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The following is a selection of our recent publications in Journals and Peer-Reviewed Conferences. To see a full list, consult the webpages of each individual researcher.


2025
Journals
Pol G. Recasens, Ádám Horváth, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Jordi Torres, Josep Ll. Berral, Balázs Pejó. "FRIDA: Free-Rider Detection using Privacy Attacks", in Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 97, 2026, 104357, March 2026, ISSN 2214-2126, DOIJCR-Q2
D. Guidotti, L. Pandolfo, A. Gutierrez-Torre, O. Lopez-Rubio and L. Pulina. "SynthVal: A Framework for Validating Synthetic Medical Images", in IEEE Access, 17, November 2025, Electronic ISSN 2169-3536, DOIJCR-Q2
Jiao Zhu, Zhihai Jiang, Changchun Yin, Shuai Yan, Shuanggui Hu, Bo Zhang, Maofei Li, Octavio Castillo-Reyes. "A High-order nodal spectral element method for 3D magnetotelluric forward modeling", in Geophysical Journal International,, 2025, DOIJCR-Q2
Roberto Meroni, Jordi Guitart. "Scalable energy-aware VM allocation on cloud data centers through mathematical programming models", in Future Generation Computer Systems, 174, art. 108011, January 2026, ISSN 0167-739X, DOIJCR-Q1
Ioannis Tzortzis, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Stavros Sykiotis, Ferran Agulló, Nikolaos Bakalos, Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Josep Lluis Berral. "Towards generalizable Federated Learning in Medical Imaging: A real-world case study on mammography data", in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. Elsevier, 2001-0370, March 2025, DOIJCR-Q2
Ferran Agulló, Alberto Gutiérrez-Torre, Jordi Torres, Josep Ll. Berral. "Enhancing the output of time series forecasting algorithms for cloud resource provisioning", in Future Generation Computer Systems, 2025, art.107833, S0167-739X(25)00128-1, September 2025, ISSN 0167-739X, DOIJCR-Q1
Journals Teaching
J. Guitart. "Embedded scaffolding for teaching and assessing inquiry-based hands-on laboratory on distributed systems", in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 201, 105082, July 2025, ISSN 1096-0848, DOIJCR-Q1
Conferences
Andric, Petar and Nou, Ramon and Call, Aaron and Senabre, Guillem. "Enabling the syscall_intercept library for RISC-V", in Proceedings of the SC'25 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, pp.1694--1702, 16-21 November 2025 , Electronic ISBN:979-8-4007-1871-7, DOICORE-A* (workshop)
P. Liu and J. Guitart. "Dynamic In-node Group-aware Scheduling for Multi-tenant Machine Learning Services on Kubernetes", in IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2025), Helsinki, Finland, July 07-12, 2025, DOICORE-B
G. Bravo-Rocca, P. Liu, J. Guitart, R.M. Carrillo-Larco, A. Dholakia, D. Ellison. "Feature Engineering for Agents: An Adaptive Cognitive Architecture for Interpretable ML Monitoring", in 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'25), pp. 381-389, Detroit, MI, USA, May 19-23, 2025, DOICORE-A*
Bravo-Rocca, G., Liu, P., Guitart, J., Dholakia, A., Ellison, D. and Carrillo-Larco, R. M.. "Experience Replay and Zero-Shot Clustering for Continual Learning in Diabetic Retinopathy Detection", in In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP; SciTePress, pages 81-92, February 26-28, 2025, Porto, Portugal, ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, DOICORE-B
Marçal Garcia-Boris*, Joan Oliveras*, David Aguilera-Luzon, Peini Liu, Mario Divan-Koller and Josep Lluís Berral García. "A Reliability Score for Video-Analytics Edge-IoT Devices in Urban Environments", in 7th International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbCom), June 9 – 11, 2025 - Tuscany (Lucca) - Italy. Co-located with IEEE DCOSS 2025, DOICORE-B (Workshop)
Pol G. Recasens*, Ferran Agulló*, Yue Zhu, Chen Wang, Eun Kyung Lee, Olivier Tardieu, Jordi Torres and Josep Lluis Berral. "Mind the Memory Gap: Unveiling GPU Bottlenecks in Large-Batch LLM Inference", in IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2025), Helsinki, Finland, July 07-12, 2025, DOICORE-B
Pol G. Recasens, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Jordi Torres, Josep Lluis Berral, Anisa Halimi, Kieran Fraser. "In-Context Bias Propagation in LLM-Based Tabular Data Generation", in ICML 2025 Workshop - DIG-BUG 'Data in Generative Models - The Bad, the Ugly, and the Greats', June 2025, DOICORE-A* (workshop)
Other Publications - Awards
Peini Liu. "Best Thesis Award 2024, Categoria TIC,", UPC. 
