Publications

 

Dissertation

Journal Papers (Published/Accepted)

  1. Video Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: Dealing with Uncertainty
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-14, 2024 (Impact Factor: 6.075)
  2. QoS-Aware Content Delivery in 5G-enabled Edge Computing: Learning-based Approaches
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki, Weibin Ma, L. Mashayekhy, and Humberto La Roche
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, pp. 1-13, 2024 (Impact Factor: 6.075)
  3. A Game-Theoretic Approach to Energy-Efficient Elevator Scheduling in Smart Buildings
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki, Dixit Bhatta, and L. Mashayekhy
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, pp. 1-12, 2023 (Impact Factor: 13.451)
  4. Time-Constrained Service Handoff for Mobile Edge Computing in 5G (pdf, link)
    Nafiseh Sharghivand, L. Mashayekhy, Weibin Ma, and Schahram Dustdar
    IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, pp. 1-13, 2023 (Impact Factor: 11.019)
  5. Mobility-Aware Computation Offloading in Edge Computing using Machine Learning (pdf, link)
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki, L. Mashayekhy, Seyed Morteza Nabavinejad
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 328-340, 2023 (Impact Factor: 6.075)
  6. A Bifactor Approximation Algorithm for Cloudlet Placement in Edge Computing (pdf, link, Code Reviewed)
    Dixit Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 1787 - 1798, 2022 (Impact Factor: 3.737)
  7. An Edge Computing Matching Framework with Guaranteed Quality of Service (pdf, link)
    N. Sharghivand, F. Derakhshan, L. Mashayekhy, and L. Mohammadkhanli
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 1557-1570, 2022 (Impact Factor: 7.928)
  8. A Trust-Aware Mechanism for Cloud Federation Formation (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1278-1292, 2021 (Impact Factor: 7.928)
  9. Optimal Routing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles * (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, D. Grosu, and R. Chinnam
    INFORMS Transportation Science, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 1304-1325, 2017 (Impact Factor: 4.581)
    • * Best Student Paper Award, INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section (ENRE), 2014.
    • * Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), College of Sustainable Operations, 2014.
  10. Online Scheduling and Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging * (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, R. Chinnam, and D. Grosu
    IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 178-193, 2017 (Impact Factor: 1.463)
    • * IBM Research Service Science Best Student Paper Award Finalist, INFORMS 2015.
  11. Truthful Mechanisms for Competitive Reward-Based Scheduling (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, N. Fisher, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 7, pp. 2299-2312, 2016 (Impact Factor: 3.052)
  12. An Online Mechanism for Resource Allocation and Pricing in Clouds (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, D. Grosu, and A. Vasilakosu
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 1172-1184, 2016 (Impact Factor: 3.052)
  13. Hierarchical Time-Dependent Shortest Path Algorithms for Vehicle Routing under ITS * (pdf, link)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, R. Chinnam, and A. Phillips
    IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 158-169, 2016 (Impact Factor: 1.463)
    • * Best Application Paper Honorable Mention (2nd place), Best Paper Award Competition in IIE Transactions, 2017 (2nd place among all journal papers published in issues 47:7 through 48:6)
    • * Featured Article for the IIE Industrial Engineer Magazine January 2016 Issue
  14. Energy-aware Scheduling of MapReduce Jobs for Big Data Applications (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, D. Grosu, Q. Zhang, and W. Shi
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 26, No.10, pp. 2720-2733, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.181)
  15. A PTAS Mechanism for Provisioning and Allocation of Heterogeneous Cloud Resources (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 26, No.9, pp. 2386-2399, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.181)
  16. Cloud Federations in the Sky: Formation Game and Mechanism (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 14-27, 2015 (Impact Factor: 7.928)
  17. Truthful Greedy Mechanisms for Dynamic Virtual Machine Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds * (pdf, link) (Supplemental Material)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 594-603, 2015 (Impact Factor: 4.181)
    • * Best Paper Runner-Up Award - 2014 INFORMS Service Science
    • * Featured in the April-June 2015 Issue of Cloud-Link (presented by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative)
  18. Physical Machine Resource Management in Clouds: A Mechanism Design Approach (pdf, link)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Special Issue on Economics and Market Mechanisms for Cloud Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 247-260, 2015 (Impact Factor: 7.928)
  19. Computing Nash Equilibria in Bimatrix Games: GPU-based Parallel Support Enumeration * (pdf, link)
    S. Rampersaud, L. Mashayekhy, and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 3111-3123, 2014 (Impact Factor: 4.181)
    • * Featured Article for the IEEE TPDS December 2014 Issue
  20. A Merge-and-Split Mechanism for Dynamic Virtual Organization Formation in Grids (pdf, link) (Supplemental Material)
    L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 25, No. 3, 2014 (Impact Factor: 4.181)

