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  S. Pllana and F. Xhafa (Editors). Programming Multi-core and Many-core Computing Systems. Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 6079. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. June 2012 (Pre-Order on Amazon.com).  
  S. Pllana, L. Barolli, and F. Xhafa (Editors). Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCoS 2011). IEEE Computer Society Press 2011.  
 

S. Pllana, L. Barolli, and F. Xhafa (Editors). Proceedings of the 2010 International Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCoS 2010). IEEE Computer Society Press 2010.  
  S. Pllana and J. L. Träff (Editors). Special issue of the 'Scientific Programming Journal' on 'Software Development for Multi-Core Computing Systems'. Volume 17, Number 4. IOS Press 2009.  
  L. Barolli, S. Pllana, and F. Xhafa (Editors). Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCoS 2009). IEEE Computer Society Press 2009.  
  S. Pllana and S. Benkner (Editors). Special issue of the journal 'Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience' on  'Recent Developments in Multi-Core Computing Systems'. Volume 9, Number 3, September 2008.  
  L. Barolli, S. Pllana, and F. Xhafa (Editors). Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems (MuCoCoS 2008). IEEE Computer Society Press 2008.  
     
   
     
  S. Benkner, S. Pllana, J.L. Träff, P. Tsigas, A. Richards, R. Namyst, H. Cornelius, C. Kessler, D. Moloney, and P. Sanders. PEPPHER: Performance Portability and Programmability for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures. In the book ‘Programming Multi-core and Many-core Computing Systems’. Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 6079. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. To appear in 2012.  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, E. Mehofer, L. Natvig, and F. Xhafa. Agent-supported Programming of Multi-core Computing Systems. In the book 'Complex Intelligent Systems and Their Applications'. Published by Springer in the book series Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Vol. 41, 2010.  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, F. Xhafa, and L. Barolli. Hybrid Performance Modeling and Prediction of Large-Scale Parallel Systems. In the book 'Parallel Programming, Models and Applications in Grid and P2P Systems'. Published by IOS Press in the book series Advances in Parallel Computing, 2009.  
  I. Brandic, S. Pllana, and S. Benkner. Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-aware Grid Workflows. In the book 'Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing'. Copyright (C) 2009 Wiley, Inc.  
     
   
     
  M. Sandrieser, S. Benkner and S. Pllana. Using explicit platform descriptions to support programming of heterogeneous many-core systems, Parallel Computing, Volume 38, Issues 1-2, January-February 2012, Pages 52-65, ISSN 0167-8191, 10.1016/j.parco.2011.10.008.  
  S. Benkner, S. Pllana, J. L. Träff, P. Tsigas, U. Dolinsky, C. Augonnet, B. Bachmayer, C. Kessler, D. Moloney, V. Osipov, "PEPPHER: Efficient and Productive Usage of Hybrid Computing Systems," IEEE Micro, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 28-41, Sep./Oct. 2011, doi:10.1109/MM.2011.67 (PDF)  
  F. Xhafa, S. Pllana, L. Barolli, and E. Spaho. Grid and P2P Middleware for Wide-Area Parallel Processing. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Volume 23, Number 5, pp. 458-476, April 2011 (article first published online: 4 Nov. 2010). (PDF)  
  S. Pllana et al. "European Multicore Processing Projects," IEEE Micro, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 98-101, Sep./Oct. 2010.  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, F. Xhafa, and L. Barolli. Automatic Performance Model Transformation from a Human-intuitive to a Machine-efficient Form. Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (SCPE). Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 35-47, March 2009. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, F. Xhafa, and L. Barolli. A Novel Approach for Hybrid Performance Modeling and Prediction of Large-Scale Computing Systems. International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 316-327, 2009. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, I. Brandic and S. Benkner. A Survey of the State of the Art in Performance Modeling and Prediction of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), Volume 4, Number 1. January 2008. (PDF)  
  I. Brandic, S. Pllana, and S. Benkner. Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-aware Grid Workflows within the Amadeus Environment. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience. Volume 20, Issue 4, March 2008, Pages: 331-345. Copyright (C) John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, and F. Breitenecker. Hybrid Performance Modeling and Prediction of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems. SNE Simulation News Europe, Journal on Developments and Trends in Modelling and Simulation, Volume 17, Number 3/4, pp. 32-40, December 2007.  
  I. Brandic, S. Pllana, and S. Benkner. An Approach for the High-level Specification of QoS-aware Grid Workflows Considering Location Affinity. Scientific Programming, 14:1-20, December 2006. Copyright (C) IOS Press.  
  T. Fahringer, A. Jugravu, S. Pllana, R. Prodan, C. Seragiotto and H. Truong. ASKALON: A Tool Set for Cluster and Grid Computing. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, 17:143-169. 2005. Copyright (C) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. ARGESIM Comparison C8: The Canal-and-Lock System - CSIM. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 41/42, 2004.  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. ARGESIM Comparison C6: Emergency Department - CSIM. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 40, 2004.  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. ARGESIM Comparison C2: Flexible Assembly System - CSIM. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 38/39, 2003.  
  H. Schwetman and S. Pllana. ARGESIM Comparison C10: Dining Philosophers II - CSIM. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 37, 2003.  
  S. Pllana. ARGESIM Comparison C4: Dining Philosophers I - Arena. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 29/30, 2000.  
  S. Pllana. ARGESIM Comparison C10: Dining Philosophers II - Arena. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 29/30, 2000.  
  S. Pllana. On Linear Equations and Markov Chains. EUROSIM - Simulation News Europe, Issue 21, 1997. (PDF)  
     