Josep Lluis Berral Garcia. "Premi Qualitat Docent a professors de nova incorporació", Consell Social UPC, 2025. 
Peini Liu and Jordi Guitart. "Dynamic In-node Group-aware Scheduling for Multi-tenant Machine Learning Services on Kubernetes", Winner of the CLOUD 2025 Best Student Paper Award. 
Bravo-Rocca, G., Liu, P., Guitart, J., Dholakia, A., Ellison, D. and Carrillo-Larco, R. M.. "Experience Replay and Zero-shot Clustering for Continual Learning in Diabetic Retinopathy Detection", Nominated to VISIGRAPP 2025 Best Student Paper Award. In the short list of candidates to win the VISIGRAPP 2025 Best Student Paper Award, based on marks provided by the reviewers. 
Josep Ll. Berral. "On the use of Data Analytics as principal workloads in supercomputing research centres.", Keynote, DARLI-AP - 9th International workshop on Data Analytics solutions for Real-LIfe APplications - 25th - 28th March, 2025 - Barcelona, Spain. 
Call, Aaron and Nou, Ramon and Senabre, Guillem. "Open Challenges for a Production-ready Cloud Environment on top of RISC-V hardware", RISC-V Summit Europe, Paris, France, 2025. Preprint arXiv:2505.02650. 

2024
Journals
Hector Antona, Beatriz Otero and Ruben Tous. "Low-Cost Training of Image-to-Image Diffusion Models with Incremental Learning and Task/Domain Adaptation", in Electronics 2024, 13(4), 722, , DOIJCR-Q2
Jordi Guitart. "Practicable live container migrations in high performance computing clouds: Diskless, iterative, and connection-persistent", in Journal of Systems Architecture, 2024, n.103157, , ISSN 1383-7621, DOIJCR-Q1
Gonzalo Gómez-Sánchez, Lorena Alonso, Miguel Ángel Pérez, Ignasi Morán, David Torrents, Josep Lluis Berral. "Exhaustive Variant Interaction Analysis using Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction", in Applied Sciences MDMP, , DOIJCR-Q2
Gustavo Rayo, Ruben Tous. "Temporally Coherent Video Cartoonization for Animation Scenery Generation", in Electronics, 2024, 13(17), 3462, , DOIJCR-Q2
Ruben Tous. "Lester: Rotoscope Animation through Video Object Segmentation and Tracking", in Algorithms, 2024, 17, no. 8: 330, , DOIJCR-Q2
Journals Teaching
Jordi Guitart and J. J. Costa. "Remote DasaLAB: Datacenter as a Laboratory for Remote Learning", in Interactive Learning Environments, 1-21, Januany 2024, ISSN 1049-4820, DOIJCR-Q1
Conferences
Anna Maria Nestorov, Diego Marron, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Chen Wang, Claudia Misale, Alaa Youssef, David Carrera, Josep Lluís Berral. "Dexter: A Performance-Cost Efficient Resource Allocation Manager for Serverless Data Analytics", in 23nd ACM/IFIP Intl. Conf. Middleware 2024, , DOICORE-A
Gusseppe Bravo-Rocca, Peini Liu, Jordi Guitart, Ajay Dholakia, and David Ellison. "TADIL: Task-Agnostic Domain-Incremental Learning through Task-ID Inference using Transformer Nearest-Centroid Embeddings", in 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 337-353, Kolkata, India, December 1–5, 2024, DOICORE-B
Peini Liu, Joan Oliveras, Marc Palacín, Jordi Guitart, Josep Ll. Berral, Ramon Nou. "Data-connector: An agent-based framework for autonomous ML-based smart management", in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 28th October 2024, Charleroi, Belgium, DOICORE-A (workshop)
Pol G. Recasens, Yue Zhu, Chen Wang, Olivier Tardieu, Eun K. Lee, Alaa Youssef, Josep Ll. Berral, Jordi Torres. "Towards Pareto Optimal Throughput in Small Language Model Serving", in The 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys) co-located w. EuroSys '24, April 22nd 2024, Athens, Greece, DOICORE-A (workshop)
Aniol Bisquert, Achraf Hmimou, Josep Ll. Berral, Alberto Gutiérrez-Torre, Oscar Romero. "HealthMesh: An Architectural Framework for Federated Healthcare Data Management", in 26th International Workshop on Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data (DOLAP 2024), Paestum, Italy - March 25, 2024, ISSN 1613-0073, DOICORE-B
Francesco Regazzoni [et al.] (Alberto Gutiérrez-Torre, pos.23/41, Josep Ll. Berral, pos.24/41). "SECURED for health: scaling up privacy to enable the integration of the European health data space", in Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE 2024), March 25-27, 2024, Valencia, Spain, DOICORE-B
