Alexandru Iosup

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
177 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Alexandru Iosup is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandru Iosup has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 116 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Alexandru Iosup's work include Cloud Computing and Resource Management (113 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (63 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (60 papers). Alexandru Iosup is often cited by papers focused on Cloud Computing and Resource Management (113 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (63 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (60 papers). Alexandru Iosup collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Austria and Germany. Alexandru Iosup's co-authors include Dick Epema, Radu Prodan, Simon Ostermann, Nezih Yigitbasi, Thomas Fahringer, Siqi Shen, Dick Epema, Sebastiaan Meijer, Mark Hendrikx and Ozan Sonmez and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Alexandru Iosup

168 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Many-Tasks Scientific Computing

2011 586 citations Alexandru Iosup, Simon Ostermann et al. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems profile →
Procedural content generation for games

2013 307 citations Alexandru Iosup et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandru Iosup Netherlands	36	3.5k	3.0k	767	630	499	177	4.8k
Diomidis Spinellis Greece	37	2.0k 0.6×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	222 0.4×	335 0.7×	284	5.2k
Gail E. Kaiser United States	36	2.0k 0.6×	3.1k 1.0×	2.2k 2.9×	188 0.3×	205 0.4×	279	5.3k
Robert DeLine United States	32	1.3k 0.4×	2.8k 1.0×	2.4k 3.1×	493 0.8×	620 1.2×	74	5.0k
Douglas B. Terry United States	17	1.6k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	755 1.2×	223 0.4×	40	3.9k
David Gelernter United States	23	2.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.6k 2.1×	416 0.7×	392 0.8×	75	4.5k
Michele Lanza Switzerland	49	2.1k 0.6×	7.1k 2.4×	2.6k 3.4×	931 1.5×	444 0.9×	267	8.0k
Sumit Gulwani United States	45	1.1k 0.3×	2.8k 0.9×	3.0k 3.9×	338 0.5×	325 0.7×	188	6.2k
Matei Ripeanu Canada	30	2.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	731 1.0×	304 0.5×	243 0.5×	132	3.8k
Stefanos Gritzalis Greece	32	1.8k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	1.6k 2.1×	218 0.3×	105 0.2×	230	3.7k
Eugene H. Spafford United States	43	3.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	2.3k 3.0×	397 0.6×	80 0.2×	162	6.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandru Iosup

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Iosup, Alexandru, et al.. (2025). Investigating Performance Overhead of Distributed Tracing in Microservices and Serverless Systems. VU Research Portal. 162–166. 1 indexed citations

Toosi, Adel N., Bahman Javadi, Alexandru Iosup, Evgenia Smirni, & Schahram Dustdar. (2024). Serverless Computing for Next-generation Application Development. Future Generation Computer Systems. 164. 107573–107573. 1 indexed citations

Iosup, Alexandru, et al.. (2023). Meterstick: Benchmarking Performance Variability in Cloud and Self-hosted Minecraft-like Games. VU Research Portal. 173–185. 2 indexed citations

Herbst, Nikolas, et al.. (2023). A Trace-driven Performance Evaluation of Hash-based Task Placement Algorithms for Cache-enabled Serverless Computing. VU Research Portal. 164–175.

Eismann, Simon, Joel Scheuner, Erwin van Eyk, et al.. (2021). The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48(10). 4152–4166. 58 indexed citations

Versluis, Laurens, et al.. (2020). The Workflow Trace Archive: Open-Access Data From Public and Private Computing Infrastructures. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 31(9). 2170–2184. 21 indexed citations

Trivedi, Animesh, et al.. (2020). Towards Supporting Millions of Users in Modifiable Virtual Environments by Redesigning {Minecraft-Like} Games as Serverless Systems. VU Research Portal. 1–9. 5 indexed citations

Papadopoulos, Alessandro V., Laurens Versluis, André Bauer, et al.. (2019). Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(8). 1528–1543. 54 indexed citations

Iosup, Alexandru, Tim Hegeman, Arnau Prat-Pèrez, et al.. (2016). LDBC graphalytics. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 9(13). 1317–1328. 82 indexed citations

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Guo, Yong & Alexandru Iosup. (2012). The game trace archive. 1–6. 22 indexed citations

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Shen, Siqi, Otto Visser, & Alexandru Iosup. (2011). RTSenv: an experimental environment for real-time strategy games. 5. 4 indexed citations

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Iosup, Alexandru, et al.. (2010). User behavior, social networking, and playing style in online and face to face bridge communities. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

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Ostermann, Simon, Alexandru Iosup, Nezih Yigitbasi, et al.. (2010). A Performance Analysis of EC2 Cloud Computing Services for Scientific Computing. Telecommunications Policy. 35 indexed citations

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Iosup, Alexandru, et al.. (2010). CAMEO: enabling social networks for massively multiplayer online games through continuous analytics and cloud computing. 1–6. 4 indexed citations

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Iosup, Alexandru, et al.. (2010). An analysis of the BBO fans online social gaming community. 218–223. 8 indexed citations

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Nae, Vlad, Alexandru Iosup, Stefan Podlipnig, et al.. (2008). Efficient management of data center resources for massively multiplayer online games. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 10. 32 indexed citations

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Kertész, Attila, Péter Kacsuk, Alexandru Iosup, & Dick Epema. (2008). Investigating peer-to-peer meta-brokering in grids. SZTAKI Publication Repository (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 3 indexed citations

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Iosup, Alexandru, et al.. (2008). Inter-Operating Grids Through Delegated MatchMaking. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Iosup, Alexandru, Paweł Garbacki, & Dick Epema. (2006). Provisioning and Scheduling Resources for World-Wide Data-Sharing Services. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 84–84. 3 indexed citations

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Pouwelse, Johan, Paweł Garbacki, Wang Jun, et al.. (2006). Tribler: A social-based Peer-to-Peer system. TU/e Research Portal (Eindhoven University of Technology). 85 indexed citations

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