   
     
  C. Kessler, U. Dastgeer, S. Thibault, R. Namyst, A. Richards, U. Dolinsky, S. Benkner, J.L. Träff and S. Pllana: Programmability and Performance Portability Aspects of Heterogeneous Multi-/Manycore Systems. Conference on Design Automation and Test in Europe, DATE-2012, March 2012, Dresden, Germany.  
  S. Benkner, S. Pllana, J.L. Träff, P. Tsigas, A. Richards, R. Namyst, B. Bachmayer, C. Kessler, D. Moloney, and P. Sanders. The PEPPHER Approach to Programmability and Performance Portability for Heterogeneous many-core Architectures. ParCo 2011, 30 August to 2 September, 2011, Ghent, Belgium.  
  M. Sandrieser, S. Benkner and S. Pllana. Improving Programmability of Heterogeneous Many-Core
Systems via Explicit Platform Descriptions. Fourth International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering (IWMSE11), co-located with ICSE 2011. Hawaii, USA, May 21, 2011. Copyright (C) ACM. (PDF)		  
  S. Pllana, I. Janciak, P. Brezany, and A. Wöhrer. A Survey of the State of the Art in Data Mining and Integration Query Languages. The 14-th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2011). Tirana, Albania, September 7 - 9, 2011. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  M. Sandrieser, S. Benkner and S. Pllana. Explicit Platform Descriptions for Heterogeneous Many-Core Architectures. 16th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS). Anchorage (Alaska) USA, May 20, 2011. IPDPS Workshops 2011. Copyright (C) IEEE. (PDF)  
  F. A. Khan, Y. Han, S. Pllana, and P. Brezany. An Ant-Colony-Optimization based Approach for Determination of Parameter Significance of Scientific Workflows. The IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010). Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  F. Xhafa, S. Pllana and L. Barolli. Grid and P2P Middleware for Scientific Computing Systems. International Workshop on P2P, Parallel, Grid and Internet Computing (3PGIC) at CISIS 2010. Krakow, Poland, February 15-18, 2010. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  M. Sandrieser, S. Pllana, and S. Benkner. Evaluation of the SUN UltraSparc T2+ Processor for Computational Science. Workshop on Using Emerging Parallel Architectures for Computational Science at ICCS 2009. Louisiana, USA, May, 2009. Copyright (C) Springer-Verlag. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, E. Mehofer, L. Natvig, and F. Xhafa. Towards an Intelligent Environment for Programming Multi-core Computing Systems. Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip at Euro-Par 2008. Las Palmas, Spain, August 2008. E. Luque et al. (Eds.): Euro-Par 2008 Workshops, LNCS 5415, pp. 137–147, 2009. Copyright (C) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009. (slides [PDF], paper [PDF]).  
  F. A. Khan, Y. Han, S. Pllana, and P. Brezany. Estimation of Parameters Sensitivity for Scientific Workflows. International Workshop on Advanced Distributed and Parallel Network Applications at ICPP 2009. September 22-25, 2009. Vienna, Austria. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  F. A. Khan, Y. Han, S. Pllana, and P. Brezany. Provenance Support for Grid-Enabled Scientific Workflows. The International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG 2008). Beijing, China, December 2008. Copyright (C) IEEE Press. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, F. Xhafa, and L. Barolli. Automatic Performance Model Transformation from UML to C++. International Workshop on Simulation and Modelling in Emergent Computational Systems (SMECS) at ICPP-08. Portland, Oregon, USA, September 2008. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, S. Benkner, F. Xhafa, and L. Barolli. Hybrid Performance Modeling and Prediction of Large-Scale Computing Systems. International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2008). Barcelona, Spain, March 2008. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, I. Brandic and S. Benkner. Performance Modeling and Prediction of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems: A Survey of the State of the Art. 2007 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems - 3PGIC Workshop. Vienna, Austria, April 2007. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  J. Qin, T. Fahringer, and S. Pllana. UML based Grid Workflow Modeling under ASKALON. Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing. Springer; 1 edition, May 2007. An edited volume based on DAPSYS 2006. (PDF)  
