Ott
Redundancy and Distributed Caching in Mobile DTNs
ACM Sigcom 2007, International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture.

Joerg Ott and Mikko Pitkanen
DTN-based Content Storage and Retrieval
IEEE Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communication AOC2007.

Henning Muller, Xin Zhou, Adrien Depeursinge, Mikko Pitkanen, Jimison Iavindrasana, Antoine Geissbuhler
Medical Visual Information Retrieval: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo ICME2007

Henning Muller, Mikko Pitkanen, Adrien Depeursinge, Xin Zhou, Jimison Iavindrasana, Antoine Geissbuhler
KnowARC: Facilitating grid networks for the biomedical research community
Healthgrid 2007.

Tuomas Nissi, Mika Silander
Electronic Payment System for Grid Services
In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Networks (PDCN) 2007.

Ilpo Stenberg
Server Based Computing and Web Single Sign-On Integration
Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, October 2007.

2006

Conferences.

The 17th Global Grid Forum - GGF17
Tokyo, Japan
May 10-12, 2006 (Joni Hahkala)

Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting
4-7 December, Chicago, Illinois, USA (HenriMikkonen)

Talks in Conferences and Workshops

Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics Conference
13-17 February 2006, T.I.F.R. Mumbai, India
(Talk and poster presentation by Jukka Klem).

International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2006
February 23-25, 2006 - Guadeloupe, French Caribbean (Talk by Mikko Pitk�nen)

2nd Nordic Grid Neighbourhood Conference
1-2 June, Innopoli, Espoo, Finland (Talks by JukkaKlem, HenriMikkonen)

HPDC Workshop on Next-Generation Distributed Data Management
20 June, Paris, France (Presentation by MikkoPitkanen)

International Conference on Networking and Services
16-19 July, Silicon Valley, USA (Presentation by HenriMikkonen)

The EGEE'06 Conference
25-29 September, Geneva, Switzerland (3 posters by Karppinen, Mikkonen, Nissi, Pitk�nen)

LHC@home Science
The 2nd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop,
20-21 September 2006, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Talk by Jukka Klem

gLite and Condor: Present and Future
Invited talk at the Condor week,
Madison, Wisconsin, April 26th 2006. (Talk by John White)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2006/presentations/white_egee.pdf

gLite Middleware
Invited talk at the CEOS WGISS 21 meeting, Budapest,
Hungary, May 8th 2006. (Talk by John White)
https://edms.cern.ch/document/733633/1

Gibbs Sampling on NorduGrid

29 June, Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, Saragossa, Spain. Invited talk by MikaSilander.

Grid authentication and SAML (highlighting Liberty ID-FF)
Liberty Alliance Project Technology Expert Group Interim Meeting
19-21 September, Paris, France, Talk by HenriMikkonen

Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network for Resource Discovery in Grids
First KnowARC Conference
7-9 November, Oslo, Norway, Talk by Magdalena Punceva

JBossWorld Berlin 2006
Invited talk by Juho Karppinen and Mikko Pitk�nen.
20-22 November, Berlin, Germany

Publications

Vuola, O., Hameri, A.-P.
Mutually benefiting joint innovation process between industry and
big-science
Technovation, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 3-12, 2006.

C. Grandi, J. White,
Grid Components Reengineering Workplan
EGEE Milestone Document JRA1.3, CERN, 2006.
https://edms.cern.ch/document/756544

C. Grandi, J. White,
Functional Description of Grid Components
EGEE Milestone Document JRA1.2, CERN, 2006.
https://edms.cern.ch/document/736259/

C. Grandi, J. White,
Support plan, definition of common components and tools, strategy for
multiple platform support
EGEE Milestone Document JRA1.1.1, CERN, 2006.
https://edms.cern.ch/document/720021/

J.Klem et al. 
Public Resource Computing at CERN - LHC@home
Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics Conference, CHEP 2006,
13-17 February 2006, T.I.F.R. Mumbai, India

J.Klem et al.
Public Resource Computing and Geant4
Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics Conference, CHEP 2006,
13-17 February 2006, T.I.F.R. Mumbai, India

Pitk�nen, M., Karppinen, J., Swany, M.
GridBlocks DISK - Distributed Inexpensive Storage with K-availability
In Proceedings of IEEE International symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC06.

