Publications (journals, book chapters and conferences)

2024

2023

  • Ignacio Heredia Cacha, Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz, María Castrillo, and Álvaro López García*.
    Forecasting covid-19 spreading through an ensemble of classical and machine learning models: spain’s case study.
    Scientific Reports, 13(1):6750, April 2023, doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33795-8.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz and Álvaro López García.
    Study of the performance and scalability of federated learning for medical imaging with intermittent clients.
    Neurocomputing, 518:142–154, January 2023, doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2022.11.011.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz, María Castrillo, and Álvaro López García.
    Deep learning based soft-sensor for continuous chlorophyll estimation on decentralized data.
    Water Research, 246:120726, 2023, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2023.120726.
    [ Bibtex ]

2022

  • Jose González-Abad, Álvaro López García, and Valentin Y. Kozlov.
    A container-based workflow for distributed training of deep learning algorithms in hpc clusters.
    Cluster Computing, November 2022, doi:10.1007/s10586-022-03798-7.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz and Álvaro López García.
    A python library to check the level of anonymity of a dataset.
    Scientific Data, 9(1):785, December 2022, doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01894-2.
    [ Bibtex ]

2020

  • María Castrillo Melguizo and Álvaro López García.
    Estimation of high frequency nutrient concentrations from water quality surrogates using machine learning methods.
    Water Research, 172:115490, 2020, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2020.115490.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Álvaro López García*, J. Marco de Lucas, M. Antonacci, W. Zu Castell, M. David, M. Hardt, L. Lloret Iglesias, G. Moltó, M. Plociennik, V. Tran, A. S. Alic, M. Caballer, I. C. Plasencia, A. Costantini, S. Dlugolinsky, D. C. Duma, G. Donvito, J. Gomes, I. Heredia Cacha, K. Ito, V. Y. Kozlov, G. Nguyen, P. Orviz Fernández, Z. Šustr, and P. Wolniewicz.
    A cloud-based framework for machine learning workloads and applications.
    IEEE Access, 8:18681–18692, 2020, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2964386.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • G. Nguyen, S. Dlugolinsky, V. Tran, and Álvaro López García.
    Deep learning for proactive network monitoring and security protection.
    IEEE Access, 8:19696–19716, 2020, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2968718.
    [ Bibtex ]

2019

  • Álvaro López García*.
    Deepaas api: a rest api for machine learning and deep learning models.
    Journal of Open Source Software, 4(42):1517, 10 2019, doi:10.21105/joss.01517.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Álvaro López García*, Enol Fernández del Castillo, and Isabel Campos Plasencia.
    An efficient cloud scheduler design supporting preemptible instances.
    Future Generation Computer Systems, 95:68 – 78, 2019, doi:10.1016/j.future.2018.12.057.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Giang Nguyen, Stefan Dlugolinsky, Martin Bobák, Viet Tran, Álvaro López García, Ignacio Heredia, Peter Malík, and Ladislav Hluchý.
    Machine learning and deep learning frameworks and libraries for large-scale data mining: a survey.
    Artificial Intelligence Review, 52(1):77–124, Jun 2019, doi:10.1007/s10462-018-09679-z.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Daniele Spiga, Marica Antonacci, Tommaso Boccali, Andrea Ceccanti, Diego Ciangottini, Riccardo Di Maria, Giacinto Donvito, Cristina Duma, Luciano Gaido, Álvaro López García, Aida Palacio Hoz, Davide Salomoni, and Mirco Tracolli.
    Exploiting private and commercial clouds to generate on-demand cms computing facilities with dodas.
    EPJ Web Conf., 214:07027, 2019, doi:10.1051/epjconf/201921407027.
    [ Bibtex ]