Pegia, Maria-Eirini*; Agulló López, Ferran*; Moumtzidou, Anastasia; Gutierrez-Torre, Alberto; Jónsson, Björn Þór; Berral-García, Josep Lluís; Gialampoukidis, Ilias; Vrochidis, Stefanos; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis. "Time-Quality Tradeoff of MuseHash Query Processing Performance", in 30th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2024). (LNCS, vol.14556. pp.270-283. 2024. ISBN 978-3-031-53310-5, 978-3-031-53311-2), , DOICORE-B
Bravo-Rocca, G; Liu, P.; Guitart, J.; Dholakia, A.; Ellison, D.; Carrillo-Larco, R.M.. "Enhancing Continual Learning in Diabetic Retinopathy: Multimodal Zero-shot Clustering and Strategic Experience Replay", in Extended abstract in LatinX in Computer Vision Workshop (LXCV) at the 34th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'24), Seattle, WA, USA, June 18, 2024, DOICORE-A* (workshop)
Conferences Teaching
Rubén Tous, Felix Freitag, Josep Lluis Berral. "On the Relation Between Open Project-Based Learning in Undergraduate Computer Science Education and Contemporary Technological Trends", in In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; SciTePress, pages 397-404, Seattle, WA, USA, June 18, 2024, ISBN 978-989-758-697-2; ISSN 2184-5026, DOICORE-B
Other Publications - Awards
Marrón, Diego and Call, Aaron and Berral, Josep Ll and Nou, Ramon. "Enabling an OpenStack-based cloud on top of RISC-V hardware", RISC-V Summit Europe, Munich,24-28 June 2024. Preprint arXiv:2407.12008. 
J.L. Berral, I. Goiri, R. Nou, F. Julià, J. Guitart, R. Gavaldà, and J. Torres. "Honorable Mention for the work Towards Energy-aware Scheduling in Data Centers using Machine Learning", ACM e-Energy Test of Time Awards 2024. Published in e-Energy 2010. 
Peini Liu, Anna Mª Nestorov, Marc Palacín, Jordi Guitart, Josep Ll. Berral. "CloudSkin: ML-based Smart Management for the Cloud-Edge Continuum", Invited Talk. HiPEAC 2024 - Workshop DL4IoT: Deep Learning for IoT. Munich, Germany. January 19th, 2024. 
Jordi Torres. "10 conceptes clau sobre la intel.ligència artificial", Revista Qüestions de Vida Cristiana, ISSN 0214-7769, pp 17-28, Abril 2024. 

2023
Journals
Ruben Tous, Jordi Nin and Laura Igual. "Human Pose Completion in Partial Body Camera Shots", in Journal Of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, , DOIJCR-Q3
Ruben Tous. "Pictonaut: Movie Cartoonization Using 3D Human Pose Estimation and GANs", in Multimedia Tools and Applications volume 82, pag. 21101–21115, , ISSN 1573-7721, DOIJCR-Q2
Conferences
Silvia Arellano, Beatriz Otero and Ruben Tous. "Exploring Image Transformations with Diffusion Models: A Survey of Applications and Implementation Code", in 9th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & Data science – LOD 2023, September 22 – 26, 2023. Grasmere, Lake District, England, UK, DOI
G. Bravo-Rocca, P. Liu, J. Guitart, A. Dholakia, and D. Ellison. "TADIL: Task-Agnostic Domain-Incremental Learning through Task-ID Inference using Transformer Nearest-Centroid Embeddings", in Poster at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'23), Latin for AI Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, June 18, 2023, DOICORE-A* (workshop)
P. Liu, J. Guitart, and Amir Taherkordi. "Performance Characterization of Multi container Deployment Schemes for Online Machine Learning Inference on Kubernetes Clusters", in IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2023), , DOICORE-B
Gonzalo Gomez-Sanchez, Aaron Call, Xavier Teruel, Lorena Alonso, Ignasi Moran, Miguel Angel Perez, David Torrents, Josep Ll. Berral. "Challenges and Opportunities for RISC-V Architectures towards Genomics-based Workloads", in First International workshop on RISC-V for HPC, International Supercomputing Conference - High-Performance Computing ISC-HPC 2023, Hamburg, Germany, May 25th 2023, DOICORE-C
Other Publications - Awards
Jordi Guitart. "Autonomous Vehicles Use New AI Algorithms to Learn from Changes in the Environment", Press Release, Lenovo (David Ellison), April 2023. (BSC). 