Pitk�nen, M.,Moussa ,R., Swany,M., Niemi,T.
Erasure Codes for Increasing Availability of the Grid Data Storage
In Proceedings of International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW06.

Pirinen, A
Intrusion Detection in Grid
Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, June 2006.

Mikkonen, H.
Federated Identity Management for Grid Services.
Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, January 2006.

Mikkonen, H., Silander, M.
Federated Identity Management for Grids
Proceedings of International Conference on Networking and Services, ICNS 2006, 16-19 July, 2006, Silicon Valley, USA.

Nissi, T.
Electronic Payment System for Grid Services.
Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, May 2006.

Siddiqi J, Akhgar B, Naderi M, Orth W, Meyer N, Tuisku M, Pipan G, Cecchi M
Towards a framework for Federated Global Identity Management
(To appear in International Journal of Network Security)

Siddiqi J, Akhgar B, Naderi M, Orth W, Meyer N, Tuisku M, Pipan G, Lopez Gallego M, Garcia J.A., Cecchi M. and Colin J.
Secure ICT Services for Mobile and Wireless Communications
(To appear in International Journal of Mobile Communications)

Siddiqi J, Akhgar B, Naderi M, Orth W, Meyer N, Tuisku M, Pipan G
Federated Global Identity Management; Research Agenda & outcomes
The 2006 World congress in Computer Science Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, Worldcomp'06, 26-29 June, 2006, Las Vegas, USA

Siddiqi J, Akhgar B, Naderi M, Orth W, Meyer N, Tuisku M, Pipan G, Lopez Gallego M, Garcia J.A., Cecchi M. and Colin J.
Secure Mobile and Wireless Communication Servces for Collaborative Virtual Gaming
IEEE International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies & Systems 2006, CTS2006, 14-17 May, 2006, Las Vegas, USA

Siddiqi J, Akhgar B, Naderi M, Orth W, Meyer N, Tuisku M, Pipan G, Lopez Gallego M, Garcia J.A., Cecchi M. and Colin J.
Secure ICT Services for Mobile and Wireless Communications: A Federated Global Identity Management Framework
3rd International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations, ITNG2006, 10-12 April, 2006, Las Vegas, USA

 

2005

Conferences

1st JBoss World Conference,
1-2 March, Atlanta, USA (invited talk by MiikaTuisku)

CCGrid 2005, Cluster Computing and Grid,
9-12 May, Cardiff, Wales, UK (poster presentation, JuhoKarppinen)

XV European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases,
16-19 May, Tallinn, Estonia (2 presentations, TapioNiemi)

3rd EGEE Conference
18-22 May, Athens, Greece. (2 presentations, JohnWhite, JoniHahkala)

1st Nordic Grid Neighbourhood Conference
Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 15-17 August, 2005. (TapioNiemi, JukkaKlem)

GridWorld, 14th Global Grid Forum Conferences
3-6 Oct, Boston, MA, USA (JoniHahkala)

6th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing
17-19 Oct, Link�ping, Sweden (Talk by KalleHapponen)

4th EGEE Conference
24-28 Oct, Pisa, Italy (JoniHahkala, JohnWhite)

Geant4 User Conference
3-5 November, Bordeaux, France (poster presentation, JukkaKlem)

JBoss World Conference,
10-12 November, Barcelona, Spain (JuhoKarppinen)

JavaPolis Conference,
12-16 December, Antwerp, Belgium (TuomasNissi)

World e-ID 2005 Conference,
21-23 September, Sophia Antipolis, France (HenriMikkonen)

Talks

Finnish Ambassador to Switzerland's visit at CERN ,
11th May, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk by MiikaTuisku)

Grid Seminar,
15 March, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (invited talks by MiikaTuisku, TapioNiemi)

EGEE All-Activity Meeting
10-11 March, CERN (talk by JohnWhite)

The 2nd Nordic Grid Neighbourhood workshop
Tallinn, Estonia, Jan 19-21 2005 (talk by MichaelGindonis)

The 3rd Nordic Grid Neighbourhood workshop,
Vilnius, Lithuania, March 16-19 2005 (2 talks by MichaelGindonis, MikkoPitkanen)

