Yaacov Fernandess

I'm a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Member of Distributed Algorithms, Networking and Secure Systems Group. My thesis advisor is Prof. Dahlia Malkhi. My primary research interests are randomized gossip algorithms and social networks.

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Contact Information:

School Computer Science and Engineering
The Hebrew Univesirty of Jerusalem
Givat Ram Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Email: fery@cs.huji.ac.il
Cell: +972-546-292-666

Publications:

Hands off Log Analysis for Large Scale Systems
O. Rodeh, L. Shpigelman, Y. Fernandess and S. Sabato
7th IBM Symposium on Proactive Problem Prediction, Avoidance, and Diagnosis (P3AD 2009)

On Spreading Recommendations via Social Gossip
Y. Fernandess and D. Malkhi
20th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2008)
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On Collaborative Content Distribution Using Multi-Message Gossip
Y. Fernandess and D. Malkhi
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2007
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A Generic Theoretical Framework for Modeling Gossip-Based Algorithms
Y. Fernandess, A. Fernández and M. Monod
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2007
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On Collaborative Content Distribution Using Multi-Message Gossip
Y. Fernandess and D. Malkhi
20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006)
Best Paper Award
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K-Clustering in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Y. Fernandess and D. Malkhi
The ACM Workshop on Principles of Mobile Computing (POMC 2002)
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Projects:

Nocturnal, a Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Personalized Search System
Nocturnal is a peer-to-peer collaborative personalized search system that I developing during my research internship at Microsoft research under the supervision of: Dahlia Malkhi and Lidong Zhou.

AMPC Election Protocol over WAP
An election platform implemented over Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). The system utilizes an Anonymous Multi Party Computation mechanism, an encryption free anonymous network.

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