2018

  • Miguel Caballer, Sahdev Zala, Álvaro López García*, Germán Montó, Pablo Orviz Fernández, and Mathieu Velten.
    Orchestrating complex application architectures in heterogeneous clouds.
    Journal of Grid Computing, 16(1):3–18, 3 2018, doi:10.1007/s10723-017-9418-y.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Jorge Gomes, Emanuele Bagnaschi, Isabel Campos, Mario David, Luís Alves, João Martins, João Pina, Alvaro López-García, and Pablo Orviz.
    Enabling rootless Linux Containers in multi-user environments: The udocker tool.
    Computer Physics Communications, 232:84–97, 2018, doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2018.05.021.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Álvaro López García*, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, Pablo Orviz Fernández, Isabel Campos Plasencia, and Jesús Marco de Lucas.
    Resource provisioning in Science Clouds: Requirements and challenges.
    Software: Practice and Experience, 48(3):486–498, 3 2018, doi:10.1002/spe.2544.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Pablo Orviz Fernández, João Pina, Álvaro López García, Isabel Campos Plasencia, Mário David, and Jorge Gomes.
    Umd-verification: automation of software validation for the egi federated e-infrastructure.
    Journal of Grid Computing, 16(4):683–696, Dec 2018, doi:10.1007/s10723-018-9454-2.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • D. Salomoni, I. Campos, L. Gaido, J. Marco de Lucas, P. Solagna, J. Gomes, L. Matyska, P. Fuhrman, M. Hardt, G. Donvito, L. Dutka, M. Plociennik, R. Barbera, I. Blanquer, A. Ceccanti, E. Cetinic, M. David, C. Duma, A. López-García, G. Moltó, P. Orviz, Z. Sustr, M. Viljoen, F. Aguilar, L. Alves, M. Antonacci, L. A. Antonelli, S. Bagnasco, A. M. J. J. Bonvin, R. Bruno, Y. Chen, A. Costa, D. Davidovic, B. Ertl, M. Fargetta, S. Fiore, S. Gallozzi, Z. Kurkcuoglu, L. Lloret, J. Martins, A. Nuzzo, P. Nassisi, C. Palazzo, J. Pina, E. Sciacca, D. Spiga, M. Tangaro, M. Urbaniak, S. Vallero, B. Wegh, V. Zaccolo, F. Zambelli, and T. Zok.
    INDIGO-DataCloud: a Platform to Facilitate Seamless Access to E-Infrastructures.
    Journal of Grid Computing, 8 2018, doi:10.1007/s10723-018-9453-3.
    [ Bibtex ]

2017

  • Álvaro López García*, Lisa Zangrando, Massimo Sgaravatto, Vincent Llorens, Sara Vallero, Valentina Zaccolo, Stefano Bagnasco, Sonia Taneja, Stefano Dal Pra, Davide Salomoni, Giacinto Donvito, Alvaro López García, Lisa Zangrando, Massimo Sgaravatto, Vincent Llorens, Sara Vallero, Valentina Zaccolo, Stefano Bagnasco, Sonia Taneja, Stefano Dal Pra, Davide Salomoni, and Giacinto Donvito.
    Improved Cloud resource allocation: how INDIGO-DataCloud is overcoming the current limitations in Cloud schedulers.
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 898(9):92010, 7 2017, arXiv:1707.06403, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/898/9/092010.
    [ Bibtex ]

2016

  • Álvaro López García* and Enol Fernández del Castillo.
    Efficient image deployment in cloud environments.
    Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 63:140–149, 2 2016, doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2015.10.015.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Álvaro López García*, Enol Fernández del Castillo, and Pablo Orviz Fernández.
    ooi: OpenStack OCCI interface.
    SoftwareX, 5:6–11, 1 2016, doi:10.1016/j.softx.2016.01.001.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Álvaro López García*, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, and Pablo Orviz Fernández.
    Standards for enabling heterogeneous IaaS cloud federations.
    Computer Standards & Interfaces, 47:19–23, 2 2016, doi:10.1016/j.csi.2016.02.002.
    [ Bibtex ]

2015

  • Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, Diego Scardaci, and Álvaro López García.
    The EGI Federated Cloud e-Infrastructure.
    Procedia Computer Science, 68:196–205, 10 2015, doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.235.
    [ Bibtex ]

2013

  • Isabel Campos Plasencia, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, S. Heinemeyer, Álvaro López García, Federico Pahlen, and Gonçalo Borges.
    Phenomenology tools on cloud infrastructures using OpenStack.
    The European Physical Journal C, 73(4):2375, 4 2013, arXiv:arXiv:1212.4784v1, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2375-0.
    [ Bibtex ]