The 4th Nordic Grid Neighbourhood workshop,
St Petersburg, Russia, May 18-21 2005 (talk by MichaelGindonis)

CSCS Grid Meeting,
Manno, Switzerland, June 15 2005 (2 talks by JukkaKlem, MikkoPitkanen)

The 1st Nordic Grid Neighbourhood Conference,
Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 15-17 August, 2005. (talk by TapioNiemi)

NorduGrid Meeting,
Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 17-19 August, 2005. (talk by JukkaKlem)

Publications

J. Hahkala, J. White, Y. Demchenko
Secure Credential Storage EGEE publication MJRA3.5, September 2005.

J. White, J. Hahkala,
Set up of Accounting Techniques and Distributed Budgets. EGEE publication MJRA3.9, December 2005.

Juho Karppinen
Data Intensive Mobile Grid Services. Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, February 2005.

Bonnal, P., Gourc, D., Hameri, A.-P., Lacoste, G.,
A linear-discrete scheduling model for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem, Construction Management & Economics, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp.797-814, 2005.

Vuola, O., Hameri, A.-P.
Mutually benefiting joint innovation process between industry and big-science, Technovation, February, 2005 (forthcoming).

Mika Silander, Mikko Pitk�nen & Marko Niinim�ki
Running Grid Jobs in Peer-to-peer Networks. Proceedings from CCGrid 2005 conference, Cardiff, Wales, May 9th-12th, 2005. (a poster)

Tapio Niemi, Santtu Toivonen, Marko Niinim�ki
Utilising Semantic Web in Data Integration for OLAPVLDB Workshop on Ontologies-based techniques for Databases and Information Systems, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, September 2005, pp.6-11. 6 pages.

Marko Niinimaki, Santtu Toivonen, Tapio Niemi
Modelling, Searching, and Utilising Grid Resources.Proceedings of 15th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, 2005. In Henno, J., Jaakkola, H., Kangassalo, H., and Kiyoki, Y. (eds.): Proceedings of the 15th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC 2005). Tallinn, Estonia, May 2005, pp. 137-148. 12 pages.

Tapio Niemi, M. Niinimaki and S. Toivonen
Description Logics, Data Modelling, and Relational Dependencies.In Henno, J., Jaakkola, H., Kangassalo, H., and Kiyoki, Y. (eds.): Proceedings of the 15th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC 2005). Tallinn, Estonia, May 2005, pp. 231-�250. 20 pages.

2004

Conferences

2nd European HealthGrid conference,
29-30 January, Clermont-Ferrand, France

10th Global Grid Forum,
9-13 March, Berlin, Germany

6th Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures,
8-9 July, Lausanne, Switzerland

1st EGEE conference,
18-22 April, Cork, Ireland

2nd EGEE conference,
22-26 November, The Hague, Netherlands (talk by Joni Hahkala)

CHEP 2004,
27 November - 1 October, Interlaken, Switzerland

The first Nordic Grid Neighbourhood workshop,
Link�ping, Sweden, Oct 18-20 2004 (talk by MichaelGindonis)

NorduGrid technical meeting,
29-30 March, Helsinki (talk by Jukka Klem)

7th NorduGrid Workshop,
16-18 June, Copenhagen (talk by Jukka Klem)

TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, Canada,
Aug 17th 2004. Invited talk: "Grid Security, Virtual Organizations and Data Access." (presentation by John White)

CSC Grid Seminar,
13 October 2004, Espoo (talk by Jukka Klem)

CSC Grid Seminar, Grid Security and EGEE
13 October 2004, Espoo (talk by John White)

Using Virtual Organizations Membership System with EDG's Grid Security and Database Access,
GLOBE'04, 1st International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing Impacts on Large Scale Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems, DEXA'04, Zaragoza, Spain.
(talk: Using Virtual Organizations Membership System with EDG's Grid Security and Database Access, Tapio Niemi)

Virtual Organization Management Service,
Second Across Grids Conference , Nikosia, Cyprus, Jan 28th-30th, 2004,
(talk: Mika Silander)

ICEIS 2004 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto - Portugal April 14th-17th, 2004.
(presentations: GridBlocks, Marko Niinimaki; VOMS and databases, Marko Niinimaki; A Framework for On-Demand Integration of Enterprise Data Sources, Tapio Niemi).