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

  1. Collaborative Object Labeling in IoBT: A Distributed Approach for Enhanced Battlefield Perception
    Rifat Sadik and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications, SPIE, 2024.
  2. Latency-aware Service Placement for Generative AI at the Edge
    Bipul Thapa and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences, SPIE, 2024.
  3. Service Function Chain Placement in Edge Computing: A Topological Dependency-Informed Approach
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC'24), Denver, CO, June 2024.
  4. GreenFog: A Framework for Sustainable Fog Computing
    Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Chayan Agarwal, L. Mashayekhy, Sara Kardani Moghaddam, Redowan Mahmud, Zahir Tari
    Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'22), 8 pages, Seville, Spain, November 2022.
  5. Physics-Inspired Mobile Cloudlet Placement in Next-Generation Edge Networks
    Dixit Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (IEEE EDGE'22), 10 pages, July 2022.
  6. QoS-Aware 5G Component Selection for Content Delivery in Multi-access Edge Computing
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki, Weibin Ma, L. Mashayekhy, Humberto La Roche
    Proc. of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC’21), 10 pages, Dec 2021.
  7. Quality-Aware Video Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: A Data-Driven Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'21), (cloud-edge track), Sep 2021.
  8. Edge Service Deployment via Online Learning
    Ahmad Almansoor and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'21), (work-in-progress track), Sep 2021.
  9. Adaptive Video Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'21), pp. 1-2, Washington DC, July 2021. (extended abstract)
  10. Truthful Computation Offloading Mechanisms for Edge Computing (pdf, extended)
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud (EdgeCom'20), pp. 1-8, New York, August 2020.
  11. ApproxDNN: Incentivizing DNN Approximation in Cloud (pdf)
    Seyed Morteza Nabavinejad, L. Mashayekhy, and Sherief Reda
    Proc. of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid'20), pp. 1-10, Melbourne, Australia, May 2020.
  12. Mobility-Aware Computation Offloading in Edge Computing using Prediction (pdf)
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC'20), pp. 1-6, Melbourne, Australia, May 2020.
  13. Generalized Cost-Aware Cloudlet Placement for Vehicular Edge Computing Systems* (pdf)
    Dixit Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'19), pp. 1-8, Sydney, Australia, December 2019. (*Best Paper Award)
  14. Privacy-by-Design Distributed Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing (pdf)
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'19), pp. 1-10, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2019.
  15. Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Control with Proximal Policy Optimization (pdf)
    Haoran Wei, Xuanzhang Liu, Lena Mashayekhy, Keith Decker
    Proc. of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC'19), pp. 1-8, Los Angeles, USA, December 2019.
  16. Privacy-by-Design Task Offloading for UAV-mounted Cloudlets
    Weibin Ma and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC'19) , pp. 286–288, Washington DC, November 2019. (extended abstract)
  17. Cost-Aware Cloudlet Placement in Edge Computing Systems
    Dixit Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC'19) , pp. 292–294, Washington DC, November 2019. (extended abstract)
  18. A Strategic Game for Task Offloading among Capacitated UAV-mounted Cloudlets (pdf)
    Weibin Ma, Xuanzhang Liu, and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (IEEE ICIOT'19), pp. 1-8, Milan, Italy, July 2019.
  19. Joint Load-Balancing and Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Placement for Network-on-Chip Systems (pdf)
     X. Liu and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'18), Zurich, December 2018. (Acceptance rate: 20.5%)
  20. QoS-Aware Matching of Edge Computing Services to Internet of Things (pdf)
    N. Sharghivand, F. Derakhshan, and L. Mashayekhy
    Proc. of the 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'18), Orlando, USA, November 2018. (Acceptance rate: 28.8%)
  21. Intersection Management for Connected Autonomous Vehicles: A Game Theoretic Framework (pdf)
    Haoran Wei, L. Mashayekhy, and Jake Papineau
    Proc. of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC’18), Maui, USA, November 2018.
  22. A Two-Sided Market Mechanism for Trading Big Data Computing Commodities (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData'14), Washington DC, USA, October 2014.
  23. A Framework for Data Protection in Cloud Federations (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 43rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'14), Minneapolis, USA, September 2014. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  24. Energy-aware Scheduling of MapReduce Jobs (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, D. Grosu, D. Lu, and W. Shi
    Proc. of the 3rd IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData'14), Research Track, Alaska, USA, June 2014. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
  25. Incentive-Compatible Online Mechanisms for Resource Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad, D. Grosu, and A. Vasilakos
    Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'14), Research Track, Alaska, USA, June 2014. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
  26. Strategy-proof Mechanisms for Resource Management in Clouds (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid'14), Chicago, USA, May 2014.
  27. A Truthful Approximation Mechanism for Autonomic Virtual Machine Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nejad and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC'13), Miami, USA, August 2013.
  28. A Family of Truthful Greedy Mechanisms for Dynamic Virtual Machine Provisioning and Allocation in Clouds (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'13), Research Track, Santa Clara, USA, July 2013. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
  29. Computing Nash Equilibria in Bimatrix Games: GPU-based Parallel Support Enumeration (pdf)
    S. Rampersaud, L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 31st IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'12), Austin, USA, December 2012. (Acceptance rate: 27.8%)
  30. A Coalitional Game-Based Mechanism for Forming Cloud Federations (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'12), Chicago, USA, November 2012. (Acceptance rate: 27.2%)
  31. A Reputation-Based Mechanism for Dynamic Virtual Organization Formation in Grids (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'12), Pittsburgh, USA, September 2012. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  32. Effects of Traffic Network Dynamics on Hierarchical Community-based Representations of Large Road Networks (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy and R. Chinnam
    Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC'12), Anchorage, USA, September 2012.
  33. A Distributed Merge-and-Split Mechanism for Dynamic Virtual Organization Formation in Grids (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA'12), Cambridge, USA, August 2012. (Acceptance rate: 29%)
  34. A Merge-and-Split Mechanism for Dynamic Virtual Organization Formation in Grids (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy and D. Grosu
    Proc. of the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'11), Orlando, USA, November 2011. (Acceptance rate: 27%)
  35. State Space Reduction in Modeling Traffic Network Dynamics for Dynamic Routing under ITS (pdf)
    M. Nejad, L. Mashayekhy, A. Taghavi and R. Chinnam
    Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC'11), Washington DC, USA, October 2011.
  36. Measuring of Strategies' Similarity in Automated Negotiation (pdf)
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nematbakhsh and B. Ladani
    Proc. of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2007 IMECS, International Conference on Data Mining and Applications (ICDMA'07), Hong Kong, March 2007. (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
  37. E-Negotiation Model based on Data Mining
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nematbakhsh and B. Ladani
    Proc. of the IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce 2006, Barcelona, Spain, December 2006.

