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  1. Rethinking BFT: Leveraging Diverse Software Components with LLMs

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  2. BLADE-Byzantine-Tolerant Learning Under an Asynchronous and Decentralized Environment

    Article • April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  3. Towards Efficient Client-Side Transactions for Heterogeneous Cloud Data Stores

    Article • April 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  4. Towards Adaptive Transactional Consistency for Georeplicated Datastores

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  5. CRDV: Conflict-free Replicated Data Views

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nuno Faria, José Pereira

  6. TADA: A Toolkit for Approximate Distributed Agreement

    Article • Science of Computer Programming, December 2024, Elsevier

    José Pereira

  7. Can Current SDS Controllers Scale To Modern HPC Infrastructures?

    Article • November 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  8. When Amnesia Strikes: Understanding and Reproducing Data Loss Bugs with Fault Injection

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Tânia Esteves, José Pereira

  9. What is an edge/fog database?

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira, Luís Ferreira

  10. Loom: A Closed-Box Disaggregated Database System

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  11. MRVs: Enforcing Numeric Invariants in Parallel Updates to Hotspots with Randomized Splitting

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nuno Faria, José Pereira

  12. Taming Metadata-intensive HPC Jobs Through Dynamic, Application-agnostic QoS Control

    Article • May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  13. TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  14. An Experimental Evaluation of Tools for Grading Concurrent Programming Exercises

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  15. TADA: A Toolkit for Approximate Distributed Agreement

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  16. Deploying decentralized, privacy-preserving proximity tracing

    Article • Communications of the ACM, August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  17. Adaptive database synchronization for an online analytical cioud-to-edge continuum

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nuno Faria, José Pereira

  18. AIDA-DB: A Data Management Architecture for the Edge and Cloud Continuum

    Article • January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  19. Horus: Non-Intrusive Causal Analysis of Distributed Systems Logs

    Article • June 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  20. An overview of software-defined storage

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira, Ricardo Macedo, Alysson Bessani

  21. Making different sites using Parallel Snapshot Isolation converge to the same transaction history.

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nuno Faria, José Pereira

  22. Detailed black-box monitoring of distributed systems

    Article • ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  23. Towards Generic Fine-Grained Transaction Isolation in Polystores

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  24. Black-box inter-application traffic monitoring for adaptive container placement

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  25. A Comparison of Message Exchange Patterns in BFT Protocols

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  26. Building a Polyglot Data Access Layer for a Low-Code Application Development Platform

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  27. Self-tunable DBMS Replication with Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  28. TrustFS: An SGX-Enabled Stackable File System Framework

    Article • October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Tânia Esteves, José Pereira

  29. A Case for Dynamically Programmable Storage Background Tasks

    Article • October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  30. Message from Technical Program Co-Chairs

    Article • October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  31. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  32. 2019 38th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)

    Article • January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  33. Recovery in CloudDBAppliance’s High-availability Middleware

    Article • January 2019, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  34. Towards Intra-Datacentre High-Availability in CloudDBAppliance

    Article • January 2019, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  35. Falcon: A Practical Log-Based Analysis Tool for Distributed Systems

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  36. $${\textsc {DDFlasks}}$$ : Deduplicated Very Large Scale Data Store

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  37. HTAPBench

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  38. Prepared scan

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  39. Implementing a Linear Algebra Approach to Data Processing

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  40. Similarity Aware Shuffling for the Distributed Execution of SQL Window Functions

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  41. Benchmarking polystores: The CloudMdsQL experience

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  42. Efficient Deduplication in a Distributed Primary Storage Infrastructure

    Article • ACM Transactions on Storage, August 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  43. The CloudMdsQL Multistore System

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  44. Resource Usage Prediction in Distributed Key-Value Datastores

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  45. An RDMA Middleware for Asynchronous Multi-stage Shuffling in Analytical Processing

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  46. Design and Implementation of the CloudMdsQL Multistore System

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  47. Design of an RDMA Communication Middleware for Asynchronous Shuffling in Analytical Processing

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  48. Holistic Shuffler for the Parallel Processing of SQL Window Functions

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  49. Reducing Data Transfer in Parallel Processing of SQL Window Functions

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  50. CloudMdsQL: querying heterogeneous cloud data stores with a common language