Engineering and managerial view to high-energy physics,
Colloquia: From Nuclear to Nucleon Structure, Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland, April 1-2, 2004. (talk: Hameri, A.-P.)

International trends in industrial networks,
Conference on Information Management in Networked Maritime industry, Karjaa, Finland, May 6-7, 2004. (talk: Hameri, A.-P.)

Supplier benefits from CERN collaboration,
Presentation at CERN IT event, CERN, Geneva, May 27, 2004. (talk: Hameri, A.-P.)

Supplier learning when interacting with big-science,
Invited presentation at CERN 50-years colloquia, Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland, October 28, 2004. (talk: Hameri, A.-P.)

Improving Operational Efficiency through Measuring and Visualising Process Data,
Special Speaker presentation, Supply Chain Summit, Finlandia-house, Helsinki, Finland, November 2-3, 2004. (talk: Hameri, A.-P.)

JRA1 All Hands Meeting,
Padova, Italy, November 15-17. (2 talks by Joni Hahkala)

Publications

Autio, E., Hameri, A.-P., Vuola, O.,
A framework of industrial knowledge spillovers in big-science Centres,
Research Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 107-126, 2004.

Autio, E., Pavone, C., Sapienza, H.J., Hameri, A.-P.,
Contextual, Transactional, and Relational Influences on Organizational Learning,
2004 Academy of Management Meeting, Creating Actionable Knowledge Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. August 6-11, 2004.

S. Toivonen and T. Niemi,
Describing Data Sources Semantically for Facilitating Efficient Creation of OLAP Cubes,
3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), 2004.

M. Niinimaki, J. White, W. De Cerff, J. Hahkala, T. Niemi and M. Pitkanen,
Using Virtual Organizations Membership System with EDG's Grid Security and Database Access,
Proceedings of GLOBE'04, August 30 - September 3, 2004 in Zaragoza, Spain, 2004.

Miika Tuisku,
Wireless Java-enabled MIDP devices as peers in Grid infrastructure,
Proceedings of First European Across Grids Conference, Spain 2003. Springer Verlag

Juho Karppinen, Marko Niinimaki, John White, Tapio Niemi,
GridBlocks -- Web Portal and Client for Distributed Computing ,
Proceedings of ICEIS 2004, 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto - Portugal April 14th-17th, 2004.

Mikko Pitkanen, Marko Niinimaki, John White, Tapio Niemi,
Virtual Organizations and Database Access - A Case Study,
Proceedings of ICEIS 2004, 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto - Portugal April 14th-17th, 2004.

Matti Heikkurinen, Tapio Niemi, Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen,
A Framework for On-Demand Integration of Enterprise Data Sources,
Proceedings of ICEIS 2004, 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto - Portugal April 14th-17th, 2004.

L. Cornwall, J. Jensen, D. Kelsey, A. Frohner, D. Kouril, F. Bonnassieux, S. Nicoud, K. Lorentey, J. Hahkala, M. Silander, R. Cecchini, V. Ciaschini, L. dell Agnello, F. Spataro, D. O'Callaghan, O. Mulmo, G. L. Volpato, D. Groep, M. Steenbakkers, A. McNab,
Security in multi-domain Grid Environments,
Kluwer Academic Press, 2004

2003

Conferences

ICEIS 2003, the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems,
Angers, France, 23-26 April 2003. (paper presentation, Vesa Sivunen)

ECDL, the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries,
August 17-22, 2003, Trondheim, Norway. (poster presentation, Vesa Sivunen)

9th Annual International LinuxTag 2003 conference,
10-13 July, Karlsruhe, Germany (Michael Gindonis)

4th Annual Workshop on Linux Clusters for Super Computing,
22-24 October, Link�ping, Sweden (Michael Gindonis)

7th EU DataGrid Internal Project Conference,
26. September - 01. October, Heidelberg, Germany (Joni Hahkala)

6th EU DataGrid Internal Project Conference,
12-15 May, Barcelona, Spain (talk by Mika Silander, Joni Hahkala)

The First European Across Grids Conference,
13-14 February, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (poster by Miika Tuisku)

6th NorduGrid Workshop,
27-29 November, Lund, Sweden (talk by Miika Tuisku)

