Fernando Pedone  Associate Professor  University of Lugano (USI)  Faculty of Informatics  Via Giuseppe Buffi 6  CH-6904 - Lugano  Switzerland    E-mail: firstname.lastname(at)usi.ch    Phone: +41 58 666 4695  Fax: +41 58 666 4536  Curriculum Vitae

Replication: Theory and Practice

Research

I'm interested in the theory and practice of distributed systems and distributed data management systems. My theoretical work has addressed algorithmic aspects of reliable distributed systems, such as defining new abstractions for building reliable systems, creating algorithms implementing these abstractions and proving them correct, and establishing related lower bounds. Systems work has considered using group communication abstractions to build replicated data management systems. To a large extent, I have been interested in the interplay between theory and practice.

Recent publications

L. Camargos, R. Schmidt, E. Madeira and F. Pedone
Multicoordinated Agreement for Groups of Agents
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2010
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P. J. Marandi, M. Primi, N. Schiper and F. Pedone
Ring-Paxos: A High Throughput Atomic Broadcast Protocol
40th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010)
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N. Schiper and F. Pedone
Fast, Flexible, and Highly Resilient Genuine Fifo and Causal Multicast Algorithms
25th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010)
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Publications by year: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 199x

From other sources: DBLP, Google Scholar, CiteSeer

Research group Amirhossein Malekpour (PhD student) Parisa Jalili Marandi (PhD student) Ricardo Padilha (PhD student) Marco Primi (PhD student) Nicolas Schiper (Post-doc) Daniele Sciascia (PhD student)

PhD's and MSc's

Lasaro Camargos (PhD thesis), Microsoft, US
Vaide Narvaez (PhD thesis), Payap University, TH
Rodrigo Schimdt (PhD thesis), Facebook, US
Nicolas Schiper (PhD thesis), USI, CH
Marco Primi (MSc thesis), USI, CH
Daniele Sciascia (MSc thesis), USI, CH
Pavel Raykov (MSc thesis)

Projects

Sprint: adaptive data management for main-memory database clusters
Gorda: open replication of databases
Swift: system support for distributed dynamic content web services
Colloc: A Replication Engine for Peer to Peer Content Management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Teaching

Computer Systems (Spring 2009, Spring 2008)
Distributed Algorithms (Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008)
Distributed Systems (Fall 2009)

Events

41th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011)
5th Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2011)
6th Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (DADS 2011)
25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2011)
29th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2010)
5th Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (DADS 2010)
40th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010)
5th European Conference on Systems Research (EuroSys 2010)