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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. BDUS

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

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  21. An overview of software-defined storage

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

    José Pereira, Ricardo Macedo, Alysson Bessani

  22. 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

  23. Detailed black-box monitoring of distributed systems

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

    José Pereira

  24. Towards Generic Fine-Grained Transaction Isolation in Polystores

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  26. A Comparison of Message Exchange Patterns in BFT Protocols

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  28. Self-tunable DBMS Replication with Reinforcement Learning

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

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

    Tânia Esteves, José Pereira

  30. A Case for Dynamically Programmable Storage Background Tasks

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

    José Pereira

  31. Message from Technical Program Co-Chairs

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

    José Pereira

  32. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  33. 2019 38th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)

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

    José Pereira

  34. Recovery in CloudDBAppliance’s High-availability Middleware

    Article • January 2019, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  35. Towards Intra-Datacentre High-Availability in CloudDBAppliance

    Article • January 2019, Scitepress

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  38. HTAPBench

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

    José Pereira

  39. Prepared scan

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

    José Pereira

  40. Implementing a Linear Algebra Approach to Data Processing

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  42. Benchmarking polystores: The CloudMdsQL experience

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

    José Pereira

  43. Efficient Deduplication in a Distributed Primary Storage Infrastructure

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

    José Pereira

  44. The CloudMdsQL Multistore System

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

    José Pereira

  45. Resource Usage Prediction in Distributed Key-Value Datastores

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  47. Design and Implementation of the CloudMdsQL Multistore System

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

  51. CoherentPaaS - A Coherent and Rich PaaS with a Common Programming Model

    Article • January 2016, Scitepress

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  54. EpTO

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

    José Pereira

  55. Practical Evaluation of Large Scale Applications

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  57. pH1: A Transactional Middleware for NoSQL

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

    José Pereira

  58. DATAFLASKS: Epidemic Store for Massive Scale Systems

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

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  60. A Survey and Classification of Storage Deduplication Systems

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

    José Pereira

  61. Distributed Exact Deduplication for Primary Storage Infrastructures

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  62. 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

  63. DEDIS

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

    José Pereira

  64. DATAFLASKS: An epidemic dependable key-value substrate

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

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  66. An Effective Scalable SQL Engine for NoSQL Databases

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  69. MeT

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

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  71. 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

  72. DEDISbench: A Benchmark for Deduplicated Storage Systems

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

  74. Assessing NoSQL Databases for Telecom Applications

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

    José Pereira

  75. An epidemic approach to dependable key-value substrates

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

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  79. Worldwide Consensus

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  80. Measuring Software Systems Scalability for Proactive Data Center Management

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  81. Practical Database Replication

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Luis Rodrigues, José Pereira

  82. On Adding Structure to Unstructured Overlay Networks

    Article • October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  83. On the Cost of Database Clusters Reconfiguration

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

    José Pereira

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

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

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  85. A simple approach to shared storage database servers

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

    José Pereira

  86. CLON

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

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  88. Evaluating Throughput Stability of Protocols for Distributed Middleware

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  90. Gossip-based service coordination for scalability and resilience

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

    José Pereira

  91. Serpentine

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

    José Pereira

  92. WS-Gossip

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

    José Pereira

  93. Compositional gossip

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

    José Pereira

  94. Epidemic Broadcast Trees

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

    Luis Rodrigues, José Pereira

  95. Epidemic Broadcast Trees

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

    Luis Rodrigues, José Pereira

  96. GORDA: An Open Architecture for Database Replication

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

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  97. Emergent Structure in Unstructured Epidemic Multicast

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

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

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

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

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  99. A Pragmatic Protocol for Database Replication in Interconnected Clusters

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

    José Pereira

  100. Efficient Epidemic Multicast in Heterogeneous Networks

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  101. Evaluating certification protocols in the partial database state machine

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

    José Pereira

  102. Revisiting 1-copy equivalence in clustered databases

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

    José Pereira

  103. Towards a Generic Group Communication Service

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

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

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  105. Low latency probabilistic broadcast in wide area networks

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

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  106. The mutable consensus protocol

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

    José Pereira

  107. 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

  108. Mobile Transaction Management in Mobisnap

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    José Pereira

  109. Preface

    Article • August 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Filomena O Soares, José Pereira

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

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  111. Adaptive gossip-based broadcast

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  112. NEEM: network-friendly epidemic multicast

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  113. Optimistic total order in wide area networks

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

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

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

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

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira

  116. Probabilistic semantically reliable multicast

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira, Luis Rodrigues

  117. Semantically reliable multicast protocols

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    José Pereira