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Research Interests:

Engine Scalability and Predictability: Parallel
Engine Scalability and Predictability:QoE and QoS
Engine Scalability and Predictability:Self-Managing

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

Real-Time BI (warehousing, etl, analysis)

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

Streams and Sensor Processing

Main Proposal: Defined how to provide easy and uniform configuration and processing in heterogeneous sensor networks, provide also real-time

Projects: Ginseng

Some Projects I participated in:

Ginseng - Performance Controlled WSN Processing
StreamNetFlux- Transparent, fully integrated cep-db (leader)
NPDW- Node-partitioned Data Warehouses (leader)
DWPA- Data Warehouse Parallel Architecture (leader)
DBQoS- Offering QoS in Database Systems (leader)

Some Relevant Publications by Subject: (copyrighted material is available only for peer dissemination purposes)

Engine Scalability and Predictability: Parallel Scalability

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: Efficiently Processing Query-Intensive Databases over a Non-Dedicated Local Network. IPDPS 2005

Pedro Furtado: Experimental evidence on partitioning in parallel data warehouses. DOLAP 2004: 23-30

Pedro Furtado: Model and procedure for performance and availability-wise parallel warehouses. Distributed and Parallel Databases 25(1-2): 71-96 (2009)

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

Real-Time BI (warehousing, etl, analysis)

Research Objective: Towards real-time capabilities and flexibility

Some keywords: stream processing, star, denormalize

Joao Pedro Costa, Pedro Martins, Jose Cecilio, Pedro Furtado: StreamNetFlux: birth of transparent integrated CEP-DBs. DEBS 2010: 101-102

Joao Pedro Costa, Jose Cecilio, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado: Blending OLAP Processing with Real-Time Data Streams. DASFAA (2) 2011: 446-449

Joao Pedro Costa, Jose Cecilio, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado: ONE: A Predictable and Scalable DW Model. DaWaK 2011: 1-13

Pedro Martins, Joao Pedro Costa, Jose Cecilio, Pedro Furtado: VarDB: High-Performance Warehouse Processing with Massive Ordering and Binary Search. DaWaK 2011: 184-195

Engine Scalability and Predictability: QoE and QoS

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

Self-Managing Database Systems

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)

Streams and Sensor Processing

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 Furtado, "Survey on Data Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks", to be appear as a full chapter to the book "Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for Information Explosion Era" in Springer book series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", 2010.

Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "A Framework to (re)Configure a Heterogeneous Distributed Sensor Network for Closed-loop Control", to appear on 3rd Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems (APRES 2011), Chicago, United State, 12-14 April 2011.

Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "Interoperability for Data Processing in Distributed Sensor Networks", to appear on International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, United State, 12-14 April 2011.

Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "Providing Alarm Delivery Guarantees in High-Rate Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Deployments", to appear on International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Systems (PECCS 2011), Vilamoura, Portugal, 5-7 March 2011.

Jose Cecilio, Joao Costa, Pedro Martins, Pedro Furtado, "GinConf: A configuration and execution interface for Wireless Sensor Network in industrial context", in Proceedings of RealWSN 2010, Colombo, Sri-Lanka, 14-16 December 2010.

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.