    Article • Distributed and Parallel Databases, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  51. An Experimental Evaluation of Machine-to-Machine Coordination Middleware

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  52. EpTO

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  53. Practical Evaluation of Large Scale Applications

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  54. X-Ray: Monitoring and Analysis of Distributed Database Queries

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  55. pH1: A Transactional Middleware for NoSQL

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  56. DATAFLASKS: Epidemic Store for Massive Scale Systems

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  57. A peer-to-peer service architecture for the Smart Grid

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  58. A Survey and Classification of Storage Deduplication Systems

    Article • ACM Computing Surveys, July 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  59. Distributed Exact Deduplication for Primary Storage Infrastructures

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  60. Scaling Up Publish/Subscribe Overlays Using Interest Correlation for Link Sharing

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  61. DATAFLASKS: An epidemic dependable key-value substrate

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  62. AJITTS: Adaptive Just-In-Time Transaction Scheduling

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  63. An Effective Scalable SQL Engine for NoSQL Databases

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  64. Experience with a middleware infrastructure for service oriented financial applications

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  65. Improving transaction abort rates without compromising throughput through judicious scheduling

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  66. MeT

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  67. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing - MW4NextGen '13

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  68. X-BOT: A Protocol for Resilient Optimization of Unstructured Overlay Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, November 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  69. DEDISbench: A Benchmark for Deduplicated Storage Systems

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  70. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing - MW4NG '12

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  71. Assessing NoSQL Databases for Telecom Applications

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  72. An epidemic approach to dependable key-value substrates

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  73. A Correlation-Aware Data Placement Strategy for Key-Value Stores

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  74. Experimental evaluation of distributed middleware with a virtualized Java environment

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  75. Improving the Scalability of Cloud-Based Resilient Database Servers

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  76. Worldwide Consensus

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  77. Measuring Software Systems Scalability for Proactive Data Center Management

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  78. Practical Database Replication

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis Rodrigues, José Pereira

  79. On Adding Structure to Unstructured Overlay Networks

    Article • October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  80. On the Cost of Database Clusters Reconfiguration

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  81. X-BOT: A Protocol for Resilient Optimization of Unstructured Overlays

    Article • September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  82. A simple approach to shared storage database servers

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  83. CLON

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  84. CLON: Overlay Networks and Gossip Protocols for Cloud Environments

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  85. Evaluating Throughput Stability of Protocols for Distributed Middleware

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  86. AKARA: A Flexible Clustering Protocol for Demanding Transactional Workloads

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  87. Gossip-based service coordination for scalability and resilience

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  88. Serpentine

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  89. WS-Gossip

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  90. Compositional gossip

    Article • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, October 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  91. Epidemic Broadcast Trees

    Article • October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Luis Rodrigues, José Pereira

  92. Epidemic Broadcast Trees

    Article • October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Luis Rodrigues, José Pereira

  93. GORDA: An Open Architecture for Database Replication

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  94. Emergent Structure in Unstructured Epidemic Multicast

    Article • June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  95. HyParView: A Membership Protocol for Reliable Gossip-Based Broadcast

    Article • June 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  96. A Pragmatic Protocol for Database Replication in Interconnected Clusters

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  97. Efficient Epidemic Multicast in Heterogeneous Networks

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  98. Evaluating certification protocols in the partial database state machine

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  99. Revisiting 1-copy equivalence in clustered databases

    Article • January 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    José Pereira

  100. Towards a Generic Group Communication Service

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  101. Group-Based Replication of On-Line Transaction Processing Servers

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  102. Low latency probabilistic broadcast in wide area networks

    Article • January 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  103. The mutable consensus protocol

    Article • January 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  104. Semantically reliable multicast: definition, implementation, and performance evaluation

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computers, February 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  105. Mobile Transaction Management in Mobisnap

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  106. Preface

    Article • August 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filomena O Soares, José Pereira

  107. Testing the Dependability and Performance of Group Communication Based Database Replication Protocols

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  108. Adaptive gossip-based broadcast

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  109. NEEM: network-friendly epidemic multicast

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  110. Optimistic total order in wide area networks

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  111. Reducing the cost of group communication with semantic view synchrony

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  112. Primary-backup replication: from a time-free protocol to a time-based implementation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  113. Probabilistic semantically reliable multicast

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues