Calls and Events

• IJSSOE Special Issue on Engineering Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing (deadline: February 8, 2010)
• 25th ACM SAC Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track

Research

Data Management: While working on project GORDA, we've been evaluating database replication protocols in realistic settings and workloads [SPS+05, CSS+05] and rethinking their interfaces to database servers [CCP+07]. The resulting insight has allowed us to introduce efficient protocols for consistent replication in clusters [CPO08] and wide-area networks [GSC+06]. These are implemented in the ESCADA Replication Server. Currently, in project Pastramy, we're working on a new breed of shared-storage database clusters [SP09b] and building the Holey CoW proof-of-concept.

Group Communication: We've been addressing multiple aspects of scale in view synchronous protocols: stable high throughput with semantic reliability [PRO03], large number of participants with mutable consensus [PO04], and optimistic total order with statistical estimation in WANs [SPMO01]. We've also introduced jGCS, a common programming abstraction for multiple toolkits [CPR06]. More recently, in project P-SON, we focused on epidemic multicast protocols and in combining structured with random overlays for efficiency and reliability [CPOR07, LPR07a], having built the NeEM and Seeds prototypes. Currently, we're pushing the envelope in group communication by applying it to cloud computing management infrastructure in project DC2MS.

Teaching

• Distributed Systems and Application Engineering in the Master Course in Informatics
• Distributed Computing in the MAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science

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All publications, projects, past events, and software. You can reach me at: Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal; phone: +351 253 604 449; fax: +351 253 604 471; and preferably by email: jop at di.uminho.pt.