Lluís Nacenta, Jordi Torres and Marina Palà. Editors of the book. "IA: Inteligencia Artificial", ISBN 978-84-19091-78-9 (castellano-English). 2023. 
Lluís Nacenta, Jordi Torres and Marina Palà. Editors of the book. "IA: Intel.ligència Artificial", ISBN 978-84-19091-77-2 (català-English). 2023. 
Jordi Torres. "La inteligencia artificial explicada a los humanos", Plataforma Editorial, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-19655-56-1. 
Jordi Torres. "La intel·ligència artificial explicada als humans", Plataforma Editorial, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-19655-58-5. 

2022
Journals
G. Bravo-Rocca, P. Liu, J. Guitart, A. Dholakia, D. Ellison, J. Falkanger, and M. Hodak. "Scanflow: A Multi-graph Framework for Machine Learning Workflow Management", in Supervision, and Debugging, Expert Systems with Applications, 202, 117232, September 2022, ISSN 0957-4174, DOIJCR-Q1
Peini Liu, Jordi Guitart. "Performance characterization of containerization for HPC workloads on InfiniBand clusters: an empirical study", in Cluster computing. 2022. Volume: 25, Number 2. Pages 847-847, , DOIJCR-Q2
Bravo, G.; Liu, P.; Guitart, J.; Dholakia, A.; Ellison, D.; Falkanger, J.; Hodak, M.. "Scanflow: A multi-graph framework for machine learning workflow management, supervision, and debugging", in Expert systems with applications. 2022. Volume 202, Number 117232, , DOIJCR-Q1
Felipe Portella, David Buchaca, José Roberto Rodrigues, Josep Ll. Berral. "TunaOil: A tuning algorithm strategy for reservoir simulation workloads", in Journal of Computational Science, Vol.63, n.101811/2022, , ISSN 1877-7503, DOIJCR-Q1
Lazic I, Agullo F, Ausso S, Alves B, Barelle C, Berral JL, Bizopoulos P, Bunduc O, Chouvarda I, Dominguez D, Filos D, Gutierrez-Torre A, Hesso I, Jakovljević N, Kayyali R, Kogut-Czarkowska M, Kosvyra A, Lalas A, Lavdaniti M, Loncar-Turukalo T, Martinez-Alabart S, Michas N, Nabhani-Gebara S, Raptopoulos A, Roussakis Y, Stalika E, Symvoulidis C, Tsave O, Votis K, Charalambous A.. "The Holistic Perspective of the INCISIVE Project — Artificial Intelligence in Screening Mammography", in Applied Sciences. 2022; 12(17):8755, , ISSN 2076-3417, DOIJCR-Q2
Daniel Rivas, Francesc Guim, Jordà Polo, Pubudu M. Silva, Josep Ll. Berral, David Carrera. "Towards automatic model specialization for edge video analytics", in Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol.134, pp.399-413 (2022), , ISSN 0167-739X, DOIJCR-Q1
Gonzalo Gómez-Sánchez, Luisa Delgado-Serrano, David Carrera, David Torrents, Josep Ll. Berral. "Clustering and graph mining techniques for classification of complex structural variations in cancer genomes", in Scientific Reports, vol.12, Article number 3244, Springer Nature (2022), , ISSN 2045-2322, DOIJCR-Q1
Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Kiyana Bahadori, Shuja-ur-Rehman Baig, Waheed Iqbal, Tullio Vardanega, Josep Lluís Berral, David Carrera. "Automatic Distributed Deep Learning Using Resource-constrained Edge Devices", in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.9 issue.16 pp.15018-15029 (2022), , ISSN 2327-4662, DOIJCR-Q1
Muhammad Abdullah, Waheed Iqbal, Josep Ll. Berral, Jordà Polo, David Carrera. "Burst-Aware Predictive Autoscaling for Containerized Microservices", in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. vol.15 issue.3 pp.1448-1460 (2022), , ISSN 1939-1374, DOIJCR-Q1
A. Call, J. Polo and D. Carrera. "Workload-Aware Placement Strategies to Leverage Disaggregated Resources in the Datacenter", in IEEE Systems Journal vol.16 Issue.1, pp. 1697–1708 (2022), , ISSN 1932-8184, DOIJCR-Q1
Conferences
P. Liu and J. Guitart. "Fine Grained Scheduling for Containerized HPC Workloads in Kubernetes Clusters", in The 2022 High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2022), December 2022 Chengdu, China. 2022, DOICORE-B