ISICT 2003, International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies,
24-26 September, Dublin, Ireland (paper presentations by Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen)

CCGrid 2003, The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid,
12-16 May, Tokyo, Japan (poster presentations by Marko Niinimaki)

IMKB 2003, The 13th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases,
3-6 June, Kitakyushu, Japan (paper presentations by Marko Niinimaki)

Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing 2003.
October 13th, Ljubljana, Slovenia. ``Executing and Visualizing High Energy Physics Simulations with Grid Technologies''
(presentation by John White)

Physics Department, University of Victoria, Canada,
Nov 26th 2003. Invited talk: ``Grid Computing for the LHC: A practical example." (presentation by John White)

TRIUMF, Vancouver BC, Canada,
Dec 3rd 2003. Invited talk: ``Grid Computing for the LHC: A practical example." (presentation by John White)

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tampere, Finland,
February 10th 2003. Presentation: "Grid-laskenta ja CERNin yhteisty�mahdollisuudet" (talk by Matti Heikkurinen)

Publications

Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen,
Experiences in computer assisted XML-based modelling in the context of libraries,
Webzine, issue 8, 2003

Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen,
Applying Grid security and virtual organization tools in distributed publication databases,
Proceedings of ISICT03, the International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies ISICT03, September 24-26 2003, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, pp. 560-565, Trinity College Computer Science Press 2003. PDF

Matti Heikkurinen, Tapio Niemi, Vesa Sivunen, Petra Sohlman,
An XML framework for Grid-Enabled Decision Support Systems,
Proceedings of CBBISE03, the 1st International workshop of Component Based Business Information Systems Engineering, September 2nd 2003, Geneva, Switzerland. pp. 69-79. OOIS 2003. PDF

Michel Goossens, Vesa Sivunen,
Latex, SVG, Fonts.
TUGboat, The Communications of the Tex Users Group, Vol 22(4) pp. 269-280, 2003 (cover date December 2001). PDF

Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen.,
Grid-based security and virtual organization manager for distributed publication databases (poster),
ECDL, the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, August 17-22, 2003, Trondheim, Norway. PDF

Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen,
Experiences in computer assisted XML-based modelling,
Pre-Proceedings of EJC2003, the 13th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Kitakyushu, Japan, 3-6 June 2003. pp. 325-332. Kyushu Institute of Technology 2003. PDF

Tapio Niemi, Marko Niinimaki, Vesa Sivunen,
Integrating distributed heterogeneous databases and distributed Grid computing,
Proceedings of ICEIS 2003, the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Angers, France, 23-26 April 2003. Vol. 1. pp. 96-103. ICEIS Press 2003. PDF

P. Eerola, B. Konya, O. Smirnova, T. Ekeloef, M. Ellert, J.R. Hansen, J.L. Nielsen, A. Waeaenaenen, A. Konstantinov, J. Herrala, M. Tuisku, T. Myklebust, F. Ould-Saada, B. Vinter,
The NorduGrid production Grid infrastructure, status and plans,
4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003), Phoenix, Arizona US, November 17, 2003 (nordugrid_testbed.pdf: Herrala, Tuisku et al SC2003)

Tapio Niemi, Marko Niinimaki, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Peter Thanisch,
Applying Grid Technologies to XML Based OLAP Cube Construction,
Design and Management of Data Warehouses DMDW 2003, 5th International Workshop, Berlin, Germany, September 8, 2003.

Fabrizio Gagliardi, Paul Graham, Matti Heikkurinen, Jarek Nabrzyski, Ariel Oleksiak, Mark Parsons, Heinz Stockinger, Kurt Stockinger, Maciej Stroinski, Jan Weglarz,
GRIDSTART Project - IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap V1.0,
16th June 2003 - Public Draft. http://www.gridstart.org/download/GRIDSTART-IR-D2.2.1.2-V1.0.doc

Michael Gindonis, Tapio Niemi, Marko Niinimaki,
Document Similarities in Web Based Collaborative Environments (short paper),
Pre-Proceedings of EJC2003, the 13th European - Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Kitakyushu, Japan, 3-6 June 2003. pp. 183-188. Kyushu Institute of Technology 2003. (350 pages) Presentation slides: http://wikihip.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Hiptech/PubliCations/sim-presentation.pdf

