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