2012

  • Gonçalo Borges, Mario David, Hugo Gomes, Jorge Gomes, João Martins, João Murta Pina, Ignacio Blanquer, David Arce, Miguel Caballer, Álvaro López García, Pablo Orviz Fernández, Isabel Campos Plasencia, Jesús Marco de Lucas, and Álvaro Simón García.
    Fostering Multi-Scientific Usage in the Iberian Production Infrastructure.
    Computing and Informatics, 31(1):61–72, 2012.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • M. David, G. Borges, J. Gomes, J. Pina, I. Campos, E. Fernandez, Álvaro López García, P. Orviz, J.L. Cacheiro, C. Fernandez, A. Simon, and A. Fernandez.
    Software provision process for EGI.
    Computing and Informatics, 31(1):135–148, 2012.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Ana Yaiza Rodríguez-Marrero, Isidro González Caballero, Alberto Cuesta Noriega, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, Álvaro López García, Jesús Marco de Lucas, and Francisco Matorras Weinig.
    Integrating PROOF Analysis in Cloud and Batch Clusters.
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 396(3):32091, 12 2012, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/396/3/032091.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Roberto Dopazo Rosende, Alvaro Simón García, Esteban García Freire, Carlos Fernández Sánchez, Álvaro López García, Pablo Orviz Fernández, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, and Gonçalo Borges.
    Grid Engine batch system integration in the EMI era.
    Proceedings of Science, 2012.
    [ Bibtex ]

2010

  • Gonçalo Borges, Jorge Gomes, Manuel Montecelo, Mario David, B. Silva, N. Dias, J. P. Martins, Carlos Fernández Sánchez, L. García-Tarres, C. Veiga, D. Cordero, Javier López-Cacheiro, Jesús Marco de Lucas, Isabel Campos Plasencia, D Rodríguez, R Marco, Álvaro López García, Pablo Orviz Fernández, A. Hammad, M. Hardt, Enol Fernández-del-Castillo, E. Heymann, M.A Senar, A. Padee, K. Nawrocki, W. Wislicki, P. Heinzlreiter, M. Baumgartner, H. Rosmanith, S. Kenny, B. Coghlan, P. Lason, L. Skital, J. Astalos, M. Ciglan, M. Pospieszny, R. Valles, and K. Dichev.
    Int.eu.grid.
    In Franco Davoli, Norbert Meyer, Roberto Pugliese, and S Zappatore, editors, Remote Instrumentation and Virtual Laboratories, pages 201–210.
    Springer, 2010.
    [ Bibtex ]

2008

  • Jorge Gomes, Gonçalo Borges, Manuel Montecelo, Mario David, B Silva, N Dias, J. P. Martins, Carlos Fernández Sánchez, L. García-Tarres, C. Veiga, D. Cordero, Javier López-Cacheiro, Jesús Marco de Lucas, Isabel Campos Plasencia, D Rodríguez, R Marco, Álvaro López García, Pablo Orviz Fernández, and A. Hammad.
    A Grid infrastructure for parallel and interactive applications.
    Computing and Informatics, 27(2):173–185, 2008.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • Jesús Marco de Lucas, Isabel Campos Plasencia, I Coterillo, I Diaz, Álvaro López García, R Marco, C Martinez-Rivero, Pablo Orviz Fernández, D Rodríguez, Jorge Gomes, Gonçalo Borges, Manuel Montecelo, Mario David, B Silva, N Dias, J. P. Martins, Carlos Fernández Sánchez, and L. García-Tarres.
    The interactive European Grid: Project objectives and achievements.
    Computing and Informatics, 27(2):161–171, 2008.
    [ Bibtex ]
  • The CMS Collaboration.
    The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC.
    Journal of Instrumentation, 3(08):S08004–S08004, 8 2008, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004.
    [ Bibtex ]

2007

  • Álvaro López García*, Mirko Mariotti, Davide Salomoni, and Leonello Servoli.
    A high availability solution for GRID services.
    Proceedings of Science, ACAT:13, 2007.
    [ Bibtex ]
An asterisk (*) denotes that I am the corresponding author.