| 2013 | MASCOTS | Overcoming Limitations of Off-the-Shelf Priority Schedulers in Dynamic Environments. | Feng Yan, Shannon Hughes, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2012 | ICMLA | Automated Storage Tiering Using Markov Chain Correlation Based Clustering. | Malak Alshawabkeh, Alma Riska, Adnan Sahin, Motasem Awwad |
| 2011 | MASCOTS | Toward Automating Work Consolidation with Performance Guarantees in Storage Clusters. | Feng Yan, Xenia Mountrouidou, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2009 | MASCOTS | Autocorrelation-driven load control in distributed systems. | Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Qi Zhang, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2009 | SIGMETRICS | Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks. | Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel |
| 2008 | DSN | Enhancing data availability in disk drives through background activities. | Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel |
| 2008 | OSDI | Disk Drive Workload Captured in Logs Collected During the Field Return Incoming Test. | Alma Riska, Erik Riedel |
| 2008 | USENIX | Idle Read After Write - IRAW. | Alma Riska, Erik Riedel |
| 2007 | SIGMETRICS | Efficient management of idleness in systems. | Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Qi Zhang, Evgenia Smirni, Erik Riedel |
| 2007 | USENIX | Evaluating Block-level Optimization Through the IO Path. | Alma Riska, James Larkby-Lahet, Erik Riedel |
| 2006 | DSN | Evaluating the Performability of Systems with Background Jobs. | Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirni, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel |
| 2006 | ICDCS | Load Unbalancing to Improve Performance under Autocorrelated Traffic. | Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2006 | USENIX | Disk Drive Level Workload Characterization. | Alma Riska, Erik Riedel |
| 2005 | MASCOTS | Storage Performance Virtualization via Throughput and Latency Control. | Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Qian Wang, Alma Riska, Erik Riedel |
| 2005 | SIGMETRICS | An interposed 2-Level I/O scheduling framework for performance virtualization. | Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska, Qian Wang, Erik Riedel |
| 2003 | MASCOTS | It's not fair - evaluating efficient disk scheduling. | Alma Riska, Erik Riedel |
| 2002 | GLOBECOM | Efficient fitting of long-tailed data sets into hyperexponential distributions. | Alma Riska, Vesselin Diev, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2002 | ICDCS | ADAPTLOAD: Effective Balancing in Custered Web Servers Under Transient Load Conditions. | Alma Riska, Wei Sun, Evgenia Smirni, Gianfranco Ciardo |
| 2002 | PERFORMANCE | M/G/1-Type Markov Processes: A Tutorial. | Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2002 | SIGMETRICS | Exact aggregate solutions for M/G/1-type Markov processes. | Alma Riska, Evgenia Smirni |