Pedro Furtado Homepage
UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
FACULDADE DE
CIÊNCIAS E TECNOLOGIA
Departamento
de Engenharia Informática
PÓLO II
- Pinhal de Marrocos
3030-290 Coimbra - Portugal
Tel. 239 790000 Fax. 239 701266
e-mail: pnf@dei.uc.pt
Member Of
University of Coimbra, Department of Computer
Engineering
CISUC Research Center
Research Topics
Data Warehouses, Data Management in Parallel and Distributed
Systems (DWs, WSN, grid, P2P)
Autonomic Systems, Real-Time, Adaptability, Performance and
QoS, SLAs, Scheduling, Load Testing, Feedback Control.
Currently focusing mostly on:
Application-Level mechanisms for efficient WSNs
Efficient Processing of OLAP Data in Parallel and
Distributed Data Warehouses and Cubes,
Current Projects
Ginseng,
Performance-controlled WSN
Recent ended Projects
DWPA
DWPA Project - Data Warehousing Parallel Architecture with QoS
Guarantees
Adapt-DB,
Adaptable Data Management with QoS Guarantees in Distributed and
Heterogeneous Environments
Teaching Topics
I'm Assistant Professor
in DEI, University of Coimbra. I teach Databases, Query
Processing, Parallel and Disributed Data Management, Data Warehousing and Data
Mining subjects.
Advisory Topics
PhD candidates... Contact me
Recently…Editing
Book on Data Warehousing and Data Mining
Evolving Application Domains of Data Warehousing and
Mining: Trends and Solutions
Some Recent Publications:
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.
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
Pedro Furtado:
Replication
in Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses. DDIDR2005 Workshop of VLDB 2005
Pedro Furtado:
Experimental
evidence on partitioning in parallel data warehouses. DOLAP 2004: 23-30
Pedro Furtado,
Celso Santos:”Extensible QoS-Broker for QoS and Self-Properties” in SEAMS 2007.
Pedro Furtado:
“Handling Request Variability for QoS-max Measures” in Europar 2007.
Luis Orleans,
Pedro Furtado: “Fair Load-Balancing on Parallel Systems for QoS”, in ICPP 2007
(copyrighted material is available only for
peer dissemination purposes)
My Publications
(My
publications in DBLP server (sometimes slightly outdated)
My publications on CISUC server
)
Useful Links
TPC org, ACM SIGMOD
My e-mail contact is pnf@dei.uc.pt
This site was last updated 10/20/04