
Dr. Jim Dowling is a distributed systems researcher at RISE SICS and an Associate Professor (docent) at KTH ICT School. He has a strong interest in applying mechanisms from complex systems and self-organization to build better computer systems. In general, his research has concerned improving fundamental properties of software systems, including reliability, availability, persistence, security, scalability and performance.
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Jim is a member of the Computer Systems Laboratory and works closely with professor Seif Haridi.
Dowling, Jim (2008) Developing a distributed electronic health-record store for India. ERCIM News, 75 . pp. 56-57.
Biskupski, Bartosz and Dowling, Jim and Sacha, Jan (2007) Properties and Mechanisms of Self-Organising MANET and P2P Systems. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 2 (1). ISSN 1556-4665
Dowling, Jim and Haridi, Seif (2008) Decentralized Reinforcement Learning for the Online Optimization of Distributed Systems. In: Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications. I-Tech Education and Publishing (Advanced Robotic Systems Journal), Vienna, Austria, pp. 143-166. ISBN 978-3-902613-14-1
Niazi, Salman and Ismail, Mahmoud and Berthou, Gautier and Dowling, Jim (2015) Leader Election Using NewSQL Database Systems. In: DisCoTec 2015: The 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, 2-5 June 2015, Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes, FRANCE.
Bux, Marc and Brandt, Jörgen and Lipka, Carsten and Hakimzadeh, Kamal and Dowling, Jim and Leser, Ulf (2015) SAASFEE: Scalable Scientific Workflow Execution Engine. In: VLDB, 2015.
Hakimzadeh, Kamal and Peiro Sajjad, Hooman and Dowling, Jim (2014) Scaling HDFS with a Strongly Consistent Relational Model for Metadata. In: DAIS 2014, 3-6 June 2014, Berlin, Germany.
Dowling, Jim and Payberah, Amir H. (2012) Shuffling with a Croupier: Nat-Aware Peer-Sampling. In: ICDCS 2012.
Terelius, Hakan and Shi, Guodong and Dowling, Jim and Payberah, Amir H. and Gattami, Ather and Johansson, Karl Henrik (2011) Converging an Overlay Network to a Gradient Topology. In: The 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC'11), December 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Payberah, Amir H. and Dowling, Jim and Haridi, Seif (2011) GLive: The Gradient overlay as a market maker for mesh-based P2P live streaming. In: The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'11), July 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Payberah, Amir H. and Dowling, Jim and Haridi, Seif (2011) Gozar: NAT-friendly Peer Sampling with One-Hop Distributed NAT Traversal. In: The 11th IFIP international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'11), June 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Payberah, Amir H. and Dowling, Jim and Rahimian, Fatemeh and Haridi, Seif (2010) Sepidar: Incentivized Market-Based P2P Live-Streaming on the Gradient Overlay Network. In: International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2010), 13-15 December 2010, Taichung, Taiwan.
Payberah, Amir H. and Dowling, Jim and Rahimian, Fatemeh and Haridi, Seif (2010) gradienTv: market-based P2P live media streaming on the Gradient overlay. In: DAIS 2010, 7-9 June 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (In Press)
Sacha, Jan and Biskupski, Bartosz and Dahlem, Dominik and Cunningham, Raymond and Dowling, Jim and Meier, Rene (2007) A Service-Oriented Peer-to-Peer Architecture for a Digital Ecosystem. In: IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST'07), 21-23 Feb 2007, Cairns, Australia.
Dahlem, Dominik and Nickel, L. and Sacha, Jan and Biskupski, Bartosz and Dowling, Jim and Meier, Rene (2007) Towards Improving the Availability of Service Compositions. In: IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST'07), 21-23 Feb 2007, Cairns, Australia.
Dowling, Jim and Sacha, Jan and Haridi, Seif (2007) Improving ICE Service Selection in a P2P System using the Gradient Topology. In: International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 9-11 July 2007, Boston.