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 am interested in the theory and practice of dependable distributed systems and distributed data management systems. My contributions to theory include defining new abstractions to help design reliable distributed systems, creating algorithms implementing these abstractions and proving them correct, and establishing related lower bounds. My contributions to systems research have focused on designing, implementing and evaluating reliable data management systems based on group communication. To a large extent, I have been interested in the interplay between theory and practice.

My research is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Hasler Foundation, the European Commission, and Yahoo Switzerland.

Recent publications

D. Sciascia, F. Pedone and F. Junqueira
Scalable Deferred Update Replication
42nd International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012)
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P. J. Marandi, M. Primi and F. Pedone
Multi-Ring Paxos
42nd International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012)
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F. Pedone and N. Schiper
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Deferred Update Replication
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2012.
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D. Sciascia and F. Pedone
RAM-DUR: In-Memory Deferred Update Replication
USI Technical Report, 2012
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Publications by year: 2011, 2010, 200x, 199x

From other sources: DBLP, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search

Research group Eduardo Bezerra (PhD student) Amirhossein Malekpour (PhD student) Parisa Jalili Marandi (PhD student) Ricardo Padilha (PhD student) Daniele Sciascia (PhD student) Leandro Pacheco de Sousa (PhD student) Alex Tomic (PhD student)

PhD's and MSc's

Lasaro Camargos (PhD thesis), University of Uberlandia, BR
Vaide Narvaez (PhD thesis), Payap University, TH
Rodrigo Schimdt (PhD thesis), Facebook, US
Nicolas Schiper (PhD thesis), Cornell, US
Marco Primi (MSc thesis), Apple, US
Daniele Sciascia (MSc thesis), USI, CH
Pavel Raykov (MSc thesis), ETH, CH
Alex Tomic (MSc thesis), USI, CH

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

Distributed Algorithms (Spring 2012, Spring 2011)
Distributed Systems (Fall 2011)

Events

28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 8th Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track (DADS 2013)
6th IEEE/IFIP Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC 2013)
Conférence Française en Systèmes d'Exploitation (CFSE 2013)
15th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2012)
11th Workshop em Desempenho de Sistemas Computacionais e de Comunicação (WPerformance 2012)
11th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2012)
6th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2012)
31st International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2012)
30th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2012)
13th Workshop de Testes e Tolerância a Falhas (WTF 2012)
3rd International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM 2012)
27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 7th Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track (DADS 2012)
9th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2012)
7th European Conference on Systems Research (Eurosys 2012)
32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012)