Publications

Research results can be found in the following publications:

PhD Thesis

Miguel Matos, Epidemic Algorithms for Large Scale Data Dissemination. MAP-I Doctoral Program: Minho, Aveiro and Porto Universities October 2013
Ricardo Vilaça. Clouder: A Flexible Large Scale Decentralized Object Store. MAP-I Doctoral Program: Minho, Aveiro and Porto Universities, 2012

PhD Thesis

Fábio Coelho, Implementation and test of transactional primitives over Cassandra, University of Minho, 2013
Luís Pedro Zamith de Passos Machado Ferreira. Bridging the Gap Between SQL and NoSQL: SQL and ACID over a VLSD. University of Minho, 2012

Journals

Matos, M, Felber P, Oliveira R, Pereira J, Rivière E. Scaling up publish/subscribe overlays using interest correlation for link sharing. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2013
Miguel Matos, Valerio Schiavoni, Pascal Felber, Rui Oliveira, and Etienne Riviére. Lightweight, efficient, robust epidemic dissemination. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2013

International Conferences and Workshops

Francisco Cruz, Francisco Maia, Rui Oliveira, and Ricardo Vilaça. Workload-aware table splitting for NoSQL. In 29th Symposium On Applied Computing, Gyeongju, Korea, 2014
Ana Nunes, Rui Oliveira, and José Pereira. AJITTS: Adaptive Just-In-Time Transaction Scheduling. Submitted to 13th IFIP WG 6.1 International conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems (DAIS), 2013
Francisco Cruz, Francisco Maia, Miguel Matos, Rui Oliveira, João Paulo, José Pereira, and Ricardo Vilaça. MeT: Workload aware elasticity for NoSQL (to appear). In Eurosys, 2013
Francisco Maia, Miguel Matos, Etienne Riviére, and Rui Oliveira. Slicing as a distributed systems primitive. In Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC), 2013
Leander Bessa Beernaert, Miguel Matos, Pedro Gomes, Ricardo Vilaça, and Rui Oliveira. Evaluating cassandra as a manager of large file sets. In Third Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms (CloudDP 13), Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
Ricardo Vilaça, Francisco Cruz, José Pereira, and Rui Oliveira. An effective scalable sql engine for NoSQL databases . 13th IFIP WG 6.1 International conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems, DAIS’13.
Francisco Maia, Miguel Matos, Ricardo Vilaça, José Pereira, Rui Oliveira, and Etienne Rivière. DATAFLASKS: an epidemic dependable key-value substrate. International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Computing Environments (DCDV 2013), 2013
Francisco Maia, Miguel Matos, Etienne Riviére, and Rui Oliveira. Slead: low-memory, steady distributed systems slicing. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS’12, pages 1–15, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012. Springer-Verlag
Miguel Matos, Valerio Schiavoni, Pascal Felber, Rui Oliveira, and Etienne Riviere. Brisa: Combining efficiency and reliability in epidemic data dissemination. In IPDPS’12: IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 2012
Leander Beernaert, Miguel Matos, Ricardo Vilaça, and Rui Oliveira. Automatic elasticity in openstack. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Secure and Dependable Middleware for Cloud Monitoring and Management, SDMCMM ’12, pages 2:1–2:6, New York, NY, USA, 2012. ACM
Francisco Maia, Miguel Matos, José Pereira and Rui Oliveira. Worldwide Consensus (Best paper award), In Discotec 2011, 6th International Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques, Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Reykjavik, Iceland, June 6-9, 2011
Ricardo Vilaça, Rui Oliveira and José Pereira. A correlation-aware data placement strategy for key-value stores, In Discotec 2011, 6th International Federated Conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques, Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Reykjavik, Iceland, June 6-9, 2011
Miguel Matos, Ricardo Vilaça, José Pereira and Rui Oliveira. An epidemic approach to dependable key-value substrates, In The First International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Computing Environments (DCDV 2011), Hong Kong, China, June 27, 2011

National conferences

Fabio Coelho, Francisco Cruz, Jose Pereira, Ricardo Vilaca, and Rui Oliveira. ph1: middleware transacional para nosql. In Inforum , Evora, Portugal, 2013

Posters

Ana Nunes and José Pereira. Improving transaction abort rates without compromising throughput through judicious scheduling. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, DADS’13. Springer-Verlag, 2013

Previous Results

You can find preliminary research results leading to the proposed approach in the following publications:

[WDDDM09]
Clouder: A Flexible Large Scale Decentralized Object Store: Architecture Overview, Ricardo Vilaça and Rui Oliveira In Third Workshop on Dependable Data Management (WDDDM 2009) , Nuremberg, Germany, March 31, 2009