Juho Karppinen, Tapio Niemi, and Marko Niinim�ki,
Mobile Analyzer - New Concept for Next Generation of Distributed Computing,
The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, (CCGrid 2003), Japan, May 2003. See http://wikihip.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Hiptech/PubliCations/maposter.pdf and http://ccgrid2003.apgrid.org/online_posters

John White, Marko Niinim�ki, and Tapio Niemi,
OpenGrid - a web based portal to Grid applications (poster),
The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, (CCGrid 2003), Japan, May 2003. See http://wikihip.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Hiptech/PubliCations/opengrid.pdf and http://ccgrid2003.apgrid.org/online_posters

Marko Niinimaki, Miika Tuisku, Matti Heikkurinen,
Designing for flexibility: Separating User Interface Design from Program Logic and Data,
Proceedings of ISICT03, the International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies ISICT03, September 24-26 2003, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, Trinity College Computer Science Press 2003.

Marko Niinimaki, John White, Juha Herrala,
Executing and Visualizing High Energy Physics Simulations with Grid Technologies,
The proceedings of Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing Ljubljana, Slovenia 13-17 October 2003. IEEE. (see http://wikihip.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Hiptech/PubliCations/cmsim.pdf).

Diana Bosio, James Casey, Akos Frohner, Leanne Guy, Peter Kunszt, Erwin Laure, Sophie Lemaitre, Levi Lucio, Heinz Stockinger, Kurt Stockinger, William Bell, David Cameron, Gavin McCance, Paul Millar, Joni Hahkala, Niklas Karlsson, Ville Nenonen, Mika Silander, Olle Mulmo, Gian-Luca Volpato, Giuseppe Andronico, Federico DiCarlo, Livio Salconi, Andrea Domenici, Ruben Carvajal-Schiaffino, and Floriano Zini,
Next-Generation EU DataGrid Data Management Services,
Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP 2003), La Jolla, California, March 24-28 2003.

R. Alfieri, R. Cecchini, V. Ciaschini, L. dell Agnello, A. Gianoli, F. Spataro, F. Bonnassieux, P. Broadfoot, G. Lowe, L. Cornwall, J. Jensen, D. Kelsey, A. Frohner, D.L. Groep, W. Som de Cerff, M. Steenbakkers, G. Venekamp, D. Kouril, A. McNab, O. Mulmo, M. Silander, J. Hahkala, K. Lorentey,
Managing Dynamic User Communities in a Grid of Autonomous Resources,
Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP 2003), La Jolla, California, March 24-28 2003.

Preprints

H. Mikkonen, T. Nissi,
GSI and Liberty Alliance Framework: Goals, Architectures and Feasibility Study for Integration,
EXT-2003-075; HIP-2003-53-TECH, see http://documents.cern.ch/cgi-bin/setlink?base=preprint&categ=ext&id=ext-2003-075


2002

William H. Bell, Diana Bosio, Wolfgang Hoschek, Peter Kunszt, Gavin McCance, Mika Silander: Project Spitfire - Towards Grid Web Service Databases

Niemi Tapio, Aula Anne: Applying semantic networks in predicting user's behaviour, Proceedings of the 12th European-Japanese conference on information modelling and knowledge bases, 2002.

Matti Heikkurinen: Tietohila - globaalista laboratoriosta globaaliksi tietokoneeksi, Arkhimedes 2/2002

Marko Niinimaki ja Vesa Sivunen: Grid - muotimantrasta sovelluksiin, Tietoyhteys 2/2002.

Marko Niinimaki: Grid jakaa resussit, MikroPC 13/2002.

Tapio Niemi, Marko Niinimaki, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Peter Thanisch: Constructing an OLAP cube from distributed XML data. ACM 5th Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP, McLean, VA, USA, Nov 8th, 2002.

Marko Niinimaki, Miika Tuisku, Matti Heikkurinen: Patters, XML and MDV, a case study (PDF), Technical report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tampere, 2002.

Tapio Niemi, Marko Niinimaki, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Peter Thanisch: Applying Grid Technologies to OLAP Cube Construction, CERN Open Preprint series ref. no. CERN-OPEN-2003-004.

-- MarkoNiinimaki - 01 Nov 2002