Introduction

I am a second-year postgraduate student in the High Performance Systems Group (HPSG) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. When not working on my research I am a keen photographer and mountain biker (though never at the same time!).

Research

My research interests include all aspects of e-Business systems, from application tuning to workload analysis. My main work focusses on the development and analysis of dynamic provisioning for multi-tier application architectures.

Selected Publications

Chester, A.P. and Leeke, M. and Al-Ghamdi, M. and Jhumka, A. and Jarvis, S.A. (2011) A Framework for Data Center Scale Dynamic Resource Allocation Algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (SCALCOM'11), 31st August - 2nd September, 2011, Pafos, Cyprus.

Chester, A.P. and Leeke, M. and Al-Ghamdi, M. and Jarvis, S.A. and Jhumka, A. (2011) A Modular Failure-Aware Resource Allocation Architecture for Cloud Computing. In: Proceedings of the UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW'11), 7-8th July, 2011, Bradford, United Kingdom.

Al-Ghamdi, M. and Chester, A.P. and He, L. and Jarvis, S.A. (2011) Dynamic Resource Allocation and Active Predictive Models for Enterprise Applications. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER10), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

Chester, A.P. and Xue, J.W.J. and He, L. and Jarvis, S.A. (2008) A System for Dynamic Server Allocation in Application Server Clusters. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA'08), 10-12 December, 2011, Sydney, Australia.

A full list of my publications can be found here.

Teaching

I teach (or have taught) a number of undergraduate modules at the university. Links to the course web pages are below.

• MA117: Programming for Scientists
• CS118: Programming for Computer Scientists
• CS126: Design of Information Structures
• CS132: Computer Organisation and Architecture
• CS247: Group Software Engineering Project
• CS402: High Performance Computing

Adam Chester, BSc (Hons)

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