E-mail: pcj at lsd.di.uminho.pt pcoj at di.uminho.pt Address: Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga Portugal Phone: +351 253 604 477 / Internal: 604 477 Fax: +351 253 604 471

Research Interests

Publications

• M. Borges, P. Jesus, C. Baquero, P. S. Almeida. “Spectra: Robust Estimation of Distribution Functions in Networks”, 12th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Springer LNCS, vol. 7272, pp. 96-103, June 2012.
  
• C. Baquero, P.S. Almeida, R. Menezes, and P. Jesus, "Extrema Propagation: Fast Distributed Estimation of Sums and Network Sizes", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 668-675, April 2012.
• P.S. Almeida, C. Baquero, M. Farach-Colton, P. Jesus and M. A. Mosteiro, “Fault-Tolerant Aggregation: Flow Update Meets Mass Distribution”, 15th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Springer LNCS, vol. 7109, pp. 513-527, December, 2011.
• P. Jesus, C. Baquero and P.S. Almeida, "Fault-Tolerant Aggregation for Dynamic Networks", 29th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), New Delhi, India, November 2010.
  
• P. Jesus, C. Baquero and P.S. Almeida, "Dependability in Aggregation by Averaging", 1st Symposium on Informatics (INForum), Lisboa, Portugal, September 2009.
• P. Jesus, C. Baquero and P.S. Almeida, "Fault-Tolerant Aggregation by Flow Updating", 9th IFIP international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS), Springer LNCS, vol. 5523, pp. 73-86, June 2009.
• P. Jesus, C. Baquero and P.S. Almeida, "ID Generation in Mobile Environments" (Abstract), Proceedings of Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, Guimarães, Portugal, June 2006.

Current Work

• Eccentricities estimator (network graph diameter and radius);
• Churn rate estimator;
• Slicing algorithms;
  

• P. Jesus, "Robust Distributed Data Aggregation" Ph.D. Thesis (MAP-i - Doctoral Program in Computer Science), Universidade do Minho (RepositóriUM), September 2012.
  
• P. Jesus, C. Baquero and P.S. Almeida, "A Survey of Distributed Data Aggregation Algorithms", Technical Report CoRR abs/1110.0725, HASLab / INESC TEC, Universidade do Minho, October 2011.
  
• M. Borges, C. Baquero, P. Jesus and P.S. Almeida. “Estimativa Contínua e Tolerante a Faltas de Funções Distribuição Cumulativa em Redes de Larga Escala”, Simpósio de Informática (INForum), Coimbra, Portugal, Setembro 2011.
  
• P. Jesus, C. Baquero and P.S. Almeida, "Using Less Links to Improve Fault-Tolerant Aggregation" (Fast Abstract), 4th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC 2009), September 1-4, 2009.
  

Short Biography

• 2007-2012 - Ph.D student of the MAP-i - Doctoral Program in Computer Science at the University of Minho;
• 2004-2007 - MSc in Mobile Systems, by the University of Minho;
• 1996-2001 - Graduate studies in Systems and Informatics Engineering (LESI – Licenciatura em Engenharia de Sistemas e Informatica) at the University of Minho;

• 2012-Onwards - Software developer at Oracle (MySQL Utilities team);
• 2006-2007 - Informatics teacher at the Alberto Sampaio high school (Braga);
• 2001-2006 - Software developer (consultant) at WeDo Consulting (Braga);
• 2001 - Web developer at Infopulse Portugal (Porto);

Events

• MySQL Connect 2013 (September 28-October 2, 2013);
  
• Winter School: Hot Topics in Distributed Computing (March 7-12, 2010);
  
• MiNEMA Winter School 2009 (March 23-26, 2009);
  
• VIII Seminário em "Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação", Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (March 11-12, 2009);

Time off

• Tran Su Vo Viet;