  I. Brandic, S. Pllana and S. Benkner. Amadeus: A Holistic Service-oriented Environment for Grid Workflows. The Fifth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006); International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE06). Changsha, China, October 2006. Copyright (C) IEEE. (PDF)  
  I. Brandic, S. Pllana and S. Benkner. High-level Composition of QoS-aware Grid Workflows: An Approach that Considers Location Affinity. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-15); Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS06). Paris, France, June 2006. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, J. Qin and T. Fahringer. Teuta: A Tool for UML Based Composition of Scientific Grid Workflows. 1st Austrian Grid Symposium. Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, December 2005. Copyright (C) OCG. ([PDF)  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. Performance Prophet: A Performance Modeling and Prediction Tool for Parallel and Distributed Programs. The 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing; Performance Evaluation of Networks for Parallel, Cluster and Grid Computing Systems. Oslo, Norway, June 2005. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society. (PDF)  
  T. Fahringer, S. Pllana, and J. Testori. Teuta: Tool Support for Performance Modeling of Distributed and Parallel Applications. International Conference on Computational Science; Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science. Krakow, Poland, June 2004. Copyright (C) Springer-Verlag. (PDF)  
  T. Fahringer, S. Pllana, and A. Villazon. AGWL: Abstract Grid Workflow Language. International Conference on Computational Science; Programming Paradigms for Grids and Metacomputing Systems. Krakow, Poland, June 2004. Copyright (C) Springer-Verlag. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana, T. Fahringer, J. Testori, S. Benkner, and I. Brandic. Towards an UML Based Graphical Representation of Grid Workflow Applications. The 2nd European Across Grids Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, January 2004. Copyright (C) Springer-Verlag. (PDF)  
  T. Fahringer, N. Mazzocca, M. Rak, S. Pllana, U. Villano, and G. Madsen. Performance Modeling of Scientific Applications: Scalability Analysis of LAPW0. In proceedings of 11th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2003), Genoa, Italy February 2003. Copyright (C) IEEE Computer Society 2003. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. UML Based Modeling of Performance Oriented Parallel and Distributed Applications. In proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference, E. Yucesan, C.-H. Chen, J.L. Snowdon, and J.M. Charnes, eds. December, San Diego, California, USA. Copyright (C) IEEE 2002. (PDF)  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. On Customizing the UML for Modeling Performance-Oriented Applications. In proceedings of <<UML>> 2002, "Model Engineering, Concepts and Tools", LNCS 2460, Dresden, Germany. Copyright (C) Springer-Verlag 2002. (PDF).  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. Modeling Parallel Applications with UML. In proceedings of the ISCA 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Copyright (C) ISCA 2002.  
  S. Pllana and T. Fahringer. On Using UML to Model Shared Memory and Message Passing Programs. In proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Copyright (C) CSREA Press 2002.  
  B. Katalinic, S. Pllana, B. Ljoljic, and K. Stuja. Modeling Flexible Manufacturing Systems with UML. Annals of DAAAM International for 2001 & Proceedings of the 12th International DAAAM Symposium, Jena, Germany. Copyright (C) DAAAM International 2001.  
  K. Stuja, B. Katalinic, S. Pllana, and V. Kordic. FMSIM: An Integrated Environment for Scheduling of a Complex FMS. Annals of DAAAM International for 2001 & Proceedings of the 12th International DAAAM Symposium, Jena, Germany. Copyright (C) DAAAM International 2001.  
     
   
     
  - S. Pllana, J. Testori, and T. Fahringer. Performance Engineering of Distributed and Parallel Programs with Teuta. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2004). Tool Demonstration. Linz, Austria, September 2004.  
     
 

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