Main Proposal: Defined how to place and process in parallel data warehouses efficiently; defined robustness / availability colutions; defined DB-engine independent middleware; defined QoE and QoS solutions for predictability. These solutions were then applied in well-known commercial engines
Summary of what was done: Parallel data warehouse architecture, solutions for placement repartitioning and processing, Robustness, Map-reduce like scalability
Projects (ended): NPDW, DWPA,DBQOS
Main Proposal: Defined how to integrate stream and DB processing seamlessly, also how to provide real-time by modifying physical DB engine architecture; Design real-time analytics and data mining capabilities; Design real-time etl.
Summary of what was done: Transparent Integrated DB/Streams, Hybrid Memo/Disk, Extreme Denormalize, Flexible Columnar, additive materialized streams, hybrid stream/db model, incremental real-time data mining
Projects: StreamNetFlux
Main Proposal: Defined how to provide easy and uniform configuration and processing in heterogeneous sensor networks, provide also real-time
Projects: Ginseng
Research Objective: Making parallel DW solutions scalable and available
Some keywords: shared-nothing, repartitioning, placement, availability, map-reduce
Pedro Furtado: A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses. IJDWM 5(2): 57-77 (2009)
Pedro Furtado: Experimental evidence on partitioning in parallel data warehouses. DOLAP 2004: 23-30
Pedro Furtado: Efficient and Robust Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses. In Data Warehouses and Olap: Concepts, Architectures and Solutions by Robert Wrembel (Editor), Christian Koncilia (Editor.), 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1599043647, Chapter 9, pgs 203-229.
P. Furtado. Efficient Placement and Processing in Shared-Nothing Data Warehouses , In Contemporary Issues in Database Design and Information Systems Development, Eds. Idea Group, Inc, ISBN-13: 978-1599042893, Chapter 5, pgs 133-158.
Pedro Furtado: Replication in Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses. DDIDR2005 Workshop of VLDB 2005
Pedro Furtado: Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements. J. Database Manag. 17(2): 43-61 (2006)
Pedro Furtado: Hierarchical Aggregation in Networked Data Management. Euro-Par 2005: 360-369
Research Objective: Towards real-time capabilities and flexibility
Some keywords: stream processing, star, denormalize
Pedro Martins, Joao Pedro Costa, Jose Cecilio, Pedro Furtado: VarDB: High-Performance Warehouse Processing with Massive Ordering and Binary Search. DaWaK 2011: 184-195
Research Objective: Towards real-time capabilities and flexibility
Some keywords: QoS, schedulers, QoE, load-balancing
Rogerio Luis de Carvalho Costa: Quality of Experience Database Systems. PhD Thesis, University of Coimbra (2010)
Rogerio Luis de Carvalho Costa, Pedro N. Furtado: Quality of experience in distributed databases. Distributed and Parallel Databases 29(5-6): 361-396 (2011)
Rogerio Luis de Carvalho Costa, Pedro Furtado: Runtime Estimations, Reputation and Elections for Top Performing Distributed Query Scheduling. CCGRID 2009: 28-35
Rogerio Luis de Carvalho Costa, Pedro Furtado: QoS-Oriented Reputation-Aware Query Scheduling in Data Grids. Euro-Par 2008: 489-498
Rogerio Luis de Carvalho Costa, Pedro Furtado: A QoS-oriented external scheduler. SAC 2008: 1029-1033
Luis Fernando Orleans, Pedro Furtado: Fair Load-Balancing on Parallel Systems for QoS. ICPP 2007: 22
Pedro Furtado: Handling Request Variability for QoS-Max Measures. Euro-Par 2007: 307-317
Anastassia Ailamaki, Shivnath Babu, Pedro Furtado, Sam Lightstone, Guy M. Lohman, Patrick Martin, Vivek R. Narasayya, Glenn Pauley, Kenneth Salem, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Gerhard Weikum: Report: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2008). IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 31(4): 2-5 (2008)
Joao Pedro Costa, Pedro Furtado: Poster session: Towards a QoS-aware DBMS. ICDE Workshops 2008: 50-55
Pedro Furtado: QoS-Broker for transactional workloads. Service Oriented Computing and Applications 3(3): 159-169 (2009)
Research Objective: Provide easy and uniform configuration and processing in heterogeneous sensor networks, provide also real-time
Some keywords: macro-programming, tdma, heterogeneous, wireless sensor networks
Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "Device-Independent Middleware for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks", to appear on the 9th IEEE International Symposiumon Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2011), Busan, Korea, 26-28 May 2011.
Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "Sampling Rate and Data Quality Issues: Experiments from Ginseng Industrial Deployment", to appear on the 9th IEEE International Symposiumon Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2011), Busan, Korea, 26-28 May 2011.
Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "Configuration Interface for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks", to appear on International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2011), Biopolis, Singapore, 22-25 March 2011.