Book Chapters

  1. Comparing Negotiation Strategies Based on Offers
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nematbakhsh and B. Ladani
    Frontiers in Artifficial Intelligence and Applications, Applications of Data Mining in E-Business and Finance, Vol. 177, IOS Press, The Netherlands, 2008.
  2. Detecting Similar Negotiation Strategies
    L. Mashayekhy, M. Nematbakhsh and B. Ladani
    Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, Vol. 6, Springer, 2008.

Posters/Presentations (non-proceedings) (by my students)

  1. Learning-based Content Delivery in 5G-enabled Multi-access Edge Computing
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki, Weibin Ma, L. Mashayekhy, Humberto La Roche
    International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC21), Nov 2021.
  2. A Bifactor Approximation Algorithm for Cloudlet Placement in Edge Computing
    D. Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    The 10th Annual Graduate Student Forum for Research and Creative Work, UD, April 2021
  3. Mobility-Aware Computation Offloading in Edge Computing using Prediction
    Erfan Farhangi Maleki and L. Mashayekhy
    The 2nd DARWIN Computing Symposium, UD, Feb 2021
  4. Cost-Aware Cloudlet Placement in Edge Computing Systems
    D. Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    The 1st DARWIN Computing Symposium, UD, Feb 2020
  5. Cost-Aware Cloudlet Placement in Edge Computing Systems
    D. Bhatta and L. Mashayekhy
    The 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19), ACM Student Graduate Research Competition, Denver, CO, Nov 2019