Bravo, G.; Liu, P.; Guitart, J.; Dholakia, A.; Ellison, D.; Hodak, M.. "Human-in-the-loop online multi-agent approach to increase trustworthiness in ML models through trust scores and data augmentation", in 46th IEEE Annual International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (IEEE COMPSAC'22), pp. 32-37, Torino, Italy, June 27 - July 1, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-8810-5, DOICORE-B
Cruz, S.; Tous, R.; Otero, B.; Alvarado, L.; Mus, S.; Rojas, O.. "Epicentral region estimation using convolutional neural networks", in 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, , DOI
Liu, P.; Bravo, G.; Guitart, J.; Dholakia, A.; Ellison, D.; Hodak, M.. "Scanflow-K8s: agent-based framework for autonomic management and supervision of ML workflows in Kubernetes clusters", in 2022 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGRID'22), pp. 376-385, Taormina, Italy, 16-19 May 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-9956-9, DOICORA-A
Anna Maria Nestorov, Josep Lluís Berral, Claudia Missale, Chen Wang, David Carrera, Alaa Youssef. "Floki: A Proactive Data Forwarding System for Direct Inter-Function Communication for Serverless Workflows", in Intl. Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds (WoC’22) - 22nd ACM/IFIP Intl. Conf. Middleware 2022, Quebec City, Canada, November 7 - 11 2022, DOICORE-A (workshop)
Josep L. Berral, Oriol Aranda, Juan Luis Dominguez, Jordi Torres. "Distributing Deep Learning Hyperparameter Tuning for 3D Medical Image Segmentation", in Scalable Deep Learning Workshop (ScaDL 2022) - IEEE Intl. Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2022), On-Line, May 30 - June 3 2022, DOICORE-A
Other Publications - Awards
Carpenter, P.; Casas, M.; Unsal, O.; Radojkovic, Petar; Martorell, X.; Miranda, A.; Guitart, J.; Corbalan, J.; Peña, A.; Bautista Gomez, Leonardo Arturo; Vázquez, M.; Beltran, V.; Queralt, A.; Nou, R.; Borrell, R.; Houzeaux, G.; Serradell, K.; Carrera, D.; García-Sáez, A.; Puchol, C.. "ETP4HPC’s SRA 5 strategic research agenda for High-Performance Computing in Europe 2022", European HPC research priorities 2023-2027. 09/2022. Pàgs: 166. 

2021
Journals
Daniel Rivas, Francesc Guim, Jordà Polo, David Carrera. "Performance characterization of video analytics workloads in heterogeneous edge infrastructures", in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 2021; e6317. Wiley, , ISSN 1532-0634, DOIJCR-Q3
P. Liu, J. Guitart. "Performance Comparison of Multi-container Deployment Schemes for HPC Workloads: An Empirical Study", in Journal of Supercomputing, 77, 6273-6312, June 2021, ISSN 0920-8542, DOIJCR-Q2
Conferences
P. Liu, G. Bravo-Rocca, J. Guitart, A. Dholakia, D. Ellison, and M. Hodak. "Scanflow: an end-to-end agent-based autonomic ML workflow manager for clusters", in 22nd International Middleware Conference: Demos and Posters, Quebec City, Canada, Dec. 6-8, 2021, ISBN 978-1-4503-9154-2, DOI
Daniel Rivas, Francesc Guim, Jordà Polo, Josep Ll. Berral, David Carrera. "Large-Scale Video Analytics Through Object-Level Consolidation", in EAI Edge-IoT 2021 - 2nd EAI International Conference on Intelligent Edge Processing in the IoT Era. (LNICST, vol 442. p155-171/2022. ISBN 978-3-031-06370-1, Springer), November 24 – 26, 2021. Portugal, ISBN 978-1-4503-9154-2, DOI
Anna Maria Nestorov, Jordà Polo, Claudia Misale, David Carrera and Alaa S. Youssef. "Performance Evaluation of Data-Centric Workloads in Serverless Environments", in IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2021), On-Line, September 5-10 2021, DOICORE-B
Josep L. Berral, David Buchaca, Claudia Herron, Chen Wang, Alaa Youssef. "Theta-Scan: Leveraging Behavior-Driven Forecasting for Vertical Auto-Scaling in Container Cloud", in IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2021), On-Line, September 5-10 2021, DOICORE-B
Patents
Chen Wang, Josep Ll. Berral, Alaa Youssef. "An Evolving Anomaly Learner: Mining Resource Execution Graph Patterns from Streaming Logs Aggregation", in References: EP21382339A, US20220335318A1, US patent. Filed: 23rd June 2021; Published: 20th October 2022, LINK